New GroganGame

[franktangredi]

45. Fortunately for him, he didn't actually have to eat any annelids in his 2003 title role

Okay, it's true that How to Eat Fried Worms was not a 2003 movie. However, it turns out that the star of that movie played the title character of Finding Nemo in 2003. So the answer is ALEXANDER GOULD.

[franktangredi]

90. Public mourning following the death of this reformer in April 1989 evolved into the Tiananmen Square protests
DENG XIAOPING

Definitely one of the wrong answers, and I should have caught it, because Deng was still in charge at the time of the protests. This was HU YAOBANG

[smilergrogan]

45. Fortunately for him, he didn't actually have to eat any annelids in his 2003 title role

Okay, it's true that How to Eat Fried Worms was not a 2003 movie. However, it turns out that the star of that movie played the title character of Finding Nemo in 2003. So the answer is ALEXANDER GOULD.

Oops, I was trying to be too clever on this one and wound up with a bad clue. It's a pretty amazing coincidence that your answer fits so well, but the intended answer actually has nothing to do with the movie How to Eat Fried Worms.

[franktangredi]

Oops, I was trying to be too clever on this one and wound up with a bad clue.

Been there many times.

I should have gotten this one earlier:

151. Though he never agreed to the idea, he was once part of a groundbreaking presidential ticket that outwardly resembled what could have been a 2008 presidential ticket if things had gone just a little differently

Victoria Woodhull's 'running mate' in her historic run for the presidency was the unwilling FREDERICK DOUGLASS ... which could have resembled a Clinton/Obama ticket last year

[silverscreenselect]

I think the actors are going to be significant for the Tangredi. I did a quick count, and there are more than enough actors to include one in every one of the 57 trios. That’s a very high proportion of people from one field in a general interest puzzle.

It could be that most of the actors are on the list for roles they have played. Perhaps the actor has played a role which can somehow be paired with something that can be derived from two of the other names. For example, if an actor had played Oliver Hardy, and could be paired with someone whose first name is Stan and someone else whose name could be transformed into Laurel somehow....,

Besides Trapper John, Pernell Roberts' only other significant role was Adam Cartwright on Bonanza. Could this yield an Adam (Adam and Eve? Adam Clayton Powell?) or perhaps two other people whose names could be a "little Joe" and a "Hoss"? Or something to do with Bonanza?

Just throwing things out there to see what if anything sticks.

[silverscreenselect]

45. Fortunately for him, he didn't actually have to eat any annelids in his 2003 title role

Okay, it's true that How to Eat Fried Worms was not a 2003 movie. However, it turns out that the star of that movie played the title character of Finding Nemo in 2003. So the answer is ALEXANDER GOULD.

Oops, I was trying to be too clever on this one and wound up with a bad clue. It's a pretty amazing coincidence that your answer fits so well, but the intended answer actually has nothing to do with the movie How to Eat Fried Worms.

This sounds like it might be a play on "the early bird gets the worm." So we'd be looking for someone playing a character named "Bird" or some type of bird.

[franktangredi]

I haven't been able to devote much time to this. But I have a feeling I may be on to something.

Thinking about Christopher Hewitt, I wondered if he were here for his best known film role, Roger DeBris in The Producers. And there is definitely a Roger on the list.

Then, thinking about Mark Wahlberg, I searched for the first name Dirk. And, sure enough, there is a Dirk on the list.

Of course, with this many people that could be a pure coincidence. (Although Dirk is not all that common a name.)

I'd be absolutely certain this was the right track if Jane Fonda were on the list, since Bree is an unusual first name.

I think we're down to four of the definite answers on the consolidation are wrong.

Group the answers into 56 trios and one quartet, and match each trio to a word from the word list. 19 answers will be used twice: 19 in a different capacity, one in the same capacity.

