The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[memento]

Brokeback Mountain will lead this year’s list of Academy Award with eight nominations, including those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor Heath Ledger and supporting players Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Williams. The 78th annual Academy Awards will be broadcast live on ABC from Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre on Sunday, March 5.

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=aside= Paul
I think you mean Fran.

[Fran]

According to Variety, 18.7 million viewers tuned in to watch NBC's live broadcast of the 63rd Golden Globe Awards, where "Brokeback Mountain" won the top awards.

[Ellemeno]

Slim as Lureen is, you might not expect L.D. to be carrying so much overweight.

[memento]

Many reviewers had predicted that Brokeback Mountain, with eight nominations, would win Best Picture of the Year at the 78th Academy Awards.

[Meryl]

Looking down from the height of his second-floor apartment, Ennis saw Jack get out of his truck and flash him a rakish grin.

[Ellemeno]

Nimble Ennis practices sleight of foot - one moment the slopbucket-mouthed biker's standing on both feet, the next, he's sprawled on the ground.

[southendmd]

While Jack was a trembler on the stairway, he managed to convey that his grinning son was eight months old.

[Meryl]

Ennis felt the weight of his father's legacy again when Jack came back into his life, knowing the old man would accuse him of commiting an unclean act.

[memento]

In the weeks before the 78th annual Academy Awards, Brokeback Mountain producer Diana Ossana already suspected what few outside Hollywood could imagine: Her film was going to lose the Best Picture race. ''Several people told me they knew a lot of Academy voters who just refused to see the film,'' says Ossana, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Larry McMurtry. This tragic love story between two men had dominated the critics' awards and banked $178 million worldwide. It even captivated sellout crowds in states like Oklahoma and Ohio — just not, apparently, in Academy screening rooms. ''What are they afraid of?'' McMurtry asked Ossana. ''It's just a movie.''

[memento]

Round
 

Posts will included an unplayed word as well as
the number "nine" or "9".

They was a joke even though they was pretty tough old birds. I was what, nine years old, and they found Earl dead in a irrigation ditch.
... and when Alma, Jr., was nine and Francine seven she said, What am I doin, hangin around with him, divorced Ennis,
and married the Riverton grocer.
"November. What in hell happened a August? Tell you what, we said August, nine, ten days.
He was only thirty nine.
In 1963, when he met Jack Twist, Ennis was engaged to Alma Beers.