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Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:50 am
by franktangredi
Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Identify the 80 actors in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 32 groups of three according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Twelve actors will be used twice and two will be used three times.
I’m allowing one variable, and only one, in the creation of the triples. You’ll see.
1. An editorial in the Chicago Tribune complained that this actor was responsible for the "effeminization of the American male." The actor responded by challenging the writer to a boxing match. Subsequently, the actor fought – and beat – another writer from the same paper.
2. “All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years!”
3. In a big-budget 1965 comedy, this French actor engaged in a highly unusual duel with Goldfinger.
4. “Say, mister, will you stake a fellow American to a meal?”
5. She played the title role in a movie and took the title song from that movie all the way to #1 on the Billboard Top 100. Nine years later, she played the title role in a movie about someone else who took a song to #1 on the Billboard Top 100. Got that?
6. “There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.”
7. He recently became the fourth Oscar-winning actor ever to have been married to an Oscar-winning actress.
8. “Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh, thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another. You like strawberries, I hate ice-skating, you cry at sad films, I am allergic to pollen. What is the point of different tastes, different preferences, if not, to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently? And if we can say that about one another, then why can't we say the same thing for brains built of copper and wire, steel?”
9. He was the first actor to reprise the role that won him an Oscar.
10. “Mom died when I was three, and I suppose Dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson. Dad was a Yankees fan then, so of course I rooted for Brooklyn. But in '58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about. We did. And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find. This, of course, drove him right up the wall, which I suppose was the point.”
11. The resume of this Italian beauty includes films directed by Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Werner Herzog, and Richard Brooks.
12. “I wish, I wish/I wish I were a fish/’Causes fishes have a better life than people.”
13. One of Hollywood’s most active activists, she has been arrested for her roles in several protests – including one in which she chained herself to a walnut tree for three weeks.
14. “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body. Not my obedience!”
15. Cartoonist Milton Caniff claimed that he modeled the Dragon Lady after this actress.
16. “Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see. You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known.”
17. In 2006, he officially announced that he no longer wanted to be known by the name that had brought him fame in his pre-film career, and that he now considered himself an actor exclusively.
18. “I did it for my old man. I tortured this poor kid because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about how when he was in school and all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right? So I'm sitting in the locker room and I'm taping up my knee, and Larry's undressing a couple lockers down from me. And he's kinda, he's kinda skinny. Weak. And I started thinkin' about my father, and his attitude about, about weakness. And the next thing I knew, I jumped on top of him and started whaling on him. And my friends, they just laughed and cheered me on. And afterwards, when I'm sitting in Vernon's office, all I could think about was Larry's father and Larry having to go home and explain what happened to him. And the humiliation - the f**king humiliation he must have felt. It must have been unreal. I mean, how... how do you apologize for something like that? There's no way. It's all because of me and my old man. God, I f**king hate him. He's like this mindless machine that I can't even relate to anymore.”
19. It is now common knowledge that this Hollywood star had a sexual relationship with Jimmy Olson.
20. “Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me.”
21. This British actor – who died this past January at the age of 82 – is one of a handful of people to have appeared in both the Dr. Who and Star Trek franchises.
22. “You know Mr. Gorbachev, the guy that ran Russia for so long? I am a firm believer that he would still be in power today if he had had that ugly purple thing taken off his head.”
23. In 1999, this star stretched his considerable muscles in a different direction by taking on a role previously played by Rex Harrison and Yul Brynner.
24. “Tell mama ... tell mama all.”
25. He received his only Oscar nomination for a musical role that he had created on the London stage, but he didn’t play the role on Broadway until a revival more than a decade later.
26. “All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I f**k like you wanna f**k, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.”
27. In 1945, this leading man of B-movies took on a comedic role that had earlier been played by Fatty Arbuckle and would later be played by Richard Pryor. (No, you read that right.)
28. “Wait a minute! Wait. I'm having a thought. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm gonna have a thought. It's coming... It's gone.”
29. When Alfred Hitchcock couldn’t coax Greta Garbo out of retirement for one of his thrillers, he cast this Italian actress instead. However, she is best known for a different thriller that she made for a different British director.
30. “I crap bigger than you!”
31. She broke down in tears when Nelson Mandela hugged her and congratulated her for her Oscar win.
32. “God does not play dice with the universe, but I will”
33. In 1985, he gave birth. (On film.) (It was science fiction, that’s how.)
34. “I'm an adult. I want to have fun. I want to go to Liverpool and discover the Beatles.”
35. The brother of an Oscar-winning actor, one of his last gigs was supplying the voice of a stalwart collie in a Disney animated classic.
36. “Where’s your Moses now?”
37. She was married eight times to seven men; her first husband was married eight times to eight women.
38. “You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.”
39. This actor – who was married one time to one woman – died on his 57th wedding anniversary
40. “Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri?”
41. When she was sixteen, she played a role that had previously been played onscreen by – among others – Dorothy Cumming, Siobhan McKenna, Dorothy McGuire, and Verna Bloom.
42. “Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It's all bad. People have forgotten what life is all about. They've forgotten what it is to be alive. They need to be reminded. They need to be reminded of what they have and what they can lose. What I feel is the joy of life, the gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life!”
43. In a 1952 biopic, he played the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season.
44. “It must have been hard on your mother, not having any children.”
45. In a 1952 biopic, he played the pitcher who still holds the National League record for the most career shutouts.
46. “Gentlemen, I address you not as judge and jury, but as a fellow American male. The crime that you have just seen Harold Lampson commit in his imagination I have been accused of committing in reality. Too long has the American man allowed himself to be bullied, coddled, and mothered, and tyrannized, and in general meant to feel like a feeble-minded idiot by the female of the species. Do you realize the power that you have in your hand here today? If one man - just one man - can stick his wife in the goop from the gloppitta-gloppitta machine, and get away with it! Whoa-ho-ho, boy, we've got it made. We have got it made. All of us.”
47. He has appeared in every single feature film made by a certain director – a total of seventeen in all.
48. “I hate to say it, Chester, but maybe we need to cut back on the shibbying.”
49. His career as a stand-up comic got a boost when Anne Murray saw him on the Tonight show and hired him as her opening act.
50. “If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain.”
51. He was the most recent British actor to receive a knighthood.
52. “A plague on you. A plague on the whole stinking lot of ya, without morals or laws. And all you whores got no laws. You got no honor. It's no wonder you all emigrated to America, because they wouldn't have you in England. You're a lot of savages, that's what you all are. A bunch of bloody savages. A plague on you. I'll be back.”
53. He is younger than his actor brother Tim, but older than his actor brother Sam.
54. “This is all wrong. I don't know what it is. But when I kiss you, it's like I'm kissing my brother.”
55. She was not the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical, but she was the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical that was not originally played on Broadway by Chita Rivera.
56. “We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper.”
57. He remains the youngest male actor ever to win a supporting Oscar.
58. “I am Carrot Top: confident, clever, capable of running his life and yours, and everybody else's. And I'm Golo the Giant: cowardly, stupid, longing to be loved, clumsy and in need of comforting. And I'm Marguerite too: vain, jealous, obsessed with self, looking at my face in the mirror - are my teeth nice? Is my hair growing thin? And I'm Reynaldo: the thief, the opportunist, full of compromise and lies like any other man. I have in me all these things.”