1. He is primarily known for two roles in which his character almost always wore the same clothes - one character had one stripe on his shirt, the other had two
2. His group's best known song, a 1984 "one hit wonder", was appropriately used as an anthem by the Schwarzenegger campaign in the 2003 California governor recall election
DEE SNIDER

3. As a high school Boys State president in 1958, this future journalist accompanied his state's governor to New York to appear on a game show; 40 years later the governor, a WWII Medal of Honor recipient, featured prominently in his best-selling book about the war
TOM BROKAW

4. The actress who played this actor's wannabe girlfriend in the TV role that made him famous went on to be the political successor of the former husband of the star of his best-known movie (got that?)
DWAYNE HICKMAN

5. In his first World Series, this career utility player led his team in hits; in his only other Series, his lone hit drove in two runs in the key game to beat his former team
6. A professor of bioethics at Princeton, this utilitarian philosopher has stirred controversy with his published views on animal rights, abortion, and the moral obligation of rich societies toward poor ones
PETER SINGER

7. Largely overshadowed throughout his career by a more successful writer with a similar professional background and similar subject matter, this author's first best-seller was made into a feature film directed by his more successful contemporary
ROBIN COOK

8. During a 2004 Ohio Senate race, the opponent of this former Associated Press Middle East correspondent warned voters that he would be soft on terrorism, despite the fact that he had been a victim of terrorists for seven years
TERRY ANDERSON

9. She was ranked #1 in her sport for 260 weeks, her third husband was ranked #1 in his for 331 weeks, but their marriage lasted less than 100 weeks
CHRIS EVERT

10. In his first major film role, he lost to one of his co-stars for best supporting actor, and one of his co-stars lost to one of her co-stars for best supporting actress
JEFF BRIDGES

11. I didn't see the movie, so I don't know if his character knew what kind of mother-of-God terrorists they were or not
MARK WAHLBERG

12. Although he had driven in a still-record 103 runs at the 1935 All-Star break, he wasn't voted on to the All-Star team, undoubtedly due to prejudices which had nothing to do with baseball
HANK GREENBERG

13. He is primarily remembered for a single play; nonetheless one of his lesser known works forms the basis for the world's longest-running musical
EDMOND ROSTAND

14. He attributed the fanciful contraptions that made him famous to one Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts
RUBE GOLDBERG

15. The building that now houses a museum dedicated to the Johnstown flood was donated by this man who, along with a group of his associates, was widely blamed for unsafely altering and inadequately maintaining the private dam that gave way to cause the flood
HENRY CLAY FRICK

16. This actress's namesake is widely acknowledged as the subject of Shakespeare's earliest (and according to some critics, worst) sonnet
ANNE HATHAWAY

17. He claimed one of his greatest poems was unfinished because a mysterious "person from Poltrock" interrupted him while he was transcribing his thoughts
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

18. His next film project is one in a series about a group of fictional English children, but he is best known for a series about a group of real English children
MICHAEL APTED

19. The three concluding lines of his best known poem inspired titles by Clifford Odets, Clifford Irving, and (gulp) Norman Mailer
MATTHEW ARNOLD

20. There are monuments to his honor in both Baton Rouge and Taipei
CLAIRE CHENNAULT

21. Since 2000, she has been perhaps the only person to work in the highly specialized field of TV sportsweather reporting
JILLIAN BARBERIE

22. This writer visited Istanbul for the second time in 2007 - his first visit lasted about five years longer than he had planned
BILLY HAYES

23. Named People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 1992, a considerably less flattering photo of him was widely publicized ten years later
NICK NOLTE

24. What Rachel Carson was to DDT, she is to chromium VI
ERIN BROCKOVICH

25. At the beginning of episodes of his TV show his character is shown descending from the sky on a beam of light while a choir sings "Ecce homo qui est faba"
ROWAN ATKINSON

26. Though he was known for having affairs with co-stars, this big star was married only once, to a woman whose onscreen claim to fame was as "hotel blonde dropped by Kong" the same year they were married
GARY COOPER

27. In her film debut, her young son was played by an actor who starred in a TV series which ran contemporaneously with one that often featured (in its first season) her younger brother
SHIRLEY MACLAINE

28. His last name suggests a lady in a lake, but he spent most of his time with girls at the beach
FRANKIE AVALON

29. He shares his adopted name with two serial killers and one notorious domestic abuser/abusee
JOHN WAYNE

30. Her Pulitzer winning play was not about angry football fans who missed the end of a Jets-Raiders game broadcast
WENDY WASSERSTEIN

