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

[Toast]

Ledger's performance is prime Oscar bait: He's ostentatiously immobile, with uncanny low tones — his voice is 50 fathoms deep. The whole performance is subtextual.   Lasso Me Tender

[ProwlAmongUs]

Jack was usually on the receiving end of L.D. Newsome’s  Machiavellian machinations.

[Fran]

Lee, the word itself is good, but, having just played the "C", you failed to skip two turns.

We need a replacement "E" word for this round.

[Toast]

Ennis is about to meet Cassie:

A few couples dance on the small floor near the jukebox to Eagles "Already Gone".  The TV above the bar is tuned to "Different Strokes".  Ennis sits at a booth by himself, a few empties in front of him.  "Already Gone" ends.


This is a replacement word for "effulgent", played out of turn.

Next letter up is "N"

[Front-Ranger]

Rufus Wainwright, who sang "The Maker Makes" on the soundtrack, has a pleasantly nasal voice and an "I-am-what-I-am"-ness, according to The New Yorker.

[Toast]

Brokeback has been described by People's Weekly World Newspaper as "A heartbreaking story of working-class people, men and women, trying to make a living, trying to do the right thing, imprisoned by limited options, prejudice and fear."
PWW.org

[Fran]

"They shook hands in the choky little trailer office in front of a table littered with scribbled papers, a Bakelite ashtray brimming with stubs."  [story]

[ProwlAmongUs]

Once the boys got to know one another, they spent a lot of time quipping back and forth around the campfire.

[Toast]

The running length of the movie "Brokeback Mountain" is two hours and fifteen minutes.  Real Brokeback fans would love to have a three-hour version of the movie, including the hippies' scene, and much more.

[Meryl]

In the kitchen at Thanksgiving, Ennis dearly wanted to give Alma a good smack for her accusatory words.