59. This character actress’s onscreen children included Paul Newman, George Segal, Gene Hackman, and Diane Keaton.
60. “According to the map, we've only gone four inches.”
61. People magazine once described this cult star as “the Goddess of Gross” and “a Miss Piggy for the blissfully depraved.”
62. “Who's that?”
“ Are you kidding? Ricky Nelson!”
“Oh, your boyfriend.”
“I wish he was! You mean you've never heard of him? Where do ya come from? Outer space?”
63. He has a master’s degree in chemical engineering and a black belt in karate, and worked as a bodyguard and bouncer before turning to the movies.
64. “Yes, some Germans will die, and yes, it will ruin the evening, and yes, Goebbels will be very, very, very mad at you for what you've done to his big night... but you won't get Hitler, you won't get Goebbels, you won't get Göring, and you won't get Bormann. And you need all four to win the war.”
65. His most acclaimed role has been as a real-life adventurer who died of starvation at the age of 24.
66. “What the cops never figured out, and what I know now, was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody. Anybody.”
67. This Wyoming-born “Venezuelan Volcano” was nominated for a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Screen Name. (Other nominees included Joy Bang, Lash Larue, and eventual winner Sleep ‘n’ Eat.)
68. “Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was sixteen.”
69. In his last film, at the age of 88, he played the father of an actor in one of the previous clues (who was 70 at the time.)
70. “Sure you got drunk. You have the best excuse in the world for losing; no trouble losing when you got a good excuse. Winning, that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You'll drop that load too when you got an excuse. All you gotta do is learn to feel sorry for yourself. One of the best indoor sports, feeling sorry for yourself. A sport enjoyed by all, especially the born losers.”
71. On screen, she has portrayed characters created by Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, Henry James, Victor Hugo, and William Shakespeare.
72. “You know, I don't want to spoil the party, but does anyone notice that we're stuck in the middle of the ocean on this couch? Do you know what kind of sunburn I'm going to get? None, 'cause I'm covered in latex, but you guys are going to get seriously fried. I mean it's not like a – like a big gigantic ship is just going to come out of nowhere and save us, by gosh.”
73. She made a notable film debut at the age of 12 under the direction of the man who gave us La Femme Nikita.
74. “This crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again.”
75. While in dramatic school, he once played Romeo to Judy Davis’s Juliet.
76. “Normally, both your asses would be dead as f**king fried chicken, but you happen to pull this s**t while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you.”
77. He set an Oscar record in 1978 which was tied in 1983 and surpassed in 2007 by a former co-star.
78. “Go into the office, and make out a check, for ‘cash,’ for the sum of $5,000. Then carefully, but carefully Hilary, remove absolutely everything that might subsequently remind me that you had ever been there, including that yellow thing with the blue bulbs which you have such an affection for. Then take the check for $5,000, which I feel you deserve, and get - permanently - lost.”
79. In 2002, TV Guide ranked him #1 male on their listing of the Sexiest TV Stars of All Time. (The distaff honor went to Diana Rigg.)
80. “That's why I'm sitting here with you. Because you remind me of you. Your eyes, your throat, your lips! Everything about you reminds me of you. Except you. How do you account for that?”
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:22 am
by earendel
franktangredi wrote:Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Identify the 80 actors in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 32 groups of three according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Twelve actors will be used twice and two will be used three times.
I’m allowing one variable, and only one, in the creation of the triples. You’ll see.
franktangredi wrote:36. “Where’s your Moses now?”
EDWARD G. ROBINSON from "The Ten Commandments"
franktangredi wrote:38. “You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.”
DAVID PROWSE (the actor in the costume) or JAMES EARL JONES (who did the vocal lines)
franktangredi wrote:54. “This is all wrong. I don't know what it is. But when I kiss you, it's like I'm kissing my brother.”
LEA THOMPSON
franktangredi wrote:56. “We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper.”
RAUL JULIA
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:50 am
by silverscreenselect
Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
3. In a big-budget 1965 comedy, this French actor engaged in a highly unusual duel with Goldfinger.
JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL
7. He recently became the fourth Oscar-winning actor ever to have been married to an Oscar-winning actress.
JAVIER BARDEM?
11. The resume of this Italian beauty includes films directed by Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Werner Herzog, and Richard Brooks.
CLAUDIA CARDINALE
15. Cartoonist Milton Caniff claimed that he modeled the Dragon Lady after this actress.
BETTE DAVIS
23. In 1999, this star stretched his considerable muscles in a different direction by taking on a role previously played by Rex Harrison and Yul Brynner.
CHOW YUN FAT
27. In 1945, this leading man of B-movies took on a comedic role that had earlier been played by Fatty Arbuckle and would later be played by Richard Pryor. (No, you read that right.)
DENNIS O'KEEFE
29. When Alfred Hitchcock couldn’t coax Greta Garbo out of retirement for one of his thrillers, he cast this Italian actress instead. However, she is best known for a different thriller that she made for a different British director.
ALIDA VALLI
43. In a 1952 biopic, he played the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season.
45. In a 1952 biopic, he played the pitcher who still holds the National League record for the most career shutouts.
One of these has to be Ronald Reagan as Grover Cleveland Alexander
53. He is younger than his actor brother Tim, but older than his actor brother Sam.
Joseph Bottoms?
57. He remains the youngest male actor ever to win a supporting Oscar.
Timothy Hutton
63. He has a master’s degree in chemical engineering and a black belt in karate, and worked as a bodyguard and bouncer before turning to the movies.
Dolph Lundgren
64. “Yes, some Germans will die, and yes, it will ruin the evening, and yes, Goebbels will be very, very, very mad at you for what you've done to his big night... but you won't get Hitler, you won't get Goebbels, you won't get Göring, and you won't get Bormann. And you need all four to win the war.”
Brad Pitt
65. His most acclaimed role has been as a real-life adventurer who died of starvation at the age of 24.
Emile Hirsch
68. “Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was sixteen.”
Leonardo Di Caprio
69. In his last film, at the age of 88, he played the father of an actor in one of the previous clues (who was 70 at the time.)
Burgess Meredith (which would make one of the other answers Jack Lemmon)
73. She made a notable film debut at the age of 12 under the direction of the man who gave us La Femme Nikita.
Natalie Portman
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:52 am
by ne1410s
#6. Morgan Freeman
#30. Jack Palance
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:10 am
by jarnon
12. Don Knotts
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:41 am
by Bob78164
76. Samuel L. Jackson. --Bob
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:19 am
by plasticene
I'm not sure of any of these, but they seem like reasonable guesses.
10. “Mom died when I was three, and I suppose Dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson. Dad was a Yankees fan then, so of course I rooted for Brooklyn. But in '58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about. We did. And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find. This, of course, drove him right up the wall, which I suppose was the point.”
KEVIN COSTNER
13. One of Hollywood’s most active activists, she has been arrested for her roles in several protests – including one in which she chained herself to a walnut tree for three weeks.
DARYL HANNAH
17. In 2006, he officially announced that he no longer wanted to be known by the name that had brought him fame in his pre-film career, and that he now considered himself an actor exclusively.