31. He played one of literature's most beloved family men opposite his wife and daughter (in her film debut); the daughter later made a career as a TV mom
GENE LOCKHART

32. He appeared in more Hitchcock films than any other actor (not counting Hitchcock himself)
LEO G. CARROLL

33. About 20% of the world's commercial marine fishing occurs in the oceanic feature named for this German scientist
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

34. This Time Magazine Person of the Year co-winner lived another 66 years (to age 105) after winning the award
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK

35. Co-discoverer of three chemical elements found via fractional distillation of air, he worked under the scientist who won a Nobel Prize for co-discovering a fourth (more abundant) element by the same method
WILLIAM RAMSAY

36. The science humor journal Annals of Improbable Research chose this best-selling cognitive scientist as the charter member of its "Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists"
OLIVER SACKS? STEVE PINKER?

37. A four-time Emmy nominee married to a ten-time Emmy nominee, he produced a major film about one of his TV co-stars (who was a zero-time Emmy nominee)
DANNY DeVITO

38. In his film debut, this 13-year old actor played a soon to be famous 20-year old musician impersonating a famous 50-year old musician
MARCUS CARL FRANKLIN

39. He's the only actor other than Woody Allen ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for a film directed by Woody Allen
SEAN PENN

40. Five years after losing to one of the other answers, he made a well-publicized announcement that surprised almost nobody
CLAY AIKEN

41. Four of Rolling Stone's top seven rock guitarists of all-time died before age 35: one from a drug overdose, one from a suspected deliberate poisoning, one in a motorcycle crash, and this man in a helicopter crash
STEVIE RAY VAUGHN

42. This western writer was the scion of a prominent Philadelphia family which gave its name to a local scientific research institute and a genus of flowering vine
OWEN WISTER

43. He was Tony-nominated for original Broadway roles that (referring to the actors in the film versions) preceded an Animal and succeeded a Python
TIM CURRY

44. Class A shares of the holding company of which he is Chairman and CEO are (at around $100,000 each) the highest priced on the New York Stock Exchange
WARREN BUFFET

45. Fortunately for him, he didn't actually have to eat any annelids in his 2003 title role
46. This country singer met his wife at an event called G'Day LA
KEITH URBAN

47. This star's 1943 criminal trial inspired support from an organization of young male fans (including a 16 year old William F. Buckley Jr.) known by the acronym ABCDEF
ERROL FLYNN

48. In 1805, he set out to do the same thing that two of his contemporaries (in the service of a different nation) were in the midst of doing about 800 miles to the south
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE

49. He was first in a series that includes Walter Connolly, Sydney Greenstreet, Francis X. Bushman, and William Conrad
50. In an interview following a game on Oct. 17 of this year he was quoted as saying "you gotta play every play like it's the last play you'll ever play"
JASPER HOWARD

51. This former two-time NCAA swimmer of the year and double gold medalist at the Barcelona games now works as a sports broadcaster, hosting such shows as "Skating with Celebrities" and "NBA Inside Stuff"
SUMMER SANDERS

52. After starring in an unsuccessful film about a man dissatisfied with his life who moves to Paris to find himself, this actor took four years off to study philosophy at the Sorbonne
BILL MURRAY

53. In 2006 he became the only third-generation recipient of the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year award
MARCO ANDRETTI

54. The long-running BBC radio program he created made Peter Sellers famous and was a principal inspiration for Monty Python and the Beatles films
SPIKE MILLIGAN

55. The same year this actor graduated from Yale, his older brother threw out the first pitch at the World Series in honor of their father
PAUL GIAMATTI

56. A protege of Laurence Olivier in the Royal National Theatre, he supplied Olivier's voice for the scenes added to the 1991 restoration of Spartacus
ANTHONY HOPKINS

57. He was single-handedly responsible for a sharp decline in sales for the Ambrosia Chocolate company in 1991
JEFFREY DAHMER

58. He is actually three years older than the actor who played his best known character for ten years before he did
ROGER MOORE

59. This Australian directed the middle two in a quartet of spy thrillers, the only two where the main character was played by the same actor
PHILIP NOYCE

60. Her long-running kids TV show inspired a 1950 Saturday Evening Post short story which inspired a 1953 Hollywood musical which inspired a 1961 Broadway musical, all with different titles
FRAN ALLISON

61. In a bit of tragic irony, the character he played in his last movie was impervious to physical harm, having been revived from the dead
BRANDON LEE

62. He is the best known film portrayer of a character whose name translates as "As if just now"
LON CHANEY, SR.

63. DFTGQ (Designated Frank Tangredi Gimme Question): Donald Pleasence's performance in a memorable episode of a certain TV series strongly echoed this actor's earlier Oscar-winning effort
ROBERT DONAT

64. This actor replaced the fired Herve Villechaise for the final season of Fantasy Island (he later had more success in a sitcom)
CHRISTOPHER HEWETT

65. In her first major TV series role, her character tried to kill her boyfriend with her car, underwent brain surgery, kidnapped her neighbor's baby, blew up her apartment building, was committed to a mental hospital, suffered multiple personality disorder, fell into a coma, and died of a brain tumor. Then in the second episode...
MARCIA CROSS

66. He first attained wide notice in a film whose title was taken from the last section of a certain widely read book, and made his American debut in a Hollywood epic playing the main character in the book
MAX VON SYDOW

67. A 1985 chartered flight that landed at the North Pole made him the first to conquer all the Earthbound extremes of altitude and latitude
MALCOLM FORBES?

68. On his final episode of his long-running show, this broadcaster showed excerpts of an old interview with a sociology professor and spoke to the author of a best-selling book that was inspired by the original interview
TED KOPPEL

69. Representing a contingent of Hollywood stars, he read a speech written by James Baldwin at the 1963 March on Washington
CHARLTON HESTON

70. Of a 1966 film this athletic actor produced, directed, and starred in, Roger Ebert wrote: "Sure, it's nice to think you could outrun half a dozen hand-picked African warriors simply because you'd been to college and read Thoreau, but the truth is they'd nail you before you got across the river and into the trees."
CORNEL WILDE

71. He and Sam Bradford accomplished something that only Lew Alcindor and Gary Beban had done before
BLAKE GRIFFITH

72. His family's move into manufactured housing while their home was being renovated prompted Jay Leno to warn that residents of his state might think he was "putting on airs"
MIKE HUCKABEE

73. A member of Canada's first House of Commons, he went on to become one of its least regarded Prime Ministers (I wonder if he is known as the father of Movement Politics?)
MACKENZIE BOWELL

74. He is only known to have sentenced two men to death by hanging (usually he sentenced convicts to pay a fine, which he kept for himself)
JUDGE ROY BEAN

75. His most recent musical gig was a stint as Fats Waller in Ain't Misbehaving
RUBEN STUDDARD

76. In separate serials, he played all three of the top comic book heroes of the 1930s
BUSTER CRABBE

77. This jazz pianist's most popular piece shares its unusual meter with the 2nd movement of Tschaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony, the "Mission: Impossible" theme, and the Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
DAVE BRUBECK?

78. This French actor, who appeared in films opposite Carole Lombard, Joan Blondell and Luise Rainier playing aristocratic European types, changed the "T" in his last name to a "Y" to get American moviegoers to pronounce it correctly
FERNARD GRAVET

79. His big TV break was voicing one half of a cartoon skit in which his character often had a position under his co-star's character; not long after, he himself held a position under the co-star on the co-star's show
80. "Yes, I see wonderful things" was his reply when asked if he could see anything on November 26, 1922
HOWARD CARTER

81. As the middle of a bisexual love triangle (both other participants were Oscar-nominated), this actor was involved in the first romantic same sex kiss in a major film
MURRAY HEAD

82. When performing official Senatorial duties, this Senator prefers to be addressed as "Senator" (What an outrage!)
BARBARA BOXER

83. He was older than four of the five other members of his notorious organization, but only three of the other five were younger
JESSE JAMES

84. In different films this actress has played the girlfriends of the Man of Steel and of a man known for his rod
KATE BOSWORTH

85. The director of a 2005 film originally asked a 96-year old actress to deliver the closing line as a cameo, but when she died just before filming the line was given to this actor
JACK BLACK

86. Pot calling kettle department: this paragon of politeness once called a group of 9/11 widows "The witches of East Brunswick"
ANN COULTER

87. The title of a 1992 bestseller could have served as a sequel to a 1990 film based on two of this author's novels, if his characters had moved to a different county
EVAN S. CONNELL

88. In a court case, the title TV character he played was ruled to have been adapted from a movie, not a different TV show based on the movie, entitling the producers of the TV show to no royalties
PERNELL ROBERTS

89. He grew up just a few blocks from future girlfriend Jean Harlow's family in Kansas City, but never met her until both were Hollywood stars
WILLIAM POWELL

90. Public mourning following the death of this reformer in April 1989 evolved into the Tiananmen Square protests
HU YAOBANG

91. This composer wasn't especially fond of his contemporaries Felix Mendelssohn and Gustav Meyerbeer
RICHARD WAGNER

92. Fans of this author celebrate his work every year on June 16
JAMES JOYCE

93. He's the only European native to win the NBA Most Valuable Player award
DIRK NOWITZKI?

94. This pitcher fielded an inordinate number of bunts during his career from teams trying unsuccessfully to exploit what seemed to be his obvious weakness
JIM ABBOTT? MONTE STRATTON?

95. In a smooth marketing move, he permanently changed the spelling of his last name so it would match a famous venue, and then scheduled one of his public lecture series there
DALE CARNEGIE

96. In one of his more popular roles, he asks Gene Frenkle to "really explore the studio space this time"
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN

97. What would have been this singer's first album, to be recorded with his band that included Neil Young at the time, was cancelled when the record company found out he was AWOL from the U.S. Navy
RICK JAMES

98. In one film, this Oscar winner played the older version of a fictional character played by another Oscar winner in her first major film; in a later film, the inspiration for the character was played by a third Oscar winner
MAGGIE SMITH

99. Of her most visible role to date for western audiences, she said "It's my first time in a lead, and I have to speak English! In a Japanese accent!"
ZIYI ZHANG

100. This director got his start as an Army newsreel photographer in WWII, and some of the real-life footage he shot was used in "Patton"; but he was best known for films in which the characters were far more likely to make love than war
RUSS MEYER

101. Mayor Richard J. Daley later claimed he was calling this Senator a "faker" at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, but lipreaders across America begged to differ
ABRAHAM RIBICOFF

102. He and his wife are the only joint recipients of both the Pulitzer Prize in Letters and the Presidential Medal of Freedom
WILL DURANT

103. 26 years after winning an Oscar for probably the best film ever made about a practitioner of his ancestors' religion, this actor appeared in what must surely be the worst film ever made about a practitioner of his ancestors' religion
BEN KINGSLEY

104. This actor has appeared in fifteen different films directed by Garry Marshall
HECTOR ELIZONDO

105. Marilyn Monroe said this self-destructive co-star was "the only person I know who is in worse shape than I am"
MONTGOMERY CLIFT

106. She, her co-star, and the director (both male) all shared the same first name in the landmark film that was the most critically acclaimed of her short career
107. A song from her first album became an internet hit when a copy was sent to the producers of the X-Files, who turned it into a video featuring lip synching by some of the show's stars and other celebrities like Brad Pitt and George Clooney
BREE SHARP

108. He is probably the only actor to be involved in both a film where an actor got one Oscar for two roles and one where an actor got two Oscars for one role
FREDRIC MARCH

109. This singer was born the same year that her husband and his partner released two of their most influential albums
EDIE BRICKELL

110. A creative writing fellowship at Stanford University is named in honor of this "Dean of Western Writers"
WALLACE STEGNER

111. He produced the first Pulitzer-winning play by a female author, but is best known for an annual production he founded and named for his partner/girlfriend
BROCK PEMBERTON

112. (looking for actor) "My goal tonight was a simple one. To come up here and at no point seem like a condescending, egomaniacal bully. And I'm gonna be honest, I think I nailed it. Sure there were moments when I wanted to say, 'Hey, this lady is a dummy!' But I didn't!"
JASON SUDEIKIS

113. One of only two U.S. Senators from his large state to serve four terms, this Republican was the first to open both the color barrier and the gender barrier among Senate pages
114. On the David Letterman show, he once joked that his name means "Praise God for beef"
SHIA LEBOEUF

115. He was discovered by Hollywood's first prominent female screenwriter/studio executive - other women seemed equally enthusiastic
RUDOLPH VALENTINO

116. This historian won a Pulitzer Prize one year after a movie largely about her husband was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN

117. He owed his Oscar-winning role to a jackrabbit that leaped through the windshield of the director's car while he was scouting locations, causing the director to lose an eye and give up his plan to play the role himself
WARNER BAXTER

118. She was credited for a sudden surge in ticket sales for an April 2009 Vancouver production of Les Miserables
SUSAN BOYLE

119. The role that garnered this actress her only Tony Award two years later won another actress her third Oscar
ROSEMARY HARRIS

120. Of galaxies visible to the naked eye, the only two named for a person are named for this man
FERDINAND MAGELLAN

121. In an early video production by the same group that won an Emmy for a song that you wouldn't be likely to hear at your next church picnic (thanks Nelly), this actor who happened to be driving by in his car stopped and tried to prevent what he thought was a real mugging of an elderly woman
122. Limerick native Richard Harris was critical of this Pulitzer winner's grim depiction of the town where both contemporaneously grew up
FRANK McCOURT

123. He has often been described as a modern-day John Henry, but unlike his predecessor he survived to accuse his opponent of cheating
GARRY KASPAROV

124. He and his frequent director, former classmates at Williams College, made their respective acting and directing debuts together in a film about a weekend reunion of former college classmates
DAVID STRATHAIRN

125. This media-savvy doctor has been called "the Gen-X answer to Dr. Ruth"
DREW PINSKY

126. As part of the Broadway cast of Oliver!, he appeared on the Ed Sullivan show the night of the Beatles' first appearance, before going on to capitalize on the Beatles' popularity with a TV show of his own
DAVID JONES

127. As a classics scholar at Columbia, he published a two-volume Hebrew dictionary, but a much shorter publication in 1823 revolutionized an entire holiday
CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE

128. An early version of his band was called the Honolulu Fruit Gum Orchestra, even though nobody would have mistaken the surrounding environs for Hawaii
LAWRENCE WELK

129. At age 77, this Russian-born artist spent a year painting the 2400 square foot ceiling of the Paris Opera (lucky for him he didn't have to lie on his back)
MARC CHAGALL

130. His road to eponymic infamy began when a Spanish company sent him a request for a catalog, including an international reply coupon purchased cheaply in Spain but redeemable for more expensive U.S. postage
CHARLES PONZI

131. In a sort of real-life version of "The Last Detail", this actor reputedly received his trademark facial scar when he was attacked by a prisoner he was escorting to Portsmouth Naval Prison
HUMPHREY BOGART

132. He has twice played a man who impersonates the U.S. President
KEVIN KLINE

133. His character's name in a pair of sci-fi sequels recalled that of a character in a popular TV cop show more than 30 years earlier; the first was short for a computer term, the second for a historical figure
134. He is the musician most closely associated with the "talk box", which allows a performer to use his mouth to modify the sound produced by an electric instrument
PETER FRAMPTON

135. He is the only placekicker in the NFL Hall of Fame who never played another position
JAN STENERUDE

136. He's the only major league pitcher ever to win back to back Most Valuable Player awards
HAL NEWHOUSER

137. He appeared in what must be a record 465 sitcom episodes playing the same character
KELSEY GRAMMER

138. Romantically speaking, he is the shortest link between "Adagietto" and "The Song of Bernadette"
WALTER GROPIUS

139. Using the German musical note designations (which differ slightly from the familiar A-G version), this composer and numerous successors embedded musical cryptograms of his name in their compositions
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

140. Surprisingly enough considering his chosen genre, this writer has never had a driver's license or used a word processor
WILLIAM GIBSON?

141. A test tube supposedly containing this man's last breath (collected in 1931) is on display in Dearborn, MI
THOMAS EDISON

142. At age 13, she was the youngest performer ever nominated for a Tony award as a lead actress, but she lost to a co-star
ANDREA McARDLE

143. This short-lived writer's best known novel and two of his best short stories could collectively be called "Primary Colors"
STEPHEN CRANE

144. He ended the inaugural speech for his one and only political office by shouting "Hooyah!"
JESSE VENTURA

145. He starred in the first film adaptation of an H.G. Wells novel in which the author also wrote the screenplay
RAYMOND MASSEY

146. Two future American icons were part of General Braddock's defeated army at the Battle of the Monongahela in 1755: 23-year old George Washington and this 20-year old wagon driver
DANIEL BOONE?

147. Born in 1980, this actress was named for the male title character of a popular pair of novellas published more than twenty years earlier
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

148. So far he's the only western actor to have a prominent role in two different Ang Lee films
TOBEY MAGUIRE

149. A long-running gag on Jimmy Kimmel Live has the host apologizing to this actor for running out of time at the end of the show
MATT DAMON

150. In 2007 he became the first Scotsman to have his portrait on a Bank of England note
ADAM SMITH

151. Though he never agreed to the idea, he was once part of a groundbreaking presidential ticket that outwardly resembled what could have been a 2008 presidential ticket if things had gone just a little differently
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

152. Canadians watching the CBC while waiting months for routine medical procedures inexplicably voted this former Saskatchewan Premier the greatest Canadian ever in 2004
TOMMY DOUGLAS

153. He has played one role made famous by the actor in Clue 131, and originated another role later played by the actor in Clue 88
ELLIOTT GOULD

Words List
POVERTY
TRAVEL
VIEW
LOSER
FLAG
STONE
SUN
STAR
ASTROPHYSICS
STALKER
LIFE
KILL
TIME
FIASCO
HILLARY
SARA
EVERYBODY
SOUTH
FAT
MAD
HAPPY
LAUGHING
KNOCKING
TEQUILA
KIDS
SHILL
PINK
TAP
HERESY
POLYGAMY
CENTER
CENTRAL
TRAILS
BERLIN
BOSTON
CLEVELAND
NEW ORLEANS
PHILADELPHIA
ALABAMA
FLORIDA
NEBRASKA
TEXAS
HARVARD
AIR FORCE
REALLY
BACH
LINCOLN
ICE CREAM
NAMIBIA
CORRUPTION
DEEP
FASHION
UCLA
FIRE
OUTFIT
GHOST
ARCHER

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[silverscreenselect]

I haven't been able to devote much time to this. But I have a feeling I may be on to something.

Thinking about Christopher Hewitt, I wondered if he were here for his best known film role, Roger DeBris in The Producers. And there is definitely a Roger on the list.
Then, thinking about Mark Wahlberg, I searched for the first name Dirk. And, sure enough, there is a Dirk on the list.
Of course, with this many people that could be a pure coincidence. (Although Dirk is not all that common a name.)

I'm not sure how this fits with the triples, or the associated names. Plus, you've actors like John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, and Charlton Heston with lots of well known roles, so it would be pretty tough to narrow them down.

If actors are on there for their roles, Pernell Roberts would have to be there for Adam Cartright or possibly Bonanza or Ponderosa (people who have eaten at a Ponderosa Steak House?).

[plasticene]

It sounds really good to me. Zooey Deschanel just played somebody named Summer in 500 Days of Summer, and Summer Sanders is on the list.

[silverscreenselect]

It sounds really good to me. Zooey Deschanel just played somebody named Summer in 500 Days of Summer, and Summer Sanders is on the list.

Jack Black played Shallow Hal.

Kate Bosworth played Sandra Dee (Snider).

and Adam Smith is on the list for Pernell Roberts

Now the tricky part is to figure how the third person fits into this and the associated words.

[silverscreenselect]

106. She, her co-star, and the director (both male) all shared the same first name in the landmark film that was the most critically acclaimed of her short career

This is the only remaining question that asks for an actress. If Frank's theory about Bree is right, and that seems too good not to be right, this can't be Jane Fonda since she hasn't had a "short career." That would mean that one of the other actress questions is incorrect and Fonda is actually the answer to that question.

[silverscreenselect]

And Rowan Atkinson is best known for playing (Judge Roy) Bean.

And Matt Damon for playing Jason (Sudeikis) Bourne.

