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

[Fran]

"Ennis stood as if heart-shot, face grey and deep-lined, grimacing, eyes screwed shut, fists clenched, legs caving, hit the ground on his knees."  [story]

[Mikaela]

Jack tried his best to infuse Ennis with some of his own optimism and hopes for the future.

[Toast]

Jack's jocosity, which we saw a number of times, must have been learned as a survival mechanism with his serious Mom and scornful Dad.  I bet Uncle Harold was as funny as could be.

[Fran]

Finding a way to convince Ennis that two men could actually live together proved to be a knotty problem for Jack.

[Mikaela]

ENNIS and JACK sit at the bar, each nurses a longneck.
(From the published script)

[Toast]

Ennis and Jack first met while applying for work with Joe Aguirre in 1963.

[Triple Threat]

Jack’s first postcard necessitated a response from Ennis. 

[ProwlAmongUs]

Jack and Ennis had a rocky relationship in many ways, but overall it was a good one.

[Mikaela]

The story unfolds over two decades, during which they endure loveless marriages to long-suffering wives — Williams and Anne Hathaway — and bide their time between perilous trysts. 
(Entertainment Weekly – Christine Spines) http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1136042_1|111142_0_,00.html

[Toast]

Jack quetched "about Joe Aguirre's sleep-with-the-sheep-and-no-fire order".   [short story]