DWAYNE JOHNSON
18. “I did it for my old man. I tortured this poor kid because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about how when he was in school and all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right? So I'm sitting in the locker room and I'm taping up my knee, and Larry's undressing a couple lockers down from me. And he's kinda, he's kinda skinny. Weak. And I started thinkin' about my father, and his attitude about, about weakness. And the next thing I knew, I jumped on top of him and started whaling on him. And my friends, they just laughed and cheered me on. And afterwards, when I'm sitting in Vernon's office, all I could think about was Larry's father and Larry having to go home and explain what happened to him. And the humiliation - the f**king humiliation he must have felt. It must have been unreal. I mean, how... how do you apologize for something like that? There's no way. It's all because of me and my old man. God, I f**king hate him. He's like this mindless machine that I can't even relate to anymore.”
EMILIO ESTEVEZ
31. She broke down in tears when Nelson Mandela hugged her and congratulated her for her Oscar win.
CHARLIZE THERON
61. People magazine once described this cult star as “the Goddess of Gross” and “a Miss Piggy for the blissfully depraved.”
DIVINE
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:59 am
by SportsFan68
37. She was married eight times to seven men; her first husband was married eight times to eight women.
Elizabeth Taylor
46. “Gentlemen, I address you not as judge and jury, but as a fellow American male. The crime that you have just seen Harold Lampson commit in his imagination I have been accused of committing in reality. Too long has the American man allowed himself to be bullied, coddled, and mothered, and tyrannized, and in general meant to feel like a feeble-minded idiot by the female of the species. Do you realize the power that you have in your hand here today? If one man - just one man - can stick his wife in the goop from the gloppitta-gloppitta machine, and get away with it! Whoa-ho-ho, boy, we've got it made. We have got it made. All of us.”
Jack Lemmon -- How to Murder Your Wife
62. “Who's that?”
“ Are you kidding? Ricky Nelson!”
“Oh, your boyfriend.”
“I wish he was! You mean you've never heard of him? Where do ya come from? Outer space?”
Hayley Mills. Lindsay Lohan had Leo Dicaprio
68. “Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was sixteen.”
Sounds like the above Leo Dicaprio as Frank Abignale.
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:21 am
by mrkelley23
franktangredi wrote:Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Identify the 80 actors in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 32 groups of three according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Twelve actors will be used twice and two will be used three times.
I’m allowing one variable, and only one, in the creation of the triples. You’ll see.
1. An editorial in the Chicago Tribune complained that this actor was responsible for the "effeminization of the American male." The actor responded by challenging the writer to a boxing match. Subsequently, the actor fought – and beat – another writer from the same paper.
2. “All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years!”
3. In a big-budget 1965 comedy, this French actor engaged in a highly unusual duel with Goldfinger.
4. “Say, mister, will you stake a fellow American to a meal?”
HUMPHREY BOGART
5. She played the title role in a movie and took the title song from that movie all the way to #1 on the Billboard Top 100. Nine years later, she played the title role in a movie about someone else who took a song to #1 on the Billboard Top 100. Got that?
Very long shot here, but I can't think of many biopics about female singers. How about MADONNA?? If so, Frank is being very coy with his wording, because the second sentence would have to be about Evita Peron.
6. “There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.”
7. He recently became the fourth Oscar-winning actor ever to have been married to an Oscar-winning actress.
8. “Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh, thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another. You like strawberries, I hate ice-skating, you cry at sad films, I am allergic to pollen. What is the point of different tastes, different preferences, if not, to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently? And if we can say that about one another, then why can't we say the same thing for brains built of copper and wire, steel?”
9. He was the first actor to reprise the role that won him an Oscar.
10. “Mom died when I was three, and I suppose Dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson. Dad was a Yankees fan then, so of course I rooted for Brooklyn. But in '58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about. We did. And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find. This, of course, drove him right up the wall, which I suppose was the point.”
KEVIN COSTNER
11. The resume of this Italian beauty includes films directed by Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Werner Herzog, and Richard Brooks.
12. “I wish, I wish/I wish I were a fish/’Causes fishes have a better life than people.”
DON KNOTTS?
13. One of Hollywood’s most active activists, she has been arrested for her roles in several protests – including one in which she chained herself to a walnut tree for three weeks.
Wild Guess -- Brigitte Bardot????
14. “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body. Not my obedience!”
15. Cartoonist Milton Caniff claimed that he modeled the Dragon Lady after this actress.
16. “Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see. You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known.”
GRACE KELLY
17. In 2006, he officially announced that he no longer wanted to be known by the name that had brought him fame in his pre-film career, and that he now considered himself an actor exclusively.
DWAYNE JOHNSON?
18. “I did it for my old man. I tortured this poor kid because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about how when he was in school and all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right? So I'm sitting in the locker room and I'm taping up my knee, and Larry's undressing a couple lockers down from me. And he's kinda, he's kinda skinny. Weak. And I started thinkin' about my father, and his attitude about, about weakness. And the next thing I knew, I jumped on top of him and started whaling on him. And my friends, they just laughed and cheered me on. And afterwards, when I'm sitting in Vernon's office, all I could think about was Larry's father and Larry having to go home and explain what happened to him. And the humiliation - the f**king humiliation he must have felt. It must have been unreal. I mean, how... how do you apologize for something like that? There's no way. It's all because of me and my old man. God, I f**king hate him. He's like this mindless machine that I can't even relate to anymore.”
EMILIO ESTEVEZ
19. It is now common knowledge that this Hollywood star had a sexual relationship with Jimmy Olson.
20. “Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me.”
21. This British actor – who died this past January at the age of 82 – is one of a handful of people to have appeared in both the Dr. Who and Star Trek franchises.
22. “You know Mr. Gorbachev, the guy that ran Russia for so long? I am a firm believer that he would still be in power today if he had had that ugly purple thing taken off his head.”
23. In 1999, this star stretched his considerable muscles in a different direction by taking on a role previously played by Rex Harrison and Yul Brynner.
24. “Tell mama ... tell mama all.”
25. He received his only Oscar nomination for a musical role that he had created on the London stage, but he didn’t play the role on Broadway until a revival more than a decade later.
26. “All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I f**k like you wanna f**k, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.”
27. In 1945, this leading man of B-movies took on a comedic role that had earlier been played by Fatty Arbuckle and would later be played by Richard Pryor. (No, you read that right.)
That guy who was in the 1940s version of Brewster's Millions.
28. “Wait a minute! Wait. I'm having a thought. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm gonna have a thought. It's coming... It's gone.”
29. When Alfred Hitchcock couldn’t coax Greta Garbo out of retirement for one of his thrillers, he cast this Italian actress instead. However, she is best known for a different thriller that she made for a different British director.
30. “I crap bigger than you!”
31. She broke down in tears when Nelson Mandela hugged her and congratulated her for her Oscar win.
32. “God does not play dice with the universe, but I will”
33. In 1985, he gave birth. (On film.) (It was science fiction, that’s how.)
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER? Prolly not, not really science fiction.
34. “I'm an adult. I want to have fun. I want to go to Liverpool and discover the Beatles.”
35. The brother of an Oscar-winning actor, one of his last gigs was supplying the voice of a stalwart collie in a Disney animated classic.
36. “Where’s your Moses now?”
Is this YUL BRYNNER?
37. She was married eight times to seven men; her first husband was married eight times to eight women.
38. “You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.”
JAMES EARL JONES, assuming you want the voice. DAVID PROWSE, if not.
39. This actor – who was married one time to one woman – died on his 57th wedding anniversary
40. “Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri?”
PETER SELLERS
41. When she was sixteen, she played a role that had previously been played onscreen by – among others – Dorothy Cumming, Siobhan McKenna, Dorothy McGuire, and Verna Bloom.
42. “Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It's all bad. People have forgotten what life is all about. They've forgotten what it is to be alive. They need to be reminded. They need to be reminded of what they have and what they can lose. What I feel is the joy of life, the gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life!”
43. In a 1952 biopic, he played the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season.
The pitcher is Dizzy Dean, but I don't know who played him.
44. “It must have been hard on your mother, not having any children.”
45. In a 1952 biopic, he played the pitcher who still holds the National League record for the most career shutouts.
This one I know. RONALD REAGAN as Pete Alexander.
46. “Gentlemen, I address you not as judge and jury, but as a fellow American male. The crime that you have just seen Harold Lampson commit in his imagination I have been accused of committing in reality. Too long has the American man allowed himself to be bullied, coddled, and mothered, and tyrannized, and in general meant to feel like a feeble-minded idiot by the female of the species. Do you realize the power that you have in your hand here today? If one man - just one man - can stick his wife in the goop from the gloppitta-gloppitta machine, and get away with it! Whoa-ho-ho, boy, we've got it made. We have got it made. All of us.”
47. He has appeared in every single feature film made by a certain director – a total of seventeen in all.
48. “I hate to say it, Chester, but maybe we need to cut back on the shibbying.”
49. His career as a stand-up comic got a boost when Anne Murray saw him on the Tonight show and hired him as her opening act.
50. “If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain.”
CLARK GABLE
51. He was the most recent British actor to receive a knighthood.
52. “A plague on you. A plague on the whole stinking lot of ya, without morals or laws. And all you whores got no laws. You got no honor. It's no wonder you all emigrated to America, because they wouldn't have you in England. You're a lot of savages, that's what you all are. A bunch of bloody savages. A plague on you. I'll be back.”
53. He is younger than his actor brother Tim, but older than his actor brother Sam.
I know Timothy Bottoms has an actor brother named Sam, but I don't know of a third brother.
54. “This is all wrong. I don't know what it is. But when I kiss you, it's like I'm kissing my brother.”
CARRIE FISHER?
55. She was not the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical, but she was the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical that was not originally played on Broadway by Chita Rivera.
56. “We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper.”
57. He remains the youngest male actor ever to win a supporting Oscar.
HALEY JOEL OSMENT?
58. “I am Carrot Top: confident, clever, capable of running his life and yours, and everybody else's. And I'm Golo the Giant: cowardly, stupid, longing to be loved, clumsy and in need of comforting. And I'm Marguerite too: vain, jealous, obsessed with self, looking at my face in the mirror - are my teeth nice? Is my hair growing thin? And I'm Reynaldo: the thief, the opportunist, full of compromise and lies like any other man. I have in me all these things.”
59. This character actress’s onscreen children included Paul Newman, George Segal, Gene Hackman, and Diane Keaton.
60. “According to the map, we've only gone four inches.”
61. People magazine once described this cult star as “the Goddess of Gross” and “a Miss Piggy for the blissfully depraved.”
DIVINE?
62. “Who's that?”
“ Are you kidding? Ricky Nelson!”
“Oh, your boyfriend.”
“I wish he was! You mean you've never heard of him? Where do ya come from? Outer space?”
63. He has a master’s degree in chemical engineering and a black belt in karate, and worked as a bodyguard and bouncer before turning to the movies.
DOLPH LUNDGREN
64. “Yes, some Germans will die, and yes, it will ruin the evening, and yes, Goebbels will be very, very, very mad at you for what you've done to his big night... but you won't get Hitler, you won't get Goebbels, you won't get Göring, and you won't get Bormann. And you need all four to win the war.”
65. His most acclaimed role has been as a real-life adventurer who died of starvation at the age of 24.
66. “What the cops never figured out, and what I know now, was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody. Anybody.”
67. This Wyoming-born “Venezuelan Volcano” was nominated for a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Screen Name. (Other nominees included Joy Bang, Lash Larue, and eventual winner Sleep ‘n’ Eat.)
68. “Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was sixteen.”
69. In his last film, at the age of 88, he played the father of an actor in one of the previous clues (who was 70 at the time.)
70. “Sure you got drunk. You have the best excuse in the world for losing; no trouble losing when you got a good excuse. Winning, that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You'll drop that load too when you got an excuse. All you gotta do is learn to feel sorry for yourself. One of the best indoor sports, feeling sorry for yourself. A sport enjoyed by all, especially the born losers.”
71. On screen, she has portrayed characters created by Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, Henry James, Victor Hugo, and William Shakespeare.
72. “You know, I don't want to spoil the party, but does anyone notice that we're stuck in the middle of the ocean on this couch? Do you know what kind of sunburn I'm going to get? None, 'cause I'm covered in latex, but you guys are going to get seriously fried. I mean it's not like a – like a big gigantic ship is just going to come out of nowhere and save us, by gosh.”
73. She made a notable film debut at the age of 12 under the direction of the man who gave us La Femme Nikita.
NATALIE PORTMAN
74. “This crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again.”
75. While in dramatic school, he once played Romeo to Judy Davis’s Juliet.
76. “Normally, both your asses would be dead as f**king fried chicken, but you happen to pull this s**t while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you.”
77. He set an Oscar record in 1978 which was tied in 1983 and surpassed in 2007 by a former co-star.
78. “Go into the office, and make out a check, for ‘cash,’ for the sum of $5,000. Then carefully, but carefully Hilary, remove absolutely everything that might subsequently remind me that you had ever been there, including that yellow thing with the blue bulbs which you have such an affection for. Then take the check for $5,000, which I feel you deserve, and get - permanently - lost.”
KATHARINE HEPBURN
79. In 2002, TV Guide ranked him #1 male on their listing of the Sexiest TV Stars of All Time. (The distaff honor went to Diana Rigg.)
80. “That's why I'm sitting here with you. Because you remind me of you. Your eyes, your throat, your lips! Everything about you reminds me of you. Except you. How do you account for that?”
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 12:18 pm
by ne1410s
# 43. Dan Daily
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 2:29 pm
by frogman042
4. “Say, mister, will you stake a fellow American to a meal?”
Humphrey Bogart - as Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
6. “There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.”
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
8. “Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh, thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another. You like strawberries, I hate ice-skating, you cry at sad films, I am allergic to pollen. What is the point of different tastes, different preferences, if not, to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently? And if we can say that about one another, then why can't we say the same thing for brains built of copper and wire, steel?”
Benedict Cumberbach - The Imitation Game?
16. “Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see. You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known.”
Grace Kelly in Rear Window
17. In 2006, he officially announced that he no longer wanted to be known by the name that had brought him fame in his pre-film career, and that he now considered himself an actor exclusively.
Is the Dwayne Johnson formerly The Rock?
20. “Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me.”
From The Dirty Dozen, I think it is Charles Bronson who said it.
23. In 1999, this star stretched his considerable muscles in a different direction by taking on a role previously played by Rex Harrison and Yul Brynner.
Yun Fat Chow - the version with Jodie Foster Anna and the King
24. “Tell mama ... tell mama all.”
I know I know it....
26. “All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I f**k like you wanna f**k, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.”
Is this Brad Pitt in Fight Club?
28. “Wait a minute! Wait. I'm having a thought. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm gonna have a thought. It's coming... It's gone.”
I know I know this one as well
29. When Alfred Hitchcock couldn’t coax Greta Garbo out of retirement for one of his thrillers, he cast this Italian actress instead. However, she is best known for a different thriller that she made for a different British director.
Could this be Alida Valli who was in The Paradine Case and The Third Man?
30. “I crap bigger than you!”
Lee Emery? Sounds like its from Full Metal Jacket
31. She broke down in tears when Nelson Mandela hugged her and congratulated her for her Oscar win.
Charlieze Theron?
34. “I'm an adult. I want to have fun. I want to go to Liverpool and discover the Beatles.”
Kathleen Turner in Peggy Sue Got Married?
36. “Where’s your Moses now?”
Yul Brenner in The 10 Commandments - i think he says it to Anne Baxter.
38. “You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.”
Was this Liam Neilson in Batman Begins?
40. “Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri?”
Peter Sellers in Dr. Stranglove (OHISWALTLTB)
46. “Gentlemen, I address you not as judge and jury, but as a fellow American male. The crime that you have just seen Harold Lampson commit in his imagination I have been accused of committing in reality. Too long has the American man allowed himself to be bullied, coddled, and mothered, and tyrannized, and in general meant to feel like a feeble-minded idiot by the female of the species. Do you realize the power that you have in your hand here today? If one man - just one man - can stick his wife in the goop from the gloppitta-gloppitta machine, and get away with it! Whoa-ho-ho, boy, we've got it made. We have got it made. All of us.”
WAG - Jack Lemmon in How To Murder Your Wife?
50. “If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain.”
Olivia De Haveland in Gone With the Wind.
53. He is younger than his actor brother Tim, but older than his actor brother Sam.
Joseph Bottoms
54. “This is all wrong. I don't know what it is. But when I kiss you, it's like I'm kissing my brother.”
Leah Thompson in Back To the Future
59. This character actress’s onscreen children included Paul Newman, George Segal, Gene Hackman, and Diane Keaton.
Geraldine Page?
63. He has a master’s degree in chemical engineering and a black belt in karate, and worked as a bodyguard and bouncer before turning to the movies.
Dolph Lundgren?
64. “Yes, some Germans will die, and yes, it will ruin the evening, and yes, Goebbels will be very, very, very mad at you for what you've done to his big night... but you won't get Hitler, you won't get Goebbels, you won't get Göring, and you won't get Bormann. And you need all four to win the war.”
Was this from Inglorious Bastards? Did Chris Waltz say it?
68. “Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was sixteen.”
WAG - Bob Dishy in Lovers and Other Strangers?
76. “Normally, both your asses would be dead as f**king fried chicken, but you happen to pull this s**t while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 2:35 pm
by frogman042
68. It's not Bob Dishy it is Leo in Catch Me If You Can, same with the Moses quote, I can hear Edward G. saying it. So I retract those two.
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 2:38 pm
by frogman042
24. “Tell mama ... tell mama all.”
Could it be Queen Latifah in Chicago?
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 3:01 pm
by Pastor Fireball
First pass...
17. In 2006, he officially announced that he no longer wanted to be known by the name that had brought him fame in his pre-film career, and that he now considered himself an actor exclusively.
Mark Wahlberg?
18. “I did it for my old man. I tortured this poor kid because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about how when he was in school and all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right? So I'm sitting in the locker room and I'm taping up my knee, and Larry's undressing a couple lockers down from me. And he's kinda, he's kinda skinny. Weak. And I started thinkin' about my father, and his attitude about, about weakness. And the next thing I knew, I jumped on top of him and started whaling on him. And my friends, they just laughed and cheered me on. And afterwards, when I'm sitting in Vernon's office, all I could think about was Larry's father and Larry having to go home and explain what happened to him. And the humiliation - the f**king humiliation he must have felt. It must have been unreal. I mean, how... how do you apologize for something like that? There's no way. It's all because of me and my old man. God, I f**king hate him. He's like this mindless machine that I can't even relate to anymore.”
Emilio Estevez
28. “Wait a minute! Wait. I'm having a thought. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm gonna have a thought. It's coming... It's gone.”
Al Pacino
30. “I crap bigger than you!”
Jack Palance
36. “Where’s your Moses now?”
Edward G. Robinson
55. She was not the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical, but she was the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical that was not originally played on Broadway by Chita Rivera.
I will hope that Chita Rivera wasn't in Chicago, and answer Catherine Zeta-Jones.
57. He remains the youngest male actor ever to win a supporting Oscar.
Timothy Hutton?
69. In his last film, at the age of 88, he played the father of an actor in one of the previous clues (who was 70 at the time.)
Burgess Meredith? (Maybe Jack Lemmon is an earlier answer?)
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 4:13 pm
by mellytu74
First pass. I'll be able to play more with this later. I will be in a sleep study.
1. An editorial in the Chicago Tribune complained that this actor was responsible for the "effeminization of the American male." The actor responded by challenging the writer to a boxing match. Subsequently, the actor fought – and beat – another writer from the same paper.
RUDOLPH VALENTINO
2. “All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years!”
BETTE DAVIS
4. “Say, mister, will you stake a fellow American to a meal?”
HUMPHREY BOGART
6. “There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left."
MORGAN FREEMAN IN SHAWSHANK?
7. He recently became the fourth Oscar-winning actor ever to have been married to an Oscar-winning actress.
NICOLAS CAGE (ex of Patricia Aquette)
9. He was the first actor to reprise the role that won him an Oscar.
BING CROSBY?
10. “Mom died when I was three, and I suppose Dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson. Dad was a Yankees fan then, so of course I rooted for Brooklyn. But in '58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about. We did. And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find. This, of course, drove him right up the wall, which I suppose was the point.”
KEVIN COSTNER?
13. One of Hollywood’s most active activists, she has been arrested for her roles in several protests – including one in which she chained herself to a walnut tree for three weeks.
DARYL HANNAH
14. “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body. Not my obedience!”
BEN KINGSLEY
15. Cartoonist Milton Caniff claimed that he modeled the Dragon Lady after this actress.
JOAN CRAWFORD? GAIL SONDERGAARD?
16. “Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see. You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known.”
GRACE KELLY
19. It is now common knowledge that this Hollywood star had a sexual relationship with Jimmy Olson.
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
24. “Tell mama ... tell mama all.”
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
25. He received his only Oscar nomination for a musical role that he had created on the London stage, but he didn’t play the role on Broadway until a revival more than a decade later.
CLIVE REVILL??
27. In 1945, this leading man of B-movies took on a comedic role that had earlier been played by Fatty Arbuckle and would later be played by Richard Pryor. (No, you read that right.)
Gotta Be Brewster's Millions. But the actor ....?
30. “I crap bigger than you!”
JACK PALANCE
34. “I'm an adult. I want to have fun. I want to go to Liverpool and discover the Beatles.”
KATHLEEN TURNER
36. “Where’s your Moses now?”
EDWARD G. ROBINSON
37. She was married eight times to seven men; her first husband was married eight times to eight women.
LANA TURNER
39. This actor – who was married one time to one woman – died on his 57th wedding anniversary
JOEL MCCREA
40. “Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri?”
PETER SELLERS
42. “Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It's all bad. People have forgotten what life is all about. They've forgotten what it is to be alive. They need to be reminded. They need to be reminded of what they have and what they can lose. What I feel is the joy of life, the gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life!”
ROBERT DENIRO
43. In a 1952 biopic, he played the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season.
DAN DAILEY
44. “It must have been hard on your mother, not having any children.”
GINGER ROGERS (42nd street)
45. In a 1952 biopic, he played the pitcher who still holds the National League record for the most career shutouts.
RONALD REAGAN
47. He has appeared in every single feature film made by a certain director – a total of seventeen in all.
HECTOR ELIZONDO
50. “If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain.”
OLIVIA DEHAVILAND? CLARK GABLE? The Captain is Ward Bond in GWTW
54. “This is all wrong. I don't know what it is. But when I kiss you, it's like I'm kissing my brother.”
LEA THOMPSON??
55. She was not the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical, but she was the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical that was not originally played on Broadway by Chita Rivera.
JENNIFER HUDSON
62. “Who's that?”
“ Are you kidding? Ricky Nelson!”
“Oh, your boyfriend.”
“I wish he was! You mean you've never heard of him? Where do ya come from? Outer space?”
HAYLEY MILLS
66. “What the cops never figured out, and what I know now, was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody. Anybody.”
KEVIN SPACEY
67. This Wyoming-born “Venezuelan Volcano” was nominated for a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Screen Name. (Other nominees included Joy Bang, Lash Larue, and eventual winner Sleep ‘n’ Eat.)
ACQUNETTA??
68. “Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was sixteen.”
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
80. “That's why I'm sitting here with you. Because you remind me of you. Your eyes, your throat, your lips! Everything about you reminds me of you. Except you. How do you account for that?”
Sounds like GROUCHO
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:20 pm
by mellytu74
No sleep study ... mess-up referral
A couple more
35. The brother of an Oscar-winning actor, one of his last gigs was supplying the voice of a stalwart collie in a Disney animated classic.
Can this be TOM CONWAY? Brother of George Sanders and, IIRC, a doggie voice in 101 Dalmatians.
41. When she was sixteen, she played a role that had previously been played onscreen by – among others – Dorothy Cumming, Siobhan McKenna, Dorothy McGuire, and Verna Bloom.
The role is Mary. KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES?
59. This character actress’s onscreen children included Paul Newman, George Segal, Gene Hackman, and Diane Keaton.
How about EILEEN HECKERT? Somebody Up There Likes Me (Newman), No Way To Treat a Lady (Segal) and First Wives Club (Keaton). Not sure on Hackman, though.
70. “Sure you got drunk. You have the best excuse in the world for losing; no trouble losing when you got a good excuse. Winning, that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You'll drop that load too when you got an excuse. All you gotta do is learn to feel sorry for yourself. One of the best indoor sports, feeling sorry for yourself. A sport enjoyed by all, especially the born losers.”
How did I miss this? GEORGE C. SCOTT in The Hustler.
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 10:26 am
by ToLiveIsToFly
10. “Mom died when I was three, and I suppose Dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson. Dad was a Yankees fan then, so of course I rooted for Brooklyn. But in '58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about. We did. And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find. This, of course, drove him right up the wall, which I suppose was the point.”
RAY LIOTTA?
64. “Yes, some Germans will die, and yes, it will ruin the evening, and yes, Goebbels will be very, very, very mad at you for what you've done to his big night... but you won't get Hitler, you won't get Goebbels, you won't get Göring, and you won't get Bormann. And you need all four to win the war.”
CHRISTOPH WALTZ
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 12:36 pm
by kroxquo
Identify the 80 actors in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 32 groups of three according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Twelve actors will be used twice and two will be used three times.
I’m allowing one variable, and only one, in the creation of the triples. You’ll see.
4. “Say, mister, will you stake a fellow American to a meal?”
I'm guessing Humphrey Bogart solely on the reference by Bugs Bunny in the one where Bugs takes a Penguin to the South Pole only to find out he lives in Hoboken
9. He was the first actor to reprise the role that won him an Oscar.
Bing Crosby
10. “Mom died when I was three, and I suppose Dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson. Dad was a Yankees fan then, so of course I rooted for Brooklyn. But in '58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about. We did. And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find. This, of course, drove him right up the wall, which I suppose was the point.”
Kevin Costner?
14. “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body. Not my obedience!”
Mel Gibson?
31. She broke down in tears when Nelson Mandela hugged her and congratulated her for her Oscar win.
Lupita Nyongo?
36. “Where’s your Moses now?”
Edward G. Robinson
37. She was married eight times to seven men; her first husband was married eight times to eight women.
elizabeth Taylor?
38. “You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.”
Whoever played Emperor Palpatine
39. This actor – who was married one time to one woman – died on his 57th wedding anniversary
Paul Newman?
43. In a 1952 biopic, he played the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season.
The pitcher is Dizzy Dean. Ronald Reagan?
45. In a 1952 biopic, he played the pitcher who still holds the National League record for the most career shutouts.
The pitcher is Grover Alexander. This is Ronald Reagan
47. He has appeared in every single feature film made by a certain director – a total of seventeen in all.
Johnny Depp?
54. “This is all wrong. I don't know what it is. But when I kiss you, it's like I'm kissing my brother.”
Lea Thompson
61. People magazine once described this cult star as “the Goddess of Gross” and “a Miss Piggy for the blissfully depraved.”
Divine?
66. “What the cops never figured out, and what I know now, was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody. Anybody.”
Kevin Spacey
79. In 2002, TV Guide ranked him #1 male on their listing of the Sexiest TV Stars of All Time. (The distaff honor went to Diana Rigg.)
WAG - Richard Chamberlain
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 11:07 am
by mrkelley23
48. is ASHTON KUTCHER, in Dude, Where's my Car?
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:59 pm
by plasticene
CONSOLIDATION: I've added an answer I'm pretty sure of for #33 and a guess for #71. (I eliminated guesses of Bette Davis on #15 and Brad Pitt on #64, since they appear to be the answer to #2 and #26, respectively. I tried to avoid omitting guesses when someone else gave a more confident answer, but sometimes I can't help myself.)
Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Identify the 80 actors in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 32 groups of three according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Twelve actors will be used twice and two will be used three times.
I’m allowing one variable, and only one, in the creation of the triples. You’ll see.
1. An editorial in the Chicago Tribune complained that this actor was responsible for the "effeminization of the American male." The actor responded by challenging the writer to a boxing match. Subsequently, the actor fought – and beat – another writer from the same paper.
RUDOLF VALENTINO
2. “All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years!”
BETTE DAVIS
3. In a big-budget 1965 comedy, this French actor engaged in a highly unusual duel with Goldfinger.
JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL
4. “Say, mister, will you stake a fellow American to a meal?”
HUMPHREY BOGART
5. She played the title role in a movie and took the title song from that movie all the way to #1 on the Billboard Top 100. Nine years later, she played the title role in a movie about someone else who took a song to #1 on the Billboard Top 100. Got that?
6. “There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.”
MORGAN FREEMAN
7. He recently became the fourth Oscar-winning actor ever to have been married to an Oscar-winning actress.
NICOLAS CAGE
8. “Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh, thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another. You like strawberries, I hate ice-skating, you cry at sad films, I am allergic to pollen. What is the point of different tastes, different preferences, if not, to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently? And if we can say that about one another, then why can't we say the same thing for brains built of copper and wire, steel?”
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
9. He was the first actor to reprise the role that won him an Oscar.
BING CROSBY
10. “Mom died when I was three, and I suppose Dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson. Dad was a Yankees fan then, so of course I rooted for Brooklyn. But in '58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about. We did. And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find. This, of course, drove him right up the wall, which I suppose was the point.”
KEVIN COSTNER? RAY LIOTTA?
11. The resume of this Italian beauty includes films directed by Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Werner Herzog, and Richard Brooks.
CLAUDIA CARDINALE
12. “I wish, I wish/I wish I were a fish/’Causes fishes have a better life than people.”
DON KNOTTS
13. One of Hollywood’s most active activists, she has been arrested for her roles in several protests – including one in which she chained herself to a walnut tree for three weeks.
DARYL HANNAH
14. “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body. Not my obedience!”
BEN KINGSLEY? MEL GIBSON?
15. Cartoonist Milton Caniff claimed that he modeled the Dragon Lady after this actress.
JOAN CRAWFORD? GAIL SONDERGAARD?
16. “Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see. You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known.”
GRACE KELLY
17. In 2006, he officially announced that he no longer wanted to be known by the name that had brought him fame in his pre-film career, and that he now considered himself an actor exclusively.
DWAYNE JOHNSON? MARK WAHLBERG?
18. “I did it for my old man. I tortured this poor kid because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about how when he was in school and all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right? So I'm sitting in the locker room and I'm taping up my knee, and Larry's undressing a couple lockers down from me. And he's kinda, he's kinda skinny. Weak. And I started thinkin' about my father, and his attitude about, about weakness. And the next thing I knew, I jumped on top of him and started whaling on him. And my friends, they just laughed and cheered me on. And afterwards, when I'm sitting in Vernon's office, all I could think about was Larry's father and Larry having to go home and explain what happened to him. And the humiliation - the f**king humiliation he must have felt. It must have been unreal. I mean, how... how do you apologize for something like that? There's no way. It's all because of me and my old man. God, I f**king hate him. He's like this mindless machine that I can't even relate to anymore.”
EMILIO ESTEVEZ
19. It is now common knowledge that this Hollywood star had a sexual relationship with Jimmy Olson.
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
20. “Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me.”
CHARLES BRONSON?
21. This British actor – who died this past January at the age of 82 – is one of a handful of people to have appeared in both the Dr. Who and Star Trek franchises.
22. “You know Mr. Gorbachev, the guy that ran Russia for so long? I am a firm believer that he would still be in power today if he had had that ugly purple thing taken off his head.”
23. In 1999, this star stretched his considerable muscles in a different direction by taking on a role previously played by Rex Harrison and Yul Brynner.
CHOW YUN FAT
24. “Tell mama ... tell mama all.”
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
25. He received his only Oscar nomination for a musical role that he had created on the London stage, but he didn’t play the role on Broadway until a revival more than a decade later.
CLIVE REVILL?
26. “All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I f**k like you wanna f**k, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.”
BRAD PITT
27. In 1945, this leading man of B-movies took on a comedic role that had earlier been played by Fatty Arbuckle and would later be played by Richard Pryor. (No, you read that right.)
DENNIS O'KEEFE
28. “Wait a minute! Wait. I'm having a thought. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm gonna have a thought. It's coming... It's gone.”
29. When Alfred Hitchcock couldn’t coax Greta Garbo out of retirement for one of his thrillers, he cast this Italian actress instead. However, she is best known for a different thriller that she made for a different British director.
ALIDA VALLI
30. “I crap bigger than you!”
JACK PALANCE
31. She broke down in tears when Nelson Mandela hugged her and congratulated her for her Oscar win.
CHARLIZE THERON? LUPITA NYONGO?
32. “God does not play dice with the universe, but I will”
33. In 1985, he gave birth. (On film.) (It was science fiction, that’s how.)
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.
34. “I'm an adult. I want to have fun. I want to go to Liverpool and discover the Beatles.”
KATHLEEN TURNER?
35. The brother of an Oscar-winning actor, one of his last gigs was supplying the voice of a stalwart collie in a Disney animated classic.
TOM CONWAY
36. “Where’s your Moses now?”
EDWARD G. ROBINSON
37. She was married eight times to seven men; her first husband was married eight times to eight women.
LANA TURNER? ELIZABETH TAYLOR?
38. “You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.”
JAMES EARL JONES? DAVID PROWSE? LIAM NEESON? Emperor Palpatine?
39. This actor – who was married one time to one woman – died on his 57th wedding anniversary
JOEL MCCREA
40. “Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri?”
PETER SELLERS
41. When she was sixteen, she played a role that had previously been played onscreen by – among others – Dorothy Cumming, Siobhan McKenna, Dorothy McGuire, and Verna Bloom.
KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES?
42. “Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It's all bad. People have forgotten what life is all about. They've forgotten what it is to be alive. They need to be reminded. They need to be reminded of what they have and what they can lose. What I feel is the joy of life, the gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life!”
ROBERT DENIRO
43. In a 1952 biopic, he played the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season.
DAN DAILY
44. “It must have been hard on your mother, not having any children.”
GINGER ROGERS
45. In a 1952 biopic, he played the pitcher who still holds the National League record for the most career shutouts.
RONALD REAGAN
46. “Gentlemen, I address you not as judge and jury, but as a fellow American male. The crime that you have just seen Harold Lampson commit in his imagination I have been accused of committing in reality. Too long has the American man allowed himself to be bullied, coddled, and mothered, and tyrannized, and in general meant to feel like a feeble-minded idiot by the female of the species. Do you realize the power that you have in your hand here today? If one man - just one man - can stick his wife in the goop from the gloppitta-gloppitta machine, and get away with it! Whoa-ho-ho, boy, we've got it made. We have got it made. All of us.”
JACK LEMMON
47. He has appeared in every single feature film made by a certain director – a total of seventeen in all.
HECTOR ELIZONDO? JOHNNY DEPP?
48. “I hate to say it, Chester, but maybe we need to cut back on the shibbying.”
ASHTON KUTCHER
49. His career as a stand-up comic got a boost when Anne Murray saw him on the Tonight show and hired him as her opening act.
50. “If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain.”
OLIVIA DE HAVILAND? CLARK GABLE?
51. He was the most recent British actor to receive a knighthood.
52. “A plague on you. A plague on the whole stinking lot of ya, without morals or laws. And all you whores got no laws. You got no honor. It's no wonder you all emigrated to America, because they wouldn't have you in England. You're a lot of savages, that's what you all are. A bunch of bloody savages. A plague on you. I'll be back.”
53. He is younger than his actor brother Tim, but older than his actor brother Sam.
JOSEPH BOTTOMS
54. “This is all wrong. I don't know what it is. But when I kiss you, it's like I'm kissing my brother.”
LEA THOMPSON
55. She was not the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical, but she was the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical that was not originally played on Broadway by Chita Rivera.
JENNIFER HUDSON? CATHERINE ZETA-JONES?
