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

[memento]

The Lumière Reader, New Zealand's only online journal dedicated to film criticism and review, has a review of Brokeback. Review

[memento]

We still haven't reached the finish line.

[Fran]

"Joe Aguirre, wavy hair the color of cigarette ash and parted down the middle, gave them his point of view."  [story]

[Front-Ranger]

Jack, understandably, was blubberin' when his dad treated him cruelly for being too late to the toilet.

[memento]

After Jack and Ennis descended the mountain, Joe Aguirre was counting sheep and said “Some a these never went up there with you.”

[Fran]

Ennis "had wanted to be a sophomore, felt the word carried a kind of distinction, but the truck broke down short of it, pitching him directly into ranch work."  [story]

[Toast]

Jack had no mention of an eagle's feather in his hat in the 1997 New Yorker printing of the story.

In later printings, this text was added to their first morning together at the bar: 

"He had shot an eagle, he said, turned his head to show the tail feather in his hatband."

This text was also added later to their last trip together, on that boneless blue day: 

"... the same eagle feather in his old hat,"

The eagle's feather did not make it into the movie.

[Front-Ranger]

There was a damn miserable time for five days…the task almost impossible as the paint brands were worn and faint at this late season. --the story

[memento]

There is a gleam in Ennis' eye when he says to Jack: "You may be a sinner, but I haven't had the opportunity."

[Toast]

Annie Proulx
Discusses Origins of 'Brokeback'

But The New Yorker published [her short story Brokeback Mountain] in 1997,
and it went on to win an O. Henry prize
and a National Magazine Award.
Now the movie version is a leading Oscar contender,
with starring performances from
Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist.