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The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:06 am
by frogman042
The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
List A contains 75 clues to movies - if a quote appears then it is a quote from the movie
List B contains 123 actors - if a quote appears, then find the name of the actor/actress who said it.
List C contains 129 actors - again if a quote appears, then find the name of the actor/actress who said it.
All lists contain alternating descriptive clues and quote clues - there are a few cases where that pattern is violated, that has no special meaning other than a consequence of some last minute changes and the lack of desire to rewrite clues.
Create a set of triplets - one from each of the 3 lists (1 from A, 1 from B and one from C) based on a Tangredi that you have to figure out.
The solution will contain a total of 201 triplets. Note that in 2 cases the same 3 elements in a triplet will be used twice because the meaning of the triplet (even though they have the same 3 values) - they are formed for different reasons. All of remaining 197 triplets will be a unique group of 3 elements.
Clearly many elements in each list will be used multiple times.
From list A: 19 answers will be used 2 times, 7 will be used 3 times, 5 will be used 4 times, 3 will be used 5 times, 2 will be used 6 times, 2 will be used 7 times, 1 will be used 8 times, 3 will be used 10 times and 1 answer will be used 11 times. The remaining 32 answers will be used only once.
From list B: 19 answers will be used 2 times, 8 will be used 3 times, 9 will be used 4 times, 1 will be used 5 times and 1 will be used 13 times. The remaining 85 answers will be used only once.
From list C: 20 answers will be used 2 times, 4 will be used 3 times, 5 will be used 4 times, 1 will be used 5 times, 1 will be used 6 times, 1 will be used 9 times and 1 will be used 13 times. The remaining 96 answers will be used only once.
There may be some alternate triplets that meet the Tangredi condition, but I believe there is only one complete solution to the puzzle - so those 'false positives' should be able to be sorted out.
Have Fun!
List A - Movies
A1. This movie was the big-screen debut of an actress who a little more than 20 years latter would be killed by one of the most famous music producers of the 2nd half of the 20th century.
A2. "I mean, where do you train your nurses, Mrs. Christie - Dachau?"
A3. This movie's two opening title cards read "Baltimore, 1959" and "Christmas Night".
A4. "All we gotta do is go in here and get a cat. It's not that hard. But if you go in there, you're gonna lay your Jack Webb on her, start flashing your brain-ray all in her face. You're gonna wind up giving her leukemia or something. Woman's a doctor, she don't need you flashing away half her med school classes. Five minutes."
A5. The star of this film said that he felt very comfortable playing the role of the famous real-life director that this film is about. For, like that director, the star is a homosexual British actor who spent his early career in the theater and ultimately started a career in Hollywood.
A6. "This chick, man, without the benefit of dying herself, has broken down the process of dying into five stages: anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Sounds like a Jewish law firm. 'Good morning, Angerdenialbargainingdepressionacceptance!'."
A7. The lead actress in this movie has a famous line. That line served as the inspiration behind Kenny Chesney's 1999 single with a similar name. In 2005, the lead actress married Chesney, only to have it annulled after four months.
A8. "So, you've been tellin' everybody I've been sleepin' with ya, huh? Well that explains it! That's why these people treat me like some dime-store floozy. They think I'm screwin' the boss! Oooh, and you just love it, don't you? It gives you some sort of cheap thrill like knockin' over pencils and pickin' up papers! Get your scummy hands offa me! Look I've been straight with you since the first day I got here, and I've put up with all of your pinchin' and starin' and chasin' me around the desk because I need this job. But this is the last straw! Look, I've got a gun out there in my purse. Up until now I've been forgivin' and forgettin' because of the way I was brought up, but I'll tell you one thing. If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine, and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! And don't think I can't do it."
A9. The A.V. Club' website reports that this films director actually got an official response to this movie from the U.S. government, which is included on the DVD. In addition, this film was denounced by Alexander Haig. Haig was a former United States Army General, United States Secretary of State, White House Chief of Staff Ford, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe who commanded all US and NATO forces in Europe.
A10. "Come to Los Angeles! The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs aplenty, and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy, all-American family. You can have all this, and who knows... you could even be discovered, become a movie star... or at least see one. Life is good in Los Angeles... it's paradise on Earth. Ha ha ha ha. That's what they tell you, anyway."
A11. Two years after defrosting a caveman in one movie the actor (who help discover the caveman) starred in this movie. The character of the caveman also briefly shows up in this movie as well during the dinner scene in the tent with the Special forces guys.
A12. "He was diseased; but he was my son! And you have... Why didn't I kill you before? I killed that no-good inspector and your professor friend, to protect him! And now... I'm gonna KILL YOU TO AVENGE HIM! Why don't you call your INSECTS! GO ON! CALL! CALL!"
A13. The movie is based on two real life twins, Stewart and Cyril Marcus. The two were found dead in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Their deaths were due to withdrawal from barbiturate addiction. The story is told in the novel "Twins" by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland.
A14. "Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They're single-serving friends."
A15. It's around 13 minutes into the film before the title character of this movie is seen, and around 40 minutes in before he is heard speaking. In addition, this was one of two black and white films nominated for best picture in one year - decades after color dominated the movie industry - oh and that other black and white film - is an answer to another clue in list A.
A16. "The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed. I can't begin to explain that. Or the craziness inside myself and everyone else. But guess what? Sunday's my favorite day again. I think of what everyone did for me, and I feel like a very lucky guy."
A17. In real life, the actor who played a psychopathic serial killer in this movie, is a pacifist who despises guns. In the early days of principal photography, he would flinch violently every time he fired. Production was forced to be shut down for a time while the actor was sent to a school to learn to fire a gun convincingly. However, he still blinks noticeably when he shoots. He was also squeamish about filming the scene where he verbally and physically abuses several schoolchildren, and the scene where he racially insults the man he pays to beat him up. Yet you would never guess this from the convincingly meanicing performance that he gives in this movie.
A18. [singing] "Telling the truth can be dangerous business; / Honest and popular don't go hand in hand. / If you admit that you play the accordion, / No one will hire you in a rock 'n' roll band. / But we can sing out hearts out. / And if we're lucky, then no neighbors complain. / Because life is the way we audition for God; / Let us pray that we all get the job."
A19. In this move, the Bible quotes are from Psalm 32 verses 1-2 and 5-7 (the reading at the table) and Genesis chapter 4 verses 9 and 16 (quoted by the Sheriff).
A20. "GOLD - GOLD - GOLD - GOLD. Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold, Molten, Graven, Hammered, Rolled, Hard to Get and Light to Hold; Stolen, Borrowed, Squandered - Doled."
A21. The film's credits are spoken, not read, in keeping with the film's theme.
A22. "I see. So, what you're saying is that even though you are an almost-paralyzed, multiphobic personality who is in a constant state of panic, your wife did not leave you, you left her because she... liked Neil Diamond?"
A23. The title character of this film real last name was Weiss (not his more farmous stage name - weiss is the German word for the color white), and the actor who portrayed him had the real last name of Schwartz - (not his stage name as most people know the actor by and schwarz is the German word for the color black). No - it is not Breaking Bad.
A24. "Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left. I don't know much, but I know that."
A25. The special effects technicians for this film were able to create giant drops of water by filling up condoms and dropping them.
A26. "It's past ten. My daughter is in pain. I don't understand why she has to have this pain. All she has to do is hold out until ten, and IT'S PAST TEN! My daughter is in pain, can't you understand that! GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!"
A27. To prepare for her performance as one of the two sets of twins in this film, the actress-comedian, just before the cameras rolled before a take, would whiz around in a circle several times until she got dizzy so as to exhibit the air-headed qualities of one the twins, the other twin in this film played by that actress-comedian - was much more level headed.
A28. "*Everything*! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for *you*! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn't that generous?"
A29. The club that the title character of this film drives by before he steals his new clothes is called Liquid Sword. "Liquid Swords" is the name of The GZA's second album, which was produced by The RZA, who also provided the original score for this film.
A30. "I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are brought to justice, I will fight on."
A31. The train crash in this movie was purposely made much more sensational than a train crash would actually be. The goal was to pay homage to the science-fiction movies of the '70s.
A32. "The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus."
A33. "Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit."
A34. In this film, the entrance and exit scenes of the Men in Black's first appearance in the bar were filmed entirely in reverse with the camera upside down, according to director's commentary on the restored print. The two men started on the bar stools, then backed out of the room for the entrance; while the exit was filmed with the two outside the bar and backing into it, including Strathairn replacing the cookies in the cookie bowl.
A35. "It's alright. No one was injured. Juvenile delinquents are everywhere. Right here in this community. Boys with long hair and tattoos who spit on the sidewalk. Girls who wear tight slacks. Hysterectomy pants, I call them. And if one of these creatures ever approach you on the street, you are to silently repeat to yourself the four B's" you learned here at RSVP. And what are they, children, the four "B's? - Beauty, brains, breeding and bounty!"
A36. At the beginning of this film, one of the title charcters sings a song that he has penned, "Santa's Souped Up Sleigh." He tells the other title character that he sent the words - along with a sum of money - to the Hollywood Music Company, an outfit that puts its customers' song lyrics to music for a fee. Although the first character doesn't realize it, the tune that the company used is not an original one: they paired his lyrics with the melody of "Wabash Cannonball."
A37. "Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along, you get thirsty, you spot a little brook, you put your little deer lips down to the cool clear water... BAM! A fuckin bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are laying on the ground in little bloody pieces! Now I ask ya. Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?"
A38. The "We Sell Your Stuff on eBay" store in this film was a real store; it was written into the script after the location was chosen.
A39. "I'm gonna show these to someone who can read them right, 'cause you're reading them wrong, that's all there is to it. Because no one is gonna tell me you de-differentiated your goddamn genetic structure for four goddamn hours and then reconstitued! I'm a professor of endocrinology at the Harvard Medical School. I'm an attending physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital! I'm a contributing editor to the American Journal of Endocrinology and a I am a fellow and vice-president of the Eastern Association of Endocrinologists and president of the Journal Club! And I'm not going to listen to any more of your kabbalistic, quantum, friggin' dumb limbo mumbo jumbo! I'm gonna show these to a radiologist!"
A40. William Donohue of the Catholic League lambasted the film and publicly protested against it for months without actually seeing the film, after which his office called View Askew offices and said "Dr. Donohue requests a special screening of [this film] so that he can speak about it intelligently." The director's response was: "So what has he been doing the past six months?"
A41. "Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived of, and he lifted darkness off the earth. Through out the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors, stood alone against the men of their time. Every new thought was opposed. Every new invention was denounced. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered, and they paid - but they won."
A42. The picture was shot in freezing cold temperatures. The production had to simulate the heatwave of the film's story, the actors having to act hot in cold conditions. For example, the thesps had to suck ice cubes before speaking to eliminate foggy breath and had water sprayed on their skin and shirts to simulate body sweat.
A43. "I remember those cheers / They still ring in my ears / After years, they remain in my thoughts. / Go to one night / I took off my robe, and what'd I do? I forgot to wear shorts. / I recall every fall / Every hook, every jab / The worst way a guy can get rid of his flab. / As you know, my life wasn't drab. / Though I'd much... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When you delve... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When I delve into Shakespeare / A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse", I haven't had a winner in six months."
A44. The actor, in this bio-pic, can be heard singing his own character's funeral hymn. during the 'sort-of/indirect' title character's funeral scene, the song is sung prominently in the background, led by actor himself. This may not be too surprising given the amount of music in this movie and the fact that the actor himself was better known as both a singer and drummer in a famous band.
A45. "You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?"
A46. After filming a scene shot at the school, the actor playing the title character pranked young castmates by screaming and ripping out his hair. The realistic gray wig had many fooled and horrified, until the crew and the actor erupted in laughter.
A47. "Goddamn class action suits are gonna be the ruin of this country. It wasn't so bad when the courts made us take girls. At least the ones that came could play, but now this."
A48. This film became the first motion picture in Academy Awards and cinema history to be nominated for every Academy Award category in which it was eligible, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Director, all 4 acting categories, and Picture of the Year, since Cimarron (1931).
A49. "She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it."
A50. Originally in the beginning of this movie, there was a gang beating up a father, who drops a toy on the sidewalk. The studio thought it was too violent, so it was cut. The main character can be seen playing with the toy after he finds it on the ground during the opening credits.
A51. "It's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40!"
A52. The opening title sequence of this film was originally played on the score from "La bohème" opera but was changed to the Dean Martin track "That's Amore" as the preview drew negative test audience reaction. Many shifted uncomfortably on their seats thinking that they had been lured into an art film.
A53. "The island of Cyprus, madame. World famous for beauty, and long, tragic history. Been conquered many times, conquered by Phoenicians, Assyrians, Persians, Macedonians; also conquered by Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Turks. Purchased from Turkey by your esteemed self, the British Empire. All Cyprus most wanted the British."
A54. Mall scenes with elevators and escalators were filmed at the Stamford Town Center in Stamford, Connecticut where shooting was conducted for around two weeks - I personally have been in that mall numerous times as it is not too far from where my brother-in-law lives. Mall exteriors were filmed at the actual Beverly Center on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, the mall where most of the picture is set.
A55. "You see, sir, rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health. But it isn't, sir. Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study. It is to be shunned."
A56. A "KILLIANS RED" neon sign at the pawn shop is partially lit. It reads: "KILL ED". Seconds before you see an important character in this film pick up Zed's keys there is a "Z" on the key chain. Put it all together and you have "KILL ZED".
A57. Kim Gardener: "It's not fair. Jack Flack always escapes. How does he do it, Morris? I had ten times as many bullets."
Morris: "Yeah, but Flack had ingenuity and the contacts, Kim. That's better than bullets sometimes."
A58. In the campfire scene, this movie showed a dad and his son talking about the possibility of another "Star Wars" movie. The campfire scene and the previously shown Obama/Biden campaign scene were set in 2008 . The real plans for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) were first conceived after the acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney in 2012. Thus you might say that this movie's script in 2008 predicted the 2012 plans. Eventually, this movie was released in the same year that Episode VII started filming.
A59. "The buses! The buses are empty and look almost menacing, threatening, as so many yellow dragons watching me with their hollow, vacant eyes. I wonder how many little black and white children have yellow nightmares, their own special brand of fear for the yellow peril... Damn it, it's got to be more... positive. No, more negative! Start again. Yellow is the color of caution. No. Yellow is the color of cowardice. Yellow is the color of sunshine. And yet I see very little sunshine in the lives of all the little black and white children. I see their lives, rather, as a study in grayness, a mixture of black and... Oh, Christ, no. That's fascist. Yellow! Yellow, yellow, yellow. Yellow fever..."
A60. The lead actress in this movie has admitted in interviews that she was completely unaware during the filming that the film would turn out so well and become one of the great science-fiction classics of all time. She assumed it would be just another one of the then-current and rather trashy flying saucer films that were popular at the time, and she found it difficult to keep a straight face while saying her lines.
A61. [reading an article from "Pain" magazine in the waiting room of the dentist; giggling] "The patient came to me with a large hole in his abdomen, caused by a fire poker used on him by his wife. He almost bled to death and gangrene had set in. I didn't give him much of a chance. There were other complications. The man had cancer, tuberculosis, leprosy, and a touch of the grippe. I decided to operate."
A62. In this film, the character Dildano's password, "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch", is the name of a real village in Wales, United Kingdom (unsurprisingly, it's the longest place name in the UK).
A63. "He has his father's eyes."
A64. During the UK clampdown on video nasties in the 80's the film was briefly seized by Manchester Police who believed it to be a sex film.
A65. "Do not drink wine or strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, least ye shall die. Look not though upon the wine when it is red, and when it bringeth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright at the last, it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Now folks, that's from the Good Book, but in this here town it's five cents a glass. Five cents a glass, now does anyone think that that is a price of a drink?"
A66. Many of the props used in the film were local items: for example the feed store calendar (used in the scene "Are you mean to tell me that there were five weeks last month?") is the State Bank of Delano anniversary calendar (current at the time of filming) which featured photos of historic buildings (some torn down) in the town (and town's past), hence its rustic addition of the prop to the feed store.
A67. "Talk about an all-star cast - this film boasts 58 Oscar nominations and 14 wins (not including 2 Honorary wins) from its principal cast and crew."
A68. "Dear Catherine, I've been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologize to you for. All the pain we caused each other. Everything I put on you. Everything I needed you to be or needed you to say. I'm sorry for that. I'll always love you 'cause we grew up together and you helped make me who I am. I just wanted you to know there will be a piece of you in me always, and I'm grateful for that. Whatever someone you become, and wherever you are in the world, I'm sending you love. You're my friend to the end. Love, Theodore." [pauses]
"Send."
A69. "I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!"
A70. Holds the record for the movie with the most Academy Award nominations without a nomination for Best Picture: 9.
A71. "Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about."
A72. Approximately 10 to 12 bicycles were built for the movie by the Pedal Pusher Bike Shop in Newport Beach CA; a shop that specialized in vintage and classic bicycles and parts. They were offered $10,000 and no screen credit or screen credit only. The shop chose the money.
A73. "You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why! Why!"
A74. The monkeys that appear at the end of this film were somewhat difficult to acquire. According to the director's commentary, he paid the men who were to provide them only half of what they asked for, as he didn't trust them and thought they would try to run off with the money without providing the monkeys. He was proved right, as they had sold the monkeys to someone else and they were to be flown to Florida. In desperation, the director pretended he was the veterinarian and that the monkeys didn't have their vaccination documents, which allowed him to finally get the monkeys and film their scenes. After this, all the monkeys were set free into the wild.
A75. "All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie."
List B - Actors
B1. This late actor's nickname "America's Guest" stemmed from his habit of wandering to a random house of a complete stranger, knocking on the door, going in, helping himself to something in the refrigerator and then sleeping on the stranger's couch. Most strangers, recognizing who he was, did not seem to mind his "visit".
B2. "Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something. I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention. "
B3. This actor is the voice of the yellow peanut M&M on the commercials since the late 1990s, replacing John Goodman after the original 1995 commercials. In 2000, a video game was produced, M&M's: The Lost Formulas (2000), in which he portrayed Yellow Peanut.
B4. "I'm an architect for Christ sake, I build 50 story skyscrapers, I assemble cities of the future, I can certainly put together a goddam diaper."
B5. In one of his earliest roles, this actor played a professional baseball pitcher, who enjoyed playing the card game TEGWAR. Interestingly enough, his grandfather was a major league baseball player and then a MLB umpire.
B6. [singing]"I stay away from deviled ham on principle/I wouldn't eat roast duckling if I could/Willpower has made me invincible!/My word, those sausages look good..."
B7. The last of three actors with an Oscar nomination for playing multiple characters in a film.
B8. He had guests sign one of his Harley Davidsons (the first being Arnold Schwarzenegger), after which the bike was auctioned off with the money going to help victims of the September 11th attacks.
B9. "Oh, I'm sorry, did my pin get in the way of your ass? Do me a favor and lose five pounds immediately or get out of my building like now! "
B10. He is the only other actor, along with Lance Hendrikson, to have been killed by a terminator, an alien, and a predator on screen.
B11. "Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules."
B12. She dressed up as Catwoman and attempted to confront Tim Burton and Michael Keaton on the Warner Bros. property, in Batman Returns, to get that role - it didn't work.
B13. "I bear no grudge against <Name Removed>. He's been very successful, and God bless him. God bless him. But I'll tell something; I ain't done too badly, myself. Uh, I manage a shopping mall down in Florence, Alabama. Yeah, it's the number one mall in Colbert County. It's number four in the state, so it's not too bad, you know? Uh, I play golf several times a week, you know? But I'll tell ya, if <Name Removed> woulda listened to me, I'd still be up there in radio. Still be doin' radio, you know... How 'bout that? That goddamn motherfucker, you know. I tried every
[jackhammer]
thing I could
[jackhammer]
think of, mold him into a proper kind of deejay, but that goddamn son-of-a-bitch
[jackhammer] I'll tell you, <Name Removed>, man! That motherfuckin'
[extended jackhammer and siren] And I'll say that with no shame, either! Man's a
[jackhammer]
Foul-mouthed, immature... The man's immature, you know? He's like a
[jackhammer]
child. I'll tell ya this much: There ain't no God while <Name Removed> walking the Earth, I'll tell you that.
[jackhammer]
I gotta go.
[He walks away. To a passerby]
How 'bout that? <Name Removed>, huh?
[to the camera]
<Name Removed> can kiss my ass in hell!"
B14. His unique style of throwing darts, holding the pointing tip of the dart with his thumb and index finger and then throwing the dart with the opposite end pointing to the board, so that the dart makes a 180-degree in mid air, with the pointed end to the stuck board, can be seen in many of his movies.
B15. "Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death. "
B16. Growing up this actor and his siblings often put on plays at their home. He has mentioned that his older sister Ann once staged a production of "Cinderella" in their living room in which she played Cinderella, sister Joan played the Ugly Stepsister, brother Bill played Prince Charming and this actor played the dog.
B17. "Well, you imagine wrong. You know what? You're just a frustrated Englishwoman who writes about dirty things but never does them. You can shove your uptight morals up your ass!"
B18. He is the only cast member of Saturday Night Live to host while still a cast member. Nick Nolte was to host but fell ill and this person replaced him.
B19. "It's all bullshit except the pain. The pain of hell. The burn from a lighted match increased a million times. Infinite. Now, ya don't fuck around with the infinite. There's no way you do that. The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart... your soul, the spiritual side. And ya know... the worst of the two is the spiritual."
B20. Her new husband was thrilled to find out, on the evening of their wedding, that he was truly a bastard!
B21. "No, Kev, that's it. Look, I don't wanna be the same as everybody else. That's why I'm a Mod, see? I mean, you gotta be somebody, ain't ya, or you might as well jump in the sea and drown."
B22. The suicide of this actress's socialite mother was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that she'd died of heart failure. Household newspaper and magazine subscriptions were canceled, and the staff and student body of her high school were instructed not to discuss the incident. This actress learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in art class.
B23. "You know, in Texas if the law don't move fast enough, a rope and a tree is the payoff for robbin' women and cold-blooded shoootin'."
B24. This actor's fourth arrest was in 1974 for attempted burglary and malicious mischief. While under the influence of peyote, while nude, he began wandering around his Laurel Canyon neighborhood. He broke into a neighbor's home, shattering a window and cutting his arm. He then bled all over the homeowner's piano. At some time during this episode he accosted two young women, allegedly assaulting one while asking, or demanding of her, if she was a witch. The police literally followed a trail of blood to his home. The burglary charges were dropped, as nothing was found to be missing, while he pleaded "no contest" to the mischief charge and was given probation. He was never charged with assault, but the young woman sued him for $1.1 million and was awarded $20,000.
B25. "My daughter was murdered. They put a gun to her. As we stand here, she's on an autopsy slab getting cut open by scalpels and chest spreaders, and you're talking to me about domestic fucking responsibility? Good to see you, Theo."
B26. This actor won $356,000 by winning the California State Poker Championships in June 2004 - defeating some of the best poker players in the world in the process - he also received a lifetime ban from playing blackjack at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Casino due to his 'counting cards' skills. Did I also mention that at age 25, he was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar for 'Best Original Screenplay'. He went 15 years without another nomination until 2013, and he won.
B27. "This is your trough. Show me how the piggies eat. Be a good boy. Show mommy how the piggies eat."
B28. This actor attended college with Joan Allen who was occasionally a scene partner of him in their acting classes. Later attended another acting class years with John Mahoney. He encouraged both actors to join the Steppenwolf Theater Company, which they did. Legend has it that he was told by the head of the Theatre Department at Illinois State University that he would not have a career as an actor. Even though he did not graduate from ISU (he never took the constitution test), the Theatre Department still claims him as an alumnus. On April 4, 2005, he returned to visit the Theatre Department where he was presented with an official diploma for his bachelor's degree in theatre.
B29. "Unfinished business? I have no unfinished business. I have my treasure, my mansion. I have EVERYTHING. I'm... just... perfect!"
[she laughs evilly until a flash of light comes out of her as a sign that she is crossing over]
[gasps] "Wait! Wait! I lied! I have unfinished business - lots of unfinished business!"
[more flashes of light appear]
"I-I'm not ready to cross over yet! Wait! You tricked me, you rotten little rats!" [she screams as the flashes of light causes her to vanish without a trace]
B30. One of the most prolific American directors of his generation, he has written, directed, and more often than not starred in a film just about every year since 1969.
B31. "That's because it's impossible to measure love. And, as you know, without measurements there can be no science. But I have been thinking a lot about the problem lately."
B32. This actor apologized to Colombia after blaming the nation for America's drug problems. The star insisted the United States is as much to blame for the prolific trade and confessed he didn't mean to single out any one country as the supplier. He told the New York Daily News, "I said Colombia because it was the first country to come to mind." The actor was dubbed "ignorant" and "ungrateful" by the Colombian president for his comments in March 2006, and advised not to base his arguments on "Hollywood clichés".
B33. "High flying, adored. Did you believe in your wildest moments all this would be yours, that you'd become the lady of them all? Were there stars in your eyes when you crawled in at night - from the bars, from the sidewalks, from the gutter theatrical? Don't look down, it's a long, long way to fall."
B34. This actor is the son of the famous actor Jukichi Uno. After graduating from Bunka Gakuin University, he formed a rock band "The Savage" which experienced brief success thanks to their hit 'Itsumademo, Itsumademo'.
B35. "Madame Nell says there's something wrong with you, that you're a cream puff or something. She says you're pathetic, missing all the fun in life."
B36. Without actually having to know any of the vote tallys, you could safely say that this actor won his Oscar by a nose.
B37. "The dream is always the same. Instead of going home, I go to the neighbors'. I ring, but nobody answers. The door is open, so I go inside. I'm looking around for the people, but nobody seems to be there. And then I hear the shower running, so I go upstairs to see what's what. Then I see her; this... girl, this incredible girl. I mean, what she's doing there I don't know, because she doesn't live there... but it's a dream, so I go with it. "Who's there?" she says. "Joel," I say. "What are you doing here?" "I don't know what I'm doing here; what are *you* doing here?" "I'm taking a shower," she says. Then I give her: "You want me to go?" "No," she says; "I want you to wash my back." So now, I'm gettin' enthusiastic about this dream. So I go to her, but she's hard to find through all the steam and stuff; I keep losing her. Finally I get to the door... and I... find myself in a room full of kids taking their college boards. I'm over three hours late; I've got two minutes to take the whole test. I've... just made a terrible mistake. I'll never get to college. My life is ruined."
B38. This actor was one of the original members of the Group Theater (1931-1940), the first acting company in America to bring Stanislavski's revolutionary acting techniques to America. He was also the first to leave the company for a Hollywood contract. In addition he is considered to be responsible for the establishment of the Best Supporting Actor/Actress categories in the Academy Awards.
B39. "Mama, I don't know why you have to make everything so difficult. I look at having a baby as the opportunity of a lifetime. Sure there may be risk involved, but that's true for anybody. But you get through it and life goes on. And when it's all said and done there will be a little piece of immortality with Jackson's good looks and my sense of style, I hope. Please, please I need your support. I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."
B40. Of this actresses 5 marragies, clearly her 2nd one had to be the rockiest. The now bankrupt New World Studios hired her to pose for promotional photos highlighting the Marvel Comics character She-Hulk in 1989 to distribute as a possible movie. Though the pictures garnered much fan interest, they failed to produce interest in financial backers.
B41. "Actor who is the answer to this clue: ""Well, personally, I trust the engineer. He sounds okay to me. This is a professional job.
[Turns and looks at Roget Sarte] ""You're the one I don't trust!""
Roget: ""Me?""
Actor who is the answer to this clue: ""Yeah, you! All your brains are below your belt! You almost got us all in cold storage last night playing games in a whorehouse!"""
B42. This actress was the subject of an urban legend claiming that she had been the model for the Columbia Pictures logo. This rumor was untrue but so widespread that this actress, herself, told Roger Ebert that she believed it to be true.
B43. "I'll call you on Monday and we'll go shopping. Anything we can't buy, we'll make. Anything we can't make, we'll steal!"
B44. I don't know if there where any lions or bears in the jungle, but at least one vicious animal was enough to convince this actor that he should never get out of the boat.
B45. "People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance, because they think you took the easy way out, when no one could imagine the willpower it took to do what we do. Walking the streets, night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up."
B46. This actor is of the Cayuga nation and Wolf Clan of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy and was the founder and Publisher of Aboriginal Voices Magazine, a magazine which was devoted to Native Canadian issues.
B47. "Say goodbye to your frog, pig! "…"Because in 10 seconds, he won't know *you* from kosher bacon."
B48. This actor filed a $4-million lawsuit against neighbor Julie Newmar in 2004. He accused her of using harassment and defamation to force him from the Brentwood, California, street they share. A newspaper article quoted a resident not involved with the dispute as saying "She's weird" and "He's a bully." In January 2006 the two announced they had settled their differences out-of-court, and later that year Newmar guest-starred on an episode of his sitcom that poked fun at their feud by having Newmar play a neighbor who annoys this actor's character.
B49. "No. We need Ritalin and leashes, that's what we need."
B50. This actor was a working firefighter for a number of years in the early 1980's so it is not too surprising that he showed up at his old firehouse the day after the World Trade Center tragedy in New York to volunteer. Worked twelve hour shifts for a week after the terrorist act, digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters... anonymously. More surprising is that this actor was stabbed in the throat, head and arm during a barroom brawl at the Firebelly Lounge in Wilmington, North Carolina. The brawl also involved Vince Vaughn, who was arrested for brutalizing one of this actor's attackers. He suffered a deep cut to the face and now has a noticeable scar on his cheek. Heavy make-up is used to hide it in movies.
B51. "Oh, the mafia wouldn't try to kill us and make it look like an accident! They'd just kill us! They're the mafia."
B52. This person who had been nominated for the Oscar fairly early in his film career but hadn't won always said if he ever won he would say “I have 2 things I would like to say, the first thing is I've always hated this award and everything it ever stood for. The second thing I want to say is that this is the happiest moment of my life.”, when he actually did win, 40 years after his first nomination, he actually did not give that speech.
B53. "Words are lies. Bodies are truth – I have to show the truth."
B54. This actor made his screen debut playing one of three thugs who attack the wife and daughter of an architect. He is easy to spot because even though he is credited only as Thug #1, he is wearing a Jughead Jones style hat. Nearly 20 years later he would be staring in a number of the top grossing films of the 1990's.
B55. "Nuclear weapons, Jack. They mean nothing Everybody's got them, nobody has the balls to use them. Am I right? … Space, you say? Space is a flop. Didn't you know that? … An endless junkyard of orbiting debris. Ah, but! - miniaturization, Jack. That't the ticket. That't the edge everyone is looking for. Who will have the edge, Jack? Which country will control minaturization? … Frankly, I don't give a shit. I'm just in this for the money."
B56. This person was writing for a skateboarding magazine called Big Brother when he did a story about self-defense equipment, which he tried on himself while Jeff Tremaine (editor for Big Brother) filmed it. These led to the Big Brother Videos Shit, Number Two and Boob, which helped raise the profile for LandSpeed present: CKY, CKY2K, and CKY3, which were all produced by Bam Margera.
B57. "Rufus, Brint, and Meekus were like brothers to me. And when I say brother, I don't mean, like, an actual brother, but I mean it like the way black people use it. Which is more meaningful I think."
B58. He declined an offer from President George Bush to campaign for him in the Presidential election. He told an interviewer the next year, "I think what the ultra-right wing conservatives did to the Republicans is really self-destructive, absolutely stupid". Maybe if President Bush gave him an empty chair, he could have changed his mind.
B59. Howard Keel, her co-star in three movies, once described this actress in an interview as the most beautiful woman in the history of movies.
B60. "And we will be right back with our five final lesbians – interviews!"
B61. Where the truth lies is that last night this actor was the boy who smells like fish after spending three days in Havana.
B62. I got postcards from Rome telling me that this actress was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class. I didn't do a final inquiry to see if it was true or not nor did I try to dig up any dirty linen on her.
B63. "Yes. I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I wanna see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club - hear Billie Holiday sing fine and mellow - walk in that kind of rain that never washes perfume away. I wanna be in love with something. Anything. Just the idea. A dog, a cat. Anything. Just something."
B64. This actress' mother's maiden name was chosen for films in the early 1940s to raise fewer questions with the Nazi authorities than her real surname Kaminker. She also was the author of 'Adieu Volodia', a novel about a group of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Russia and their children, working in the theatre/film industry in Paris during the years 1926-1945.
B65. "We were all friends then, remember? And now you want to end his life because he's talking to Patty on your side of the cafeteria. Oh man, that's stupid. I know cuz that's where I wanted to be. On your side, with your crowd. But I messed up. See, I tried to buy my way in. But Kenneth, he's not trying to buy anybody. He's just trying to make friends *being* *himself*. Cools, Nerds, your side, my side, man it's all bullshit. It's just tough enough to be yourself."
B66. According to a 1995 Premiere magazine article, this actor confronted director Quentin Tarantino when he visited the set of of the movie he was starring in. Quentin had done an uncredited rewrite of the script. This actor lambasted Tarantino about his use of racial slurs in his films. Tarantino got embarrassed and wanted to move the conversation to a more private area. This actor said, "No, if we're going to discuss it, let's discuss it now." This actor later said he still felt that Quentin was "a fine artist". Also, his only marrage took place exactly 13 days after my marrage - over 30 years ago, and like me they are still together but unlike me they only have 4 children.
B67. "So what's a girl to do? He's a guy who followed his pecker to greener pastures. I'm a middle aged, high school drop out with stretch marks and a fat ass."
B68. A notorious practical joker, this actor was best man at Richard Kind's wedding. Oh and he is also the nephew of someone who is the answer to another clue in this list.
B69. "If all these people are not implicated in the crime, then why have they all told me, under interrogation, stupid and often unnecessary lies? Why? Why? Why? Why?"
B70. This actor starred in a movie that based (very, very loosely) on a story by the host of NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me". In addition, he has been quoted as saying "When I was really young I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it. I find sides I don't get to explore in real life. Like, I had to do a sex scene before I had sex. I was 13, 14, and it was my first love experience with 25 people in front of me. Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings."
B71. "I know you care about him. I've never seen you like this about anyone, so please don't get me wrong when I tell you that Tom, while being a very nice guy, is the Devil."
B72. This actor is the brother of an actress that is an answer to a clue on this list and the father of another actress who also is answer to a clue on this list.
B73. "The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana."
B74. This actress appeared in a movie as the older sister of a boy with a bomb (that he is unaware that he is carrying) that explodes on a bus. The film's famous director said that regretted the decision to have the bomb go off.
B75. "Milton Berle is on tonight." [said in response to the question: "What's a cow doing inside a house?"]
B76. This actress' last public appearance was in 1994 when she was awarded an honorary Oscar after six failed nominations over the years. She, along with Thelma Ritter, is one of the few actresses to have received six nominations and not to have won an Oscar. She received one of the longest standing ovations of all Honorary Oscar-recipients.
B77. "Well, no... no, at first they'd ask me questions they already knew I knew the answers to. We ran through those, and I really didn't want them to give me the answers, so they gave me the questions and I'd look up the answers on my own, as if that were any different. Well, we ran through those in a couple of weeks and I just didn't have the time, finally, and it just seemed silly, so..."
B78. First and only teenager admitted to the acting program at the award-winning The Barrow Group in New York. Maybe they mistook her for the bard's wife?
B79. "I apologize for calling your wife a bloated warthog, and I bid you good day."
B80. Coca-Cola approached this person, the Godfather of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, about appearing in some television commercials. They changed their mind however, as they felt his skin color was "too white" and not dark enough.
B81. "Korben sweetheart, what was that? It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing! Y'know I got a Show to run here, and it must pop POP POP! So tomorrow from 5 to 7 will you PLEASE act like you have more than a two word vocabulary. It must be green, okay?"
B82. This actress was immortalized in a song that was written and performed by Toto (on their album, Toto IV). The song was a Top 10 hit that went on to win Grammys for 1982: Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Instrumental Arrangement With Vocal. This actress was the girlfriend of a member of the band, Jeff Porcaro.
B83. "Fuck Martha Stewart! Martha Stewart can kiss my shiny plastic butt! Here I am, slaving a way over a hot stove, making cookies... making Swedish meatballs, and for what? A man who doesn't appreciate me! For a man that can't even wash one fucking dish! For a man who isn't even a man at all where it counts, if you get my drift! -to Jade- Take it from me honey, plastic is no substitute for a nice hunk of wood!"
B84. This actor was discovered when his older sister, Hejsa, a former trampoline champion, was shopping around for an agent. No one was home to baby-sit him so he went along and it was suggested that he get an agent, himself.
B85. "I cried the whole week of Sam's funeral. Graham says that it won't bring him back. He said that I should start letting go. He's right. Hedy's parents said that for years they tried to explain to her that her sister's death wasn't her fault. She never forgave herself for surviving. So, every day I try to forgive Hedy for killing Sam. Then, I try to do what she couldn't: forgive myself for killing her. I know it can happen to someone who doesn't."
B86. All 4 leads of this classic high school musical where well past high school age. The average age of the 4 was around 28 - but this person was easly the oldest of the 4 and played a high school student when their age was actually 33.
B87. "You're crazy about me, right? And I can understand it. Only this morning, looking in the mirror before shaving, I enjoyed seeing what I saw so much I couldn't tear myself away." [kisses his hand] "Have some, baby?"
B88. This actor has played a supernatural being that gave up their immortality and powers to marry a mortal woman in both a television series and a movie.
B89. "Time slows down right before an accident, and I had time to think about things. I thought about what an undertaker had told me once - that your hair keeps growing, for a while anyway, after you die, and then it stops. I thought, 'What keeps it growing? Is it like a plant in soil? What goes out of the soil? The soul? And when does the hair realize that it's gone?'"
B90. This actor died, ironically, while making the picture "Better Than Ever' and his final movie was 'Knocking on Death's Door'.
B91. "I use girls that look like movie stars. Sometimes I employ a plastic surgeon. When the work had been done, that's when you saw us."
B92. I've often wondered what would happen if F. Scott Fitzgerald was bitten by a radio-active spider.
B93. "Hey, hey, easy kids. Everybody in the car. Boat leaves in two minutes... or perhaps you don't want to see the second largest ball of twine on the face of the earth, which is only four short hours away?"
B94. In Suzanne Vega's song "Tom's Diner", the singer reads about this actor's death in the paper and sings that "he was no one I had heard of". Clearly Ms. Vega needs to broaden her movie going experiences.
B95. "I couldn't be a ballerina now. I'm too top-heavy. I have a hard enough time balancin' these things now without gettin' on my toes! "
B96. This actor has appeared in more Robert Altman feature films and television productions than any other actor in movie history.
B97. "Robin is better than the girl of my dreams. She's real."
B98. I heard Gore Vidal and Ulysses speaking in broken English confessing that they were shopaholics - I must be bat $#*! crazy!!!
B99. "You know what your problem is? You are so goddamn bored, you have to *invent* things to bitch about! You don't have a single thing to do on this earth except for your hair! The closet was fine, you just needed something to fill up your useless, nail-polishing, toe-polishing, rich bitch, sun-tanning days!" [From the engine room, the crew, who have heard all of this, start cheering]
B100. Inherited the mysterious Iffland-Ring from Josef Meinrad, which is given to the most important actor of German speaking theater since 200 years
B101. "I've waited an eternity for this moment there has to be time, is it not ironical my dear husband, you wife an adultress, your mother an adultress, your uncle an adulterer, your closest friend an adulterer, do you not find that amusing dear Nicholas? "
B102. This actress' father is a longtime Wall Street trader who developed his family's multi-million-dollar pasta business, then sold it to pursue funding and development of major studios and independent Hollywood projects. Her mother is a former Rockette and Wall Street analyst, who helped manage her daughter's career. Given her frequent arrests and stints in rehab, maybe it should be mismanaged?
B103. "Leave him alone, all right? He's a real special kid and, and I have high hopes for him and... I think if he works really hard, he can get an academic scholarship to Wabash College and can get out of this place."
B104. This actress played roles in four unrelated movies in which her character was in charge of having heads cut off.
B105. "And at the same time, at the same time as trying to lead a good life, I have to reconcile that with the fact that with the fact that, yes, I have killed people. Not many people. And most of them were not very nice people. Apart from one person." ... "This bloke Danny Aliband's brother. He was just trying to protect his brother. Like you or I would. He was just a lollipop man. But he came at me with a bottle. What are you gonna do? I shot him down."
B106. This actress revived the fashion style created by Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn, when women all over the world started to wear suits and ties; first recognized by the public in her Oscar winning performance.
B107. "What, you still throwing up bricks? What is this, a Masons convention? Wha... clank, clank! I need, like, a welding torch to play in this league! I got an idea... let's just stop right now and gather up all these bricks and let's build a shelter for the homeless so maybe your mother will have a place to live!"
B108. This actress is the first Colombian to be nominated for an Academy Award as well as the first actress ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Performance that was spoke entirely in Spanish throughout the entirety of the film.
B109. "Do you know how the Orcs first came into being? They were elves once, taken by the dark powers, tortured and mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of life. Now... perfected. My fighting Uruk-Hai. Whom do you serve?"
B110. At 6'5", this person is the tallest actor ever to have won an Oscar. The tallest actor ever nominated was James Cromwell at 6'7".
B111. [holds her hands away from him]" The bed happens to be for the kids, Dusty. When the nights are getting colder, they'll need a *warmer* place to sleep. So the brass bed is for the boys, and the smaller bed is for *Celia*!"
B112. "No one ever thinks they can forget their first love. But we can. "; "I'll tell you something. Seeing you in love reminded me of what it's like. I never thought I could believe in all this a second time."
B113. This actor in an article in Look magazine he related that once while flying over Kansas he correctly diagnosed a pain in his right side as appendicitis. He landed at the nearest airfield and was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. He said he was told that a delay of even a half hour might have resulted in the appendix rupturing. In addition, he conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra at New York's Carnegie Hall (10th March 1958) with his feet! This being a benefit concert, of course.
B114. "Mine's still too hot, I didn't put in any cold milk. I can still see her red nails holding up that cup. After a few sips she said that the tea tasted of almonds. It's the almond cookies, I told her."
B115. This actor's character could never figure out how Harry Caul made that recording. Oh, and if you need to parallel park a crucifix in NYC, you can ask him for advice.
B116. [about Fred] "Just because we're going TO Mars, we gotta take along a guy FROM Mars?"
B117. He participated in what is reported to be longest fencing duel ever to be filmed as well as the most exciting one ever to take place in a theater. Unfortunately, this actor ended up on the losing end of duel.
B118. [When asked by his dad if he was going to keep his slaves or let them go free] "You know I don't have any slaves, Pa."
B119. At age 10, this actor's agent advised him to change his name to a more American-friendly Lenny Williams. Needless to say, he did not follow that advice. Even with his 'non-American-friendly name' he managed to have been nominated for 31 different awards (4 Academy Awards, 3 BAFTA Awards, 6 Critic's Choice Awards, 10 Golden Globe Awards, and 8 Screen Actors Guild Awards) but has only won 2 Golden Globes.
B210. "We got this one kid, Mongo... He's got a forehead like a drive-in movie theatre, but he's a good ship. So we don't bust his chops too much. So, one day Mongo gets out of his cage..."
B121. He was the devil referenced in an early clue in this list.
B122. "We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."
B123. "Uh, God, I'm so sorry. Yes, North American. But I can't help noticing that when people run to freedom they tend to wash up on North American shores. This country is till the best that we've been able to do in the whole fucking history of the planet"
List C - Actors
C1. This Aussie actor and dancer started following in John Travolta's footsteps by playing Doody in the West End (London) production of Grease. Travolta played the same role on stage. Followed up with the role of Tony Manero in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever at the London Palladium. He has joking said the he would also play the lead in musical version of "The Boy In The Plastic Bubble".
C2. [singing] "I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad / Carry you around when your arthritis is bad / All I wanna do is grow old with you. / I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches / build you a fire if the furnace breaks / Oh it could be so nice, growin old with you. / I'll miss you, kiss you, give you my coat when you are cold. / Need you, feed you, I'll even let you hold the remote control. / So let me do the dishes in the kitchen sink / Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink. / Oh I could be the man to grow old with you. / I wanna grow old with you."
C3. This actor was rejected repeatedly by studio heads while auditioning for the role that turned out to be a star-making role for him. The director fought for him. This film was shot briskly because both the director and the leading actor were in constant fear of being fired. It turned out to be a breakthrough picture for the director as well. Did I neglect to mention that this actor also studied under Frank's favoriate actor?
C4. "I want to say to Prime Minister MacDonald: Surrender her pronto, or we'll level Toronto."
C5. As president of the U. S. it took him several minutes to complete a single swing of his golf club. No wonder the switched him out.
C6. "You know, every now and then, I think you might like to hear something from us nice and easy. But there's just one thing: we never, ever do nothing nice and easy, we always do it nice and rough. So we're gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy, and then we're gonna do the finish rough."
C7. This actress who recently passed away should have kept her mouth shut.
C8. "You will be king of Egypt, and I will be your footstool!"
C9. She wasn't born on the 4th of July, she was born on December 12, 1967 in Paterson, New Jersey.
C10. "Good evening. Well, brother has been killing brother since Cain and Abel, yet even I didn't see that coming. I was as blindsided as poor old Henry down there. And apparently, the authorities shared my naïveté. In other words, they believed the young man's story. That Henry fell, hit his head on a stone and died of smoke asphyxiation. On the other hand, if they hadn't believed him, Ed Gein would never have had the opportunity to commit those heinous crimes for which he became most famous. And we, of course, well we wouldn't have our little movie, would we?"
C11. Although often cast as New York tough guys, few people know that he was actually born and raised in Australia. He has said that the only internationally successful Australian actor at the time he began acting was Mel Gibson, who had lost his Australian accent, so he did the same. Today, looking at all the hot young Australian actors who have kept their native accents but can use other dialects in their films, he says he regrets having dropped his accent.
C12. [to the unsympathetic crowd around Billy's body] "He was sweeping you sons of bitches, he was sweeping!"
C13. Although she has many Tony nominations and two wins, she is the only actress to not win a Tony Award for a revival of the musical "Gypsy".
C14. "I'll tell you why! Cause you were scared, if you'd talk, they'll talk too. You were scared you'd get the horse laugh... like I'm giving ya now! HA HA HA HA HA HA! Just a punk with a crippled hand! HA HA HA HA HA..."
C15. You might say that this actor really had Ned Beatty's back.
C16. "P-p-p-please d-d-don't tell my m-m-m-mother."
C17. Photographer John Rutter was ordered to stand trial for attempted extortion, attempted grand theft, perjury, and forgery after trying to blackmail this actress with topless shots he had of her from a 1992 shoot.
C18. [responding to being told that the American thing is to marry a rich widow] "We used to say, a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store."
C19. She turned down the role of Vin Diesel's love interest in the box-office hit The Pacifier to take a small but unforgettably sexy role in Sin City because she had enjoyed working with director Robert Rodriguez in the three "Spy Kids" films.
C20. "You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how."
C21. Admitted in a 2006 interview on Late Show with David Letterman that the surly attitude he adopts on talk shows is an act he developed in order to be a more interesting guest. According to this actor, he was scheduled to make his first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1973, and was to be in the segment immediately following Diana Ross performing a medley of her hits. Realizing that he would bomb if he followed her as himself, he adopted this churlish character who has little patience for the questions of the host. Carson loved it and it became his trademark.
C22. "Melinda had a reputation for being Postmodern in bed."
C23. This actress was at the Viper Room the night River Phoenix collapsed on the sidewalk outside of the club. She witnessed the seizure induced by a drug Phoenix had in his system and later re-enacted the seizure at an anti-drugs dance piece. In addition, her garage was the birthplace of The Pussycat Dolls.
C24. "Oh, Lord of the tempest and the thunder, strike down this sinner, as thou did thine enemies of old in the days of the Pharaohs! Let him know the terror of thy sword! Let his soul, for all eternity, writhe in anguish and damnation!"
C25. If you need to race huskeys or rats - he is the man for you.
C26. "Now I know this is all new to ya, but remember something, we're all new. This is not an ancient industry. This whole place here is built around speed. Start the story, start the chase. I get bored easy." … "But don't go thinking we sacrifice quality. I never make more than two motion pictures a week, but I'll spend up to a thousand dollars on each of 'em if I have to."
C27. One of my my favorite lines in all of moviedom is ts this line that refers to the character played by this actress: "I never knew fear until I kissed Becky."
C28. "Roger, I used to be just like you. But look at me now, I'm awesome! I run this entire place. I'm dating TWO Asian chicks!"
C29. You may have heard this actor but not seen him in such movies as: Lassiter, Flash Gordon, Superman, The Revenge of the Pink Panther, Murder on the Orient Express, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, and Zardoz
C30. "The truth is male models have been assassinating world leaders for over 200 years. Abe Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery, right? Well, who do you think made the silk stockings and powdered wigs worn by our early leaders?"
C31. In 2010, film critic David Thomson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film": "With his drooping chin and pouty lips, his quaff of hair and dithery manner, <this actor> seems like a refugee from Thirties theatre - or an incipient sneeze looking for a vacant nose".
C32. "I don't know. There's always a way to blow up explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off. But aren't you forgetting something? The lady. As I see it we have three choices. One we can leave her here but there's no guarantee she won't be found, and in her case they won't need a truth drug. Two, we can take her with us, but that would make things worse than they are already. And three... well, that's Andrea's choice, remember?"
C33. She appears on film in the audience reacting to the show within the show in three films: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, A Mighty Wind, and Waiting for Guffman. in all three films she is seated in the right-hand side of the audience.
C34. "You know something, you ain't nothing special. You got no manners, you treat woman like whores and if you ask me you got no chance of being no officer."
C35. James Dean learned he had an interest in photography when they worked together, and encouraged him to pursue it as an alternative to just being an actor. This actor published a book of photos in the late 1980s, including pictures of stars he had known, and thanked Dean.
C36. "But you've got your projects, haven't you? You're going to be a director. You'll sit in your little canvas chair polishing your balls. "Thank God I got rid of that hag I had to screw. What was her name? The one who paid for everything! The one who bought me a fucking house!"."
C37. Madonna based her book 'Sex' on a fictional character named after this actress' first name, inspired by her and her character in L'Atalante.
C38. "I'm not. I'm lucky. I feel lucky because it's wrong, Danny. It's wrong and it was eating me up, it was going to kill me. And I kept asking myself all the time, how did I buy into this shit? It was because I was pissed off, and nothing I ever did ever took that feeling away. I killed two guys, Danny, I killed them. And it didn't make me feel any different. It just got me more lost and I'm tired of being pissed off, Danny. I'm just tired of it."
C39. This actress' father was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. In a memorable role she wasn't so lucky - after informing a Nazi officer that they were building the barracks incorrectly, she was shot and then they subsequently took her advice.
C40. "It happened again. David, the girl is absolutely useless. You've gotta get me someone who knows what she is doing. Excuse me. I'm not getting any of my mail, nothing has been filed. Ever since she got engaged, my life has been a disaster." ... "She spent the last three months writing down her married name. "Mrs. Judy Hicks", "Mrs. Donald Hicks"; "Mrs. Judy Mitchellson Hicks", sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes without a hyphen. Sometimes, she spells the hyphen."
C41. She is the only woman who has won the Best Actress Oscar for a performance directed by her spouse.
C42. "My true disability is not having to be in a wheel chair. It's having to be without her."
C43. He was offered a seven-movie deal by the Bond producers, but quit the role because he felt that the tuxedo-clad Bond would die out in the new hippie culture that had permeated society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was wrong.
C44. "Oh. My jewel case. It's bomb proofed, the insurance people insisted upon it. Oh. My idea of heaven is never to have to pack or unpack. Why didn't I think of that before. Here. Here. You know what? The hell with the jewelry let's put my book in here. Thank you. Here you are my darlings, it's all yours - I never wanted to have the damn thing published when I was alive anyway."
C45. This actress played a former rock-star groupie 2 years after her real-life daughter played a young rock-star groupie. In real-life her husband andthe father of the aforementioned daughter was a pop-musician.
C46. "I always knew you were alive, I knew it. Everybody said that I had to let you go. I love you. You're the love of my life."
C47. For over 20 years this actor was the father-in-law of actor Edward James Olmos.
C48. "The name's Tong, James Tong."
C49. Considering he is the youngest answer in this quiz, currently at just 11 years old - you might not be so surprised then that he would show up in your trick-or-treat bag as a smaller version of your favorite candy.
C50. "Actually, I believe it goes: Never con a con-man, especially one who's better than you are."
C51. She was one of Rhapsody's two mommies.
C52. "... does the good of the many out weigh the good of the one?"
[the person responds that they would accept that as an axiom]
"Then you stand here alive because of a mistake made by your flawed, feeling, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because they believed that the good of the one - you - was more important to them."
C53. He made sure that Plato's run to escape from Atlantis got him with striking range of the land of the free.
C54. "I can smell it. You worked so hard for that book. You sacrificed so much, so many men. More than you could spare. Now, all those people who were too scared to even say your name, they're downstairs, tearing up the bar right now, did you know that? And there's no one there to stop them. And you're *feverish.* I can't imagine what it must feel like to have what you want so close, and it might as well be a million miles away."
C55. This actress' father died in a helicopter accident 3 weeks prior to the US release of her first movie - oh and that movie is also the answer to another clue in this quiz.
C56. "Why would he try to run you over? Why did he make coleslaw on Helen's head? He's fucking with us! He's just out there, and he's watching and waiting!" … "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, HUH? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOOOOORRRR?"
C57. Are we not men? This actress did not tell her husband that she wanted a divorce. She waited until after he left to work on The Island of Dr. Moreau to file the divorce papers. He heard the news while watching CNN in a hotel room. He said finding out about if, especially like that, hurt him greatly.
C58. "But isn't that what's wrong with the world today? People are just looking for the easy way out, like their problems are gonna go away?Problems just don't go, Flo! You know? So the question here is; what are we going to do with our little problem child? I'll tell you what we are going to do. Something that no parent has ever done for him before. We're gonna love him, Flo."
C59. He found that it's groovy to hide in a movie pretends he's Fellini and Antonioni and also his countryman Roman Polanski all rolled into one.
C60. "Okay, not fired. But tomorrow morning, you will let me change your socks."
C61. This actor almost didn't get the play the role on Broadway that he created for the London production of a hit stage musical because of an Actor's Equity rule regarding racial casting issues.
C62. "We're growing. Be as big as San Francisco in a few years, and just as sophisticated. "
C63. No, this person is not a periodontist who drives a Chrysler Lebaron convertible.
C64. "Hey, man, I was doing some research for next year and I think I figured out which website I wanna subscribe to. The Vag-Tastic Voyage."
C65. If you are busy fighting aliens and trying to get back to Earth, you might want the help of this actor, who was a huge fan of the show and can guide you safely through your troubles - as long as he doesn't have to stop what he is doing to take out the garbage.
C66. "The only way you'll ever end up lying next to me, Max, is if we're run down by the same car."
C67. If a child is missing at the midnight hour, you should make a final appeal to the innocent that they don't talk to strangers.
C68. "Oh, you were not what was desired, but that makes you no less dear to me. A boy would have been the Son of France, but you, Marie Thérèse, shall be mine."
C69. She wasn't ready for either prime time nor Junior Healy.
C70. "Their daddy's a king. And a king knows what to do and *does* it. Even when it's hard. And their daddy will do whatever he has to for those he loves. And that's all that matters. Because everyone is weak, Jimmy. Everyone but us. We will never be weak. And you, you could rule this town. And after Jimmy, let's take the girls down to the parade. Katie would like that."
C71. Did he discover Vinland or did Hollywood discover him?
C72. "Okay. Their previous MO was to offer women from the emerging East-European countries like Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria jobs in the west as maids and nannies. Once they smuggled them in, they'd addict them to drugs and turn them into prostitutes. Lately, however, they've decided that it's more economical just to kidnap traveling young women. Saves on transportation costs."
C73. This person produced the album Metal Machine Music in response to RCA Records' demands for a quick follow-up to his top-ten LP Sally Can't Dance. The hour-plus of electronic noise was almost buried as a classical release, but instead was promoted as a pop album. The resulting backlash nearly ruined the label and this person's reputation; both later issued apologies, while the album remains a musical enigma.
C74. "I don't have to tell her? Your mother and I are old friends. You know that."
C75. If you want a maid you don't have to pay for, head over to the Double R Diner and contact this waitress.
C76. [proffering cigar to Inga, in parody Swedish] "Phalliken symbolsk?"
C77. In his breakout role as an actor, his most important asset was a prosthetic.
C78. "Look, if you cut my head off it'll start to putrify!"
C79. This actress' mother recently stated that the miniature doll given to this actress was not intended to be a prank by the director. He merely wanted to give her a beautiful doll with her mother's image, but it happened that the doll was in a wooden box. When she received the gift, she freaked out and became upset thinking that it was indeed meant to be her mother in a coffin.
C80. "I woke up this morning, kept thinking about Billy and I was thinking about him waking up in his room with his little clouds all around that I painted and I thought I should have painted clouds downtown because then he would think that he was waking up at home. I came here to take my son home. And I realized he already is home."
C81. Her godparents were gossip columnist Louella Parsons and famed director George Cukor.
C82. "Okay, James, I wish you hadn't shot my girlfriend's dog. Even though Poe and I weren't exactly what you'd call simpatico, that's no reason he should've taken two in the chest."
C83. He was a camera, musically speaking that is.
C84. She attended the Academy of Music, Tel Aviv and studied acting at the Beit Zvi Drama School. Has established her career as a stage and screen actress, screenwriter and director and is married to Moshé Mizrahi.
C85. "I don't wanna find a little kid after they've been abused for three days.", "They told me what happened. I'm proud of you. That man killed a child. He had no right to live."
C86. There was a study done of the faces of beautiful women, quantifying the ratio of the width of the mouth to the width of the nose, attempting to find the perfect proportions for the perfect face of feminine beauty (the ratio turns out to be something like 1.7). The movie star with the most perfect proportions for feminine facial beauty, based on this measure, turns out to be this actress.
C87. "You're staying home. The sun is shining but it's raining."
C88. Heaven or Vegas? When she final was reunited with her husband after his strange trip home from prison - it was both.
C89. "What has two thumbs and likes blowjobs?" [Points to himself with both thumbs] "This guy!"
C90. Is highly conscious of avoiding excessive sun exposure, and is rarely seen during her downtime without a hat, sunglasses and wearing sunscreen. No wonder she spent what seemed spending half of her time in a movie shutting blinds and drapes to keep the sun out.
C91. "That would be like an ambulance calling for an ambulance, isn't it?"
C92. Took a break from acting during which time he built furniture and created large stuffed-animal pillows for Salvadore Dali. His is also a brother-in-law of Brigitte Bardot.
C93. "Listen to me. Forests burn 'cos they have to. And oceans, they go up and down 'cos they have to. I don't think we're that different. If you want to get through this you have to start seeing it for what it is. It's something we do all the time because we're good at it. And we're good at it because we're used to it. And we're used to it because we do it all the time."
C94. Did he try to make a monkey out of President Nixon? I don't know about that but I do know he was not Sparticus.
C95. "Look at it this way. A man takes a job, you know? And that job - I mean, like that - That becomes what he is. You know, like - You do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for thirteen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become - You get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. People are born, y'know? I envy you, your youth. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know."
C96. Carrie Fisher said in an interview that doing her scenes with him in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope were difficult for two reasons: she thought the lines were ridiculous and she found this actor to be so polite and charming off camera that it was hard to project the sense of disdain that her character, Princess Leia Organa, held for his character.
C97. "Are you interested in joining? The benefits are terrific. The trick is not to get killed. That's really the key to the benefit program."
C98. He hid money in a doll and messages in chess pieces.
C99. "Hey, I'm not dumb! You don't even know me and you call me dumb. Wanna know what's dumb? The last eight covers in a row you did on Elvis in the army, with the badges? That's dumb. And that's boring."
C100. Both this actor and Harry Ditson have portrayed real-life newscaster Don Hollenbeck
C101. "You're the most beautiful, exciting thing I've ever seen in my life and I don't know anything about you."
C102. He is the most recent incarnation of the first duel idenity hero - the dim-witted, foppish playboy who transforms into a sword-wielding hero fighting for justice.
C103. "Lizard & onions. Want half?"
C104. Growing up in the Little Italy section of New York City, his nickname was "Bobby Milk" because he was so thin and as pale as milk.
C105. "What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust. A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams... FOR WHAT? So you can swim and dance and play."
C106. The age difference between this actress and Halle Berry in Die Another Day - 12 years and 5 months - is the greatest age difference between two Bond girls in one film since Alison Doody and Grace Jones - a difference of 18 years - in A View to a Kill.
C107. "You should be locked up in that looney bin on Staten Island that Geraldo Rivera is always exposing!"
C108. He appeared in sequels (but not in the original - and not neccessarly the first sequel) of such horror movies Holloween, Final Destination and The Ring.
C109. "I want you to burn this Judas of a body. I don't want to be buried. I've spent enough time lying down. Burn it."
C110. I'm surprised she wasn't able to predict that a piece of 17th century plaster would fall on her head in 2006, causing a stroke. She spent time in physical and speech therapy, learning how to walk and remaster her speaking skills.
C111. "Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Do you see a little Asian child with a blank expression on his face sitting outside on a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it? No? Well, that's what you see at a toy store. And you must think you're in a toy store, because you're here shopping for an infant named Jeb."
C112. At the 2005 SAG awards, this actress presented the Actor for actress in a TV comedy -somone who is an answer in this list won the award. A year later at the 2006 Golden Globes, the receiver of the SAG award presented the award for best supporting actress on TV - this actress won that award and later said it was good to see her again!
C113. "'Fatty who likes golf and beer.' Gee, Mary, where are you gonna find a gem like that?"
C114. Hmmm, when she was young she claimed she didn't know how to swim, consequently she fell out of a boat (when pregnant) and drowned. Yet somehow when she was much older she claimed she was a champion swimmer - and proved it by swimming underwater to rescue a fellow passenger thus saving the lives of severel people - but that feat would prove to much for her and again she died in a watery grave.
C115. "I wouldn't accuse you of dishonesty! I accuse you of being from another planet, but an honest planet!"
C116. A little blue bird told me that this child actor was born in Greenford, Middlesex, England in 1966 and once was the special guest on 'The Carol Burnett Show'.
C117. [singing] "Budweiser you created a monster / and they call him Drinkenstein / And the tavern down the street is the labba-tor-eye-ee / where he makes the transformation all the time / And a stein of Dr. Buuuud is a pint of monster blood / and it does effect me different every time / Budweiser you created a monster / and they call me Drinkenstein / And they call me Drinkenstein / I'm Drinkenstein! / I'm Drinkenstein!"
C118. Before becoming an actor, this person was an executive director and then senior director of the news special events at ABC, he then became an executive producer for the "Gillette Cavalcade of Sports," where he gave Howard Cosell his first job. He also was friends with actor John Aniston and named godfather of Jennifer Aniston.
C119. I have no direct, first-hand knowledge if they are either real or spectacular.
C120. "You've seen plywood sets that look like the inside. Our beryllium sphere is... is wire with plaster around it. And our digital conveyor is... it's Christmas tree lights. It's a decoration. It's all fake. Just like me."
C121. His last name is the same as the first name of his co-star in probably the biggest film he's been a major character in, and that is the truth, no lie.
C122. "You were shy? After the car, and the elevator, and the bedroom, and on top of the refrigerator, you were shy?"
C123. Who would have guessed that James Baker was really both Gen. Lord Charles Cornwallis and Benjamin Franklin!
C124. "We've no time to sit and dither, / While her withers wither with her-- / And no one keeps a cow for a friend!"
C125. According to widely published reports from the late 1940s, the Sultan of Morocco declared her beauty to be proof of the existence of God.
C126. "We don't care how much it costs, just how much it makes. If it costs too much, we charge a penny more. Would you pay more to save a fish who thinks?"
C127. She is one of only 10 individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award (counting Daytime Emmy Awards), and probably the only one who was a former heroin addict.
C128. "It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?"
C129. Well, if it doesn't jell, it isn't aspic, and this ain't jellin'!' - except it wasn't aspic - at least not when this actor spoke his version of this line.
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 3:34 am
by Bob78164
I'm pretty sure A4 is Men in Black.
A24 is Good Will Hunting.
A40 has to be Dogma.
A54 is Scenes from a Mall. --Bob
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:20 am
by Estonut
List A - Movies
A1. This movie was the big-screen debut of an actress who a little more than 20 years latter would be killed by one of the most famous music producers of the 2nd half of the 20th century.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Lana Clarkson's debut, killed by Phil Spector)
A3. This movie's two opening title cards read "Baltimore, 1959" and "Christmas Night".
Diner
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:24 am
by Bob78164
I think B50 is Steve Buscemi.
B78 has to be Anne Hathaway.
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:10 pm
by mrkelley23
[quote="frogman042"]The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Wow. Well, might as well start with a first pass!
Have Fun!
I intend to!
List A - Movies
A1. This movie was the big-screen debut of an actress who a little more than 20 years latter would be killed by one of the most famous music producers of the 2nd half of the 20th century.
Actress is LANA CLARKSON, but I dunno her debut.
A3. This movie's two opening title cards read "Baltimore, 1959" and "Christmas Night".
Is this DINER? I don't remember if it takes place on Christmas.
A4. "All we gotta do is go in here and get a cat. It's not that hard. But if you go in there, you're gonna lay your Jack Webb on her, start flashing your brain-ray all in her face. You're gonna wind up giving her leukemia or something. Woman's a doctor, she don't need you flashing away half her med school classes. Five minutes."
MEN IN BLACK
A6. "This chick, man, without the benefit of dying herself, has broken down the process of dying into five stages: anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Sounds like a Jewish law firm. 'Good morning, Angerdenialbargainingdepressionacceptance!'."
ALL THAT JAZZ, unless it's the actual Lenny Bruce movie.
A7. The lead actress in this movie has a famous line. That line served as the inspiration behind Kenny Chesney's 1999 single with a similar name. In 2005, the lead actress married Chesney, only to have it annulled after four months.
Dates are wrong for it to be Bridget Jones' Diary, but it's definitely a RENEE ZELLWEGER movie
A8. "So, you've been tellin' everybody I've been sleepin' with ya, huh? Well that explains it! That's why these people treat me like some dime-store floozy. They think I'm screwin' the boss! Oooh, and you just love it, don't you? It gives you some sort of cheap thrill like knockin' over pencils and pickin' up papers! Get your scummy hands offa me! Look I've been straight with you since the first day I got here, and I've put up with all of your pinchin' and starin' and chasin' me around the desk because I need this job. But this is the last straw! Look, I've got a gun out there in my purse. Up until now I've been forgivin' and forgettin' because of the way I was brought up, but I'll tell you one thing. If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine, and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! And don't think I can't do it."
9 TO 5
A14. "Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They're single-serving friends."
Haven't actually see the movie, but it sounds like UP IN THE AIR?
A23. The title character of this film real last name was Weiss (not his more farmous stage name - weiss is the German word for the color white), and the actor who portrayed him had the real last name of Schwartz - (not his stage name as most people know the actor by and schwarz is the German word for the color black). No - it is not Breaking Bad.
HOUDINI (Tony Curtis version)
A25. The special effects technicians for this film were able to create giant drops of water by filling up condoms and dropping them.
HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS?
A34. In this film, the entrance and exit scenes of the Men in Black's first appearance in the bar were filmed entirely in reverse with the camera upside down, according to director's commentary on the restored print. The two men started on the bar stools, then backed out of the room for the entrance; while the exit was filmed with the two outside the bar and backing into it, including Strathairn replacing the cookies in the cookie bowl.
Got to be one of The Matrix sequels
A43. "I remember those cheers / They still ring in my ears / After years, they remain in my thoughts. / Go to one night / I took off my robe, and what'd I do? I forgot to wear shorts. / I recall every fall / Every hook, every jab / The worst way a guy can get rid of his flab. / As you know, my life wasn't drab. / Though I'd much... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When you delve... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When I delve into Shakespeare / A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse", I haven't had a winner in six months."
RAGING BULL
A49. "She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it."
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
A51. "It's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40!"
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE?
A52. The opening title sequence of this film was originally played on the score from "La bohème" opera but was changed to the Dean Martin track "That's Amore" as the preview drew negative test audience reaction. Many shifted uncomfortably on their seats thinking that they had been lured into an art film.
I don't think this is right, but I remember that song figuring prominently in the score to RETURN TO ME.
A54. Mall scenes with elevators and escalators were filmed at the Stamford Town Center in Stamford, Connecticut where shooting was conducted for around two weeks - I personally have been in that mall numerous times as it is not too far from where my brother-in-law lives. Mall exteriors were filmed at the actual Beverly Center on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, the mall where most of the picture is set.
Not NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, is it?
A73. "You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why! Why!"
POLTERGEIST
I'll try the other two lists after the IU game.
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:26 pm
by SportsFan68
A52. The opening title sequence of this film was originally played on the score from "La bohème" opera but was changed to the Dean Martin track "That's Amore" as the preview drew negative test audience reaction. Many shifted uncomfortably on their seats thinking that they had been lured into an art film.
I don't think this is right, but I remember that song figuring prominently in the score to RETURN TO ME.
I think it's Moonstruck because that's what's played to excellent effect, IMHO -- "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie. . ."
And because Loretta and Ronny go to La Boheme.
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:49 pm
by kroxquo
A5. The star of this film said that he felt very comfortable playing the role of the famous real-life director that this film is about. For, like that director, the star is a homosexual British actor who spent his early career in the theater and ultimately started a career in Hollywood.
The one starring Ian McKellen as James Whale whose title I can't recall
A6. "This chick, man, without the benefit of dying herself, has broken down the process of dying into five stages: anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Sounds like a Jewish law firm. 'Good morning, Angerdenialbargainingdepressionacceptance!'."
All That Jazz
A8. "So, you've been tellin' everybody I've been sleepin' with ya, huh? Well that explains it! That's why these people treat me like some dime-store floozy. They think I'm screwin' the boss! Oooh, and you just love it, don't you? It gives you some sort of cheap thrill like knockin' over pencils and pickin' up papers! Get your scummy hands offa me! Look I've been straight with you since the first day I got here, and I've put up with all of your pinchin' and starin' and chasin' me around the desk because I need this job. But this is the last straw! Look, I've got a gun out there in my purse. Up until now I've been forgivin' and forgettin' because of the way I was brought up, but I'll tell you one thing. If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine, and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! And don't think I can't do it."
9 to 5
A10. "Come to Los Angeles! The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs aplenty, and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy, all-American family. You can have all this, and who knows... you could even be discovered, become a movie star... or at least see one. Life is good in Los Angeles... it's paradise on Earth. Ha ha ha ha. That's what they tell you, anyway."
L.A. Confidential?
A23. The title character of this film real last name was Weiss (not his more farmous stage name - weiss is the German word for the color white), and the actor who portrayed him had the real last name of Schwartz - (not his stage name as most people know the actor by and schwarz is the German word for the color black). No - it is not Breaking Bad.
The one where Tony Curtis starred as Houdini. Was it The Great Houdini?
A26. "It's past ten. My daughter is in pain. I don't understand why she has to have this pain. All she has to do is hold out until ten, and IT'S PAST TEN! My daughter is in pain, can't you understand that! GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!"
Terms of Endearment
A28. "*Everything*! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for *you*! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn't that generous?"
Labyrynth
A30. "I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are brought to justice, I will fight on."
In the Name of the Father
A32. "The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus."
Gremlins
A39. "I'm gonna show these to someone who can read them right, 'cause you're reading them wrong, that's all there is to it. Because no one is gonna tell me you de-differentiated your goddamn genetic structure for four goddamn hours and then reconstitued! I'm a professor of endocrinology at the Harvard Medical School. I'm an attending physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital! I'm a contributing editor to the American Journal of Endocrinology and a I am a fellow and vice-president of the Eastern Association of Endocrinologists and president of the Journal Club! And I'm not going to listen to any more of your kabbalistic, quantum, friggin' dumb limbo mumbo jumbo! I'm gonna show these to a radiologist!"
Altered States
A40. William Donohue of the Catholic League lambasted the film and publicly protested against it for months without actually seeing the film, after which his office called View Askew offices and said "Dr. Donohue requests a special screening of [this film] so that he can speak about it intelligently." The director's response was: "So what has he been doing the past six months?"
The Last Temptation of Christ?
A52. The opening title sequence of this film was originally played on the score from "La bohème" opera but was changed to the Dean Martin track "That's Amore" as the preview drew negative test audience reaction. Many shifted uncomfortably on their seats thinking that they had been lured into an art film.
Moonstruck?
A54. Mall scenes with elevators and escalators were filmed at the Stamford Town Center in Stamford, Connecticut where shooting was conducted for around two weeks - I personally have been in that mall numerous times as it is not too far from where my brother-in-law lives. Mall exteriors were filmed at the actual Beverly Center on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, the mall where most of the picture is set.
Dawn of te Dead?
A60. The lead actress in this movie has admitted in interviews that she was completely unaware during the filming that the film would turn out so well and become one of the great science-fiction classics of all time. She assumed it would be just another one of the then-current and rather trashy flying saucer films that were popular at the time, and she found it difficult to keep a straight face while saying her lines.
The Day the Earth Stood Still?
A63. "He has his father's eyes."
Rosemary's Baby
A69. "I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!"
Jaws
A70. Holds the record for the movie with the most Academy Award nominations without a nomination for Best Picture: 9.
The Turning Pont
A72. Approximately 10 to 12 bicycles were built for the movie by the Pedal Pusher Bike Shop in Newport Beach CA; a shop that specialized in vintage and classic bicycles and parts. They were offered $10,000 and no screen credit or screen credit only. The shop chose the money.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
A73. "You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why! Why!"
Poltergeist
List B - Actors
B5. In one of his earliest roles, this actor played a professional baseball pitcher, who enjoyed playing the card game TEGWAR. Interestingly enough, his grandfather was a major league baseball player and then a MLB umpire.
Michael Moriarty (Bang the Drum Slowly)
B8. He had guests sign one of his Harley Davidsons (the first being Arnold Schwarzenegger), after which the bike was auctioned off with the money going to help victims of the September 11th attacks.
Jay Leno
B11. "Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules."
Jack Nicholson (Five Easy Pieces)
B21. "No, Kev, that's it. Look, I don't wanna be the same as everybody else. That's why I'm a Mod, see? I mean, you gotta be somebody, ain't ya, or you might as well jump in the sea and drown."
Sting? It's from Quadrophenia
B30. One of the most prolific American directors of his generation, he has written, directed, and more often than not starred in a film just about every year since 1969.
Woody Allen
B33. "High flying, adored. Did you believe in your wildest moments all this would be yours, that you'd become the lady of them all? Were there stars in your eyes when you crawled in at night - from the bars, from the sidewalks, from the gutter theatrical? Don't look down, it's a long, long way to fall."
Antonio Banderas (Evita)
B36. Without actually having to know any of the vote tallys, you could safely say that this actor won his Oscar by a nose.
Jose Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac)
B37. "The dream is always the same. Instead of going home, I go to the neighbors'. I ring, but nobody answers. The door is open, so I go inside. I'm looking around for the people, but nobody seems to be there. And then I hear the shower running, so I go upstairs to see what's what. Then I see her; this... girl, this incredible girl. I mean, what she's doing there I don't know, because she doesn't live there... but it's a dream, so I go with it. "Who's there?" she says. "Joel," I say. "What are you doing here?" "I don't know what I'm doing here; what are *you* doing here?" "I'm taking a shower," she says. Then I give her: "You want me to go?" "No," she says; "I want you to wash my back." So now, I'm gettin' enthusiastic about this dream. So I go to her, but she's hard to find through all the steam and stuff; I keep losing her. Finally I get to the door... and I... find myself in a room full of kids taking their college boards. I'm over three hours late; I've got two minutes to take the whole test. I've... just made a terrible mistake. I'll never get to college. My life is ruined."
Tom Cruise (Risky Business)
B47. "Say goodbye to your frog, pig! "…"Because in 10 seconds, he won't know *you* from kosher bacon."
Mel Brooks (The Muppet Movie)
B50. This actor was a working firefighter for a number of years in the early 1980's so it is not too surprising that he showed up at his old firehouse the day after the World Trade Center tragedy in New York to volunteer. Worked twelve hour shifts for a week after the terrorist act, digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters... anonymously. More surprising is that this actor was stabbed in the throat, head and arm during a barroom brawl at the Firebelly Lounge in Wilmington, North Carolina. The brawl also involved Vince Vaughn, who was arrested for brutalizing one of this actor's attackers. He suffered a deep cut to the face and now has a noticeable scar on his cheek. Heavy make-up is used to hide it in movies.
Steve Buscemi
B58. He declined an offer from President George Bush to campaign for him in the Presidential election. He told an interviewer the next year, "I think what the ultra-right wing conservatives did to the Republicans is really self-destructive, absolutely stupid". Maybe if President Bush gave him an empty chair, he could have changed his mind.
Clint Easywood
B69. "If all these people are not implicated in the crime, then why have they all told me, under interrogation, stupid and often unnecessary lies? Why? Why? Why? Why?"
Albert Finney? (Murder on the Orient Express?)
B76. This actress' last public appearance was in 1994 when she was awarded an honorary Oscar after six failed nominations over the years. She, along with Thelma Ritter, is one of the few actresses to have received six nominations and not to have won an Oscar. She received one of the longest standing ovations of all Honorary Oscar-recipients.
Deborah Kerr?
B78. First and only teenager admitted to the acting program at the award-winning The Barrow Group in New York. Maybe they mistook her for the bard's wife?
Gwinneth Paltrow?
B82. This actress was immortalized in a song that was written and performed by Toto (on their album, Toto IV). The song was a Top 10 hit that went on to win Grammys for 1982: Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Instrumental Arrangement With Vocal. This actress was the girlfriend of a member of the band, Jeff Porcaro.
Rosanna Arquette
B86. All 4 leads of this classic high school musical where well past high school age. The average age of the 4 was around 28 - but this person was easly the oldest of the 4 and played a high school student when their age was actually 33.
Stockard Channing? (Grease
B93. "Hey, hey, easy kids. Everybody in the car. Boat leaves in two minutes... or perhaps you don't want to see the second largest ball of twine on the face of the earth, which is only four short hours away?"
Chevy Chase (National Lampoon's Vacation)
B104. This actress played roles in four unrelated movies in which her character was in charge of having heads cut off.
Helena Bonham-Carter?
B106. This actress revived the fashion style created by Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn, when women all over the world started to wear suits and ties; first recognized by the public in her Oscar winning performance.
Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
B109. "Do you know how the Orcs first came into being? They were elves once, taken by the dark powers, tortured and mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of life. Now... perfected. My fighting Uruk-Hai. Whom do you serve?"
Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings)
B114. "Mine's still too hot, I didn't put in any cold milk. I can still see her red nails holding up that cup. After a few sips she said that the tea tasted of almonds. It's the almond cookies, I told her."
Jodie Foster (The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane)
B122. "We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."
Robin Williams (The World According to Garp)
List C - Actors
C6. "You know, every now and then, I think you might like to hear something from us nice and easy. But there's just one thing: we never, ever do nothing nice and easy, we always do it nice and rough. So we're gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy, and then we're gonna do the finish rough."
Tina Turner
C16. "P-p-p-please d-d-don't tell my m-m-m-mother."
Whoever played Billy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
C39. This actress' father was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. In a memorable role she wasn't so lucky - after informing a Nazi officer that they were building the barracks incorrectly, she was shot and then they subsequently took her advice.
The scene is in Schindler's List - no idea who the actress is
C41. She is the only woman who has won the Best Actress Oscar for a performance directed by her spouse.
Frances McDormand (Fargo)
C45. This actress played a former rock-star groupie 2 years after her real-life daughter played a young rock-star groupie. In real-life her husband andthe father of the aforementioned daughter was a pop-musician.
Goldie Hawn
C52. "... does the good of the many out weigh the good of the one?"
[the person responds that they would accept that as an axiom]
"Then you stand here alive because of a mistake made by your flawed, feeling, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because they believed that the good of the one - you - was more important to them."
William Shatner (Star Trek 3)
C76. [proffering cigar to Inga, in parody Swedish] "Phalliken symbolsk?"
Nathan Lane? (The Producers?)
C77. In his breakout role as an actor, his most important asset was a prosthetic.
Mark Wahlberg? (Boogie Nights?)
C83. He was a camera, musically speaking that is.
Michael York? (Cabaret)?
C84. She attended the Academy of Music, Tel Aviv and studied acting at the Beit Zvi Drama School. Has established her career as a stage and screen actress, screenwriter and director and is married to Moshé Mizrahi.
Natalie Portman?
C96. Carrie Fisher said in an interview that doing her scenes with him in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope were difficult for two reasons: she thought the lines were ridiculous and she found this actor to be so polite and charming off camera that it was hard to project the sense of disdain that her character, Princess Leia Organa, held for his character.
Peter Cushing
C104. Growing up in the Little Italy section of New York City, his nickname was "Bobby Milk" because he was so thin and as pale as milk.
Robert DeNiro?
C119. I have no direct, first-hand knowledge if they are either real or spectacular.
Teri Hatcher
C120. "You've seen plywood sets that look like the inside. Our beryllium sphere is... is wire with plaster around it. And our digital conveyor is... it's Christmas tree lights. It's a decoration. It's all fake. Just like me."
Tim Allen (Galaxy Quest)
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:52 pm
by Bob78164
I think C19 is Carla Gugino.
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 6:20 pm
by franktangredi
First pass, not checking the other answers.
List A - Movies
A3. This movie's two opening title cards read "Baltimore, 1959" and "Christmas Night".
DINER
A5. The star of this film said that he felt very comfortable playing the role of the famous real-life director that this film is about. For, like that director, the star is a homosexual British actor who spent his early career in the theater and ultimately started a career in Hollywood.
GODS AND MONSTERS
A6. "This chick, man, without the benefit of dying herself, has broken down the process of dying into five stages: anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Sounds like a Jewish law firm. 'Good morning, Angerdenialbargainingdepressionacceptance!'."
ALL THAT JAZZ?
A8. "So, you've been tellin' everybody I've been sleepin' with ya, huh? Well that explains it! That's why these people treat me like some dime-store floozy. They think I'm screwin' the boss! Oooh, and you just love it, don't you? It gives you some sort of cheap thrill like knockin' over pencils and pickin' up papers! Get your scummy hands offa me! Look I've been straight with you since the first day I got here, and I've put up with all of your pinchin' and starin' and chasin' me around the desk because I need this job. But this is the last straw! Look, I've got a gun out there in my purse. Up until now I've been forgivin' and forgettin' because of the way I was brought up, but I'll tell you one thing. If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine, and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! And don't think I can't do it."
NINE TO FIVE
A10. "Come to Los Angeles! The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs aplenty, and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy, all-American family. You can have all this, and who knows... you could even be discovered, become a movie star... or at least see one. Life is good in Los Angeles... it's paradise on Earth. Ha ha ha ha. That's what they tell you, anyway."
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL
A13. The movie is based on two real life twins, Stewart and Cyril Marcus. The two were found dead in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Their deaths were due to withdrawal from barbiturate addiction. The story is told in the novel "Twins" by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland.
DEAD RINGERS
A15. It's around 13 minutes into the film before the title character of this movie is seen, and around 40 minutes in before he is heard speaking. In addition, this was one of two black and white films nominated for best picture in one year - decades after color dominated the movie industry - oh and that other black and white film - is an answer to another clue in list A.
THE ELEPHANT MAN (means 'Raging Bull' is here somewhere)
A17. In real life, the actor who played a psychopathic serial killer in this movie, is a pacifist who despises guns. In the early days of principal photography, he would flinch violently every time he fired. Production was forced to be shut down for a time while the actor was sent to a school to learn to fire a gun convincingly. However, he still blinks noticeably when he shoots. He was also squeamish about filming the scene where he verbally and physically abuses several schoolchildren, and the scene where he racially insults the man he pays to beat him up. Yet you would never guess this from the convincingly meanicing performance that he gives in this movie.
DIRTY HARRY
A23. The title character of this film real last name was Weiss (not his more farmous stage name - weiss is the German word for the color white), and the actor who portrayed him had the real last name of Schwartz - (not his stage name as most people know the actor by and schwarz is the German word for the color black). No - it is not Breaking Bad.
THE GREAT HOUDINI
A24. "Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left. I don't know much, but I know that."
GOOD WILL HUNTING
A26. "It's past ten. My daughter is in pain. I don't understand why she has to have this pain. All she has to do is hold out until ten, and IT'S PAST TEN! My daughter is in pain, can't you understand that! GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!"
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
A27. To prepare for her performance as one of the two sets of twins in this film, the actress-comedian, just before the cameras rolled before a take, would whiz around in a circle several times until she got dizzy so as to exhibit the air-headed qualities of one the twins, the other twin in this film played by that actress-comedian - was much more level headed.
BIG BUSINESS?
A30. "I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are brought to justice, I will fight on."
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
A32. "The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus."
GREMLINS
A36. At the beginning of this film, one of the title charcters sings a song that he has penned, "Santa's Souped Up Sleigh." He tells the other title character that he sent the words - along with a sum of money - to the Hollywood Music Company, an outfit that puts its customers' song lyrics to music for a fee. Although the first character doesn't realize it, the tune that the company used is not an original one: they paired his lyrics with the melody of "Wabash Cannonball."
MELVIN AND HOWARD
A43. "I remember those cheers / They still ring in my ears / After years, they remain in my thoughts. / Go to one night / I took off my robe, and what'd I do? I forgot to wear shorts. / I recall every fall / Every hook, every jab / The worst way a guy can get rid of his flab. / As you know, my life wasn't drab. / Though I'd much... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When you delve... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When I delve into Shakespeare / A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse", I haven't had a winner in six months."
RAGING BULL
A48. This film became the first motion picture in Academy Awards and cinema history to be nominated for every Academy Award category in which it was eligible, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Director, all 4 acting categories, and Picture of the Year, since Cimarron (1931).
I CAN'T THINK OF ONE!
A49. "She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it."
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
A52. The opening title sequence of this film was originally played on the score from "La bohème" opera but was changed to the Dean Martin track "That's Amore" as the preview drew negative test audience reaction. Many shifted uncomfortably on their seats thinking that they had been lured into an art film.
MOONSTRUCK
A56. A "KILLIANS RED" neon sign at the pawn shop is partially lit. It reads: "KILL ED". Seconds before you see an important character in this film pick up Zed's keys there is a "Z" on the key chain. Put it all together and you have "KILL ZED".
PULP FICTION
A60. The lead actress in this movie has admitted in interviews that she was completely unaware during the filming that the film would turn out so well and become one of the great science-fiction classics of all time. She assumed it would be just another one of the then-current and rather trashy flying saucer films that were popular at the time, and she found it difficult to keep a straight face while saying her lines.
FORBIDDEN PLANET? THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL?
A63. "He has his father's eyes."
ROSEMARY'S BABY
A67. "Talk about an all-star cast - this film boasts 58 Oscar nominations and 14 wins (not including 2 Honorary wins) from its principal cast and crew."
Branagh's HAMLET?
A69. "I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!"
JAWS
A70. Holds the record for the movie with the most Academy Award nominations without a nomination for Best Picture: 9.
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?
A71. "Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about."
FIRST BLOOD?
A72. Approximately 10 to 12 bicycles were built for the movie by the Pedal Pusher Bike Shop in Newport Beach CA; a shop that specialized in vintage and classic bicycles and parts. They were offered $10,000 and no screen credit or screen credit only. The shop chose the money.
BREAKING AWAY?
A73. "You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why! Why!"
POLTERGEIST
A75. "All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie."
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
List B - Actors
B4. "I'm an architect for Christ sake, I build 50 story skyscrapers, I assemble cities of the future, I can certainly put together a goddam diaper."
TOM SELLECK
B5. In one of his earliest roles, this actor played a professional baseball pitcher, who enjoyed playing the card game TEGWAR. Interestingly enough, his grandfather was a major league baseball player and then a MLB umpire.
MICHAEL MORIARTY?
B6. [singing]"I stay away from deviled ham on principle/I wouldn't eat roast duckling if I could/Willpower has made me invincible!/My word, those sausages look good..."
REX HARRISON?
B7. The last of three actors with an Oscar nomination for playing multiple characters in a film.
LEE MARVIN?
B11. "Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules."
JACK NICHOLSON
B15. "Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death. "
MAURICE EVANS?
B16. Growing up this actor and his siblings often put on plays at their home. He has mentioned that his older sister Ann once staged a production of "Cinderella" in their living room in which she played Cinderella, sister Joan played the Ugly Stepsister, brother Bill played Prince Charming and this actor played the dog.
JOHN CUSACK?
B20. Her new husband was thrilled to find out, on the evening of their wedding, that he was truly a bastard!
PRISCILLA LANE
B22. The suicide of this actress's socialite mother was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that she'd died of heart failure. Household newspaper and magazine subscriptions were canceled, and the staff and student body of her high school were instructed not to discuss the incident. This actress learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in art class.
JANE FONDA?
B26. This actor won $356,000 by winning the California State Poker Championships in June 2004 - defeating some of the best poker players in the world in the process - he also received a lifetime ban from playing blackjack at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Casino due to his 'counting cards' skills. Did I also mention that at age 25, he was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar for 'Best Original Screenplay'. He went 15 years without another nomination until 2013, and he won.
BEN AFFLECK
B27. "This is your trough. Show me how the piggies eat. Be a good boy. Show mommy how the piggies eat."
MELINDA DILLON
B28. This actor attended college with Joan Allen who was occasionally a scene partner of him in their acting classes. Later attended another acting class years with John Mahoney. He encouraged both actors to join the Steppenwolf Theater Company, which they did. Legend has it that he was told by the head of the Theatre Department at Illinois State University that he would not have a career as an actor. Even though he did not graduate from ISU (he never took the constitution test), the Theatre Department still claims him as an alumnus. On April 4, 2005, he returned to visit the Theatre Department where he was presented with an official diploma for his bachelor's degree in theatre.
JOHN MALKOVICH?
B29. "Unfinished business? I have no unfinished business. I have my treasure, my mansion. I have EVERYTHING. I'm... just... perfect!"
[she laughs evilly until a flash of light comes out of her as a sign that she is crossing over]
[gasps] "Wait! Wait! I lied! I have unfinished business - lots of unfinished business!"
[more flashes of light appear]
"I-I'm not ready to cross over yet! Wait! You tricked me, you rotten little rats!" [she screams as the flashes of light causes her to vanish without a trace]
CATHY MORIARTY
B30. One of the most prolific American directors of his generation, he has written, directed, and more often than not starred in a film just about every year since 1969.
WOODY ALLEN
B33. "High flying, adored. Did you believe in your wildest moments all this would be yours, that you'd become the lady of them all? Were there stars in your eyes when you crawled in at night - from the bars, from the sidewalks, from the gutter theatrical? Don't look down, it's a long, long way to fall."
ANTONIO BANDERAS
B36. Without actually having to know any of the vote tallys, you could safely say that this actor won his Oscar by a nose.
JOSE FERRER
B37. "The dream is always the same. Instead of going home, I go to the neighbors'. I ring, but nobody answers. The door is open, so I go inside. I'm looking around for the people, but nobody seems to be there. And then I hear the shower running, so I go upstairs to see what's what. Then I see her; this... girl, this incredible girl. I mean, what she's doing there I don't know, because she doesn't live there... but it's a dream, so I go with it. "Who's there?" she says. "Joel," I say. "What are you doing here?" "I don't know what I'm doing here; what are *you* doing here?" "I'm taking a shower," she says. Then I give her: "You want me to go?" "No," she says; "I want you to wash my back." So now, I'm gettin' enthusiastic about this dream. So I go to her, but she's hard to find through all the steam and stuff; I keep losing her. Finally I get to the door... and I... find myself in a room full of kids taking their college boards. I'm over three hours late; I've got two minutes to take the whole test. I've... just made a terrible mistake. I'll never get to college. My life is ruined."
TOM CRUISE
B38. This actor was one of the original members of the Group Theater (1931-1940), the first acting company in America to bring Stanislavski's revolutionary acting techniques to America. He was also the first to leave the company for a Hollywood contract. In addition he is considered to be responsible for the establishment of the Best Supporting Actor/Actress categories in the Academy Awards.
JOHN GARFIELD?
B39. "Mama, I don't know why you have to make everything so difficult. I look at having a baby as the opportunity of a lifetime. Sure there may be risk involved, but that's true for anybody. But you get through it and life goes on. And when it's all said and done there will be a little piece of immortality with Jackson's good looks and my sense of style, I hope. Please, please I need your support. I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."
JULIA ROBERTS
B45. "People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance, because they think you took the easy way out, when no one could imagine the willpower it took to do what we do. Walking the streets, night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up."
CHARLIZE THERON?
B50. This actor was a working firefighter for a number of years in the early 1980's so it is not too surprising that he showed up at his old firehouse the day after the World Trade Center tragedy in New York to volunteer. Worked twelve hour shifts for a week after the terrorist act, digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters... anonymously. More surprising is that this actor was stabbed in the throat, head and arm during a barroom brawl at the Firebelly Lounge in Wilmington, North Carolina. The brawl also involved Vince Vaughn, who was arrested for brutalizing one of this actor's attackers. He suffered a deep cut to the face and now has a noticeable scar on his cheek. Heavy make-up is used to hide it in movies.
STEVE BUSCEMI
B52. This person who had been nominated for the Oscar fairly early in his film career but hadn't won always said if he ever won he would say “I have 2 things I would like to say, the first thing is I've always hated this award and everything it ever stood for. The second thing I want to say is that this is the happiest moment of my life.”, when he actually did win, 40 years after his first nomination, he actually did not give that speech.
HENRY FONDA?
B54. This actor made his screen debut playing one of three thugs who attack the wife and daughter of an architect. He is easy to spot because even though he is credited only as Thug #1, he is wearing a Jughead Jones style hat. Nearly 20 years later he would be staring in a number of the top grossing films of the 1990's.
JEFF GOLDBLUM
B58. He declined an offer from President George Bush to campaign for him in the Presidential election. He told an interviewer the next year, "I think what the ultra-right wing conservatives did to the Republicans is really self-destructive, absolutely stupid". Maybe if President Bush gave him an empty chair, he could have changed his mind.
CLINT EASTWOOD
B59. Howard Keel, her co-star in three movies, once described this actress in an interview as the most beautiful woman in the history of movies.
KATHRYN GRAYSON?
B60. "And we will be right back with our five final lesbians – interviews!"
MISS CONGENIALITY
B64. This actress' mother's maiden name was chosen for films in the early 1940s to raise fewer questions with the Nazi authorities than her real surname Kaminker. She also was the author of 'Adieu Volodia', a novel about a group of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Russia and their children, working in the theatre/film industry in Paris during the years 1926-1945.
SIMONE SIGNORET
B69. "If all these people are not implicated in the crime, then why have they all told me, under interrogation, stupid and often unnecessary lies? Why? Why? Why? Why?"
ALBERT FINNEY
B71. "I know you care about him. I've never seen you like this about anyone, so please don't get me wrong when I tell you that Tom, while being a very nice guy, is the Devil."
ALBERT BROOKS
B72. This actor is the brother of an actress that is an answer to a clue on this list and the father of another actress who also is answer to a clue on this list.
PETER FONDA?
B74. This actress appeared in a movie as the older sister of a boy with a bomb (that he is unaware that he is carrying) that explodes on a bus. The film's famous director said that regretted the decision to have the bomb go off.
SYLVIA SIDNEY
B76. This actress' last public appearance was in 1994 when she was awarded an honorary Oscar after six failed nominations over the years. She, along with Thelma Ritter, is one of the few actresses to have received six nominations and not to have won an Oscar. She received one of the longest standing ovations of all Honorary Oscar-recipients.
DEBORAH KERR
B77. "Well, no... no, at first they'd ask me questions they already knew I knew the answers to. We ran through those, and I really didn't want them to give me the answers, so they gave me the questions and I'd look up the answers on my own, as if that were any different. Well, we ran through those in a couple of weeks and I just didn't have the time, finally, and it just seemed silly, so..."
RALPH FIENNES
B78. First and only teenager admitted to the acting program at the award-winning The Barrow Group in New York. Maybe they mistook her for the bard's wife?
ANNE HATHAWAY
B82. This actress was immortalized in a song that was written and performed by Toto (on their album, Toto IV). The song was a Top 10 hit that went on to win Grammys for 1982: Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Instrumental Arrangement With Vocal. This actress was the girlfriend of a member of the band, Jeff Porcaro.
ROSANNA ARQUETTE
B86. All 4 leads of this classic high school musical where well past high school age. The average age of the 4 was around 28 - but this person was easly the oldest of the 4 and played a high school student when their age was actually 33.
STOCKARD CHANNING
B99. "You know what your problem is? You are so goddamn bored, you have to *invent* things to bitch about! You don't have a single thing to do on this earth except for your hair! The closet was fine, you just needed something to fill up your useless, nail-polishing, toe-polishing, rich bitch, sun-tanning days!" [From the engine room, the crew, who have heard all of this, start cheering]
KURT RUSSELL
B103. [to the unsympathetic crowd around Billy's body] "He was sweeping you sons of bitches, he was sweeping!"
TIMOTHY BOTTOMS
B106. This actress revived the fashion style created by Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn, when women all over the world started to wear suits and ties; first recognized by the public in her Oscar winning performance.
DIANE KEATON
B108. This actress is the first Colombian to be nominated for an Academy Award as well as the first actress ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Performance that was spoke entirely in Spanish throughout the entirety of the film.
CATALINA MORENO
B117. He participated in what is reported to be longest fencing duel ever to be filmed as well as the most exciting one ever to take place in a theater. Unfortunately, this actor ended up on the losing end of duel.
BASIL RATHBONE?
B119. At age 10, this actor's agent advised him to change his name to a more American-friendly Lenny Williams. Needless to say, he did not follow that advice. Even with his 'non-American-friendly name' he managed to have been nominated for 31 different awards (4 Academy Awards, 3 BAFTA Awards, 6 Critic's Choice Awards, 10 Golden Globe Awards, and 8 Screen Actors Guild Awards) but has only won 2 Golden Globes.
LEONARDO CI CAPRIO?
List C - Actors
C3. This actor was rejected repeatedly by studio heads while auditioning for the role that turned out to be a star-making role for him. The director fought for him. This film was shot briskly because both the director and the leading actor were in constant fear of being fired. It turned out to be a breakthrough picture for the director as well. Did I neglect to mention that this actor also studied under Frank's favoriate actor?
AL PACINO, but it's a different Charles Laughton
C6. "You know, every now and then, I think you might like to hear something from us nice and easy. But there's just one thing: we never, ever do nothing nice and easy, we always do it nice and rough. So we're gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy, and then we're gonna do the finish rough."
ANGELA BASSETT? (UNLESS IT'S TINA TURNER HERSELF)
C11. Although often cast as New York tough guys, few people know that he was actually born and raised in Australia. He has said that the only internationally successful Australian actor at the time he began acting was Mel Gibson, who had lost his Australian accent, so he did the same. Today, looking at all the hot young Australian actors who have kept their native accents but can use other dialects in their films, he says he regrets having dropped his accent.
ANTHONY LA PAGLIA
C13. Although she has many Tony nominations and two wins, she is the only actress to not win a Tony Award for a revival of the musical "Gypsy".
BERNADETTE PETERS
C15. You might say that this actor really had Ned Beatty's back.
BILL MCKINNEY
C16. "P-p-p-please d-d-don't tell my m-m-m-mother."
BRAD DOURIF
C24. "Oh, Lord of the tempest and the thunder, strike down this sinner, as thou did thine enemies of old in the days of the Pharaohs! Let him know the terror of thy sword! Let his soul, for all eternity, writhe in anguish and damnation!"
CLAUDE AKINS?
C27. One of my my favorite lines in all of moviedom is ts this line that refers to the character played by this actress: "I never knew fear until I kissed Becky."
DANA WYNTER
C35. James Dean learned he had an interest in photography when they worked together, and encouraged him to pursue it as an alternative to just being an actor. This actor published a book of photos in the late 1980s, including pictures of stars he had known, and thanked Dean.
DENNIS HOPPER?
C38. "I'm not. I'm lucky. I feel lucky because it's wrong, Danny. It's wrong and it was eating me up, it was going to kill me. And I kept asking myself all the time, how did I buy into this shit? It was because I was pissed off, and nothing I ever did ever took that feeling away. I killed two guys, Danny, I killed them. And it didn't make me feel any different. It just got me more lost and I'm tired of being pissed off, Danny. I'm just tired of it."
EDWARD NORTON
C40. "It happened again. David, the girl is absolutely useless. You've gotta get me someone who knows what she is doing. Excuse me. I'm not getting any of my mail, nothing has been filed. Ever since she got engaged, my life has been a disaster." ... "She spent the last three months writing down her married name. "Mrs. Judy Hicks", "Mrs. Donald Hicks"; "Mrs. Judy Mitchellson Hicks", sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes without a hyphen. Sometimes, she spells the hyphen."
ELIZABETH PERKINS
C41. She is the only woman who has won the Best Actress Oscar for a performance directed by her spouse.
FRANCES MCDORMAND
C55. This actress' father died in a helicopter accident 3 weeks prior to the US release of her first movie - oh and that movie is also the answer to another clue in this quiz.
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH?
C61. This actor almost didn't get the play the role on Broadway that he created for the London production of a hit stage musical because of an Actor's Equity rule regarding racial casting issues.
JONATHAN PRYCE?
C71. Did he discover Vinland or did Hollywood discover him?
LEIF ERICKSEN
C74. "I don't have to tell her? Your mother and I are old friends. You know that."
LOUISE FLETCHER
C77. In his breakout role as an actor, his most important asset was a prosthetic.
MARK WAHLBERG
C79. This actress' mother recently stated that the miniature doll given to this actress was not intended to be a prank by the director. He merely wanted to give her a beautiful doll with her mother's image, but it happened that the doll was in a wooden box. When she received the gift, she freaked out and became upset thinking that it was indeed meant to be her mother in a coffin.
MELANIE GRIFFITH
C80. "I woke up this morning, kept thinking about Billy and I was thinking about him waking up in his room with his little clouds all around that I painted and I thought I should have painted clouds downtown because then he would think that he was waking up at home. I came here to take my son home. And I realized he already is home."
MERYL STREEP
C83. He was a camera, musically speaking that is.
MICHAEL YORK
C95. "Look at it this way. A man takes a job, you know? And that job - I mean, like that - That becomes what he is. You know, like - You do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for thirteen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become - You get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. People are born, y'know? I envy you, your youth. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know."
PETER BOYLE
C96. Carrie Fisher said in an interview that doing her scenes with him in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope were difficult for two reasons: she thought the lines were ridiculous and she found this actor to be so polite and charming off camera that it was hard to project the sense of disdain that her character, Princess Leia Organa, held for his character.
HARRISON FORD?
C105. "What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust. A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams... FOR WHAT? So you can swim and dance and play."
ROD TAYLOR
C114. Hmmm, when she was young she claimed she didn't know how to swim, consequently she fell out of a boat (when pregnant) and drowned. Yet somehow when she was much older she claimed she was a champion swimmer - and proved it by swimming underwater to rescue a fellow passenger thus saving the lives of severel people - but that feat would prove to much for her and again she died in a watery grave.
SHELLEY WINTERS
C115. "I wouldn't accuse you of dishonesty! I accuse you of being from another planet, but an honest planet!"
STEVE GUTTENBERG
C122. "You were shy? After the car, and the elevator, and the bedroom, and on top of the refrigerator, you were shy?"
TOM HANKS
C128. "It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?"
WILL SMITH
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 8:49 pm
by SportsFan68
C24. "Oh, Lord of the tempest and the thunder, strike down this sinner, as thou did thine enemies of old in the days of the Pharaohs! Let him know the terror of thy sword! Let his soul, for all eternity, writhe in anguish and damnation!"
CLAUDE AKINS?
You can remove the question mark. Inherit the Wind was on TCM this afternoon, and what a performance!
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:12 pm
by franktangredi
B52. This person who had been nominated for the Oscar fairly early in his film career but hadn't won always said if he ever won he would say “I have 2 things I would like to say, the first thing is I've always hated this award and everything it ever stood for. The second thing I want to say is that this is the happiest moment of my life.”, when he actually did win, 40 years after his first nomination, he actually did not give that speech.
HENRY FONDA?
I think this is actually JACK PALANCE.
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:14 pm
by ToLiveIsToFly
All I have time for now, that hasn't been already guessed:
List A - Movies
A11. Two years after defrosting a caveman in one movie the actor (who help discover the caveman) starred in this movie. The character of the caveman also briefly shows up in this movie as well during the dinner scene in the tent with the Special forces guys.
IN THE ARMY NOW?
A21. The film's credits are spoken, not read, in keeping with the film's theme.
M*A*S*H
A22. "I see. So, what you're saying is that even though you are an almost-paralyzed, multiphobic personality who is in a constant state of panic, your wife did not leave you, you left her because she... liked Neil Diamond?"
SAVING SILVERMAN?
29. The club that the title character of this film drives by before he steals his new clothes is called Liquid Sword. "Liquid Swords" is the name of The GZA's second album, which was produced by The RZA, who also provided the original score for this film.
GHOST DOG THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI?
A31. The train crash in this movie was purposely made much more sensational than a train crash would actually be. The goal was to pay homage to the science-fiction movies of the '70s.
SUPER 8?
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:07 pm
by mellytu74
A more-than-quick-pass
List A - Movies
A3. This movie's two opening title cards read "Baltimore, 1959" and "Christmas Night".
DINER
A4. "All we gotta do is go in here and get a cat. It's not that hard. But if you go in there, you're gonna lay your Jack Webb on her, start flashing your brain-ray all in her face. You're gonna wind up giving her leukemia or something. Woman's a doctor, she don't need you flashing away half her med school classes. Five minutes."
MEN IN BLACK
A5. The star of this film said that he felt very comfortable playing the role of the famous real-life director that this film is about. For, like that director, the star is a homosexual British actor who spent his early career in the theater and ultimately started a career in Hollywood.
GODS AND MONSTERS
A7. The lead actress in this movie has a famous line. That line served as the inspiration behind Kenny Chesney's 1999 single with a similar name. In 2005, the lead actress married Chesney, only to have it annulled after four months.
JERRY MAGUIRE
A8. "So, you've been tellin' everybody I've been sleepin' with ya, huh? Well that explains it! That's why these people treat me like some dime-store floozy. They think I'm screwin' the boss! Oooh, and you just love it, don't you? It gives you some sort of cheap thrill like knockin' over pencils and pickin' up papers! Get your scummy hands offa me! Look I've been straight with you since the first day I got here, and I've put up with all of your pinchin' and starin' and chasin' me around the desk because I need this job. But this is the last straw! Look, I've got a gun out there in my purse. Up until now I've been forgivin' and forgettin' because of the way I was brought up, but I'll tell you one thing. If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine, and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! And don't think I can't do it."
9 TO 5
A10. "Come to Los Angeles! The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs aplenty, and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy, all-American family. You can have all this, and who knows... you could even be discovered, become a movie star... or at least see one. Life is good in Los Angeles... it's paradise on Earth. Ha ha ha ha. That's what they tell you, anyway."
LA CONFIDENTIAL
A13. The movie is based on two real life twins, Stewart and Cyril Marcus. The two were found dead in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Their deaths were due to withdrawal from barbiturate addiction. The story is told in the novel "Twins" by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland.
DEAD RINGERS
A16. "The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed. I can't begin to explain that. Or the craziness inside myself and everyone else. But guess what? Sunday's my favorite day again. I think of what everyone did for me, and I feel like a very lucky guy."
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
A21. The film's credits are spoken, not read, in keeping with the film's theme.
FARENHEIT 451
A22. "I see. So, what you're saying is that even though you are an almost-paralyzed, multiphobic personality who is in a constant state of panic, your wife did not leave you, you left her because she... liked Neil Diamond?"
WHAT ABOUT BOB?
A23. The title character of this film real last name was Weiss (not his more farmous stage name - weiss is the German word for the color white), and the actor who portrayed him had the real last name of Schwartz - (not his stage name as most people know the actor by and schwarz is the German word for the color black). No - it is not Breaking Bad.
HOUDINI
A24. "Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left. I don't know much, but I know that."
GOOD WILL HUNTING
A26. "It's past ten. My daughter is in pain. I don't understand why she has to have this pain. All she has to do is hold out until ten, and IT'S PAST TEN! My daughter is in pain, can't you understand that! GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!"
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
A27. To prepare for her performance as one of the two sets of twins in this film, the actress-comedian, just before the cameras rolled before a take, would whiz around in a circle several times until she got dizzy so as to exhibit the air-headed qualities of one the twins, the other twin in this film played by that actress-comedian - was much more level headed.
The Lily Tomlin/Bette Midler movie … something Business?
A33. "Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit."
COMING TO AMERICA?
A38. The "We Sell Your Stuff on eBay" store in this film was a real store; it was written into the script after the location was chosen.
40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN?
A40. William Donohue of the Catholic League lambasted the film and publicly protested against it for months without actually seeing the film, after which his office called View Askew offices and said "Dr. Donohue requests a special screening of [this film] so that he can speak about it intelligently." The director's response was: "So what has he been doing the past six months?"
DOGMA
A45. "You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?"
ARMAGEDDON
A47. "Goddamn class action suits are gonna be the ruin of this country. It wasn't so bad when the courts made us take girls. At least the ones that came could play, but now this."
BAD NEWS BEARS
A49. "She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it."
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
A50. Originally in the beginning of this movie, there was a gang beating up a father, who drops a toy on the sidewalk. The studio thought it was too violent, so it was cut. The main character can be seen playing with the toy after he finds it on the ground during the opening credits.
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
A51. "It's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40!"
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
A52. The opening title sequence of this film was originally played on the score from "La bohème" opera but was changed to the Dean Martin track "That's Amore" as the preview drew negative test audience reaction. Many shifted uncomfortably on their seats thinking that they had been lured into an art film.
MOONSTRUCK
A53. "The island of Cyprus, madame. World famous for beauty, and long, tragic history. Been conquered many times, conquered by Phoenicians, Assyrians, Persians, Macedonians; also conquered by Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Turks. Purchased from Turkey by your esteemed self, the British Empire. All Cyprus most wanted the British."
EXODUS?
A55. "You see, sir, rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health. But it isn't, sir. Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study. It is to be shunned."
SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS
A59. "The buses! The buses are empty and look almost menacing, threatening, as so many yellow dragons watching me with their hollow, vacant eyes. I wonder how many little black and white children have yellow nightmares, their own special brand of fear for the yellow peril... Damn it, it's got to be more... positive. No, more negative! Start again. Yellow is the color of caution. No. Yellow is the color of cowardice. Yellow is the color of sunshine. And yet I see very little sunshine in the lives of all the little black and white children. I see their lives, rather, as a study in grayness, a mixture of black and... Oh, Christ, no. That's fascist. Yellow! Yellow, yellow, yellow. Yellow fever..."
NASHVILLE
A67. "Talk about an all-star cast - this film boasts 58 Oscar nominations and 14 wins (not including 2 Honorary wins) from its principal cast and crew."
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS? THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD?
A69. "I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!"
JAWS
A70. Holds the record for the movie with the most Academy Award nominations without a nomination for Best Picture: 9.
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY?
A73. "You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why! Why!"
POLTERGEIST
List B - Actors
B1. This late actor's nickname "America's Guest" stemmed from his habit of wandering to a random house of a complete stranger, knocking on the door, going in, helping himself to something in the refrigerator and then sleeping on the stranger's couch. Most strangers, recognizing who he was, did not seem to mind his "visit".
JOHN BELUSHI
B3. This actor is the voice of the yellow peanut M&M on the commercials since the late 1990s, replacing John Goodman after the original 1995 commercials. In 2000, a video game was produced, M&M's: The Lost Formulas (2000), in which he portrayed Yellow Peanut.
JK SIMMONS
B11. "Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules."
JACK NICHOLSON
B12. She dressed up as Catwoman and attempted to confront Tim Burton and Michael Keaton on the Warner Bros. property, in Batman Returns, to get that role - it didn't work.
SEAN YOUNG?
B13. "I bear no grudge against <Name Removed>. He's been very successful, and God bless him. God bless him. But I'll tell something; I ain't done too badly, myself. Uh, I manage a shopping mall down in Florence, Alabama. Yeah, it's the number one mall in Colbert County. It's number four in the state, so it's not too bad, you know? Uh, I play golf several times a week, you know? But I'll tell ya, if <Name Removed> woulda listened to me, I'd still be up there in radio. Still be doin' radio, you know... How 'bout that? That goddamn motherfucker, you know. I tried every
[jackhammer]
thing I could
[jackhammer]
think of, mold him into a proper kind of deejay, but that goddamn son-of-a-bitch
[jackhammer] I'll tell you, <Name Removed>, man! That motherfuckin'
[extended jackhammer and siren] And I'll say that with no shame, either! Man's a
[jackhammer]
Foul-mouthed, immature... The man's immature, you know? He's like a
[jackhammer]
child. I'll tell ya this much: There ain't no God while <Name Removed> walking the Earth, I'll tell you that.
[jackhammer]
I gotta go.
[He walks away. To a passerby]
How 'bout that? <Name Removed>, huh?
[to the camera]
<Name Removed> can kiss my ass in hell!"
PRIVATE PARTS??
B16. Growing up this actor and his siblings often put on plays at their home. He has mentioned that his older sister Ann once staged a production of "Cinderella" in their living room in which she played Cinderella, sister Joan played the Ugly Stepsister, brother Bill played Prince Charming and this actor played the dog.
JOHN CUSACK
B18. He is the only cast member of Saturday Night Live to host while still a cast member. Nick Nolte was to host but fell ill and this person replaced him.
EDDIE MURPHY
B19. "It's all bullshit except the pain. The pain of hell. The burn from a lighted match increased a million times. Infinite. Now, ya don't fuck around with the infinite. There's no way you do that. The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart... your soul, the spiritual side. And ya know... the worst of the two is the spiritual."
HARVEY KEITEL
B22. The suicide of this actress's socialite mother was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that she'd died of heart failure. Household newspaper and magazine subscriptions were canceled, and the staff and student body of her high school were instructed not to discuss the incident. This actress learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in art class.
JANE FONDA
B24. This actor's fourth arrest was in 1974 for attempted burglary and malicious mischief. While under the influence of peyote, while nude, he began wandering around his Laurel Canyon neighborhood. He broke into a neighbor's home, shattering a window and cutting his arm. He then bled all over the homeowner's piano. At some time during this episode he accosted two young women, allegedly assaulting one while asking, or demanding of her, if she was a witch. The police literally followed a trail of blood to his home. The burglary charges were dropped, as nothing was found to be missing, while he pleaded "no contest" to the mischief charge and was given probation. He was never charged with assault, but the young woman sued him for $1.1 million and was awarded $20,000.
I think this is DAVID CARRADINE but I am not sure
B25. "My daughter was murdered. They put a gun to her. As we stand here, she's on an autopsy slab getting cut open by scalpels and chest spreaders, and you're talking to me about domestic fucking responsibility? Good to see you, Theo."
SEAN PENN
B26. This actor won $356,000 by winning the California State Poker Championships in June 2004 - defeating some of the best poker players in the world in the process - he also received a lifetime ban from playing blackjack at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Casino due to his 'counting cards' skills. Did I also mention that at age 25, he was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar for 'Best Original Screenplay'. He went 15 years without another nomination until 2013, and he won.
BEN AFFLECK
B27. "This is your trough. Show me how the piggies eat. Be a good boy. Show mommy how the piggies eat."
MELINDA DILLON
B32. This actor apologized to Colombia after blaming the nation for America's drug problems. The star insisted the United States is as much to blame for the prolific trade and confessed he didn't mean to single out any one country as the supplier. He told the New York Daily News, "I said Colombia because it was the first country to come to mind." The actor was dubbed "ignorant" and "ungrateful" by the Colombian president for his comments in March 2006, and advised not to base his arguments on "Hollywood clichés".
BRUCE WILLIS
B35. "Madame Nell says there's something wrong with you, that you're a cream puff or something. She says you're pathetic, missing all the fun in life."
BROOKE SHIELDS
B36. Without actually having to know any of the vote tallys, you could safely say that this actor won his Oscar by a nose.
JOSE FERRER
B37. "The dream is always the same. Instead of going home, I go to the neighbors'. I ring, but nobody answers. The door is open, so I go inside. I'm looking around for the people, but nobody seems to be there. And then I hear the shower running, so I go upstairs to see what's what. Then I see her; this... girl, this incredible girl. I mean, what she's doing there I don't know, because she doesn't live there... but it's a dream, so I go with it. "Who's there?" she says. "Joel," I say. "What are you doing here?" "I don't know what I'm doing here; what are *you* doing here?" "I'm taking a shower," she says. Then I give her: "You want me to go?" "No," she says; "I want you to wash my back." So now, I'm gettin' enthusiastic about this dream. So I go to her, but she's hard to find through all the steam and stuff; I keep losing her. Finally I get to the door... and I... find myself in a room full of kids taking their college boards. I'm over three hours late; I've got two minutes to take the whole test. I've... just made a terrible mistake. I'll never get to college. My life is ruined."
RISKY BUSINESS
B38. This actor was one of the original members of the Group Theater (1931-1940), the first acting company in America to bring Stanislavski's revolutionary acting techniques to America. He was also the first to leave the company for a Hollywood contract. In addition he is considered to be responsible for the establishment of the Best Supporting Actor/Actress categories in the Academy Awards.
FRANCHOT TONE (because of Mutiny on the Bounty – recently on TV)
B39. "Mama, I don't know why you have to make everything so difficult. I look at having a baby as the opportunity of a lifetime. Sure there may be risk involved, but that's true for anybody. But you get through it and life goes on. And when it's all said and done there will be a little piece of immortality with Jackson's good looks and my sense of style, I hope. Please, please I need your support. I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."
JULIA ROBERTS
B42. This actress was the subject of an urban legend claiming that she had been the model for the Columbia Pictures logo. This rumor was untrue but so widespread that this actress, herself, told Roger Ebert that she believed it to be true.
ANNETTE BENING?
B43. "I'll call you on Monday and we'll go shopping. Anything we can't buy, we'll make. Anything we can't make, we'll steal!"
BEVERLY D’ANGELO (in Coal Miner’s Daughter – on TCM last night)
B50. This actor was a working firefighter for a number of years in the early 1980's so it is not too surprising that he showed up at his old firehouse the day after the World Trade Center tragedy in New York to volunteer. Worked twelve hour shifts for a week after the terrorist act, digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters... anonymously. More surprising is that this actor was stabbed in the throat, head and arm during a barroom brawl at the Firebelly Lounge in Wilmington, North Carolina. The brawl also involved Vince Vaughn, who was arrested for brutalizing one of this actor's attackers. He suffered a deep cut to the face and now has a noticeable scar on his cheek. Heavy make-up is used to hide it in movies.
STEVE BUSCEMI
B58. He declined an offer from President George Bush to campaign for him in the Presidential election. He told an interviewer the next year, "I think what the ultra-right wing conservatives did to the Republicans is really self-destructive, absolutely stupid". Maybe if President Bush gave him an empty chair, he could have changed his mind.
CLINT EASTWOOD??
B59. Howard Keel, her co-star in three movies, once described this actress in an interview as the most beautiful woman in the history of movies.
KATHRYN GRAYSON?
B60. "And we will be right back with our five final lesbians – interviews!"
WILLIAM SHATNER
B63. "Yes. I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I wanna see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club - hear Billie Holiday sing fine and mellow - walk in that kind of rain that never washes perfume away. I wanna be in love with something. Anything. Just the idea. A dog, a cat. Anything. Just something."
JACK LEMMON
B64. This actress' mother's maiden name was chosen for films in the early 1940s to raise fewer questions with the Nazi authorities than her real surname Kaminker. She also was the author of 'Adieu Volodia', a novel about a group of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Russia and their children, working in the theatre/film industry in Paris during the years 1926-1945.
SIMONE SIGNORET
B67. "So what's a girl to do? He's a guy who followed his pecker to greener pastures. I'm a middle aged, high school drop out with stretch marks and a fat ass."
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
B68. A notorious practical joker, this actor was best man at Richard Kind's wedding. Oh and he is also the nephew of someone who is the answer to another clue in this list.
GEORGE CLOONEY
B71. "I know you care about him. I've never seen you like this about anyone, so please don't get me wrong when I tell you that Tom, while being a very nice guy, is the Devil."
ALBERT BROOKS
B72. This actor is the brother of an actress that is an answer to a clue on this list and the father of another actress who also is answer to a clue on this list.
PETER FONDA?
B76. This actress' last public appearance was in 1994 when she was awarded an honorary Oscar after six failed nominations over the years. She, along with Thelma Ritter, is one of the few actresses to have received six nominations and not to have won an Oscar. She received one of the longest standing ovations of all Honorary Oscar-recipients.
DEBORAH KERR
B78. First and only teenager admitted to the acting program at the award-winning The Barrow Group in New York. Maybe they mistook her for the bard's wife?
ANNE HATHAWAY
B82. This actress was immortalized in a song that was written and performed by Toto (on their album, Toto IV). The song was a Top 10 hit that went on to win Grammys for 1982: Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Instrumental Arrangement With Vocal. This actress was the girlfriend of a member of the band, Jeff Porcaro.
ROSEANNA ARQUETTE
B86. All 4 leads of this classic high school musical where well past high school age. The average age of the 4 was around 28 - but this person was easly the oldest of the 4 and played a high school student when their age was actually 33.
STOCKARD CHANNING
B87. "You're crazy about me, right? And I can understand it. Only this morning, looking in the mirror before shaving, I enjoyed seeing what I saw so much I couldn't tear myself away." [kisses his hand] "Have some, baby?"
JERRY LEWIS?? (Nutty Professor)?
B91. "I use girls that look like movie stars. Sometimes I employ a plastic surgeon. When the work had been done, that's when you saw us."
DAVID STRATHAIRN
B93. "Hey, hey, easy kids. Everybody in the car. Boat leaves in two minutes... or perhaps you don't want to see the second largest ball of twine on the face of the earth, which is only four short hours away?"
CHEVY CHASE
B95. "I couldn't be a ballerina now. I'm too top-heavy. I have a hard enough time balancin' these things now without gettin' on my toes! "
DOLLY PARTON
B102. This actress' father is a longtime Wall Street trader who developed his family's multi-million-dollar pasta business, then sold it to pursue funding and development of major studios and independent Hollywood projects. Her mother is a former Rockette and Wall Street analyst, who helped manage her daughter's career. Given her frequent arrests and stints in rehab, maybe it should be mismanaged?
LINDSAY LOHAN?
B103. [to the unsympathetic crowd around Billy's body] "He was sweeping you sons of bitches, he was sweeping!"
TIMOTHY BOTTOMS
B110. At 6'5", this person is the tallest actor ever to have won an Oscar. The tallest actor ever nominated was James Cromwell at 6'7".
TIM ROBBINS? He is very tall.
B119. At age 10, this actor's agent advised him to change his name to a more American-friendly Lenny Williams. Needless to say, he did not follow that advice. Even with his 'non-American-friendly name' he managed to have been nominated for 31 different awards (4 Academy Awards, 3 BAFTA Awards, 6 Critic's Choice Awards, 10 Golden Globe Awards, and 8 Screen Actors Guild Awards) but has only won 2 Golden Globes.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
B121. He was the devil referenced in an early clue in this list.
WILLIAM HURT
List C - Actors
C2. [singing] "I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad / Carry you around when your arthritis is bad / All I wanna do is grow old with you. / I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches / build you a fire if the furnace breaks / Oh it could be so nice, growin old with you. / I'll miss you, kiss you, give you my coat when you are cold. / Need you, feed you, I'll even let you hold the remote control. / So let me do the dishes in the kitchen sink / Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink. / Oh I could be the man to grow old with you. / I wanna grow old with you."
ADAM SANDLER
C6. "You know, every now and then, I think you might like to hear something from us nice and easy. But there's just one thing: we never, ever do nothing nice and easy, we always do it nice and rough. So we're gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy, and then we're gonna do the finish rough."
TINA TURNER
C10. "Good evening. Well, brother has been killing brother since Cain and Abel, yet even I didn't see that coming. I was as blindsided as poor old Henry down there. And apparently, the authorities shared my naïveté. In other words, they believed the young man's story. That Henry fell, hit his head on a stone and died of smoke asphyxiation. On the other hand, if they hadn't believed him, Ed Gein would never have had the opportunity to commit those heinous crimes for which he became most famous. And we, of course, well we wouldn't have our little movie, would we?"
ANTHONY HOPKINS
C12. "Leave him alone, all right? He's a real special kid and, and I have high hopes for him and... I think if he works really hard, he can get an academic scholarship to Wabash College and can get out of this place."
BARBARA HERSHEY
C13. Although she has many Tony nominations and two wins, she is the only actress to not win a Tony Award for a revival of the musical "Gypsy".
BERNADETTE PETERS?
C14. "I'll tell you why! Cause you were scared, if you'd talk, they'll talk too. You were scared you'd get the horse laugh... like I'm giving ya now! HA HA HA HA HA HA! Just a punk with a crippled hand! HA HA HA HA HA..."
BETTY FIELD
C16. "P-p-p-please d-d-don't tell my m-m-m-mother."
BRAD DOURIF
C18. [responding to being told that the American thing is to marry a rich widow] "We used to say, a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store."
CAMPBELL SCOTT
C19. She turned down the role of Vin Diesel's love interest in the box-office hit The Pacifier to take a small but unforgettably sexy role in Sin City because she had enjoyed working with director Robert Rodriguez in the three "Spy Kids" films.
CARLA GUGINO?
C24. "Oh, Lord of the tempest and the thunder, strike down this sinner, as thou did thine enemies of old in the days of the Pharaohs! Let him know the terror of thy sword! Let his soul, for all eternity, writhe in anguish and damnation!"
CLUADE AKINS in Inherit the Wind! This was just on tonight!
C26. "Now I know this is all new to ya, but remember something, we're all new. This is not an ancient industry. This whole place here is built around speed. Start the story, start the chase. I get bored easy." … "But don't go thinking we sacrifice quality. I never make more than two motion pictures a week, but I'll spend up to a thousand dollars on each of 'em if I have to."
DAN ACKROYD
C31. In 2010, film critic David Thomson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film": "With his drooping chin and pouty lips, his quaff of hair and dithery manner, <this actor> seems like a refugee from Thirties theatre - or an incipient sneeze looking for a vacant nose".
Oh, gosh. I remember reading this. HUGH GRANT?
C34. "You know something, you ain't nothing special. You got no manners, you treat woman like whores and if you ask me you got no chance of being no officer."
DEBRA WINGER
C35. James Dean learned he had an interest in photography when they worked together, and encouraged him to pursue it as an alternative to just being an actor. This actor published a book of photos in the late 1980s, including pictures of stars he had known, and thanked Dean.
DENNIS HOPPER
C36. "But you've got your projects, haven't you? You're going to be a director. You'll sit in your little canvas chair polishing your balls. "Thank God I got rid of that hag I had to screw. What was her name? The one who paid for everything! The one who bought me a fucking house!"."
DIANE LANE
C40. "It happened again. David, the girl is absolutely useless. You've gotta get me someone who knows what she is doing. Excuse me. I'm not getting any of my mail, nothing has been filed. Ever since she got engaged, my life has been a disaster." ... "She spent the last three months writing down her married name. "Mrs. Judy Hicks", "Mrs. Donald Hicks"; "Mrs. Judy Mitchellson Hicks", sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes without a hyphen. Sometimes, she spells the hyphen."
ELIZABETH PERKINS
C44. "Oh. My jewel case. It's bomb proofed, the insurance people insisted upon it. Oh. My idea of heaven is never to have to pack or unpack. Why didn't I think of that before. Here. Here. You know what? The hell with the jewelry let's put my book in here. Thank you. Here you are my darlings, it's all yours - I never wanted to have the damn thing published when I was alive anyway."
GLORIA SWANSON in the Airport movie she was in
C45. This actress played a former rock-star groupie 2 years after her real-life daughter played a young rock-star groupie. In real-life her husband and the father of the aforementioned daughter was a pop-musician.
GOLDIE HAWN
C50. "Actually, I believe it goes: Never con a con-man, especially one who's better than you are."
This is from Diggstown – it’s either BRUCE DERN or JAMES WOODS. I can’t remember who said what.
C61. This actor almost didn't get the play the role on Broadway that he created for the London production of a hit stage musical because of an Actor's Equity rule regarding racial casting issues.
JONATHAN PRYCE
C79. This actress' mother recently stated that the miniature doll given to this actress was not intended to be a prank by the director. He merely wanted to give her a beautiful doll with her mother's image, but it happened that the doll was in a wooden box. When she received the gift, she freaked out and became upset thinking that it was indeed meant to be her mother in a coffin.
MELANIE GRIFFITH
C80. "I woke up this morning, kept thinking about Billy and I was thinking about him waking up in his room with his little clouds all around that I painted and I thought I should have painted clouds downtown because then he would think that he was waking up at home. I came here to take my son home. And I realized he already is home."
MERYL STREEP
C81. Her godparents were gossip columnist Louella Parsons and famed director George Cukor.
MIA FARROW
C83. He was a camera, musically speaking that is.
MICHAEL YORK
C95. "Look at it this way. A man takes a job, you know? And that job - I mean, like that - That becomes what he is. You know, like - You do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for thirteen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become - You get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. People are born, y'know? I envy you, your youth. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know."
PETER BOYLE
C99. "Hey, I'm not dumb! You don't even know me and you call me dumb. Wanna know what's dumb? The last eight covers in a row you did on Elvis in the army, with the badges? That's dumb. And that's boring."
RAY SHARKEY in The Idolmaker
C101. "You're the most beautiful, exciting thing I've ever seen in my life and I don't know anything about you."
RICHARD DREYFUSS
C104. Growing up in the Little Italy section of New York City, his nickname was "Bobby Milk" because he was so thin and as pale as milk.
ROBERT DENIRO
C105. "What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust. A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams... FOR WHAT? So you can swim and dance and play."
ROD TAYLOR
C114. Hmmm, when she was young she claimed she didn't know how to swim, consequently she fell out of a boat (when pregnant) and drowned. Yet somehow when she was much older she claimed she was a champion swimmer - and proved it by swimming underwater to rescue a fellow passenger thus saving the lives of several people - but that feat would prove too much for her and again she died in a watery grave.
SHELLEY WINTERS
C118. Before becoming an actor, this person was an executive director and then senior director of the news special events at ABC, he then became an executive producer for the "Gillette Cavalcade of Sports," where he gave Howard Cosell his first job. He also was friends with actor John Aniston and named godfather of Jennifer Aniston.
TELLY SAVALAS
C122. "You were shy? After the car, and the elevator, and the bedroom, and on top of the refrigerator, you were shy?"
TOM HANKS
C125. According to widely published reports from the late 1940s, the Sultan of Morocco declared her beauty to be proof of the existence of God.
VIRGINIA MAYO? HEDY LAMARR? I remember this but can’t remember the actress.
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:18 am
by Pastor Fireball
I thought my last movie game was long. This is insane.
I'll do a quick pass on Set A right now.
A8. NINE TO FIVE
A27. BIG BUSINESS?
A32. GREMLINS
A33. either BARBERSHOP or its sequel
A37. MY COUSIN VINNY
A69. JAWS
A70. DREAMGIRLS?
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:35 am
by macrae1234
B7. The last of three actors with an Oscar nomination for playing multiple characters in a film.
LEE MARVIN? wasn't Jeremy Irons nominated for Dead Ringers where he played twin gynecologists
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:38 am
by macrae1234
A7. The lead actress in this movie has a famous line. That line served as the inspiration behind Kenny Chesney's 1999 single with a similar name. In 2005, the lead actress married Chesney, only to have it annulled after four months.
Dates are wrong for it to be Bridget Jones' Diary, but it's definitely a RENEE ZELLWEGER movie
You had me at Hello from Jerry Maguire
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:28 pm
by macrae1234
B79 "I apologize for calling your wife a bloated warthog, and I bid you good day."
Highlander
B40. Of this actresses 5 marragies, clearly her 2nd one had to be the rockiest. The now bankrupt New World Studios hired her to pose for promotional photos highlighting the Marvel Comics character She-Hulk in 1989 to distribute as a possible movie. Though the pictures garnered much fan interest, they failed to produce interest in financial backers.
Bridgette Neilsen
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:57 pm
by macrae1234
B46. This actor is of the Cayuga nation and Wolf Clan of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy and was the founder and Publisher of Aboriginal Voices Magazine, a magazine which was devoted to Native Canadian issues.
I know of 3 six nations actors Jay Silverheels Graham Greene and Gary Farmer Tonto is dead so either Greene or Farmer
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:04 pm
by mrkelley23
Noticed something in looking over Melly''s answers. All of her Group C answers are in alphabetical order by first name (if we use Anna Mae Bullock for Tina Turner, anyway) except for the Hugh Grant one. I don't know if it's significant or not -- frogman may have just kept one group in alpha order as a reference or something, and then changed a clue at the last minute. But both the real name thing and the Hugh Grant out of order thing might become significant -- something to keep in mind.
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 4:37 pm
by Pastor Fireball
Now to complete my first pass. I know that most of these have already been answered, but I never look at anybody else's answers on the first day.
B3. J.K. SIMMONS
B7. NICOLAS CAGE ("Adaptation.")
B8. JAY LENO?
B12. SEAN YOUNG?
B26. BEN AFFLECK ("Good Will Hunting" and "Argo")
B27. MELINDA DILLON ("A Christmas Story")
B30. WOODY ALLEN?
B52. JEFF BRIDGES?
B54. I'm pretty sure the film is "Death Wish", but I have no idea who played the thugs.
B58. CLINT EASTWOOD
B76. DEBORAH KERR
B82. ROSANNA ARQUETTE
B93. CHEVY CHASE ("National Lampoon's Vacation")
B94. Which actor died while he was drinking?
B108. CATALINA SANDINO MORENO ("Maria Full of Grace")
B120. I was about to go for "Blazing Saddles", but it's actually MATT DILLON ("There's Something About Mary").
C41. I'm pretty sure that FRANCES MCDORMAND is married to one of the Coen borthers.
C63. MICHAEL J. FOX (reference to "Doc Hollywood"?)
C69. LARAINE NEWMAN (Junior Healy was the "Problem Child")
C83. JOEL GREY? ("I Am a Camera" was the original version of "Cabaret")
C119. TERI HATCHER ("Seinfeld")
C127. WHOOPI GOLDBERG was a former drug addict, but I don't know if she had ever done heroin.
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 4:38 pm
by frogman042
mrkelley23 wrote:Noticed something in looking over Melly''s answers. All of her Group C answers are in alphabetical order by first name (if we use Anna Mae Bullock for Tina Turner, anyway) except for the Hugh Grant one. I don't know if it's significant or not -- frogman may have just kept one group in alpha order as a reference or something, and then changed a clue at the last minute. But both the real name thing and the Hugh Grant out of order thing might become significant -- something to keep in mind.
FYI - There is no deeper meaning to Hugh Grant's placement in the quiz other than it being due to some last minute changes.
If anyone does a consoldiation - I will report on its accuracy.
Re: The Keep Your friends close CONSOLIDATION
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:39 pm
by mrkelley23
Here’s a try at a consolidation:
The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
List A contains 75 clues to movies - if a quote appears then it is a quote from the movie
List B contains 123 actors - if a quote appears, then find the name of the actor/actress who said it.
List C contains 129 actors - again if a quote appears, then find the name of the actor/actress who said it.
All lists contain alternating descriptive clues and quote clues - there are a few cases where that pattern is violated, that has no special meaning other than a consequence of some last minute changes and the lack of desire to rewrite clues.
Create a set of triplets - one from each of the 3 lists (1 from A, 1 from B and one from C) based on a Tangredi that you have to figure out.
The solution will contain a total of 198 triplets. Note that in 2 cases the same 3 elements in a triplet will be used twice because the meaning of the triplet (even though they have the same 3 values) - they are formed for different reasons. All of remaining 194 triplets will be a unique group of 3 elements.
Clearly many elements in each list will be used multiple times.
From list A: 18 answers will be used 2 times, 7 will be used 3 times, 5 will be used 4 times, 3 will be used 5 times, 2 will be used 6 times, 2 will be used 7 times, 1 will be used 8 times, 1 will be used 9 times and 3 different answers will be used 10 times. The remaining 33 answers will be used only once.
From list B: 20 answers will be used 2 times, 6 will be used 3 times, 9 will be used 4 times, 1 will be used 5 times and 1 will be used 13 times. The remaining 86 answers will be used only once.
From list C: 18 answers will be used 2 times, 4 will be used 3 times, 5 will be used 4 times, 1 will be used 5 times, 1 will be used 6 times, 1 will be used 8 times and 1 will be used 13 times. The remaing 98 answers will be used only once.
There may be some alternate triplets that meet the Tangredi condition, but I believe there is only one complete solution to the puzzle - so those 'false positives' should be able to be sorted out.
Have Fun!List A - Movies
A1. This movie was the big-screen debut of an actress who a little more than 20 years latter would be killed by one of the most famous music producers of the 2nd half of the 20th century.
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
A2. "I mean, where do you train your nurses, Mrs. Christie - Dachau?"
A3. This movie's two opening title cards read "Baltimore, 1959" and "Christmas Night".
DINER
A4. "All we gotta do is go in here and get a cat. It's not that hard. But if you go in there, you're gonna lay your Jack Webb on her, start flashing your brain-ray all in her face. You're gonna wind up giving her leukemia or something. Woman's a doctor, she don't need you flashing away half her med school classes. Five minutes." MEN IN BLACK
A5. The star of this film said that he felt very comfortable playing the role of the famous real-life director that this film is about. For, like that director, the star is a homosexual British actor who spent his early career in the theater and ultimately started a career in Hollywood.
GODS AND MONSTERS
A6. "This chick, man, without the benefit of dying herself, has broken down the process of dying into five stages: anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Sounds like a Jewish law firm. 'Good morning, Angerdenialbargainingdepressionacceptance!'."
ALL THAT JAZZ
A7. The lead actress in this movie has a famous line. That line served as the inspiration behind Kenny Chesney's 1999 single with a similar name. In 2005, the lead actress married Chesney, only to have it annulled after four months.
JERRY MAGUIRE
A8. "So, you've been tellin' everybody I've been sleepin' with ya, huh? Well that explains it! That's why these people treat me like some dime-store floozy. They think I'm screwin' the boss! Oooh, and you just love it, don't you? It gives you some sort of cheap thrill like knockin' over pencils and pickin' up papers! Get your scummy hands offa me! Look I've been straight with you since the first day I got here, and I've put up with all of your pinchin' and starin' and chasin' me around the desk because I need this job. But this is the last straw! Look, I've got a gun out there in my purse. Up until now I've been forgivin' and forgettin' because of the way I was brought up, but I'll tell you one thing. If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine, and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! And don't think I can't do it."
9TO 5
A9. The A.V. Club' website reports that this films director actually got an official response to this movie from the U.S. government, which is included on the DVD. In addition, this film was denounced by Alexander Haig. Haig was a former United States Army General, United States Secretary of State, White House Chief of Staff Ford, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe who commanded all US and NATO forces in Europe.
A10. "Come to Los Angeles! The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs aplenty, and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy, all-American family. You can have all this, and who knows... you could even be discovered, become a movie star... or at least see one. Life is good in Los Angeles... it's paradise on Earth. Ha ha ha ha. That's what they tell you, anyway."
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL
A11. Two years after defrosting a caveman in one movie the actor (who help discover the caveman) starred in this movie. The character of the caveman also briefly shows up in this movie as well during the dinner scene in the tent with the Special forces guys.
IN THE ARMY NOW?
A12. "He was diseased; but he was my son! And you have... Why didn't I kill you before? I killed that no-good inspector and your professor friend, to protect him! And now... I'm gonna KILL YOU TO AVENGE HIM! Why don't you call your INSECTS! GO ON! CALL! CALL!"
A13. The movie is based on two real life twins, Stewart and Cyril Marcus. The two were found dead in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Their deaths were due to withdrawal from barbiturate addiction. The story is told in the novel "Twins" by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland.
DEAD RINGERS
A14. "Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They're single-serving friends."
UP IN THE AIR?
A15. It's around 13 minutes into the film before the title character of this movie is seen, and around 40 minutes in before he is heard speaking. In addition, this was one of two black and white films nominated for best picture in one year - decades after color dominated the movie industry - oh and that other black and white film - is an answer to another clue in list A.
THE ELEPHANT MAN
A16. "The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed. I can't begin to explain that. Or the craziness inside myself and everyone else. But guess what? Sunday's my favorite day again. I think of what everyone did for me, and I feel like a very lucky guy."
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
A17. In real life, the actor who played a psychopathic serial killer in this movie, is a pacifist who despises guns. In the early days of principal photography, he would flinch violently every time he fired. Production was forced to be shut down for a time while the actor was sent to a school to learn to fire a gun convincingly. However, he still blinks noticeably when he shoots. He was also squeamish about filming the scene where he verbally and physically abuses several schoolchildren, and the scene where he racially insults the man he pays to beat him up. Yet you would never guess this from the convincingly meanicing performance that he gives in this movie.
DIRTY HARRY
A18. [singing] "Telling the truth can be dangerous business; / Honest and popular don't go hand in hand. / If you admit that you play the accordion, / No one will hire you in a rock 'n' roll band. / But we can sing out hearts out. / And if we're lucky, then no neighbors complain. / Because life is the way we audition for God; / Let us pray that we all get the job."
A19. In this move, the Bible quotes are from Psalm 32 verses 1-2 and 5-7 (the reading at the table) and Genesis chapter 4 verses 9 and 16 (quoted by the Sheriff).
A20. "GOLD - GOLD - GOLD - GOLD. Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold, Molten, Graven, Hammered, Rolled, Hard to Get and Light to Hold; Stolen, Borrowed, Squandered - Doled."
A21. The film's credits are spoken, not read, in keeping with the film's theme.
M*A*S*H? FAHRENHEIT 451?
A22. "I see. So, what you're saying is that even though you are an almost-paralyzed, multiphobic personality who is in a constant state of panic, your wife did not leave you, you left her because she... liked Neil Diamond?"
SAVING SILVERMAN? WHAT ABOUT BOB?
A23. The title character of this film real last name was Weiss (not his more farmous stage name - weiss is the German word for the color white), and the actor who portrayed him had the real last name of Schwartz - (not his stage name as most people know the actor by and schwarz is the German word for the color black). No - it is not Breaking Bad.
THE GREAT HOUDINI
A24. "Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left. I don't know much, but I know that."
GOOD WILL HUNTING
A25. The special effects technicians for this film were able to create giant drops of water by filling up condoms and dropping them.
HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS?
A26. "It's past ten. My daughter is in pain. I don't understand why she has to have this pain. All she has to do is hold out until ten, and IT'S PAST TEN! My daughter is in pain, can't you understand that! GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!"
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
A27. To prepare for her performance as one of the two sets of twins in this film, the actress-comedian, just before the cameras rolled before a take, would whiz around in a circle several times until she got dizzy so as to exhibit the air-headed qualities of one the twins, the other twin in this film played by that actress-comedian - was much more level headed.
BIG BUSINESS
A28. "*Everything*! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for *you*! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn't that generous?"
LABYRINTH
A29. The club that the title character of this film drives by before he steals his new clothes is called Liquid Sword. "Liquid Swords" is the name of The GZA's second album, which was produced by The RZA, who also provided the original score for this film.
GHOST DOG THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI?
A30. "I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are brought to justice, I will fight on."
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
A31. The train crash in this movie was purposely made much more sensational than a train crash would actually be. The goal was to pay homage to the science-fiction movies of the '70s.
SUPER 8?
A32. "The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus."
GREMLINS
A33. "Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit."
COMING TO AMERICA?
A34. In this film, the entrance and exit scenes of the Men in Black's first appearance in the bar were filmed entirely in reverse with the camera upside down, according to director's commentary on the restored print. The two men started on the bar stools, then backed out of the room for the entrance; while the exit was filmed with the two outside the bar and backing into it, including Strathairn replacing the cookies in the cookie bowl.
THE MATRIX? THE MATRIX RELOADED? MATRIX REVOLUTIONS?
A35. "It's alright. No one was injured. Juvenile delinquents are everywhere. Right here in this community. Boys with long hair and tattoos who spit on the sidewalk. Girls who wear tight slacks. Hysterectomy pants, I call them. And if one of these creatures ever approach you on the street, you are to silently repeat to yourself the four B's" you learned here at RSVP. And what are they, children, the four "B's? - Beauty, brains, breeding and bounty!"
A36. At the beginning of this film, one of the title charcters sings a song that he has penned, "Santa's Souped Up Sleigh." He tells the other title character that he sent the words - along with a sum of money - to the Hollywood Music Company, an outfit that puts its customers' song lyrics to music for a fee. Although the first character doesn't realize it, the tune that the company used is not an original one: they paired his lyrics with the melody of "Wabash Cannonball."
MELVIN AND HOWARD
A37. "Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along, you get thirsty, you spot a little brook, you put your little deer lips down to the cool clear water... BAM! A fuckin bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are laying on the ground in little bloody pieces! Now I ask ya. Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?"
A38. The "We Sell Your Stuff on eBay" store in this film was a real store; it was written into the script after the location was chosen.
40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN?
A39. "I'm gonna show these to someone who can read them right, 'cause you're reading them wrong, that's all there is to it. Because no one is gonna tell me you de-differentiated your goddamn genetic structure for four goddamn hours and then reconstitued! I'm a professor of endocrinology at the Harvard Medical School. I'm an attending physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital! I'm a contributing editor to the American Journal of Endocrinology and a I am a fellow and vice-president of the Eastern Association of Endocrinologists and president of the Journal Club! And I'm not going to listen to any more of your kabbalistic, quantum, friggin' dumb limbo mumbo jumbo! I'm gonna show these to a radiologist!"
ALTERED STATES
A40. William Donohue of the Catholic League lambasted the film and publicly protested against it for months without actually seeing the film, after which his office called View Askew offices and said "Dr. Donohue requests a special screening of [this film] so that he can speak about it intelligently." The director's response was: "So what has he been doing the past six months?"
DOGMA? LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST?
A41. "Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived of, and he lifted darkness off the earth. Through out the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors, stood alone against the men of their time. Every new thought was opposed. Every new invention was denounced. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered, and they paid - but they won."
A42. The picture was shot in freezing cold temperatures. The production had to simulate the heatwave of the film's story, the actors having to act hot in cold conditions. For example, the thesps had to suck ice cubes before speaking to eliminate foggy breath and had water sprayed on their skin and shirts to simulate body sweat.
A43. "I remember those cheers / They still ring in my ears / After years, they remain in my thoughts. / Go to one night / I took off my robe, and what'd I do? I forgot to wear shorts. / I recall every fall / Every hook, every jab / The worst way a guy can get rid of his flab. / As you know, my life wasn't drab. / Though I'd much... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When you delve... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When I delve into Shakespeare / A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse", I haven't had a winner in six months."
RAGING BULL
A44. The actor, in this bio-pic, can be heard singing his own character's funeral hymn. during the 'sort-of/indirect' title character's funeral scene, the song is sung prominently in the background, led by actor himself. This may not be too surprising given the amount of music in this movie and the fact that the actor himself was better known as both a singer and drummer in a famous band.
A45. "You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?"
ARMAGEDDON
A46. After filming a scene shot at the school, the actor playing the title character pranked young castmates by screaming and ripping out his hair. The realistic gray wig had many fooled and horrified, until the crew and the actor erupted in laughter.
A47. "Goddamn class action suits are gonna be the ruin of this country. It wasn't so bad when the courts made us take girls. At least the ones that came could play, but now this."
BAD NEWS BEARS
A48. This film became the first motion picture in Academy Awards and cinema history to be nominated for every Academy Award category in which it was eligible, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Director, all 4 acting categories, and Picture of the Year, since Cimarron (1931).
A49. "She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it."
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
A50. Originally in the beginning of this movie, there was a gang beating up a father, who drops a toy on the sidewalk. The studio thought it was too violent, so it was cut. The main character can be seen playing with the toy after he finds it on the ground during the opening credits.
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
A51. "It's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40!"
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
A52. The opening title sequence of this film was originally played on the score from "La bohème" opera but was changed to the Dean Martin track "That's Amore" as the preview drew negative test audience reaction. Many shifted uncomfortably on their seats thinking that they had been lured into an art film.
MOONSTRUCK
A53. "The island of Cyprus, madame. World famous for beauty, and long, tragic history. Been conquered many times, conquered by Phoenicians, Assyrians, Persians, Macedonians; also conquered by Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Turks. Purchased from Turkey by your esteemed self, the British Empire. All Cyprus most wanted the British."
EXODUS?
A54. Mall scenes with elevators and escalators were filmed at the Stamford Town Center in Stamford, Connecticut where shooting was conducted for around two weeks - I personally have been in that mall numerous times as it is not too far from where my brother-in-law lives. Mall exteriors were filmed at the actual Beverly Center on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, the mall where most of the picture is set.
SCENES FROM A MALL
A55. "You see, sir, rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health. But it isn't, sir. Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study. It is to be shunned."
SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS
A56. A "KILLIANS RED" neon sign at the pawn shop is partially lit. It reads: "KILL ED". Seconds before you see an important character in this film pick up Zed's keys there is a "Z" on the key chain. Put it all together and you have "KILL ZED".
PULP FICTION
A57. Kim Gardener: "It's not fair. Jack Flack always escapes. How does he do it, Morris? I had ten times as many bullets."
Morris: "Yeah, but Flack had ingenuity and the contacts, Kim. That's better than bullets sometimes."
A58. In the campfire scene, this movie showed a dad and his son talking about the possibility of another "Star Wars" movie. The campfire scene and the previously shown Obama/Biden campaign scene were set in 2008 . The real plans for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) were first conceived after the acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney in 2012. Thus you might say that this movie's script in 2008 predicted the 2012 plans. Eventually, this movie was released in the same year that Episode VII started filming.
A59. "The buses! The buses are empty and look almost menacing, threatening, as so many yellow dragons watching me with their hollow, vacant eyes. I wonder how many little black and white children have yellow nightmares, their own special brand of fear for the yellow peril... Damn it, it's got to be more... positive. No, more negative! Start again. Yellow is the color of caution. No. Yellow is the color of cowardice. Yellow is the color of sunshine. And yet I see very little sunshine in the lives of all the little black and white children. I see their lives, rather, as a study in grayness, a mixture of black and... Oh, Christ, no. That's fascist. Yellow! Yellow, yellow, yellow. Yellow fever..."
NASHVILLE
A60. The lead actress in this movie has admitted in interviews that she was completely unaware during the filming that the film would turn out so well and become one of the great science-fiction classics of all time. She assumed it would be just another one of the then-current and rather trashy flying saucer films that were popular at the time, and she found it difficult to keep a straight face while saying her lines.
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL? FORBIDDEN PLANET?
A61. [reading an article from "Pain" magazine in the waiting room of the dentist; giggling] "The patient came to me with a large hole in his abdomen, caused by a fire poker used on him by his wife. He almost bled to death and gangrene had set in. I didn't give him much of a chance. There were other complications. The man had cancer, tuberculosis, leprosy, and a touch of the grippe. I decided to operate."
A62. In this film, the character Dildano's password, "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch", is the name of a real village in Wales, United Kingdom (unsurprisingly, it's the longest place name in the UK).
A63. "He has his father's eyes."
ROSEMARY’S BABY
A64. During the UK clampdown on video nasties in the 80's the film was briefly seized by Manchester Police who believed it to be a sex film.
A65. "Do not drink wine or strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, least ye shall die. Look not though upon the wine when it is red, and when it bringeth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright at the last, it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Now folks, that's from the Good Book, but in this here town it's five cents a glass. Five cents a glass, now does anyone think that that is a price of a drink?"
A66. Many of the props used in the film were local items: for example the feed store calendar (used in the scene "Are you mean to tell me that there were five weeks last month?") is the State Bank of Delano anniversary calendar (current at the time of filming) which featured photos of historic buildings (some torn down) in the town (and town's past), hence its rustic addition of the prop to the feed store.
A67. "Talk about an all-star cast - this film boasts 58 Oscar nominations and 14 wins (not including 2 Honorary wins) from its principal cast and crew."
HAMLET? AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS? THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD?
A68. "Dear Catherine, I've been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologize to you for. All the pain we caused each other. Everything I put on you. Everything I needed you to be or needed you to say. I'm sorry for that. I'll always love you 'cause we grew up together and you helped make me who I am. I just wanted you to know there will be a piece of you in me always, and I'm grateful for that. Whatever someone you become, and wherever you are in the world, I'm sending you love. You're my friend to the end. Love, Theodore." [pauses]
"Send."
A69. "I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!"
JAWS
A70. Holds the record for the movie with the most Academy Award nominations without a nomination for Best Picture: 9.
THE TURNING POINT? THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY?
A71. "Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about."
FIRST BLOOD?
A72. Approximately 10 to 12 bicycles were built for the movie by the Pedal Pusher Bike Shop in Newport Beach CA; a shop that specialized in vintage and classic bicycles and parts. They were offered $10,000 and no screen credit or screen credit only. The shop chose the money.
PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE? BREAKING AWAY?
A73. "You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why! Why!"
POLTERGEIST
A74. The monkeys that appear at the end of this film were somewhat difficult to acquire. According to the director's commentary, he paid the men who were to provide them only half of what they asked for, as he didn't trust them and thought they would try to run off with the money without providing the monkeys. He was proved right, as they had sold the monkeys to someone else and they were to be flown to Florida. In desperation, the director pretended he was the veterinarian and that the monkeys didn't have their vaccination documents, which allowed him to finally get the monkeys and film their scenes. After this, all the monkeys were set free into the wild.
A75. "All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie."
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
List B - Actors
B1. This late actor's nickname "America's Guest" stemmed from his habit of wandering to a random house of a complete stranger, knocking on the door, going in, helping himself to something in the refrigerator and then sleeping on the stranger's couch. Most strangers, recognizing who he was, did not seem to mind his "visit".
JOHN BELUSHI
B2. "Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something. I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention. "
B3. This actor is the voice of the yellow peanut M&M on the commercials since the late 1990s, replacing John Goodman after the original 1995 commercials. In 2000, a video game was produced, M&M's: The Lost Formulas (2000), in which he portrayed Yellow Peanut.
JK SIMMONS
B4. "I'm an architect for Christ sake, I build 50 story skyscrapers, I assemble cities of the future, I can certainly put together a goddam diaper."
TOM SELLECK
B5. In one of his earliest roles, this actor played a professional baseball pitcher, who enjoyed playing the card game TEGWAR. Interestingly enough, his grandfather was a major league baseball player and then a MLB umpire.
MICHAEL MORIARTY
B6. [singing]"I stay away from deviled ham on principle/I wouldn't eat roast duckling if I could/Willpower has made me invincible!/My word, those sausages look good..."
REX HARRISON?
B7. The last of three actors with an Oscar nomination for playing multiple characters in a film.
LEE MARVIN?
B8. He had guests sign one of his Harley Davidsons (the first being Arnold Schwarzenegger), after which the bike was auctioned off with the money going to help victims of the September 11th attacks.
JAY LENO
B9. "Oh, I'm sorry, did my pin get in the way of your ass? Do me a favor and lose five pounds immediately or get out of my building like now! "
B10. He is the only other actor, along with Lance Hendrikson, to have been killed by a terminator, an alien, and a predator on screen.
B11. "Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules."
JACK NICHOLSON
B12. She dressed up as Catwoman and attempted to confront Tim Burton and Michael Keaton on the Warner Bros. property, in Batman Returns, to get that role - it didn't work.
SEAN YOUNG
B13. "I bear no grudge against <Name Removed>. He's been very successful, and God bless him. God bless him. But I'll tell something; I ain't done too badly, myself. Uh, I manage a shopping mall down in Florence, Alabama. Yeah, it's the number one mall in Colbert County. It's number four in the state, so it's not too bad, you know? Uh, I play golf several times a week, you know? But I'll tell ya, if <Name Removed> woulda listened to me, I'd still be up there in radio. Still be doin' radio, you know... How 'bout that? That goddamn motherfucker, you know. I tried every
[jackhammer]
thing I could
[jackhammer]
think of, mold him into a proper kind of deejay, but that goddamn son-of-a-bitch
[jackhammer] I'll tell you, <Name Removed>, man! That motherfuckin'
[extended jackhammer and siren] And I'll say that with no shame, either! Man's a
[jackhammer]
Foul-mouthed, immature... The man's immature, you know? He's like a
[jackhammer]
child. I'll tell ya this much: There ain't no God while <Name Removed> walking the Earth, I'll tell you that.
[jackhammer]
I gotta go.
[He walks away. To a passerby]
How 'bout that? <Name Removed>, huh?
[to the camera]
<Name Removed> can kiss my ass in hell!"
PRIVATE PARTS?
B14. His unique style of throwing darts, holding the pointing tip of the dart with his thumb and index finger and then throwing the dart with the opposite end pointing to the board, so that the dart makes a 180-degree in mid air, with the pointed end to the stuck board, can be seen in many of his movies.
B15. "Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death. "
MAURICE EVANS?
B16. Growing up this actor and his siblings often put on plays at their home. He has mentioned that his older sister Ann once staged a production of "Cinderella" in their living room in which she played Cinderella, sister Joan played the Ugly Stepsister, brother Bill played Prince Charming and this actor played the dog.
JOHN CUSACK?
B17. "Well, you imagine wrong. You know what? You're just a frustrated Englishwoman who writes about dirty things but never does them. You can shove your uptight morals up your ass!"
B18. He is the only cast member of Saturday Night Live to host while still a cast member. Nick Nolte was to host but fell ill and this person replaced him.
EDDIE MURPHY
B19. "It's all bullshit except the pain. The pain of hell. The burn from a lighted match increased a million times. Infinite. Now, ya don't fuck around with the infinite. There's no way you do that. The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart... your soul, the spiritual side. And ya know... the worst of the two is the spiritual."
HARVEY KEITEL
B20. Her new husband was thrilled to find out, on the evening of their wedding, that he was truly a bastard!
PRISCILLA LANE
B21. "No, Kev, that's it. Look, I don't wanna be the same as everybody else. That's why I'm a Mod, see? I mean, you gotta be somebody, ain't ya, or you might as well jump in the sea and drown."
STING? (GORDON SUMNER)
B22. The suicide of this actress's socialite mother was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that she'd died of heart failure. Household newspaper and magazine subscriptions were canceled, and the staff and student body of her high school were instructed not to discuss the incident. This actress learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in art class.
JANE FONDA
B23. "You know, in Texas if the law don't move fast enough, a rope and a tree is the payoff for robbin' women and cold-blooded shoootin'."
B24. This actor's fourth arrest was in 1974 for attempted burglary and malicious mischief. While under the influence of peyote, while nude, he began wandering around his Laurel Canyon neighborhood. He broke into a neighbor's home, shattering a window and cutting his arm. He then bled all over the homeowner's piano. At some time during this episode he accosted two young women, allegedly assaulting one while asking, or demanding of her, if she was a witch. The police literally followed a trail of blood to his home. The burglary charges were dropped, as nothing was found to be missing, while he pleaded "no contest" to the mischief charge and was given probation. He was never charged with assault, but the young woman sued him for $1.1 million and was awarded $20,000.
DAVID CARRADINE?
B25. "My daughter was murdered. They put a gun to her. As we stand here, she's on an autopsy slab getting cut open by scalpels and chest spreaders, and you're talking to me about domestic fucking responsibility? Good to see you, Theo."
SEAN PENN
B26. This actor won $356,000 by winning the California State Poker Championships in June 2004 - defeating some of the best poker players in the world in the process - he also received a lifetime ban from playing blackjack at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Casino due to his 'counting cards' skills. Did I also mention that at age 25, he was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar for 'Best Original Screenplay'. He went 15 years without another nomination until 2013, and he won.
BEN AFFLECK
B27. "This is your trough. Show me how the piggies eat. Be a good boy. Show mommy how the piggies eat."
MELINDA DILLON
B28. This actor attended college with Joan Allen who was occasionally a scene partner of him in their acting classes. Later attended another acting class years with John Mahoney. He encouraged both actors to join the Steppenwolf Theater Company, which they did. Legend has it that he was told by the head of the Theatre Department at Illinois State University that he would not have a career as an actor. Even though he did not graduate from ISU (he never took the constitution test), the Theatre Department still claims him as an alumnus. On April 4, 2005, he returned to visit the Theatre Department where he was presented with an official diploma for his bachelor's degree in theatre.
JOHN MALKOVICH
B29. "Unfinished business? I have no unfinished business. I have my treasure, my mansion. I have EVERYTHING. I'm... just... perfect!"
[she laughs evilly until a flash of light comes out of her as a sign that she is crossing over]
[gasps] "Wait! Wait! I lied! I have unfinished business - lots of unfinished business!"
[more flashes of light appear]
"I-I'm not ready to cross over yet! Wait! You tricked me, you rotten little rats!" [she screams as the flashes of light causes her to vanish without a trace]
CATHY MORIARTY
B30. One of the most prolific American directors of his generation, he has written, directed, and more often than not starred in a film just about every year since 1969.
WOODY ALLEN
B31. "That's because it's impossible to measure love. And, as you know, without measurements there can be no science. But I have been thinking a lot about the problem lately."
B32. This actor apologized to Colombia after blaming the nation for America's drug problems. The star insisted the United States is as much to blame for the prolific trade and confessed he didn't mean to single out any one country as the supplier. He told the New York Daily News, "I said Colombia because it was the first country to come to mind." The actor was dubbed "ignorant" and "ungrateful" by the Colombian president for his comments in March 2006, and advised not to base his arguments on "Hollywood clichés".
BRUCE WILLIS
B33. "High flying, adored. Did you believe in your wildest moments all this would be yours, that you'd become the lady of them all? Were there stars in your eyes when you crawled in at night - from the bars, from the sidewalks, from the gutter theatrical? Don't look down, it's a long, long way to fall."
ANTONIO BANDERAS
B34. This actor is the son of the famous actor Jukichi Uno. After graduating from Bunka Gakuin University, he formed a rock band "The Savage" which experienced brief success thanks to their hit 'Itsumademo, Itsumademo'.
B35. "Madame Nell says there's something wrong with you, that you're a cream puff or something. She says you're pathetic, missing all the fun in life."
BROOKE SHIELDS
B36. Without actually having to know any of the vote tallys, you could safely say that this actor won his Oscar by a nose.
JOSE FERRER
B37. "The dream is always the same. Instead of going home, I go to the neighbors'. I ring, but nobody answers. The door is open, so I go inside. I'm looking around for the people, but nobody seems to be there. And then I hear the shower running, so I go upstairs to see what's what. Then I see her; this... girl, this incredible girl. I mean, what she's doing there I don't know, because she doesn't live there... but it's a dream, so I go with it. "Who's there?" she says. "Joel," I say. "What are you doing here?" "I don't know what I'm doing here; what are *you* doing here?" "I'm taking a shower," she says. Then I give her: "You want me to go?" "No," she says; "I want you to wash my back." So now, I'm gettin' enthusiastic about this dream. So I go to her, but she's hard to find through all the steam and stuff; I keep losing her. Finally I get to the door... and I... find myself in a room full of kids taking their college boards. I'm over three hours late; I've got two minutes to take the whole test. I've... just made a terrible mistake. I'll never get to college. My life is ruined."
TOM CRUISE
B38. This actor was one of the original members of the Group Theater (1931-1940), the first acting company in America to bring Stanislavski's revolutionary acting techniques to America. He was also the first to leave the company for a Hollywood contract. In addition he is considered to be responsible for the establishment of the Best Supporting Actor/Actress categories in the Academy Awards.
JOHN GARFIELD? FRANCHOT TONE?
B39. "Mama, I don't know why you have to make everything so difficult. I look at having a baby as the opportunity of a lifetime. Sure there may be risk involved, but that's true for anybody. But you get through it and life goes on. And when it's all said and done there will be a little piece of immortality with Jackson's good looks and my sense of style, I hope. Please, please I need your support. I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."
JULIA ROBERTS
B40. Of this actresses 5 marragies, clearly her 2nd one had to be the rockiest. The now bankrupt New World Studios hired her to pose for promotional photos highlighting the Marvel Comics character She-Hulk in 1989 to distribute as a possible movie. Though the pictures garnered much fan interest, they failed to produce interest in financial backers.
B41. "Actor who is the answer to this clue: ""Well, personally, I trust the engineer. He sounds okay to me. This is a professional job.
[Turns and looks at Roget Sarte] ""You're the one I don't trust!""
Roget: ""Me?""
Actor who is the answer to this clue: ""Yeah, you! All your brains are below your belt! You almost got us all in cold storage last night playing games in a whorehouse!"""
B42. This actress was the subject of an urban legend claiming that she had been the model for the Columbia Pictures logo. This rumor was untrue but so widespread that this actress, herself, told Roger Ebert that she believed it to be true.
ANNETTE BENING?
B43. "I'll call you on Monday and we'll go shopping. Anything we can't buy, we'll make. Anything we can't make, we'll steal!"
BEVERLY D’ANGELO
B44. I don't know if there where any lions or bears in the jungle, but at least one vicious animal was enough to convince this actor that he should never get out of the boat.
B45. "People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance, because they think you took the easy way out, when no one could imagine the willpower it took to do what we do. Walking the streets, night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up."
CHARLIZE THERON?
B46. This actor is of the Cayuga nation and Wolf Clan of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy and was the founder and Publisher of Aboriginal Voices Magazine, a magazine which was devoted to Native Canadian issues.
B47. "Say goodbye to your frog, pig! "…"Because in 10 seconds, he won't know *you* from kosher bacon."
MEL BROOKS
B48. This actor filed a $4-million lawsuit against neighbor Julie Newmar in 2004. He accused her of using harassment and defamation to force him from the Brentwood, California, street they share. A newspaper article quoted a resident not involved with the dispute as saying "She's weird" and "He's a bully." In January 2006 the two announced they had settled their differences out-of-court, and later that year Newmar guest-starred on an episode of his sitcom that poked fun at their feud by having Newmar play a neighbor who annoys this actor's character.
B49. "No. We need Ritalin and leashes, that's what we need."
B50. This actor was a working firefighter for a number of years in the early 1980's so it is not too surprising that he showed up at his old firehouse the day after the World Trade Center tragedy in New York to volunteer. Worked twelve hour shifts for a week after the terrorist act, digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters... anonymously. More surprising is that this actor was stabbed in the throat, head and arm during a barroom brawl at the Firebelly Lounge in Wilmington, North Carolina. The brawl also involved Vince Vaughn, who was arrested for brutalizing one of this actor's attackers. He suffered a deep cut to the face and now has a noticeable scar on his cheek. Heavy make-up is used to hide it in movies.
STEVE BUSCEMI
B51. "Oh, the mafia wouldn't try to kill us and make it look like an accident! They'd just kill us! They're the mafia."
B52. This person who had been nominated for the Oscar fairly early in his film career but hadn't won always said if he ever won he would say “I have 2 things I would like to say, the first thing is I've always hated this award and everything it ever stood for. The second thing I want to say is that this is the happiest moment of my life.”, when he actually did win, 40 years after his first nomination, he actually did not give that speech.
JACK PALANCE?
B53. "Words are lies. Bodies are truth – I have to show the truth."
B54. This actor made his screen debut playing one of three thugs who attack the wife and daughter of an architect. He is easy to spot because even though he is credited only as Thug #1, he is wearing a Jughead Jones style hat. Nearly 20 years later he would be staring in a number of the top grossing films of the 1990's.
JEFF GOLDBLUM
B55. "Nuclear weapons, Jack. They mean nothing Everybody's got them, nobody has the balls to use them. Am I right? … Space, you say? Space is a flop. Didn't you know that? … An endless junkyard of orbiting debris. Ah, but! - miniaturization, Jack. That't the ticket. That't the edge everyone is looking for. Who will have the edge, Jack? Which country will control minaturization? … Frankly, I don't give a shit. I'm just in this for the money."
B56. This person was writing for a skateboarding magazine called Big Brother when he did a story about self-defense equipment, which he tried on himself while Jeff Tremaine (editor for Big Brother) filmed it. These led to the Big Brother Videos Shit, Number Two and Boob, which helped raise the profile for LandSpeed present: CKY, CKY2K, and CKY3, which were all produced by Bam Margera.
B57. "Rufus, Brint, and Meekus were like brothers to me. And when I say brother, I don't mean, like, an actual brother, but I mean it like the way black people use it. Which is more meaningful I think."
B58. He declined an offer from President George Bush to campaign for him in the Presidential election. He told an interviewer the next year, "I think what the ultra-right wing conservatives did to the Republicans is really self-destructive, absolutely stupid". Maybe if President Bush gave him an empty chair, he could have changed his mind.
CLINT EASTWOOD
B59. Howard Keel, her co-star in three movies, once described this actress in an interview as the most beautiful woman in the history of movies.
KATHERINE GRAYSON?
B60. "And we will be right back with our five final lesbians – interviews!"
Miss Congeniality – does that mean it’s William Shatner? Again?
B61. Where the truth lies is that last night this actor was the boy who smells like fish after spending three days in Havana.
B62. I got postcards from Rome telling me that this actress was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class. I didn't do a final inquiry to see if it was true or not nor did I try to dig up any dirty linen on her.
B63. "Yes. I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I wanna see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club - hear Billie Holiday sing fine and mellow - walk in that kind of rain that never washes perfume away. I wanna be in love with something. Anything. Just the idea. A dog, a cat. Anything. Just something."
JACK LEMMON
B64. This actress' mother's maiden name was chosen for films in the early 1940s to raise fewer questions with the Nazi authorities than her real surname Kaminker. She also was the author of 'Adieu Volodia', a novel about a group of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Russia and their children, working in the theatre/film industry in Paris during the years 1926-1945.
SIMONE SIGNORET
B65. "We were all friends then, remember? And now you want to end his life because he's talking to Patty on your side of the cafeteria. Oh man, that's stupid. I know cuz that's where I wanted to be. On your side, with your crowd. But I messed up. See, I tried to buy my way in. But Kenneth, he's not trying to buy anybody. He's just trying to make friends *being* *himself*. Cools, Nerds, your side, my side, man it's all bullshit. It's just tough enough to be yourself."
B66. According to a 1995 Premiere magazine article, this actor confronted director Quentin Tarantino when he visited the set of of the movie he was starring in. Quentin had done an uncredited rewrite of the script. This actor lambasted Tarantino about his use of racial slurs in his films. Tarantino got embarrassed and wanted to move the conversation to a more private area. This actor said, "No, if we're going to discuss it, let's discuss it now." This actor later said he still felt that Quentin was "a fine artist". Also, his only marrage took place exactly 13 days after my marrage - over 30 years ago, and like me they are still together but unlike me they only have 4 children.
B67. "So what's a girl to do? He's a guy who followed his pecker to greener pastures. I'm a middle aged, high school drop out with stretch marks and a fat ass."
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
B68. A notorious practical joker, this actor was best man at Richard Kind's wedding. Oh and he is also the nephew of someone who is the answer to another clue in this list.
GEORGE CLOONEY
B69. "If all these people are not implicated in the crime, then why have they all told me, under interrogation, stupid and often unnecessary lies? Why? Why? Why? Why?"
ALBERT FINNEY
B70. This actor starred in a movie that based (very, very loosely) on a story by the host of NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me". In addition, he has been quoted as saying "When I was really young I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it. I find sides I don't get to explore in real life. Like, I had to do a sex scene before I had sex. I was 13, 14, and it was my first love experience with 25 people in front of me. Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings."
B71. "I know you care about him. I've never seen you like this about anyone, so please don't get me wrong when I tell you that Tom, while being a very nice guy, is the Devil."
ALBERT BROOKS
B72. This actor is the brother of an actress that is an answer to a clue on this list and the father of another actress who also is answer to a clue on this list.
PETER FONDA?
B73. "The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana."
B74. This actress appeared in a movie as the older sister of a boy with a bomb (that he is unaware that he is carrying) that explodes on a bus. The film's famous director said that regretted the decision to have the bomb go off.
SILVIA SIDNEY
B75. "Milton Berle is on tonight." [said in response to the question: "What's a cow doing inside a house?"]
B76. This actress' last public appearance was in 1994 when she was awarded an honorary Oscar after six failed nominations over the years. She, along with Thelma Ritter, is one of the few actresses to have received six nominations and not to have won an Oscar. She received one of the longest standing ovations of all Honorary Oscar-recipients.
DEBORAH KERR
B77. "Well, no... no, at first they'd ask me questions they already knew I knew the answers to. We ran through those, and I really didn't want them to give me the answers, so they gave me the questions and I'd look up the answers on my own, as if that were any different. Well, we ran through those in a couple of weeks and I just didn't have the time, finally, and it just seemed silly, so..."
RALPH FIENNES
B78. First and only teenager admitted to the acting program at the award-winning The Barrow Group in New York. Maybe they mistook her for the bard's wife?
ANNE HATHAWAY
B79. "I apologize for calling your wife a bloated warthog, and I bid you good day."
B80. Coca-Cola approached this person, the Godfather of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, about appearing in some television commercials. They changed their mind however, as they felt his skin color was "too white" and not dark enough.
B81. "Korben sweetheart, what was that? It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing! Y'know I got a Show to run here, and it must pop POP POP! So tomorrow from 5 to 7 will you PLEASE act like you have more than a two word vocabulary. It must be green, okay?"
B82. This actress was immortalized in a song that was written and performed by Toto (on their album, Toto IV). The song was a Top 10 hit that went on to win Grammys for 1982: Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Instrumental Arrangement With Vocal. This actress was the girlfriend of a member of the band, Jeff Porcaro.
ROSANNA ARQUETTE
B83. "Fuck Martha Stewart! Martha Stewart can kiss my shiny plastic butt! Here I am, slaving a way over a hot stove, making cookies... making Swedish meatballs, and for what? A man who doesn't appreciate me! For a man that can't even wash one fucking dish! For a man who isn't even a man at all where it counts, if you get my drift! -to Jade- Take it from me honey, plastic is no substitute for a nice hunk of wood!"
B84. This actor was discovered when his older sister, Hejsa, a former trampoline champion, was shopping around for an agent. No one was home to baby-sit him so he went along and it was suggested that he get an agent, himself.
B85. "I cried the whole week of Sam's funeral. Graham says that it won't bring him back. He said that I should start letting go. He's right. Hedy's parents said that for years they tried to explain to her that her sister's death wasn't her fault. She never forgave herself for surviving. So, every day I try to forgive Hedy for killing Sam. Then, I try to do what she couldn't: forgive myself for killing her. I know it can happen to someone who doesn't."
B86. All 4 leads of this classic high school musical where well past high school age. The average age of the 4 was around 28 - but this person was easly the oldest of the 4 and played a high school student when their age was actually 33.
STOCKARD CHANNING
B87. "You're crazy about me, right? And I can understand it. Only this morning, looking in the mirror before shaving, I enjoyed seeing what I saw so much I couldn't tear myself away." [kisses his hand] "Have some, baby?"
JERRY LEWIS?
B88. This actor has played a supernatural being that gave up their immortality and powers to marry a mortal woman in both a television series and a movie.
B89. "Time slows down right before an accident, and I had time to think about things. I thought about what an undertaker had told me once - that your hair keeps growing, for a while anyway, after you die, and then it stops. I thought, 'What keeps it growing? Is it like a plant in soil? What goes out of the soil? The soul? And when does the hair realize that it's gone?'"
B90. This actor died, ironically, while making the picture "Better Than Ever' and his final movie was 'Knocking on Death's Door'.
B91. "I use girls that look like movie stars. Sometimes I employ a plastic surgeon. When the work had been done, that's when you saw us."
DAVID STRATHAIRN
B92. I've often wondered what would happen if F. Scott Fitzgerald was bitten by a radio-active spider.
B93. "Hey, hey, easy kids. Everybody in the car. Boat leaves in two minutes... or perhaps you don't want to see the second largest ball of twine on the face of the earth, which is only four short hours away?"
CHEVY CHASE
B94. In Suzanne Vega's song "Tom's Diner", the singer reads about this actor's death in the paper and sings that "he was no one I had heard of". Clearly Ms. Vega needs to broaden her movie going experiences.
B95. "I couldn't be a ballerina now. I'm too top-heavy. I have a hard enough time balancin' these things now without gettin' on my toes! "
DOLLY PARTON
B96. This actor has appeared in more Robert Altman feature films and television productions than any other actor in movie history.
B97. "Robin is better than the girl of my dreams. She's real."
B98. I heard Gore Vidal and Ulysses speaking in broken English confessing that they were shopaholics - I must be bat $#*! crazy!!!
B99. "You know what your problem is? You are so goddamn bored, you have to *invent* things to bitch about! You don't have a single thing to do on this earth except for your hair! The closet was fine, you just needed something to fill up your useless, nail-polishing, toe-polishing, rich bitch, sun-tanning days!" [From the engine room, the crew, who have heard all of this, start cheering]
KURT RUSSELL
B100. Inherited the mysterious Iffland-Ring from Josef Meinrad, which is given to the most important actor of German speaking theater since 200 years
B101. "I've waited an eternity for this moment there has to be time, is it not ironical my dear husband, you wife an adultress, your mother an adultress, your uncle an adulterer, your closest friend an adulterer, do you not find that amusing dear Nicholas? "
B102. This actress' father is a longtime Wall Street trader who developed his family's multi-million-dollar pasta business, then sold it to pursue funding and development of major studios and independent Hollywood projects. Her mother is a former Rockette and Wall Street analyst, who helped manage her daughter's career. Given her frequent arrests and stints in rehab, maybe it should be mismanaged?
LINDSAY LOHAN?
B103. [to the unsympathetic crowd around Billy's body] "He was sweeping you sons of bitches, he was sweeping!"
TIMOTHY BOTTOMS
B104. This actress played roles in four unrelated movies in which her character was in charge of having heads cut off.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER?
B105. "And at the same time, at the same time as trying to lead a good life, I have to reconcile that with the fact that with the fact that, yes, I have killed people. Not many people. And most of them were not very nice people. Apart from one person." ... "This bloke Danny Aliband's brother. He was just trying to protect his brother. Like you or I would. He was just a lollipop man. But he came at me with a bottle. What are you gonna do? I shot him down."
B106. This actress revived the fashion style created by Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn, when women all over the world started to wear suits and ties; first recognized by the public in her Oscar winning performance.
DIANE KEATON
B107. "What, you still throwing up bricks? What is this, a Masons convention? Wha... clank, clank! I need, like, a welding torch to play in this league! I got an idea... let's just stop right now and gather up all these bricks and let's build a shelter for the homeless so maybe your mother will have a place to live!"
B108. This actress is the first Colombian to be nominated for an Academy Award as well as the first actress ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Performance that was spoke entirely in Spanish throughout the entirety of the film.
CATALINA MORENO
B109. "Do you know how the Orcs first came into being? They were elves once, taken by the dark powers, tortured and mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of life. Now... perfected. My fighting Uruk-Hai. Whom do you serve?"
CHRISTOPHER LEE
B110. At 6'5", this person is the tallest actor ever to have won an Oscar. The tallest actor ever nominated was James Cromwell at 6'7".
TIM ROBBINS?
B111. [holds her hands away from him]" The bed happens to be for the kids, Dusty. When the nights are getting colder, they'll need a *warmer* place to sleep. So the brass bed is for the boys, and the smaller bed is for *Celia*!"
B112. "No one ever thinks they can forget their first love. But we can. "; "I'll tell you something. Seeing you in love reminded me of what it's like. I never thought I could believe in all this a second time."
B113. This actor in an article in Look magazine he related that once while flying over Kansas he correctly diagnosed a pain in his right side as appendicitis. He landed at the nearest airfield and was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. He said he was told that a delay of even a half hour might have resulted in the appendix rupturing. In addition, he conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra at New York's Carnegie Hall (10th March 1958) with his feet! This being a benefit concert, of course.
B114. "Mine's still too hot, I didn't put in any cold milk. I can still see her red nails holding up that cup. After a few sips she said that the tea tasted of almonds. It's the almond cookies, I told her."
JODIE FOSTER
B115. This actor's character could never figure out how Harry Caul made that recording. Oh, and if you need to parallel park a crucifix in NYC, you can ask him for advice.
B116. [about Fred] "Just because we're going TO Mars, we gotta take along a guy FROM Mars?"
B117. He participated in what is reported to be longest fencing duel ever to be filmed as well as the most exciting one ever to take place in a theater. Unfortunately, this actor ended up on the losing end of duel.
BASIL RATHBONE?
B118. [When asked by his dad if he was going to keep his slaves or let them go free] "You know I don't have any slaves, Pa."
B119. At age 10, this actor's agent advised him to change his name to a more American-friendly Lenny Williams. Needless to say, he did not follow that advice. Even with his 'non-American-friendly name' he managed to have been nominated for 31 different awards (4 Academy Awards, 3 BAFTA Awards, 6 Critic's Choice Awards, 10 Golden Globe Awards, and 8 Screen Actors Guild Awards) but has only won 2 Golden Globes.
LEONARDO DI CAPRIO?
B210. "We got this one kid, Mongo... He's got a forehead like a drive-in movie theatre, but he's a good ship. So we don't bust his chops too much. So, one day Mongo gets out of his cage..."
B121. He was the devil referenced in an early clue in this list.
WILLIAM HURT
B122. "We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."
ROBIN WILLIAMS
B123. "Uh, God, I'm so sorry. Yes, North American. But I can't help noticing that when people run to freedom they tend to wash up on North American shores. This country is till the best that we've been able to do in the whole fucking history of the planet"
List C - Actors
C1. This Aussie actor and dancer started following in John Travolta's footsteps by playing Doody in the West End (London) production of Grease. Travolta played the same role on stage. Followed up with the role of Tony Manero in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever at the London Palladium. He has joking said the he would also play the lead in musical version of "The Boy In The Plastic Bubble".
C2. [singing] "I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad / Carry you around when your arthritis is bad / All I wanna do is grow old with you. / I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches / build you a fire if the furnace breaks / Oh it could be so nice, growin old with you. / I'll miss you, kiss you, give you my coat when you are cold. / Need you, feed you, I'll even let you hold the remote control. / So let me do the dishes in the kitchen sink / Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink. / Oh I could be the man to grow old with you. / I wanna grow old with you."
ADAM SANDLER
C3. This actor was rejected repeatedly by studio heads while auditioning for the role that turned out to be a star-making role for him. The director fought for him. This film was shot briskly because both the director and the leading actor were in constant fear of being fired. It turned out to be a breakthrough picture for the director as well. Did I neglect to mention that this actor also studied under Frank's favoriate actor?
AL PACINO
C4. "I want to say to Prime Minister MacDonald: Surrender her pronto, or we'll level Toronto."
C5. As president of the U. S. it took him several minutes to complete a single swing of his golf club. No wonder the switched him out.
C6. "You know, every now and then, I think you might like to hear something from us nice and easy. But there's just one thing: we never, ever do nothing nice and easy, we always do it nice and rough. So we're gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy, and then we're gonna do the finish rough."
ANGELA BASSETT
C7. This actress who recently passed away should have kept her mouth shut.
C8. "You will be king of Egypt, and I will be your footstool!"
C9. She wasn't born on the 4th of July, she was born on December 12, 1967 in Paterson, New Jersey.
C10. "Good evening. Well, brother has been killing brother since Cain and Abel, yet even I didn't see that coming. I was as blindsided as poor old Henry down there. And apparently, the authorities shared my naïveté. In other words, they believed the young man's story. That Henry fell, hit his head on a stone and died of smoke asphyxiation. On the other hand, if they hadn't believed him, Ed Gein would never have had the opportunity to commit those heinous crimes for which he became most famous. And we, of course, well we wouldn't have our little movie, would we?"
ANTHONY HOPKINS
C11. Although often cast as New York tough guys, few people know that he was actually born and raised in Australia. He has said that the only internationally successful Australian actor at the time he began acting was Mel Gibson, who had lost his Australian accent, so he did the same. Today, looking at all the hot young Australian actors who have kept their native accents but can use other dialects in their films, he says he regrets having dropped his accent.
ANTHONY LA PAGLIA
C12. "Leave him alone, all right? He's a real special kid and, and I have high hopes for him and... I think if he works really hard, he can get an academic scholarship to Wabash College and can get out of this place."
BARBARA HERSHEY
C13. Although she has many Tony nominations and two wins, she is the only actress to not win a Tony Award for a revival of the musical "Gypsy".
BERNADETTE PETERS
C14. "I'll tell you why! Cause you were scared, if you'd talk, they'll talk too. You were scared you'd get the horse laugh... like I'm giving ya now! HA HA HA HA HA HA! Just a punk with a crippled hand! HA HA HA HA HA..."
BETTY FIELD
C15. You might say that this actor really had Ned Beatty's back.
BILL MCKINNEY
C16. "P-p-p-please d-d-don't tell my m-m-m-mother."
B-B-B-BRAD D-D-DOURIF
C17. Photographer John Rutter was ordered to stand trial for attempted extortion, attempted grand theft, perjury, and forgery after trying to blackmail this actress with topless shots he had of her from a 1992 shoot.
C18. [responding to being told that the American thing is to marry a rich widow] "We used to say, a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store."
CAMPBELL SCOTT
C19. She turned down the role of Vin Diesel's love interest in the box-office hit The Pacifier to take a small but unforgettably sexy role in Sin City because she had enjoyed working with director Robert Rodriguez in the three "Spy Kids" films.
CARLA GUGINO?
C20. "You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how."
C21. Admitted in a 2006 interview on Late Show with David Letterman that the surly attitude he adopts on talk shows is an act he developed in order to be a more interesting guest. According to this actor, he was scheduled to make his first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1973, and was to be in the segment immediately following Diana Ross performing a medley of her hits. Realizing that he would bomb if he followed her as himself, he adopted this churlish character who has little patience for the questions of the host. Carson loved it and it became his trademark.
C22. "Melinda had a reputation for being Postmodern in bed."
C23. This actress was at the Viper Room the night River Phoenix collapsed on the sidewalk outside of the club. She witnessed the seizure induced by a drug Phoenix had in his system and later re-enacted the seizure at an anti-drugs dance piece. In addition, her garage was the birthplace of The Pussycat Dolls.
C24. "Oh, Lord of the tempest and the thunder, strike down this sinner, as thou did thine enemies of old in the days of the Pharaohs! Let him know the terror of thy sword! Let his soul, for all eternity, writhe in anguish and damnation!"
CLAUDE AKINS
C25. If you need to race huskeys or rats - he is the man for you.
C26. "Now I know this is all new to ya, but remember something, we're all new. This is not an ancient industry. This whole place here is built around speed. Start the story, start the chase. I get bored easy." … "But don't go thinking we sacrifice quality. I never make more than two motion pictures a week, but I'll spend up to a thousand dollars on each of 'em if I have to."
DAN AYKROYD
C27. One of my my favorite lines in all of moviedom is ts this line that refers to the character played by this actress: "I never knew fear until I kissed Becky."
DANA WYNTER
C28. "Roger, I used to be just like you. But look at me now, I'm awesome! I run this entire place. I'm dating TWO Asian chicks!"
C29. You may have heard this actor but not seen him in such movies as: Lassiter, Flash Gordon, Superman, The Revenge of the Pink Panther, Murder on the Orient Express, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, and Zardoz
C30. "The truth is male models have been assassinating world leaders for over 200 years. Abe Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery, right? Well, who do you think made the silk stockings and powdered wigs worn by our early leaders?"
C31. In 2010, film critic David Thomson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film": "With his drooping chin and pouty lips, his quaff of hair and dithery manner, <this actor> seems like a refugee from Thirties theatre - or an incipient sneeze looking for a vacant nose".
HUGH GRANT?
C32. "I don't know. There's always a way to blow up explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off. But aren't you forgetting something? The lady. As I see it we have three choices. One we can leave her here but there's no guarantee she won't be found, and in her case they won't need a truth drug. Two, we can take her with us, but that would make things worse than they are already. And three... well, that's Andrea's choice, remember?"
C33. She appears on film in the audience reacting to the show within the show in three films: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, A Mighty Wind, and Waiting for Guffman. in all three films she is seated in the right-hand side of the audience.
C34. "You know something, you ain't nothing special. You got no manners, you treat woman like whores and if you ask me you got no chance of being no officer."
DEBRA WINGER
C35. James Dean learned he had an interest in photography when they worked together, and encouraged him to pursue it as an alternative to just being an actor. This actor published a book of photos in the late 1980s, including pictures of stars he had known, and thanked Dean.
DENNIS HOPPER?
C36. "But you've got your projects, haven't you? You're going to be a director. You'll sit in your little canvas chair polishing your balls. "Thank God I got rid of that hag I had to screw. What was her name? The one who paid for everything! The one who bought me a fucking house!"."
DIANE LANE
C37. Madonna based her book 'Sex' on a fictional character named after this actress' first name, inspired by her and her character in L'Atalante.
C38. "I'm not. I'm lucky. I feel lucky because it's wrong, Danny. It's wrong and it was eating me up, it was going to kill me. And I kept asking myself all the time, how did I buy into this shit? It was because I was pissed off, and nothing I ever did ever took that feeling away. I killed two guys, Danny, I killed them. And it didn't make me feel any different. It just got me more lost and I'm tired of being pissed off, Danny. I'm just tired of it."
EDWARD NORTON
C39. This actress' father was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. In a memorable role she wasn't so lucky - after informing a Nazi officer that they were building the barracks incorrectly, she was shot and then they subsequently took her advice.
ACTRESS FROM SCHINDLER’S LIST?
C40. "It happened again. David, the girl is absolutely useless. You've gotta get me someone who knows what she is doing. Excuse me. I'm not getting any of my mail, nothing has been filed. Ever since she got engaged, my life has been a disaster." ... "She spent the last three months writing down her married name. "Mrs. Judy Hicks", "Mrs. Donald Hicks"; "Mrs. Judy Mitchellson Hicks", sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes without a hyphen. Sometimes, she spells the hyphen."
ELIZABETH PERKINS
C41. She is the only woman who has won the Best Actress Oscar for a performance directed by her spouse.
FRANCES MACDORMAND
C42. "My true disability is not having to be in a wheel chair. It's having to be without her."
C43. He was offered a seven-movie deal by the Bond producers, but quit the role because he felt that the tuxedo-clad Bond would die out in the new hippie culture that had permeated society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was wrong.
C44. "Oh. My jewel case. It's bomb proofed, the insurance people insisted upon it. Oh. My idea of heaven is never to have to pack or unpack. Why didn't I think of that before. Here. Here. You know what? The hell with the jewelry let's put my book in here. Thank you. Here you are my darlings, it's all yours - I never wanted to have the damn thing published when I was alive anyway."
GLORIA SWANSON
C45. This actress played a former rock-star groupie 2 years after her real-life daughter played a young rock-star groupie. In real-life her husband andthe father of the aforementioned daughter was a pop-musician.
GOLDIE HAWN
C46. "I always knew you were alive, I knew it. Everybody said that I had to let you go. I love you. You're the love of my life."
C47. For over 20 years this actor was the father-in-law of actor Edward James Olmos.
C48. "The name's Tong, James Tong."
C49. Considering he is the youngest answer in this quiz, currently at just 11 years old - you might not be so surprised then that he would show up in your trick-or-treat bag as a smaller version of your favorite candy.
C50. "Actually, I believe it goes: Never con a con-man, especially one who's better than you are."
JAMES WOODS
C51. She was one of Rhapsody's two mommies.
C52. "... does the good of the many out weigh the good of the one?"
[the person responds that they would accept that as an axiom]
"Then you stand here alive because of a mistake made by your flawed, feeling, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because they believed that the good of the one - you - was more important to them."
JANE WYATT
C53. He made sure that Plato's run to escape from Atlantis got him with striking range of the land of the free.
C54. "I can smell it. You worked so hard for that book. You sacrificed so much, so many men. More than you could spare. Now, all those people who were too scared to even say your name, they're downstairs, tearing up the bar right now, did you know that? And there's no one there to stop them. And you're *feverish.* I can't imagine what it must feel like to have what you want so close, and it might as well be a million miles away."
C55. This actress' father died in a helicopter accident 3 weeks prior to the US release of her first movie - oh and that movie is also the answer to another clue in this quiz.
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH?
C56. "Why would he try to run you over? Why did he make coleslaw on Helen's head? He's fucking with us! He's just out there, and he's watching and waiting!" … "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, HUH? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOOOOORRRR?"
C57. Are we not men? This actress did not tell her husband that she wanted a divorce. She waited until after he left to work on The Island of Dr. Moreau to file the divorce papers. He heard the news while watching CNN in a hotel room. He said finding out about if, especially like that, hurt him greatly.
C58. "But isn't that what's wrong with the world today? People are just looking for the easy way out, like their problems are gonna go away?Problems just don't go, Flo! You know? So the question here is; what are we going to do with our little problem child? I'll tell you what we are going to do. Something that no parent has ever done for him before. We're gonna love him, Flo."
C59. He found that it's groovy to hide in a movie pretends he's Fellini and Antonioni and also his countryman Roman Polanski all rolled into one.
C60. "Okay, not fired. But tomorrow morning, you will let me change your socks."
C61. This actor almost didn't get the play the role on Broadway that he created for the London production of a hit stage musical because of an Actor's Equity rule regarding racial casting issues.
JONATHAN PRYCE
C62. "We're growing. Be as big as San Francisco in a few years, and just as sophisticated. "
C63. No, this person is not a periodontist who drives a Chrysler Lebaron convertible.
C64. "Hey, man, I was doing some research for next year and I think I figured out which website I wanna subscribe to. The Vag-Tastic Voyage."
C65. If you are busy fighting aliens and trying to get back to Earth, you might want the help of this actor, who was a huge fan of the show and can guide you safely through your troubles - as long as he doesn't have to stop what he is doing to take out the garbage.
C66. "The only way you'll ever end up lying next to me, Max, is if we're run down by the same car."
C67. If a child is missing at the midnight hour, you should make a final appeal to the innocent that they don't talk to strangers.
C68. "Oh, you were not what was desired, but that makes you no less dear to me. A boy would have been the Son of France, but you, Marie Thérèse, shall be mine."
C69. She wasn't ready for either prime time nor Junior Healy.
C70. "Their daddy's a king. And a king knows what to do and *does* it. Even when it's hard. And their daddy will do whatever he has to for those he loves. And that's all that matters. Because everyone is weak, Jimmy. Everyone but us. We will never be weak. And you, you could rule this town. And after Jimmy, let's take the girls down to the parade. Katie would like that."
C71. Did he discover Vinland or did Hollywood discover him?
LEIF ERICKSEN
C72. "Okay. Their previous MO was to offer women from the emerging East-European countries like Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria jobs in the west as maids and nannies. Once they smuggled them in, they'd addict them to drugs and turn them into prostitutes. Lately, however, they've decided that it's more economical just to kidnap traveling young women. Saves on transportation costs."
C73. This person produced the album Metal Machine Music in response to RCA Records' demands for a quick follow-up to his top-ten LP Sally Can't Dance. The hour-plus of electronic noise was almost buried as a classical release, but instead was promoted as a pop album. The resulting backlash nearly ruined the label and this person's reputation; both later issued apologies, while the album remains a musical enigma.
C74. "I don't have to tell her? Your mother and I are old friends. You know that."
LOUISE FLETCHER
C75. If you want a maid you don't have to pay for, head over to the Double R Diner and contact this waitress.
C76. [proffering cigar to Inga, in parody Swedish] "Phalliken symbolsk?"
NATHAN LANE
C77. In his breakout role as an actor, his most important asset was a prosthetic.
MARK WAHLBERG?
C78. "Look, if you cut my head off it'll start to putrify!"
C79. This actress' mother recently stated that the miniature doll given to this actress was not intended to be a prank by the director. He merely wanted to give her a beautiful doll with her mother's image, but it happened that the doll was in a wooden box. When she received the gift, she freaked out and became upset thinking that it was indeed meant to be her mother in a coffin.
MELANIE GRIFFITH
C80. "I woke up this morning, kept thinking about Billy and I was thinking about him waking up in his room with his little clouds all around that I painted and I thought I should have painted clouds downtown because then he would think that he was waking up at home. I came here to take my son home. And I realized he already is home."
MERYL STREEP
C81. Her godparents were gossip columnist Louella Parsons and famed director George Cukor.
MIA FARROW
C82. "Okay, James, I wish you hadn't shot my girlfriend's dog. Even though Poe and I weren't exactly what you'd call simpatico, that's no reason he should've taken two in the chest."
C83. He was a camera, musically speaking that is.
MICHAEL YORK
C84. She attended the Academy of Music, Tel Aviv and studied acting at the Beit Zvi Drama School. Has established her career as a stage and screen actress, screenwriter and director and is married to Moshé Mizrahi.
NATALIE PORTMAN?
C85. "I don't wanna find a little kid after they've been abused for three days.", "They told me what happened. I'm proud of you. That man killed a child. He had no right to live."
C86. There was a study done of the faces of beautiful women, quantifying the ratio of the width of the mouth to the width of the nose, attempting to find the perfect proportions for the perfect face of feminine beauty (the ratio turns out to be something like 1.7). The movie star with the most perfect proportions for feminine facial beauty, based on this measure, turns out to be this actress.
C87. "You're staying home. The sun is shining but it's raining."
C88. Heaven or Vegas? When she final was reunited with her husband after his strange trip home from prison - it was both.
C89. "What has two thumbs and likes blowjobs?" [Points to himself with both thumbs] "This guy!"
C90. Is highly conscious of avoiding excessive sun exposure, and is rarely seen during her downtime without a hat, sunglasses and wearing sunscreen. No wonder she spent what seemed spending half of her time in a movie shutting blinds and drapes to keep the sun out.
C91. "That would be like an ambulance calling for an ambulance, isn't it?"
C92. Took a break from acting during which time he built furniture and created large stuffed-animal pillows for Salvadore Dali. His is also a brother-in-law of Brigitte Bardot.
C93. "Listen to me. Forests burn 'cos they have to. And oceans, they go up and down 'cos they have to. I don't think we're that different. If you want to get through this you have to start seeing it for what it is. It's something we do all the time because we're good at it. And we're good at it because we're used to it. And we're used to it because we do it all the time."
C94. Did he try to make a monkey out of President Nixon? I don't know about that but I do know he was not Sparticus.
C95. "Look at it this way. A man takes a job, you know? And that job - I mean, like that - That becomes what he is. You know, like - You do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for thirteen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become - You get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. People are born, y'know? I envy you, your youth. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know."
PETER BOYLE
C96. Carrie Fisher said in an interview that doing her scenes with him in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope were difficult for two reasons: she thought the lines were ridiculous and she found this actor to be so polite and charming off camera that it was hard to project the sense of disdain that her character, Princess Leia Organa, held for his character.
PETER CUSHING? HARRISON FORD?
C97. "Are you interested in joining? The benefits are terrific. The trick is not to get killed. That's really the key to the benefit program."
C98. He hid money in a doll and messages in chess pieces.
C99. "Hey, I'm not dumb! You don't even know me and you call me dumb. Wanna know what's dumb? The last eight covers in a row you did on Elvis in the army, with the badges? That's dumb. And that's boring."
RAY SHARKEY
C100. Both this actor and Harry Ditson have portrayed real-life newscaster Don Hollenbeck
C101. "You're the most beautiful, exciting thing I've ever seen in my life and I don't know anything about you."
RICHARD DREYFUSS
C102. He is the most recent incarnation of the first duel idenity hero - the dim-witted, foppish playboy who transforms into a sword-wielding hero fighting for justice.
C103. "Lizard & onions. Want half?"
C104. Growing up in the Little Italy section of New York City, his nickname was "Bobby Milk" because he was so thin and as pale as milk.
ROBERT DENIRO?
C105. "What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust. A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams... FOR WHAT? So you can swim and dance and play."
ROD TAYLOR
C106. The age difference between this actress and Halle Berry in Die Another Day - 12 years and 5 months - is the greatest age difference between two Bond girls in one film since Alison Doody and Grace Jones - a difference of 18 years - in A View to a Kill.
C107. "You should be locked up in that looney bin on Staten Island that Geraldo Rivera is always exposing!"
C108. He appeared in sequels (but not in the original - and not neccessarly the first sequel) of such horror movies Holloween, Final Destination and The Ring.
C109. "I want you to burn this Judas of a body. I don't want to be buried. I've spent enough time lying down. Burn it."
C110. I'm surprised she wasn't able to predict that a piece of 17th century plaster would fall on her head in 2006, causing a stroke. She spent time in physical and speech therapy, learning how to walk and remaster her speaking skills.
C111. "Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Do you see a little Asian child with a blank expression on his face sitting outside on a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it? No? Well, that's what you see at a toy store. And you must think you're in a toy store, because you're here shopping for an infant named Jeb."
C112. At the 2005 SAG awards, this actress presented the Actor for actress in a TV comedy -somone who is an answer in this list won the award. A year later at the 2006 Golden Globes, the receiver of the SAG award presented the award for best supporting actress on TV - this actress won that award and later said it was good to see her again!
C113. "'Fatty who likes golf and beer.' Gee, Mary, where are you gonna find a gem like that?"
C114. Hmmm, when she was young she claimed she didn't know how to swim, consequently she fell out of a boat (when pregnant) and drowned. Yet somehow when she was much older she claimed she was a champion swimmer - and proved it by swimming underwater to rescue a fellow passenger thus saving the lives of severel people - but that feat would prove to much for her and again she died in a watery grave.
SHELLEY WINTERS
C115. "I wouldn't accuse you of dishonesty! I accuse you of being from another planet, but an honest planet!"
STEVE GUTTENBERG
C116. A little blue bird told me that this child actor was born in Greenford, Middlesex, England in 1966 and once was the special guest on 'The Carol Burnett Show'.
C117. [singing] "Budweiser you created a monster / and they call him Drinkenstein / And the tavern down the street is the labba-tor-eye-ee / where he makes the transformation all the time / And a stein of Dr. Buuuud is a pint of monster blood / and it does effect me different every time / Budweiser you created a monster / and they call me Drinkenstein / And they call me Drinkenstein / I'm Drinkenstein! / I'm Drinkenstein!"
C118. Before becoming an actor, this person was an executive director and then senior director of the news special events at ABC, he then became an executive producer for the "Gillette Cavalcade of Sports," where he gave Howard Cosell his first job. He also was friends with actor John Aniston and named godfather of Jennifer Aniston.
TELLY SAVALAS
C119. I have no direct, first-hand knowledge if they are either real or spectacular.
TERI HATCHER
C120. "You've seen plywood sets that look like the inside. Our beryllium sphere is... is wire with plaster around it. And our digital conveyor is... it's Christmas tree lights. It's a decoration. It's all fake. Just like me."
TIM ALLEN
C121. His last name is the same as the first name of his co-star in probably the biggest film he's been a major character in, and that is the truth, no lie.
C122. "You were shy? After the car, and the elevator, and the bedroom, and on top of the refrigerator, you were shy?"
TOM HANKS
C123. Who would have guessed that James Baker was really both Gen. Lord Charles Cornwallis and Benjamin Franklin!
C124. "We've no time to sit and dither, / While her withers wither with her-- / And no one keeps a cow for a friend!"
C125. According to widely published reports from the late 1940s, the Sultan of Morocco declared her beauty to be proof of the existence of God.
VIRGINIA MAYO? HEDY LAMARR?
C126. "We don't care how much it costs, just how much it makes. If it costs too much, we charge a penny more. Would you pay more to save a fish who thinks?"
C127. She is one of only 10 individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award (counting Daytime Emmy Awards), and probably the only one who was a former heroin addict.
C128. "It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?"
WILL SMITH
C129. Well, if it doesn't jell, it isn't aspic, and this ain't jellin'!' - except it wasn't aspic - at least not when this actor spoke his version of this line.
Re: The Keep Your friends close CONSOLIDATION
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 4:21 am
by frogman042
So far, mostly good.
From list A:
All the single answers with no question marks are correct.
All but 2 single answers with a question mark are correct - 2 are incorrect.
All but 2 with multiple answers contain the correct answer - 2 do not contain the correct answer in its list.
From list B:
All the single answers with no question marks are correct.
All but 6 single answers with a question mark are correct - 6 are incorrect.
The one with multiple answers contains the correct answer.
Also one lists a movie as the answer instead of the name of the actor.
From list C:
All the single answers with no question marks are correct with the exception of 1 - one of the answers with no question mark is incorrect.
All but 1 single answers with a question mark are correct - 1 is incorrect.
All with multiple answers contain the correct answer.
As already pointed at, with one exception, list C should be the easiest to eliminate incorrect answers.
Finally, there are some answers that were posted that did not make it into the consolidation. The above only refers to the answers provided in this specific post.
Keep up the good work!
mrkelley23 wrote:Here’s a try at a consolidation:
The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
List A contains 75 clues to movies - if a quote appears then it is a quote from the movie
List B contains 123 actors - if a quote appears, then find the name of the actor/actress who said it.
List C contains 129 actors - again if a quote appears, then find the name of the actor/actress who said it.
All lists contain alternating descriptive clues and quote clues - there are a few cases where that pattern is violated, that has no special meaning other than a consequence of some last minute changes and the lack of desire to rewrite clues.
Create a set of triplets - one from each of the 3 lists (1 from A, 1 from B and one from C) based on a Tangredi that you have to figure out.
The solution will contain a total of 198 triplets. Note that in 2 cases the same 3 elements in a triplet will be used twice because the meaning of the triplet (even though they have the same 3 values) - they are formed for different reasons. All of remaining 194 triplets will be a unique group of 3 elements.
Clearly many elements in each list will be used multiple times.
From list A: 18 answers will be used 2 times, 7 will be used 3 times, 5 will be used 4 times, 3 will be used 5 times, 2 will be used 6 times, 2 will be used 7 times, 1 will be used 8 times, 1 will be used 9 times and 3 different answers will be used 10 times. The remaining 33 answers will be used only once.
From list B: 20 answers will be used 2 times, 6 will be used 3 times, 9 will be used 4 times, 1 will be used 5 times and 1 will be used 13 times. The remaining 86 answers will be used only once.
From list C: 18 answers will be used 2 times, 4 will be used 3 times, 5 will be used 4 times, 1 will be used 5 times, 1 will be used 6 times, 1 will be used 8 times and 1 will be used 13 times. The remaing 98 answers will be used only once.
There may be some alternate triplets that meet the Tangredi condition, but I believe there is only one complete solution to the puzzle - so those 'false positives' should be able to be sorted out.
Have Fun!List A - Movies
A1. This movie was the big-screen debut of an actress who a little more than 20 years latter would be killed by one of the most famous music producers of the 2nd half of the 20th century.
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
A2. "I mean, where do you train your nurses, Mrs. Christie - Dachau?"
A3. This movie's two opening title cards read "Baltimore, 1959" and "Christmas Night".
DINER
A4. "All we gotta do is go in here and get a cat. It's not that hard. But if you go in there, you're gonna lay your Jack Webb on her, start flashing your brain-ray all in her face. You're gonna wind up giving her leukemia or something. Woman's a doctor, she don't need you flashing away half her med school classes. Five minutes." MEN IN BLACK
A5. The star of this film said that he felt very comfortable playing the role of the famous real-life director that this film is about. For, like that director, the star is a homosexual British actor who spent his early career in the theater and ultimately started a career in Hollywood.
GODS AND MONSTERS
A6. "This chick, man, without the benefit of dying herself, has broken down the process of dying into five stages: anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Sounds like a Jewish law firm. 'Good morning, Angerdenialbargainingdepressionacceptance!'."
ALL THAT JAZZ
A7. The lead actress in this movie has a famous line. That line served as the inspiration behind Kenny Chesney's 1999 single with a similar name. In 2005, the lead actress married Chesney, only to have it annulled after four months.
JERRY MAGUIRE
A8. "So, you've been tellin' everybody I've been sleepin' with ya, huh? Well that explains it! That's why these people treat me like some dime-store floozy. They think I'm screwin' the boss! Oooh, and you just love it, don't you? It gives you some sort of cheap thrill like knockin' over pencils and pickin' up papers! Get your scummy hands offa me! Look I've been straight with you since the first day I got here, and I've put up with all of your pinchin' and starin' and chasin' me around the desk because I need this job. But this is the last straw! Look, I've got a gun out there in my purse. Up until now I've been forgivin' and forgettin' because of the way I was brought up, but I'll tell you one thing. If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine, and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! And don't think I can't do it."
9TO 5
A9. The A.V. Club' website reports that this films director actually got an official response to this movie from the U.S. government, which is included on the DVD. In addition, this film was denounced by Alexander Haig. Haig was a former United States Army General, United States Secretary of State, White House Chief of Staff Ford, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe who commanded all US and NATO forces in Europe.
A10. "Come to Los Angeles! The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs aplenty, and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy, all-American family. You can have all this, and who knows... you could even be discovered, become a movie star... or at least see one. Life is good in Los Angeles... it's paradise on Earth. Ha ha ha ha. That's what they tell you, anyway."
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL
A11. Two years after defrosting a caveman in one movie the actor (who help discover the caveman) starred in this movie. The character of the caveman also briefly shows up in this movie as well during the dinner scene in the tent with the Special forces guys.
IN THE ARMY NOW?
A12. "He was diseased; but he was my son! And you have... Why didn't I kill you before? I killed that no-good inspector and your professor friend, to protect him! And now... I'm gonna KILL YOU TO AVENGE HIM! Why don't you call your INSECTS! GO ON! CALL! CALL!"
A13. The movie is based on two real life twins, Stewart and Cyril Marcus. The two were found dead in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Their deaths were due to withdrawal from barbiturate addiction. The story is told in the novel "Twins" by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland.
DEAD RINGERS
A14. "Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They're single-serving friends."
UP IN THE AIR?
A15. It's around 13 minutes into the film before the title character of this movie is seen, and around 40 minutes in before he is heard speaking. In addition, this was one of two black and white films nominated for best picture in one year - decades after color dominated the movie industry - oh and that other black and white film - is an answer to another clue in list A.
THE ELEPHANT MAN
A16. "The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed. I can't begin to explain that. Or the craziness inside myself and everyone else. But guess what? Sunday's my favorite day again. I think of what everyone did for me, and I feel like a very lucky guy."
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
A17. In real life, the actor who played a psychopathic serial killer in this movie, is a pacifist who despises guns. In the early days of principal photography, he would flinch violently every time he fired. Production was forced to be shut down for a time while the actor was sent to a school to learn to fire a gun convincingly. However, he still blinks noticeably when he shoots. He was also squeamish about filming the scene where he verbally and physically abuses several schoolchildren, and the scene where he racially insults the man he pays to beat him up. Yet you would never guess this from the convincingly meanicing performance that he gives in this movie.
DIRTY HARRY
A18. [singing] "Telling the truth can be dangerous business; / Honest and popular don't go hand in hand. / If you admit that you play the accordion, / No one will hire you in a rock 'n' roll band. / But we can sing out hearts out. / And if we're lucky, then no neighbors complain. / Because life is the way we audition for God; / Let us pray that we all get the job."
A19. In this move, the Bible quotes are from Psalm 32 verses 1-2 and 5-7 (the reading at the table) and Genesis chapter 4 verses 9 and 16 (quoted by the Sheriff).
A20. "GOLD - GOLD - GOLD - GOLD. Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold, Molten, Graven, Hammered, Rolled, Hard to Get and Light to Hold; Stolen, Borrowed, Squandered - Doled."
A21. The film's credits are spoken, not read, in keeping with the film's theme.
M*A*S*H? FAHRENHEIT 451?
A22. "I see. So, what you're saying is that even though you are an almost-paralyzed, multiphobic personality who is in a constant state of panic, your wife did not leave you, you left her because she... liked Neil Diamond?"
SAVING SILVERMAN? WHAT ABOUT BOB?
A23. The title character of this film real last name was Weiss (not his more farmous stage name - weiss is the German word for the color white), and the actor who portrayed him had the real last name of Schwartz - (not his stage name as most people know the actor by and schwarz is the German word for the color black). No - it is not Breaking Bad.
THE GREAT HOUDINI
A24. "Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left. I don't know much, but I know that."
GOOD WILL HUNTING
A25. The special effects technicians for this film were able to create giant drops of water by filling up condoms and dropping them.
HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS?
A26. "It's past ten. My daughter is in pain. I don't understand why she has to have this pain. All she has to do is hold out until ten, and IT'S PAST TEN! My daughter is in pain, can't you understand that! GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!"
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
A27. To prepare for her performance as one of the two sets of twins in this film, the actress-comedian, just before the cameras rolled before a take, would whiz around in a circle several times until she got dizzy so as to exhibit the air-headed qualities of one the twins, the other twin in this film played by that actress-comedian - was much more level headed.
BIG BUSINESS
A28. "*Everything*! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for *you*! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn't that generous?"
LABYRINTH
A29. The club that the title character of this film drives by before he steals his new clothes is called Liquid Sword. "Liquid Swords" is the name of The GZA's second album, which was produced by The RZA, who also provided the original score for this film.
GHOST DOG THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI?
A30. "I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are brought to justice, I will fight on."
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
A31. The train crash in this movie was purposely made much more sensational than a train crash would actually be. The goal was to pay homage to the science-fiction movies of the '70s.
SUPER 8?
A32. "The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus."
GREMLINS
A33. "Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit."
COMING TO AMERICA?
A34. In this film, the entrance and exit scenes of the Men in Black's first appearance in the bar were filmed entirely in reverse with the camera upside down, according to director's commentary on the restored print. The two men started on the bar stools, then backed out of the room for the entrance; while the exit was filmed with the two outside the bar and backing into it, including Strathairn replacing the cookies in the cookie bowl.
THE MATRIX? THE MATRIX RELOADED? MATRIX REVOLUTIONS?
A35. "It's alright. No one was injured. Juvenile delinquents are everywhere. Right here in this community. Boys with long hair and tattoos who spit on the sidewalk. Girls who wear tight slacks. Hysterectomy pants, I call them. And if one of these creatures ever approach you on the street, you are to silently repeat to yourself the four B's" you learned here at RSVP. And what are they, children, the four "B's? - Beauty, brains, breeding and bounty!"
A36. At the beginning of this film, one of the title charcters sings a song that he has penned, "Santa's Souped Up Sleigh." He tells the other title character that he sent the words - along with a sum of money - to the Hollywood Music Company, an outfit that puts its customers' song lyrics to music for a fee. Although the first character doesn't realize it, the tune that the company used is not an original one: they paired his lyrics with the melody of "Wabash Cannonball."
MELVIN AND HOWARD
A37. "Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along, you get thirsty, you spot a little brook, you put your little deer lips down to the cool clear water... BAM! A fuckin bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are laying on the ground in little bloody pieces! Now I ask ya. Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?"
A38. The "We Sell Your Stuff on eBay" store in this film was a real store; it was written into the script after the location was chosen.
40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN?
A39. "I'm gonna show these to someone who can read them right, 'cause you're reading them wrong, that's all there is to it. Because no one is gonna tell me you de-differentiated your goddamn genetic structure for four goddamn hours and then reconstitued! I'm a professor of endocrinology at the Harvard Medical School. I'm an attending physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital! I'm a contributing editor to the American Journal of Endocrinology and a I am a fellow and vice-president of the Eastern Association of Endocrinologists and president of the Journal Club! And I'm not going to listen to any more of your kabbalistic, quantum, friggin' dumb limbo mumbo jumbo! I'm gonna show these to a radiologist!"
ALTERED STATES
A40. William Donohue of the Catholic League lambasted the film and publicly protested against it for months without actually seeing the film, after which his office called View Askew offices and said "Dr. Donohue requests a special screening of [this film] so that he can speak about it intelligently." The director's response was: "So what has he been doing the past six months?"
DOGMA? LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST?
A41. "Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived of, and he lifted darkness off the earth. Through out the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors, stood alone against the men of their time. Every new thought was opposed. Every new invention was denounced. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered, and they paid - but they won."
A42. The picture was shot in freezing cold temperatures. The production had to simulate the heatwave of the film's story, the actors having to act hot in cold conditions. For example, the thesps had to suck ice cubes before speaking to eliminate foggy breath and had water sprayed on their skin and shirts to simulate body sweat.
A43. "I remember those cheers / They still ring in my ears / After years, they remain in my thoughts. / Go to one night / I took off my robe, and what'd I do? I forgot to wear shorts. / I recall every fall / Every hook, every jab / The worst way a guy can get rid of his flab. / As you know, my life wasn't drab. / Though I'd much... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When you delve... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When I delve into Shakespeare / A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse", I haven't had a winner in six months."
RAGING BULL
A44. The actor, in this bio-pic, can be heard singing his own character's funeral hymn. during the 'sort-of/indirect' title character's funeral scene, the song is sung prominently in the background, led by actor himself. This may not be too surprising given the amount of music in this movie and the fact that the actor himself was better known as both a singer and drummer in a famous band.
A45. "You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?"
ARMAGEDDON
A46. After filming a scene shot at the school, the actor playing the title character pranked young castmates by screaming and ripping out his hair. The realistic gray wig had many fooled and horrified, until the crew and the actor erupted in laughter.
A47. "Goddamn class action suits are gonna be the ruin of this country. It wasn't so bad when the courts made us take girls. At least the ones that came could play, but now this."
BAD NEWS BEARS
A48. This film became the first motion picture in Academy Awards and cinema history to be nominated for every Academy Award category in which it was eligible, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Director, all 4 acting categories, and Picture of the Year, since Cimarron (1931).
A49. "She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it."
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
A50. Originally in the beginning of this movie, there was a gang beating up a father, who drops a toy on the sidewalk. The studio thought it was too violent, so it was cut. The main character can be seen playing with the toy after he finds it on the ground during the opening credits.
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
A51. "It's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40!"
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
A52. The opening title sequence of this film was originally played on the score from "La bohème" opera but was changed to the Dean Martin track "That's Amore" as the preview drew negative test audience reaction. Many shifted uncomfortably on their seats thinking that they had been lured into an art film.
MOONSTRUCK
A53. "The island of Cyprus, madame. World famous for beauty, and long, tragic history. Been conquered many times, conquered by Phoenicians, Assyrians, Persians, Macedonians; also conquered by Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Turks. Purchased from Turkey by your esteemed self, the British Empire. All Cyprus most wanted the British."
EXODUS?
A54. Mall scenes with elevators and escalators were filmed at the Stamford Town Center in Stamford, Connecticut where shooting was conducted for around two weeks - I personally have been in that mall numerous times as it is not too far from where my brother-in-law lives. Mall exteriors were filmed at the actual Beverly Center on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, the mall where most of the picture is set.
SCENES FROM A MALL
A55. "You see, sir, rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health. But it isn't, sir. Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study. It is to be shunned."
SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS
A56. A "KILLIANS RED" neon sign at the pawn shop is partially lit. It reads: "KILL ED". Seconds before you see an important character in this film pick up Zed's keys there is a "Z" on the key chain. Put it all together and you have "KILL ZED".
PULP FICTION
A57. Kim Gardener: "It's not fair. Jack Flack always escapes. How does he do it, Morris? I had ten times as many bullets."
Morris: "Yeah, but Flack had ingenuity and the contacts, Kim. That's better than bullets sometimes."
A58. In the campfire scene, this movie showed a dad and his son talking about the possibility of another "Star Wars" movie. The campfire scene and the previously shown Obama/Biden campaign scene were set in 2008 . The real plans for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) were first conceived after the acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney in 2012. Thus you might say that this movie's script in 2008 predicted the 2012 plans. Eventually, this movie was released in the same year that Episode VII started filming.
A59. "The buses! The buses are empty and look almost menacing, threatening, as so many yellow dragons watching me with their hollow, vacant eyes. I wonder how many little black and white children have yellow nightmares, their own special brand of fear for the yellow peril... Damn it, it's got to be more... positive. No, more negative! Start again. Yellow is the color of caution. No. Yellow is the color of cowardice. Yellow is the color of sunshine. And yet I see very little sunshine in the lives of all the little black and white children. I see their lives, rather, as a study in grayness, a mixture of black and... Oh, Christ, no. That's fascist. Yellow! Yellow, yellow, yellow. Yellow fever..."
NASHVILLE
A60. The lead actress in this movie has admitted in interviews that she was completely unaware during the filming that the film would turn out so well and become one of the great science-fiction classics of all time. She assumed it would be just another one of the then-current and rather trashy flying saucer films that were popular at the time, and she found it difficult to keep a straight face while saying her lines.
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL? FORBIDDEN PLANET?
A61. [reading an article from "Pain" magazine in the waiting room of the dentist; giggling] "The patient came to me with a large hole in his abdomen, caused by a fire poker used on him by his wife. He almost bled to death and gangrene had set in. I didn't give him much of a chance. There were other complications. The man had cancer, tuberculosis, leprosy, and a touch of the grippe. I decided to operate."
A62. In this film, the character Dildano's password, "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch", is the name of a real village in Wales, United Kingdom (unsurprisingly, it's the longest place name in the UK).
A63. "He has his father's eyes."
ROSEMARY’S BABY
A64. During the UK clampdown on video nasties in the 80's the film was briefly seized by Manchester Police who believed it to be a sex film.
A65. "Do not drink wine or strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, least ye shall die. Look not though upon the wine when it is red, and when it bringeth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright at the last, it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Now folks, that's from the Good Book, but in this here town it's five cents a glass. Five cents a glass, now does anyone think that that is a price of a drink?"
A66. Many of the props used in the film were local items: for example the feed store calendar (used in the scene "Are you mean to tell me that there were five weeks last month?") is the State Bank of Delano anniversary calendar (current at the time of filming) which featured photos of historic buildings (some torn down) in the town (and town's past), hence its rustic addition of the prop to the feed store.
A67. "Talk about an all-star cast - this film boasts 58 Oscar nominations and 14 wins (not including 2 Honorary wins) from its principal cast and crew."
HAMLET? AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS? THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD?
A68. "Dear Catherine, I've been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologize to you for. All the pain we caused each other. Everything I put on you. Everything I needed you to be or needed you to say. I'm sorry for that. I'll always love you 'cause we grew up together and you helped make me who I am. I just wanted you to know there will be a piece of you in me always, and I'm grateful for that. Whatever someone you become, and wherever you are in the world, I'm sending you love. You're my friend to the end. Love, Theodore." [pauses]
"Send."
A69. "I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!"
JAWS
A70. Holds the record for the movie with the most Academy Award nominations without a nomination for Best Picture: 9.
THE TURNING POINT? THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY?
A71. "Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about."
FIRST BLOOD?
A72. Approximately 10 to 12 bicycles were built for the movie by the Pedal Pusher Bike Shop in Newport Beach CA; a shop that specialized in vintage and classic bicycles and parts. They were offered $10,000 and no screen credit or screen credit only. The shop chose the money.
PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE? BREAKING AWAY?
A73. "You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why! Why!"
POLTERGEIST
A74. The monkeys that appear at the end of this film were somewhat difficult to acquire. According to the director's commentary, he paid the men who were to provide them only half of what they asked for, as he didn't trust them and thought they would try to run off with the money without providing the monkeys. He was proved right, as they had sold the monkeys to someone else and they were to be flown to Florida. In desperation, the director pretended he was the veterinarian and that the monkeys didn't have their vaccination documents, which allowed him to finally get the monkeys and film their scenes. After this, all the monkeys were set free into the wild.
A75. "All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie."
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
List B - Actors
B1. This late actor's nickname "America's Guest" stemmed from his habit of wandering to a random house of a complete stranger, knocking on the door, going in, helping himself to something in the refrigerator and then sleeping on the stranger's couch. Most strangers, recognizing who he was, did not seem to mind his "visit".
JOHN BELUSHI
B2. "Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something. I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention. "
B3. This actor is the voice of the yellow peanut M&M on the commercials since the late 1990s, replacing John Goodman after the original 1995 commercials. In 2000, a video game was produced, M&M's: The Lost Formulas (2000), in which he portrayed Yellow Peanut.
JK SIMMONS
B4. "I'm an architect for Christ sake, I build 50 story skyscrapers, I assemble cities of the future, I can certainly put together a goddam diaper."
TOM SELLECK
B5. In one of his earliest roles, this actor played a professional baseball pitcher, who enjoyed playing the card game TEGWAR. Interestingly enough, his grandfather was a major league baseball player and then a MLB umpire.
MICHAEL MORIARTY
B6. [singing]"I stay away from deviled ham on principle/I wouldn't eat roast duckling if I could/Willpower has made me invincible!/My word, those sausages look good..."
REX HARRISON?
B7. The last of three actors with an Oscar nomination for playing multiple characters in a film.
LEE MARVIN?
B8. He had guests sign one of his Harley Davidsons (the first being Arnold Schwarzenegger), after which the bike was auctioned off with the money going to help victims of the September 11th attacks.
JAY LENO
B9. "Oh, I'm sorry, did my pin get in the way of your ass? Do me a favor and lose five pounds immediately or get out of my building like now! "
B10. He is the only other actor, along with Lance Hendrikson, to have been killed by a terminator, an alien, and a predator on screen.
B11. "Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules."
JACK NICHOLSON
B12. She dressed up as Catwoman and attempted to confront Tim Burton and Michael Keaton on the Warner Bros. property, in Batman Returns, to get that role - it didn't work.
SEAN YOUNG
B13. "I bear no grudge against <Name Removed>. He's been very successful, and God bless him. God bless him. But I'll tell something; I ain't done too badly, myself. Uh, I manage a shopping mall down in Florence, Alabama. Yeah, it's the number one mall in Colbert County. It's number four in the state, so it's not too bad, you know? Uh, I play golf several times a week, you know? But I'll tell ya, if <Name Removed> woulda listened to me, I'd still be up there in radio. Still be doin' radio, you know... How 'bout that? That goddamn motherfucker, you know. I tried every
[jackhammer]
thing I could
[jackhammer]
think of, mold him into a proper kind of deejay, but that goddamn son-of-a-bitch
[jackhammer] I'll tell you, <Name Removed>, man! That motherfuckin'
[extended jackhammer and siren] And I'll say that with no shame, either! Man's a
[jackhammer]
Foul-mouthed, immature... The man's immature, you know? He's like a
[jackhammer]
child. I'll tell ya this much: There ain't no God while <Name Removed> walking the Earth, I'll tell you that.
[jackhammer]
I gotta go.
[He walks away. To a passerby]
How 'bout that? <Name Removed>, huh?
[to the camera]
<Name Removed> can kiss my ass in hell!"
PRIVATE PARTS?
B14. His unique style of throwing darts, holding the pointing tip of the dart with his thumb and index finger and then throwing the dart with the opposite end pointing to the board, so that the dart makes a 180-degree in mid air, with the pointed end to the stuck board, can be seen in many of his movies.
B15. "Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death. "
MAURICE EVANS?
B16. Growing up this actor and his siblings often put on plays at their home. He has mentioned that his older sister Ann once staged a production of "Cinderella" in their living room in which she played Cinderella, sister Joan played the Ugly Stepsister, brother Bill played Prince Charming and this actor played the dog.
JOHN CUSACK?
B17. "Well, you imagine wrong. You know what? You're just a frustrated Englishwoman who writes about dirty things but never does them. You can shove your uptight morals up your ass!"
B18. He is the only cast member of Saturday Night Live to host while still a cast member. Nick Nolte was to host but fell ill and this person replaced him.
EDDIE MURPHY
B19. "It's all bullshit except the pain. The pain of hell. The burn from a lighted match increased a million times. Infinite. Now, ya don't fuck around with the infinite. There's no way you do that. The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart... your soul, the spiritual side. And ya know... the worst of the two is the spiritual."
HARVEY KEITEL
B20. Her new husband was thrilled to find out, on the evening of their wedding, that he was truly a bastard!
PRISCILLA LANE
B21. "No, Kev, that's it. Look, I don't wanna be the same as everybody else. That's why I'm a Mod, see? I mean, you gotta be somebody, ain't ya, or you might as well jump in the sea and drown."
STING? (GORDON SUMNER)
B22. The suicide of this actress's socialite mother was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that she'd died of heart failure. Household newspaper and magazine subscriptions were canceled, and the staff and student body of her high school were instructed not to discuss the incident. This actress learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in art class.
JANE FONDA
B23. "You know, in Texas if the law don't move fast enough, a rope and a tree is the payoff for robbin' women and cold-blooded shoootin'."
B24. This actor's fourth arrest was in 1974 for attempted burglary and malicious mischief. While under the influence of peyote, while nude, he began wandering around his Laurel Canyon neighborhood. He broke into a neighbor's home, shattering a window and cutting his arm. He then bled all over the homeowner's piano. At some time during this episode he accosted two young women, allegedly assaulting one while asking, or demanding of her, if she was a witch. The police literally followed a trail of blood to his home. The burglary charges were dropped, as nothing was found to be missing, while he pleaded "no contest" to the mischief charge and was given probation. He was never charged with assault, but the young woman sued him for $1.1 million and was awarded $20,000.
DAVID CARRADINE?
B25. "My daughter was murdered. They put a gun to her. As we stand here, she's on an autopsy slab getting cut open by scalpels and chest spreaders, and you're talking to me about domestic fucking responsibility? Good to see you, Theo."
SEAN PENN
B26. This actor won $356,000 by winning the California State Poker Championships in June 2004 - defeating some of the best poker players in the world in the process - he also received a lifetime ban from playing blackjack at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Casino due to his 'counting cards' skills. Did I also mention that at age 25, he was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar for 'Best Original Screenplay'. He went 15 years without another nomination until 2013, and he won.
BEN AFFLECK
B27. "This is your trough. Show me how the piggies eat. Be a good boy. Show mommy how the piggies eat."
MELINDA DILLON
B28. This actor attended college with Joan Allen who was occasionally a scene partner of him in their acting classes. Later attended another acting class years with John Mahoney. He encouraged both actors to join the Steppenwolf Theater Company, which they did. Legend has it that he was told by the head of the Theatre Department at Illinois State University that he would not have a career as an actor. Even though he did not graduate from ISU (he never took the constitution test), the Theatre Department still claims him as an alumnus. On April 4, 2005, he returned to visit the Theatre Department where he was presented with an official diploma for his bachelor's degree in theatre.
JOHN MALKOVICH
B29. "Unfinished business? I have no unfinished business. I have my treasure, my mansion. I have EVERYTHING. I'm... just... perfect!"
[she laughs evilly until a flash of light comes out of her as a sign that she is crossing over]
[gasps] "Wait! Wait! I lied! I have unfinished business - lots of unfinished business!"
[more flashes of light appear]
"I-I'm not ready to cross over yet! Wait! You tricked me, you rotten little rats!" [she screams as the flashes of light causes her to vanish without a trace]
CATHY MORIARTY
B30. One of the most prolific American directors of his generation, he has written, directed, and more often than not starred in a film just about every year since 1969.
WOODY ALLEN
B31. "That's because it's impossible to measure love. And, as you know, without measurements there can be no science. But I have been thinking a lot about the problem lately."
B32. This actor apologized to Colombia after blaming the nation for America's drug problems. The star insisted the United States is as much to blame for the prolific trade and confessed he didn't mean to single out any one country as the supplier. He told the New York Daily News, "I said Colombia because it was the first country to come to mind." The actor was dubbed "ignorant" and "ungrateful" by the Colombian president for his comments in March 2006, and advised not to base his arguments on "Hollywood clichés".
BRUCE WILLIS
B33. "High flying, adored. Did you believe in your wildest moments all this would be yours, that you'd become the lady of them all? Were there stars in your eyes when you crawled in at night - from the bars, from the sidewalks, from the gutter theatrical? Don't look down, it's a long, long way to fall."
ANTONIO BANDERAS
B34. This actor is the son of the famous actor Jukichi Uno. After graduating from Bunka Gakuin University, he formed a rock band "The Savage" which experienced brief success thanks to their hit 'Itsumademo, Itsumademo'.
B35. "Madame Nell says there's something wrong with you, that you're a cream puff or something. She says you're pathetic, missing all the fun in life."
BROOKE SHIELDS
B36. Without actually having to know any of the vote tallys, you could safely say that this actor won his Oscar by a nose.
JOSE FERRER
B37. "The dream is always the same. Instead of going home, I go to the neighbors'. I ring, but nobody answers. The door is open, so I go inside. I'm looking around for the people, but nobody seems to be there. And then I hear the shower running, so I go upstairs to see what's what. Then I see her; this... girl, this incredible girl. I mean, what she's doing there I don't know, because she doesn't live there... but it's a dream, so I go with it. "Who's there?" she says. "Joel," I say. "What are you doing here?" "I don't know what I'm doing here; what are *you* doing here?" "I'm taking a shower," she says. Then I give her: "You want me to go?" "No," she says; "I want you to wash my back." So now, I'm gettin' enthusiastic about this dream. So I go to her, but she's hard to find through all the steam and stuff; I keep losing her. Finally I get to the door... and I... find myself in a room full of kids taking their college boards. I'm over three hours late; I've got two minutes to take the whole test. I've... just made a terrible mistake. I'll never get to college. My life is ruined."
TOM CRUISE
B38. This actor was one of the original members of the Group Theater (1931-1940), the first acting company in America to bring Stanislavski's revolutionary acting techniques to America. He was also the first to leave the company for a Hollywood contract. In addition he is considered to be responsible for the establishment of the Best Supporting Actor/Actress categories in the Academy Awards.
JOHN GARFIELD? FRANCHOT TONE?
B39. "Mama, I don't know why you have to make everything so difficult. I look at having a baby as the opportunity of a lifetime. Sure there may be risk involved, but that's true for anybody. But you get through it and life goes on. And when it's all said and done there will be a little piece of immortality with Jackson's good looks and my sense of style, I hope. Please, please I need your support. I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."
JULIA ROBERTS
B40. Of this actresses 5 marragies, clearly her 2nd one had to be the rockiest. The now bankrupt New World Studios hired her to pose for promotional photos highlighting the Marvel Comics character She-Hulk in 1989 to distribute as a possible movie. Though the pictures garnered much fan interest, they failed to produce interest in financial backers.
B41. "Actor who is the answer to this clue: ""Well, personally, I trust the engineer. He sounds okay to me. This is a professional job.
[Turns and looks at Roget Sarte] ""You're the one I don't trust!""
Roget: ""Me?""
Actor who is the answer to this clue: ""Yeah, you! All your brains are below your belt! You almost got us all in cold storage last night playing games in a whorehouse!"""
B42. This actress was the subject of an urban legend claiming that she had been the model for the Columbia Pictures logo. This rumor was untrue but so widespread that this actress, herself, told Roger Ebert that she believed it to be true.
ANNETTE BENING?
B43. "I'll call you on Monday and we'll go shopping. Anything we can't buy, we'll make. Anything we can't make, we'll steal!"
BEVERLY D’ANGELO
B44. I don't know if there where any lions or bears in the jungle, but at least one vicious animal was enough to convince this actor that he should never get out of the boat.
B45. "People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance, because they think you took the easy way out, when no one could imagine the willpower it took to do what we do. Walking the streets, night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up."
CHARLIZE THERON?
B46. This actor is of the Cayuga nation and Wolf Clan of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy and was the founder and Publisher of Aboriginal Voices Magazine, a magazine which was devoted to Native Canadian issues.
B47. "Say goodbye to your frog, pig! "…"Because in 10 seconds, he won't know *you* from kosher bacon."
MEL BROOKS
B48. This actor filed a $4-million lawsuit against neighbor Julie Newmar in 2004. He accused her of using harassment and defamation to force him from the Brentwood, California, street they share. A newspaper article quoted a resident not involved with the dispute as saying "She's weird" and "He's a bully." In January 2006 the two announced they had settled their differences out-of-court, and later that year Newmar guest-starred on an episode of his sitcom that poked fun at their feud by having Newmar play a neighbor who annoys this actor's character.
B49. "No. We need Ritalin and leashes, that's what we need."
B50. This actor was a working firefighter for a number of years in the early 1980's so it is not too surprising that he showed up at his old firehouse the day after the World Trade Center tragedy in New York to volunteer. Worked twelve hour shifts for a week after the terrorist act, digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters... anonymously. More surprising is that this actor was stabbed in the throat, head and arm during a barroom brawl at the Firebelly Lounge in Wilmington, North Carolina. The brawl also involved Vince Vaughn, who was arrested for brutalizing one of this actor's attackers. He suffered a deep cut to the face and now has a noticeable scar on his cheek. Heavy make-up is used to hide it in movies.
STEVE BUSCEMI
B51. "Oh, the mafia wouldn't try to kill us and make it look like an accident! They'd just kill us! They're the mafia."
B52. This person who had been nominated for the Oscar fairly early in his film career but hadn't won always said if he ever won he would say “I have 2 things I would like to say, the first thing is I've always hated this award and everything it ever stood for. The second thing I want to say is that this is the happiest moment of my life.”, when he actually did win, 40 years after his first nomination, he actually did not give that speech.
JACK PALANCE?
B53. "Words are lies. Bodies are truth – I have to show the truth."
B54. This actor made his screen debut playing one of three thugs who attack the wife and daughter of an architect. He is easy to spot because even though he is credited only as Thug #1, he is wearing a Jughead Jones style hat. Nearly 20 years later he would be staring in a number of the top grossing films of the 1990's.
JEFF GOLDBLUM
B55. "Nuclear weapons, Jack. They mean nothing Everybody's got them, nobody has the balls to use them. Am I right? … Space, you say? Space is a flop. Didn't you know that? … An endless junkyard of orbiting debris. Ah, but! - miniaturization, Jack. That't the ticket. That't the edge everyone is looking for. Who will have the edge, Jack? Which country will control minaturization? … Frankly, I don't give a shit. I'm just in this for the money."
B56. This person was writing for a skateboarding magazine called Big Brother when he did a story about self-defense equipment, which he tried on himself while Jeff Tremaine (editor for Big Brother) filmed it. These led to the Big Brother Videos Shit, Number Two and Boob, which helped raise the profile for LandSpeed present: CKY, CKY2K, and CKY3, which were all produced by Bam Margera.
B57. "Rufus, Brint, and Meekus were like brothers to me. And when I say brother, I don't mean, like, an actual brother, but I mean it like the way black people use it. Which is more meaningful I think."
B58. He declined an offer from President George Bush to campaign for him in the Presidential election. He told an interviewer the next year, "I think what the ultra-right wing conservatives did to the Republicans is really self-destructive, absolutely stupid". Maybe if President Bush gave him an empty chair, he could have changed his mind.
CLINT EASTWOOD
B59. Howard Keel, her co-star in three movies, once described this actress in an interview as the most beautiful woman in the history of movies.
KATHERINE GRAYSON?
B60. "And we will be right back with our five final lesbians – interviews!"
Miss Congeniality – does that mean it’s William Shatner? Again?
B61. Where the truth lies is that last night this actor was the boy who smells like fish after spending three days in Havana.
B62. I got postcards from Rome telling me that this actress was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class. I didn't do a final inquiry to see if it was true or not nor did I try to dig up any dirty linen on her.
B63. "Yes. I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I wanna see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club - hear Billie Holiday sing fine and mellow - walk in that kind of rain that never washes perfume away. I wanna be in love with something. Anything. Just the idea. A dog, a cat. Anything. Just something."
JACK LEMMON
B64. This actress' mother's maiden name was chosen for films in the early 1940s to raise fewer questions with the Nazi authorities than her real surname Kaminker. She also was the author of 'Adieu Volodia', a novel about a group of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Russia and their children, working in the theatre/film industry in Paris during the years 1926-1945.
SIMONE SIGNORET
B65. "We were all friends then, remember? And now you want to end his life because he's talking to Patty on your side of the cafeteria. Oh man, that's stupid. I know cuz that's where I wanted to be. On your side, with your crowd. But I messed up. See, I tried to buy my way in. But Kenneth, he's not trying to buy anybody. He's just trying to make friends *being* *himself*. Cools, Nerds, your side, my side, man it's all bullshit. It's just tough enough to be yourself."
B66. According to a 1995 Premiere magazine article, this actor confronted director Quentin Tarantino when he visited the set of of the movie he was starring in. Quentin had done an uncredited rewrite of the script. This actor lambasted Tarantino about his use of racial slurs in his films. Tarantino got embarrassed and wanted to move the conversation to a more private area. This actor said, "No, if we're going to discuss it, let's discuss it now." This actor later said he still felt that Quentin was "a fine artist". Also, his only marrage took place exactly 13 days after my marrage - over 30 years ago, and like me they are still together but unlike me they only have 4 children.
B67. "So what's a girl to do? He's a guy who followed his pecker to greener pastures. I'm a middle aged, high school drop out with stretch marks and a fat ass."
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
B68. A notorious practical joker, this actor was best man at Richard Kind's wedding. Oh and he is also the nephew of someone who is the answer to another clue in this list.
GEORGE CLOONEY
B69. "If all these people are not implicated in the crime, then why have they all told me, under interrogation, stupid and often unnecessary lies? Why? Why? Why? Why?"
ALBERT FINNEY
B70. This actor starred in a movie that based (very, very loosely) on a story by the host of NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me". In addition, he has been quoted as saying "When I was really young I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it. I find sides I don't get to explore in real life. Like, I had to do a sex scene before I had sex. I was 13, 14, and it was my first love experience with 25 people in front of me. Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings."
B71. "I know you care about him. I've never seen you like this about anyone, so please don't get me wrong when I tell you that Tom, while being a very nice guy, is the Devil."
ALBERT BROOKS
B72. This actor is the brother of an actress that is an answer to a clue on this list and the father of another actress who also is answer to a clue on this list.
PETER FONDA?
B73. "The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana."
B74. This actress appeared in a movie as the older sister of a boy with a bomb (that he is unaware that he is carrying) that explodes on a bus. The film's famous director said that regretted the decision to have the bomb go off.
SILVIA SIDNEY
B75. "Milton Berle is on tonight." [said in response to the question: "What's a cow doing inside a house?"]
B76. This actress' last public appearance was in 1994 when she was awarded an honorary Oscar after six failed nominations over the years. She, along with Thelma Ritter, is one of the few actresses to have received six nominations and not to have won an Oscar. She received one of the longest standing ovations of all Honorary Oscar-recipients.
DEBORAH KERR
B77. "Well, no... no, at first they'd ask me questions they already knew I knew the answers to. We ran through those, and I really didn't want them to give me the answers, so they gave me the questions and I'd look up the answers on my own, as if that were any different. Well, we ran through those in a couple of weeks and I just didn't have the time, finally, and it just seemed silly, so..."
RALPH FIENNES
B78. First and only teenager admitted to the acting program at the award-winning The Barrow Group in New York. Maybe they mistook her for the bard's wife?
ANNE HATHAWAY
B79. "I apologize for calling your wife a bloated warthog, and I bid you good day."
B80. Coca-Cola approached this person, the Godfather of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, about appearing in some television commercials. They changed their mind however, as they felt his skin color was "too white" and not dark enough.
B81. "Korben sweetheart, what was that? It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing! Y'know I got a Show to run here, and it must pop POP POP! So tomorrow from 5 to 7 will you PLEASE act like you have more than a two word vocabulary. It must be green, okay?"
B82. This actress was immortalized in a song that was written and performed by Toto (on their album, Toto IV). The song was a Top 10 hit that went on to win Grammys for 1982: Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Instrumental Arrangement With Vocal. This actress was the girlfriend of a member of the band, Jeff Porcaro.
ROSANNA ARQUETTE
B83. "Fuck Martha Stewart! Martha Stewart can kiss my shiny plastic butt! Here I am, slaving a way over a hot stove, making cookies... making Swedish meatballs, and for what? A man who doesn't appreciate me! For a man that can't even wash one fucking dish! For a man who isn't even a man at all where it counts, if you get my drift! -to Jade- Take it from me honey, plastic is no substitute for a nice hunk of wood!"
B84. This actor was discovered when his older sister, Hejsa, a former trampoline champion, was shopping around for an agent. No one was home to baby-sit him so he went along and it was suggested that he get an agent, himself.
B85. "I cried the whole week of Sam's funeral. Graham says that it won't bring him back. He said that I should start letting go. He's right. Hedy's parents said that for years they tried to explain to her that her sister's death wasn't her fault. She never forgave herself for surviving. So, every day I try to forgive Hedy for killing Sam. Then, I try to do what she couldn't: forgive myself for killing her. I know it can happen to someone who doesn't."
B86. All 4 leads of this classic high school musical where well past high school age. The average age of the 4 was around 28 - but this person was easly the oldest of the 4 and played a high school student when their age was actually 33.
STOCKARD CHANNING
B87. "You're crazy about me, right? And I can understand it. Only this morning, looking in the mirror before shaving, I enjoyed seeing what I saw so much I couldn't tear myself away." [kisses his hand] "Have some, baby?"
JERRY LEWIS?
B88. This actor has played a supernatural being that gave up their immortality and powers to marry a mortal woman in both a television series and a movie.
B89. "Time slows down right before an accident, and I had time to think about things. I thought about what an undertaker had told me once - that your hair keeps growing, for a while anyway, after you die, and then it stops. I thought, 'What keeps it growing? Is it like a plant in soil? What goes out of the soil? The soul? And when does the hair realize that it's gone?'"
B90. This actor died, ironically, while making the picture "Better Than Ever' and his final movie was 'Knocking on Death's Door'.
B91. "I use girls that look like movie stars. Sometimes I employ a plastic surgeon. When the work had been done, that's when you saw us."
DAVID STRATHAIRN
B92. I've often wondered what would happen if F. Scott Fitzgerald was bitten by a radio-active spider.
B93. "Hey, hey, easy kids. Everybody in the car. Boat leaves in two minutes... or perhaps you don't want to see the second largest ball of twine on the face of the earth, which is only four short hours away?"
CHEVY CHASE
B94. In Suzanne Vega's song "Tom's Diner", the singer reads about this actor's death in the paper and sings that "he was no one I had heard of". Clearly Ms. Vega needs to broaden her movie going experiences.
B95. "I couldn't be a ballerina now. I'm too top-heavy. I have a hard enough time balancin' these things now without gettin' on my toes! "
DOLLY PARTON
B96. This actor has appeared in more Robert Altman feature films and television productions than any other actor in movie history.
B97. "Robin is better than the girl of my dreams. She's real."
B98. I heard Gore Vidal and Ulysses speaking in broken English confessing that they were shopaholics - I must be bat $#*! crazy!!!
B99. "You know what your problem is? You are so goddamn bored, you have to *invent* things to bitch about! You don't have a single thing to do on this earth except for your hair! The closet was fine, you just needed something to fill up your useless, nail-polishing, toe-polishing, rich bitch, sun-tanning days!" [From the engine room, the crew, who have heard all of this, start cheering]
KURT RUSSELL
B100. Inherited the mysterious Iffland-Ring from Josef Meinrad, which is given to the most important actor of German speaking theater since 200 years
B101. "I've waited an eternity for this moment there has to be time, is it not ironical my dear husband, you wife an adultress, your mother an adultress, your uncle an adulterer, your closest friend an adulterer, do you not find that amusing dear Nicholas? "
B102. This actress' father is a longtime Wall Street trader who developed his family's multi-million-dollar pasta business, then sold it to pursue funding and development of major studios and independent Hollywood projects. Her mother is a former Rockette and Wall Street analyst, who helped manage her daughter's career. Given her frequent arrests and stints in rehab, maybe it should be mismanaged?
LINDSAY LOHAN?
B103. [to the unsympathetic crowd around Billy's body] "He was sweeping you sons of bitches, he was sweeping!"
TIMOTHY BOTTOMS
B104. This actress played roles in four unrelated movies in which her character was in charge of having heads cut off.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER?
B105. "And at the same time, at the same time as trying to lead a good life, I have to reconcile that with the fact that with the fact that, yes, I have killed people. Not many people. And most of them were not very nice people. Apart from one person." ... "This bloke Danny Aliband's brother. He was just trying to protect his brother. Like you or I would. He was just a lollipop man. But he came at me with a bottle. What are you gonna do? I shot him down."
B106. This actress revived the fashion style created by Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn, when women all over the world started to wear suits and ties; first recognized by the public in her Oscar winning performance.
DIANE KEATON
B107. "What, you still throwing up bricks? What is this, a Masons convention? Wha... clank, clank! I need, like, a welding torch to play in this league! I got an idea... let's just stop right now and gather up all these bricks and let's build a shelter for the homeless so maybe your mother will have a place to live!"
B108. This actress is the first Colombian to be nominated for an Academy Award as well as the first actress ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Performance that was spoke entirely in Spanish throughout the entirety of the film.
CATALINA MORENO
B109. "Do you know how the Orcs first came into being? They were elves once, taken by the dark powers, tortured and mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of life. Now... perfected. My fighting Uruk-Hai. Whom do you serve?"
CHRISTOPHER LEE
B110. At 6'5", this person is the tallest actor ever to have won an Oscar. The tallest actor ever nominated was James Cromwell at 6'7".
TIM ROBBINS?
B111. [holds her hands away from him]" The bed happens to be for the kids, Dusty. When the nights are getting colder, they'll need a *warmer* place to sleep. So the brass bed is for the boys, and the smaller bed is for *Celia*!"
B112. "No one ever thinks they can forget their first love. But we can. "; "I'll tell you something. Seeing you in love reminded me of what it's like. I never thought I could believe in all this a second time."
B113. This actor in an article in Look magazine he related that once while flying over Kansas he correctly diagnosed a pain in his right side as appendicitis. He landed at the nearest airfield and was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. He said he was told that a delay of even a half hour might have resulted in the appendix rupturing. In addition, he conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra at New York's Carnegie Hall (10th March 1958) with his feet! This being a benefit concert, of course.
B114. "Mine's still too hot, I didn't put in any cold milk. I can still see her red nails holding up that cup. After a few sips she said that the tea tasted of almonds. It's the almond cookies, I told her."
JODIE FOSTER
B115. This actor's character could never figure out how Harry Caul made that recording. Oh, and if you need to parallel park a crucifix in NYC, you can ask him for advice.
B116. [about Fred] "Just because we're going TO Mars, we gotta take along a guy FROM Mars?"
B117. He participated in what is reported to be longest fencing duel ever to be filmed as well as the most exciting one ever to take place in a theater. Unfortunately, this actor ended up on the losing end of duel.
BASIL RATHBONE?
B118. [When asked by his dad if he was going to keep his slaves or let them go free] "You know I don't have any slaves, Pa."
B119. At age 10, this actor's agent advised him to change his name to a more American-friendly Lenny Williams. Needless to say, he did not follow that advice. Even with his 'non-American-friendly name' he managed to have been nominated for 31 different awards (4 Academy Awards, 3 BAFTA Awards, 6 Critic's Choice Awards, 10 Golden Globe Awards, and 8 Screen Actors Guild Awards) but has only won 2 Golden Globes.
LEONARDO DI CAPRIO?
B210. "We got this one kid, Mongo... He's got a forehead like a drive-in movie theatre, but he's a good ship. So we don't bust his chops too much. So, one day Mongo gets out of his cage..."
B121. He was the devil referenced in an early clue in this list.
WILLIAM HURT
B122. "We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."
ROBIN WILLIAMS
B123. "Uh, God, I'm so sorry. Yes, North American. But I can't help noticing that when people run to freedom they tend to wash up on North American shores. This country is till the best that we've been able to do in the whole fucking history of the planet"
List C - Actors
C1. This Aussie actor and dancer started following in John Travolta's footsteps by playing Doody in the West End (London) production of Grease. Travolta played the same role on stage. Followed up with the role of Tony Manero in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever at the London Palladium. He has joking said the he would also play the lead in musical version of "The Boy In The Plastic Bubble".
C2. [singing] "I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad / Carry you around when your arthritis is bad / All I wanna do is grow old with you. / I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches / build you a fire if the furnace breaks / Oh it could be so nice, growin old with you. / I'll miss you, kiss you, give you my coat when you are cold. / Need you, feed you, I'll even let you hold the remote control. / So let me do the dishes in the kitchen sink / Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink. / Oh I could be the man to grow old with you. / I wanna grow old with you."
ADAM SANDLER
C3. This actor was rejected repeatedly by studio heads while auditioning for the role that turned out to be a star-making role for him. The director fought for him. This film was shot briskly because both the director and the leading actor were in constant fear of being fired. It turned out to be a breakthrough picture for the director as well. Did I neglect to mention that this actor also studied under Frank's favoriate actor?
AL PACINO
C4. "I want to say to Prime Minister MacDonald: Surrender her pronto, or we'll level Toronto."
C5. As president of the U. S. it took him several minutes to complete a single swing of his golf club. No wonder the switched him out.
C6. "You know, every now and then, I think you might like to hear something from us nice and easy. But there's just one thing: we never, ever do nothing nice and easy, we always do it nice and rough. So we're gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy, and then we're gonna do the finish rough."
ANGELA BASSETT
C7. This actress who recently passed away should have kept her mouth shut.
C8. "You will be king of Egypt, and I will be your footstool!"
C9. She wasn't born on the 4th of July, she was born on December 12, 1967 in Paterson, New Jersey.
C10. "Good evening. Well, brother has been killing brother since Cain and Abel, yet even I didn't see that coming. I was as blindsided as poor old Henry down there. And apparently, the authorities shared my naïveté. In other words, they believed the young man's story. That Henry fell, hit his head on a stone and died of smoke asphyxiation. On the other hand, if they hadn't believed him, Ed Gein would never have had the opportunity to commit those heinous crimes for which he became most famous. And we, of course, well we wouldn't have our little movie, would we?"
ANTHONY HOPKINS
C11. Although often cast as New York tough guys, few people know that he was actually born and raised in Australia. He has said that the only internationally successful Australian actor at the time he began acting was Mel Gibson, who had lost his Australian accent, so he did the same. Today, looking at all the hot young Australian actors who have kept their native accents but can use other dialects in their films, he says he regrets having dropped his accent.
ANTHONY LA PAGLIA
C12. "Leave him alone, all right? He's a real special kid and, and I have high hopes for him and... I think if he works really hard, he can get an academic scholarship to Wabash College and can get out of this place."
BARBARA HERSHEY
C13. Although she has many Tony nominations and two wins, she is the only actress to not win a Tony Award for a revival of the musical "Gypsy".
BERNADETTE PETERS
C14. "I'll tell you why! Cause you were scared, if you'd talk, they'll talk too. You were scared you'd get the horse laugh... like I'm giving ya now! HA HA HA HA HA HA! Just a punk with a crippled hand! HA HA HA HA HA..."
BETTY FIELD
C15. You might say that this actor really had Ned Beatty's back.
BILL MCKINNEY
C16. "P-p-p-please d-d-don't tell my m-m-m-mother."
B-B-B-BRAD D-D-DOURIF
C17. Photographer John Rutter was ordered to stand trial for attempted extortion, attempted grand theft, perjury, and forgery after trying to blackmail this actress with topless shots he had of her from a 1992 shoot.
C18. [responding to being told that the American thing is to marry a rich widow] "We used to say, a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store."
CAMPBELL SCOTT
C19. She turned down the role of Vin Diesel's love interest in the box-office hit The Pacifier to take a small but unforgettably sexy role in Sin City because she had enjoyed working with director Robert Rodriguez in the three "Spy Kids" films.
CARLA GUGINO?
C20. "You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how."
C21. Admitted in a 2006 interview on Late Show with David Letterman that the surly attitude he adopts on talk shows is an act he developed in order to be a more interesting guest. According to this actor, he was scheduled to make his first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1973, and was to be in the segment immediately following Diana Ross performing a medley of her hits. Realizing that he would bomb if he followed her as himself, he adopted this churlish character who has little patience for the questions of the host. Carson loved it and it became his trademark.
C22. "Melinda had a reputation for being Postmodern in bed."
C23. This actress was at the Viper Room the night River Phoenix collapsed on the sidewalk outside of the club. She witnessed the seizure induced by a drug Phoenix had in his system and later re-enacted the seizure at an anti-drugs dance piece. In addition, her garage was the birthplace of The Pussycat Dolls.
C24. "Oh, Lord of the tempest and the thunder, strike down this sinner, as thou did thine enemies of old in the days of the Pharaohs! Let him know the terror of thy sword! Let his soul, for all eternity, writhe in anguish and damnation!"
CLAUDE AKINS
C25. If you need to race huskeys or rats - he is the man for you.
C26. "Now I know this is all new to ya, but remember something, we're all new. This is not an ancient industry. This whole place here is built around speed. Start the story, start the chase. I get bored easy." … "But don't go thinking we sacrifice quality. I never make more than two motion pictures a week, but I'll spend up to a thousand dollars on each of 'em if I have to."
DAN AYKROYD
C27. One of my my favorite lines in all of moviedom is ts this line that refers to the character played by this actress: "I never knew fear until I kissed Becky."
DANA WYNTER
C28. "Roger, I used to be just like you. But look at me now, I'm awesome! I run this entire place. I'm dating TWO Asian chicks!"
C29. You may have heard this actor but not seen him in such movies as: Lassiter, Flash Gordon, Superman, The Revenge of the Pink Panther, Murder on the Orient Express, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, and Zardoz
C30. "The truth is male models have been assassinating world leaders for over 200 years. Abe Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery, right? Well, who do you think made the silk stockings and powdered wigs worn by our early leaders?"
C31. In 2010, film critic David Thomson wrote in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film": "With his drooping chin and pouty lips, his quaff of hair and dithery manner, <this actor> seems like a refugee from Thirties theatre - or an incipient sneeze looking for a vacant nose".
HUGH GRANT?
C32. "I don't know. There's always a way to blow up explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off. But aren't you forgetting something? The lady. As I see it we have three choices. One we can leave her here but there's no guarantee she won't be found, and in her case they won't need a truth drug. Two, we can take her with us, but that would make things worse than they are already. And three... well, that's Andrea's choice, remember?"
C33. She appears on film in the audience reacting to the show within the show in three films: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, A Mighty Wind, and Waiting for Guffman. in all three films she is seated in the right-hand side of the audience.
C34. "You know something, you ain't nothing special. You got no manners, you treat woman like whores and if you ask me you got no chance of being no officer."
DEBRA WINGER
C35. James Dean learned he had an interest in photography when they worked together, and encouraged him to pursue it as an alternative to just being an actor. This actor published a book of photos in the late 1980s, including pictures of stars he had known, and thanked Dean.
DENNIS HOPPER?
C36. "But you've got your projects, haven't you? You're going to be a director. You'll sit in your little canvas chair polishing your balls. "Thank God I got rid of that hag I had to screw. What was her name? The one who paid for everything! The one who bought me a fucking house!"."
DIANE LANE
C37. Madonna based her book 'Sex' on a fictional character named after this actress' first name, inspired by her and her character in L'Atalante.
C38. "I'm not. I'm lucky. I feel lucky because it's wrong, Danny. It's wrong and it was eating me up, it was going to kill me. And I kept asking myself all the time, how did I buy into this shit? It was because I was pissed off, and nothing I ever did ever took that feeling away. I killed two guys, Danny, I killed them. And it didn't make me feel any different. It just got me more lost and I'm tired of being pissed off, Danny. I'm just tired of it."
EDWARD NORTON
C39. This actress' father was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. In a memorable role she wasn't so lucky - after informing a Nazi officer that they were building the barracks incorrectly, she was shot and then they subsequently took her advice.
ACTRESS FROM SCHINDLER’S LIST?
C40. "It happened again. David, the girl is absolutely useless. You've gotta get me someone who knows what she is doing. Excuse me. I'm not getting any of my mail, nothing has been filed. Ever since she got engaged, my life has been a disaster." ... "She spent the last three months writing down her married name. "Mrs. Judy Hicks", "Mrs. Donald Hicks"; "Mrs. Judy Mitchellson Hicks", sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes without a hyphen. Sometimes, she spells the hyphen."
ELIZABETH PERKINS
C41. She is the only woman who has won the Best Actress Oscar for a performance directed by her spouse.
FRANCES MACDORMAND
C42. "My true disability is not having to be in a wheel chair. It's having to be without her."
C43. He was offered a seven-movie deal by the Bond producers, but quit the role because he felt that the tuxedo-clad Bond would die out in the new hippie culture that had permeated society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was wrong.
C44. "Oh. My jewel case. It's bomb proofed, the insurance people insisted upon it. Oh. My idea of heaven is never to have to pack or unpack. Why didn't I think of that before. Here. Here. You know what? The hell with the jewelry let's put my book in here. Thank you. Here you are my darlings, it's all yours - I never wanted to have the damn thing published when I was alive anyway."
GLORIA SWANSON
C45. This actress played a former rock-star groupie 2 years after her real-life daughter played a young rock-star groupie. In real-life her husband andthe father of the aforementioned daughter was a pop-musician.
GOLDIE HAWN
C46. "I always knew you were alive, I knew it. Everybody said that I had to let you go. I love you. You're the love of my life."
C47. For over 20 years this actor was the father-in-law of actor Edward James Olmos.
C48. "The name's Tong, James Tong."
C49. Considering he is the youngest answer in this quiz, currently at just 11 years old - you might not be so surprised then that he would show up in your trick-or-treat bag as a smaller version of your favorite candy.
C50. "Actually, I believe it goes: Never con a con-man, especially one who's better than you are."
JAMES WOODS
C51. She was one of Rhapsody's two mommies.
C52. "... does the good of the many out weigh the good of the one?"
[the person responds that they would accept that as an axiom]
"Then you stand here alive because of a mistake made by your flawed, feeling, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because they believed that the good of the one - you - was more important to them."
JANE WYATT
C53. He made sure that Plato's run to escape from Atlantis got him with striking range of the land of the free.
C54. "I can smell it. You worked so hard for that book. You sacrificed so much, so many men. More than you could spare. Now, all those people who were too scared to even say your name, they're downstairs, tearing up the bar right now, did you know that? And there's no one there to stop them. And you're *feverish.* I can't imagine what it must feel like to have what you want so close, and it might as well be a million miles away."
C55. This actress' father died in a helicopter accident 3 weeks prior to the US release of her first movie - oh and that movie is also the answer to another clue in this quiz.
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH?
C56. "Why would he try to run you over? Why did he make coleslaw on Helen's head? He's fucking with us! He's just out there, and he's watching and waiting!" … "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, HUH? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOOOOORRRR?"
C57. Are we not men? This actress did not tell her husband that she wanted a divorce. She waited until after he left to work on The Island of Dr. Moreau to file the divorce papers. He heard the news while watching CNN in a hotel room. He said finding out about if, especially like that, hurt him greatly.
C58. "But isn't that what's wrong with the world today? People are just looking for the easy way out, like their problems are gonna go away?Problems just don't go, Flo! You know? So the question here is; what are we going to do with our little problem child? I'll tell you what we are going to do. Something that no parent has ever done for him before. We're gonna love him, Flo."
C59. He found that it's groovy to hide in a movie pretends he's Fellini and Antonioni and also his countryman Roman Polanski all rolled into one.
C60. "Okay, not fired. But tomorrow morning, you will let me change your socks."
C61. This actor almost didn't get the play the role on Broadway that he created for the London production of a hit stage musical because of an Actor's Equity rule regarding racial casting issues.
JONATHAN PRYCE
C62. "We're growing. Be as big as San Francisco in a few years, and just as sophisticated. "
C63. No, this person is not a periodontist who drives a Chrysler Lebaron convertible.
C64. "Hey, man, I was doing some research for next year and I think I figured out which website I wanna subscribe to. The Vag-Tastic Voyage."
C65. If you are busy fighting aliens and trying to get back to Earth, you might want the help of this actor, who was a huge fan of the show and can guide you safely through your troubles - as long as he doesn't have to stop what he is doing to take out the garbage.
C66. "The only way you'll ever end up lying next to me, Max, is if we're run down by the same car."
C67. If a child is missing at the midnight hour, you should make a final appeal to the innocent that they don't talk to strangers.
C68. "Oh, you were not what was desired, but that makes you no less dear to me. A boy would have been the Son of France, but you, Marie Thérèse, shall be mine."
C69. She wasn't ready for either prime time nor Junior Healy.
C70. "Their daddy's a king. And a king knows what to do and *does* it. Even when it's hard. And their daddy will do whatever he has to for those he loves. And that's all that matters. Because everyone is weak, Jimmy. Everyone but us. We will never be weak. And you, you could rule this town. And after Jimmy, let's take the girls down to the parade. Katie would like that."
C71. Did he discover Vinland or did Hollywood discover him?
LEIF ERICKSEN
C72. "Okay. Their previous MO was to offer women from the emerging East-European countries like Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria jobs in the west as maids and nannies. Once they smuggled them in, they'd addict them to drugs and turn them into prostitutes. Lately, however, they've decided that it's more economical just to kidnap traveling young women. Saves on transportation costs."
C73. This person produced the album Metal Machine Music in response to RCA Records' demands for a quick follow-up to his top-ten LP Sally Can't Dance. The hour-plus of electronic noise was almost buried as a classical release, but instead was promoted as a pop album. The resulting backlash nearly ruined the label and this person's reputation; both later issued apologies, while the album remains a musical enigma.
C74. "I don't have to tell her? Your mother and I are old friends. You know that."
LOUISE FLETCHER
C75. If you want a maid you don't have to pay for, head over to the Double R Diner and contact this waitress.
C76. [proffering cigar to Inga, in parody Swedish] "Phalliken symbolsk?"
NATHAN LANE
C77. In his breakout role as an actor, his most important asset was a prosthetic.
MARK WAHLBERG?
C78. "Look, if you cut my head off it'll start to putrify!"
C79. This actress' mother recently stated that the miniature doll given to this actress was not intended to be a prank by the director. He merely wanted to give her a beautiful doll with her mother's image, but it happened that the doll was in a wooden box. When she received the gift, she freaked out and became upset thinking that it was indeed meant to be her mother in a coffin.
MELANIE GRIFFITH
C80. "I woke up this morning, kept thinking about Billy and I was thinking about him waking up in his room with his little clouds all around that I painted and I thought I should have painted clouds downtown because then he would think that he was waking up at home. I came here to take my son home. And I realized he already is home."
MERYL STREEP
C81. Her godparents were gossip columnist Louella Parsons and famed director George Cukor.
MIA FARROW
C82. "Okay, James, I wish you hadn't shot my girlfriend's dog. Even though Poe and I weren't exactly what you'd call simpatico, that's no reason he should've taken two in the chest."
C83. He was a camera, musically speaking that is.
MICHAEL YORK
C84. She attended the Academy of Music, Tel Aviv and studied acting at the Beit Zvi Drama School. Has established her career as a stage and screen actress, screenwriter and director and is married to Moshé Mizrahi.
NATALIE PORTMAN?
C85. "I don't wanna find a little kid after they've been abused for three days.", "They told me what happened. I'm proud of you. That man killed a child. He had no right to live."
C86. There was a study done of the faces of beautiful women, quantifying the ratio of the width of the mouth to the width of the nose, attempting to find the perfect proportions for the perfect face of feminine beauty (the ratio turns out to be something like 1.7). The movie star with the most perfect proportions for feminine facial beauty, based on this measure, turns out to be this actress.
C87. "You're staying home. The sun is shining but it's raining."
C88. Heaven or Vegas? When she final was reunited with her husband after his strange trip home from prison - it was both.
C89. "What has two thumbs and likes blowjobs?" [Points to himself with both thumbs] "This guy!"
C90. Is highly conscious of avoiding excessive sun exposure, and is rarely seen during her downtime without a hat, sunglasses and wearing sunscreen. No wonder she spent what seemed spending half of her time in a movie shutting blinds and drapes to keep the sun out.
C91. "That would be like an ambulance calling for an ambulance, isn't it?"
C92. Took a break from acting during which time he built furniture and created large stuffed-animal pillows for Salvadore Dali. His is also a brother-in-law of Brigitte Bardot.
C93. "Listen to me. Forests burn 'cos they have to. And oceans, they go up and down 'cos they have to. I don't think we're that different. If you want to get through this you have to start seeing it for what it is. It's something we do all the time because we're good at it. And we're good at it because we're used to it. And we're used to it because we do it all the time."
C94. Did he try to make a monkey out of President Nixon? I don't know about that but I do know he was not Sparticus.
C95. "Look at it this way. A man takes a job, you know? And that job - I mean, like that - That becomes what he is. You know, like - You do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for thirteen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become - You get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. People are born, y'know? I envy you, your youth. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know."
PETER BOYLE
C96. Carrie Fisher said in an interview that doing her scenes with him in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope were difficult for two reasons: she thought the lines were ridiculous and she found this actor to be so polite and charming off camera that it was hard to project the sense of disdain that her character, Princess Leia Organa, held for his character.
PETER CUSHING? HARRISON FORD?
C97. "Are you interested in joining? The benefits are terrific. The trick is not to get killed. That's really the key to the benefit program."
C98. He hid money in a doll and messages in chess pieces.
C99. "Hey, I'm not dumb! You don't even know me and you call me dumb. Wanna know what's dumb? The last eight covers in a row you did on Elvis in the army, with the badges? That's dumb. And that's boring."
RAY SHARKEY
C100. Both this actor and Harry Ditson have portrayed real-life newscaster Don Hollenbeck
C101. "You're the most beautiful, exciting thing I've ever seen in my life and I don't know anything about you."
RICHARD DREYFUSS
C102. He is the most recent incarnation of the first duel idenity hero - the dim-witted, foppish playboy who transforms into a sword-wielding hero fighting for justice.
C103. "Lizard & onions. Want half?"
C104. Growing up in the Little Italy section of New York City, his nickname was "Bobby Milk" because he was so thin and as pale as milk.
ROBERT DENIRO?
C105. "What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust. A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams... FOR WHAT? So you can swim and dance and play."
ROD TAYLOR
C106. The age difference between this actress and Halle Berry in Die Another Day - 12 years and 5 months - is the greatest age difference between two Bond girls in one film since Alison Doody and Grace Jones - a difference of 18 years - in A View to a Kill.
C107. "You should be locked up in that looney bin on Staten Island that Geraldo Rivera is always exposing!"
C108. He appeared in sequels (but not in the original - and not neccessarly the first sequel) of such horror movies Holloween, Final Destination and The Ring.
C109. "I want you to burn this Judas of a body. I don't want to be buried. I've spent enough time lying down. Burn it."
C110. I'm surprised she wasn't able to predict that a piece of 17th century plaster would fall on her head in 2006, causing a stroke. She spent time in physical and speech therapy, learning how to walk and remaster her speaking skills.
C111. "Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Do you see a little Asian child with a blank expression on his face sitting outside on a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it? No? Well, that's what you see at a toy store. And you must think you're in a toy store, because you're here shopping for an infant named Jeb."
C112. At the 2005 SAG awards, this actress presented the Actor for actress in a TV comedy -somone who is an answer in this list won the award. A year later at the 2006 Golden Globes, the receiver of the SAG award presented the award for best supporting actress on TV - this actress won that award and later said it was good to see her again!
C113. "'Fatty who likes golf and beer.' Gee, Mary, where are you gonna find a gem like that?"
C114. Hmmm, when she was young she claimed she didn't know how to swim, consequently she fell out of a boat (when pregnant) and drowned. Yet somehow when she was much older she claimed she was a champion swimmer - and proved it by swimming underwater to rescue a fellow passenger thus saving the lives of severel people - but that feat would prove to much for her and again she died in a watery grave.
SHELLEY WINTERS
C115. "I wouldn't accuse you of dishonesty! I accuse you of being from another planet, but an honest planet!"
STEVE GUTTENBERG
C116. A little blue bird told me that this child actor was born in Greenford, Middlesex, England in 1966 and once was the special guest on 'The Carol Burnett Show'.
C117. [singing] "Budweiser you created a monster / and they call him Drinkenstein / And the tavern down the street is the labba-tor-eye-ee / where he makes the transformation all the time / And a stein of Dr. Buuuud is a pint of monster blood / and it does effect me different every time / Budweiser you created a monster / and they call me Drinkenstein / And they call me Drinkenstein / I'm Drinkenstein! / I'm Drinkenstein!"
C118. Before becoming an actor, this person was an executive director and then senior director of the news special events at ABC, he then became an executive producer for the "Gillette Cavalcade of Sports," where he gave Howard Cosell his first job. He also was friends with actor John Aniston and named godfather of Jennifer Aniston.
TELLY SAVALAS
C119. I have no direct, first-hand knowledge if they are either real or spectacular.
TERI HATCHER
C120. "You've seen plywood sets that look like the inside. Our beryllium sphere is... is wire with plaster around it. And our digital conveyor is... it's Christmas tree lights. It's a decoration. It's all fake. Just like me."
TIM ALLEN
C121. His last name is the same as the first name of his co-star in probably the biggest film he's been a major character in, and that is the truth, no lie.
C122. "You were shy? After the car, and the elevator, and the bedroom, and on top of the refrigerator, you were shy?"
TOM HANKS
C123. Who would have guessed that James Baker was really both Gen. Lord Charles Cornwallis and Benjamin Franklin!
C124. "We've no time to sit and dither, / While her withers wither with her-- / And no one keeps a cow for a friend!"
C125. According to widely published reports from the late 1940s, the Sultan of Morocco declared her beauty to be proof of the existence of God.
VIRGINIA MAYO? HEDY LAMARR?
C126. "We don't care how much it costs, just how much it makes. If it costs too much, we charge a penny more. Would you pay more to save a fish who thinks?"
C127. She is one of only 10 individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award (counting Daytime Emmy Awards), and probably the only one who was a former heroin addict.
C128. "It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?"
WILL SMITH
C129. Well, if it doesn't jell, it isn't aspic, and this ain't jellin'!' - except it wasn't aspic - at least not when this actor spoke his version of this line.
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:55 am
by jarnon
Finally, I know one that hasn't been answered yet.
C102. He is the most recent incarnation of the first duel idenity hero - the dim-witted, foppish playboy who transforms into a sword-wielding hero fighting for justice.
ANTONIO BANDERAS
Hope it's OK that he was already used for another clue. If not, then it could be (looking up the actor) SETH ROGEN for Green Hornet. But neither of these fit the alphabetical pattern. Am I missing something?
Re: The Keep Your Friends Close Movie Game
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:18 am
by macrae1234
B52. This person who had been nominated for the Oscar fairly early in his film career but hadn't won always said if he ever won he would say “I have 2 things I would like to say, the first thing is I've always hated this award and everything it ever stood for. The second thing I want to say is that this is the happiest moment of my life.”, when he actually did win, 40 years after his first nomination, he actually did not give that speech.
HENRY FONDA?
I think this is actually JACK PALANCE.
Jane accepted Henry's Oscar he was too ill to be there and passed away about 6 months later