[silverscreenselect]

79. His big TV break was voicing one half of a cartoon skit in which his character often had a position under his co-star's character; not long after, he himself held a position under the co-star on the co-star's show

I had to work backwards to get this one. The only person who is well known for playing someone named Evan (Connell) is Steve Carrell. So looking down the list of unanswered questions, Carrell was the voice of half of the Ambiguously Gay Duo on SNL, before he appeared with Stephen Colbert (the other half) on Comedy Central.

[silverscreenselect]

Another name matchup. John Wayne played Davy Crockett.

David Jones of the Monkees is usually known by the name of Davy Jones, and since he never had any other significant film/TV roles besides essentially himself, he must be on there for his first name.

[silverscreenselect]

106. She, her co-star, and the director (both male) all shared the same first name in the landmark film that was the most critically acclaimed of her short career

This is the only remaining question that asks for an actress. If Frank's theory about Bree is right, and that seems too good not to be right, this can't be Jane Fonda since she hasn't had a "short career." That would mean that one of the other actress questions is incorrect and Fonda is actually the answer to that question.

D'uh. Marcia Cross plays Bree on Desperate Housewives, so there's no need for a Jane Fonda clue.

And Kelsey Grammer's best known role is Frasier (Stephen) CRANE.

[franktangredi]

106. She, her co-star, and the director (both male) all shared the same first name in the landmark film that was the most critically acclaimed of her short career

This is the only remaining question that asks for an actress. If Frank's theory about Bree is right, and that seems too good not to be right, this can't be Jane Fonda since she hasn't had a "short career." That would mean that one of the other actress questions is incorrect and Fonda is actually the answer to that question.

D'uh. Marcia Cross plays Bree on Desperate Housewives, so there's no need for a Jane Fonda clue.

And Kelsey Grammer's best known role is Frasier (Stephen) CRANE.

The BREE things clinches it for me that we have 2/3 of a Tangredi.

Now, the existence of a word list usually indicates that we need to put together the various components to create a new name. I could see how this MIGHT work. For example, Kelsey Grammer and Crane, above, would indicate that there's a name here that could pair with FRASIER to form a new name.

The problem is, we have to make that work with DIGGLER. Are there any famous people named Diggler????????

[silverscreenselect]

Errol Flynn was Robin (Cook) Hood.

Frederic March was Matthew (Arnold) Harrison Brady.

[silverscreenselect]

Raymond Massey played Abe (Ribicoff) Lincoln. Ribicoff was usually referred to as Abe, not Abraham.

Now there's a Tommy Douglas on the list, who could easily be linked with Lincoln, but I see Lincoln itself as an associated word, not Debate or Illinois or Senate.

[mellytu74]

Ferdnand Gravet played Johann Strauss

[Weyoun]

I think Namibia is the key. There are not many famous Namibians. Frankie Fredericks and Samuel Maherero perhaps. Or that guy from The Gods Must Be Crazy.

[mrkelley23]

I think "Namibia is the key" would be a great name for the rankings this week.

[smilergrogan]

I think "Namibia is the key" would be a great name for the rankings this week.

Man, I can't stand people who pop into a thread every once in a while to sass and jab without context!

[Weyoun]

Two routes that don't seem to work. One is last names. Hal in Shallow Hal is Hal Larson. But there's not an obvious Larson I can make. No Michael from Press Your Luck, or Rent's Jonathan, for example. And Frank has mentioned Diggler. On the surface, that doesn't seem to work.

Second, since we're dealing with actors, tying them to directors makes sense. However, the inclusion of Desperate Housewives makes that tough. Marc Cherry, the head writer/producer, would be the best analogy, but it's only an analogy.

I thought about the characters may be being paired with someone else - Bree was married to Kyle Maclachlan, and some other guy I forget. I don't know how you work that out with some of those listed, though.

And for Frankie Fredericks, we have Frankie Avalon.

[silverscreenselect]

And for Frankie Fredericks, we have Frankie Avalon.

I'm trying to figure out how operating on a particular actor might produce the other name. For example, Matt Damon played Jason Bourne, but he also played Mr. Ripley, and if you had a person with the first name of Robert, you could match that with Believe or something like that.

However, I can't find anyone who has played a significant character named "Fredericks" in a film or TV show.

[franktangredi]

I can't make a believable anagram out of DIGGLER, either.