56. “We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper.”
RAUL JULIA
57. He remains the youngest male actor ever to win a supporting Oscar.
HALEY JOEL OSMENT? TIMOTHY HUTTON?
58. “I am Carrot Top: confident, clever, capable of running his life and yours, and everybody else's. And I'm Golo the Giant: cowardly, stupid, longing to be loved, clumsy and in need of comforting. And I'm Marguerite too: vain, jealous, obsessed with self, looking at my face in the mirror - are my teeth nice? Is my hair growing thin? And I'm Reynaldo: the thief, the opportunist, full of compromise and lies like any other man. I have in me all these things.”
59. This character actress’s onscreen children included Paul Newman, George Segal, Gene Hackman, and Diane Keaton.
EILEEN HECKERT
60. “According to the map, we've only gone four inches.”
61. People magazine once described this cult star as “the Goddess of Gross” and “a Miss Piggy for the blissfully depraved.”
DIVINE?
62. “Who's that?”
“Oh, your boyfriend.”
“ Are you kidding? Ricky Nelson!”
“I wish he was! You mean you've never heard of him? Where do ya come from? Outer space?”
HAYLEY MILLS
63. He has a master’s degree in chemical engineering and a black belt in karate, and worked as a bodyguard and bouncer before turning to the movies.
DOLPH LUNDGREN
64. “Yes, some Germans will die, and yes, it will ruin the evening, and yes, Goebbels will be very, very, very mad at you for what you've done to his big night... but you won't get Hitler, you won't get Goebbels, you won't get Göring, and you won't get Bormann. And you need all four to win the war.”
CHRISTOPH WALTZ
65. His most acclaimed role has been as a real-life adventurer who died of starvation at the age of 24.
EMILE HIRSCH
66. “What the cops never figured out, and what I know now, was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody. Anybody.”
KEVIN SPACEY
67. This Wyoming-born “Venezuelan Volcano” was nominated for a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Screen Name. (Other nominees included Joy Bang, Lash Larue, and eventual winner Sleep ‘n’ Eat.)
ACQUNETTA??
68. “Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was sixteen.”
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
69. In his last film, at the age of 88, he played the father of an actor in one of the previous clues (who was 70 at the time.)
BURGESS MEREDITH
70. “Sure you got drunk. You have the best excuse in the world for losing; no trouble losing when you got a good excuse. Winning, that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You'll drop that load too when you got an excuse. All you gotta do is learn to feel sorry for yourself. One of the best indoor sports, feeling sorry for yourself. A sport enjoyed by all, especially the born losers.”
GEORGE C. SCOTT
71. On screen, she has portrayed characters created by Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, Henry James, Victor Hugo, and William Shakespeare.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER?
72. “You know, I don't want to spoil the party, but does anyone notice that we're stuck in the middle of the ocean on this couch? Do you know what kind of sunburn I'm going to get? None, 'cause I'm covered in latex, but you guys are going to get seriously fried. I mean it's not like a – like a big gigantic ship is just going to come out of nowhere and save us, by gosh.”
73. She made a notable film debut at the age of 12 under the direction of the man who gave us La Femme Nikita.
NATALIE PORTMAN
74. “This crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again.”
75. While in dramatic school, he once played Romeo to Judy Davis’s Juliet.
76. “Normally, both your asses would be dead as f**king fried chicken, but you happen to pull this s**t while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you.”
SAMUEL L. JACKSON
77. He set an Oscar record in 1978 which was tied in 1983 and surpassed in 2007 by a former co-star.
78. “Go into the office, and make out a check, for ‘cash,’ for the sum of $5,000. Then carefully, but carefully Hilary, remove absolutely everything that might subsequently remind me that you had ever been there, including that yellow thing with the blue bulbs which you have such an affection for. Then take the check for $5,000, which I feel you deserve, and get - permanently - lost.”
KATHARINE HEPBURN
79. In 2002, TV Guide ranked him #1 male on their listing of the Sexiest TV Stars of All Time. (The distaff honor went to Diana Rigg.)
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN?
80. “That's why I'm sitting here with you. Because you remind me of you. Your eyes, your throat, your lips! Everything about you reminds me of you. Except you. How do you account for that?”[/quote]
GROUCHO MARX?
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 6:04 pm
by mrkelley23
I officially withdraw my guesses to 50 and 57. As frogman said about some others, once I heard the quote in someone else's voice, I knew I was wrong. And Haley Joel didn't win the Oscar, I'm now pretty sure.
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 6:07 pm
by mrkelley23
On the other hand, I'm absolutely positive that #38. is Darth Vader, so it's either James Earl jones or David Prowse. If it's Prowse (who was the only actor credited with Darth Vader, at least in IV) that makes this interesting, since he hasn't been in that many films.
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 6:17 pm
by franktangredi
Of the 'definite' answers, only one is incorrect. It is definitely incorrect, no ambiguity about it.
Of the single answers with a question mark, all but two are correct. One of them is a definite case of 'write church/wrong pew' -- it's the right role but the wrong actor.
Of the questions with several alternates, all of them include the correct answer. In one case, the incorrect alternate is already down as the correct answer to a different question. In one case, the incorrect alternate is the correct answer to an unanswered question. In two cases, the incorrect alternates have been withdrawn since this consolidation was published.
plasticene wrote:CONSOLIDATION: I've added an answer I'm pretty sure of for #33 and a guess for #71. (I eliminated guesses of Bette Davis on #15 and Brad Pitt on #64, since they appear to be the answer to #2 and #26, respectively. I tried to avoid omitting guesses when someone else gave a more confident answer, but sometimes I can't help myself.)
Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Identify the 80 actors in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 32 groups of three according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Twelve actors will be used twice and two will be used three times.
I’m allowing one variable, and only one, in the creation of the triples. You’ll see.
1. An editorial in the Chicago Tribune complained that this actor was responsible for the "effeminization of the American male." The actor responded by challenging the writer to a boxing match. Subsequently, the actor fought – and beat – another writer from the same paper.
RUDOLF VALENTINO
2. “All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years!”
BETTE DAVIS
3. In a big-budget 1965 comedy, this French actor engaged in a highly unusual duel with Goldfinger.
JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL
4. “Say, mister, will you stake a fellow American to a meal?”
HUMPHREY BOGART
5. She played the title role in a movie and took the title song from that movie all the way to #1 on the Billboard Top 100. Nine years later, she played the title role in a movie about someone else who took a song to #1 on the Billboard Top 100. Got that?
6. “There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.”
MORGAN FREEMAN
7. He recently became the fourth Oscar-winning actor ever to have been married to an Oscar-winning actress.
NICOLAS CAGE
8. “Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh, thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another. You like strawberries, I hate ice-skating, you cry at sad films, I am allergic to pollen. What is the point of different tastes, different preferences, if not, to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently? And if we can say that about one another, then why can't we say the same thing for brains built of copper and wire, steel?”
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
9. He was the first actor to reprise the role that won him an Oscar.
BING CROSBY
10. “Mom died when I was three, and I suppose Dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson. Dad was a Yankees fan then, so of course I rooted for Brooklyn. But in '58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about. We did. And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find. This, of course, drove him right up the wall, which I suppose was the point.”
KEVIN COSTNER? RAY LIOTTA?
11. The resume of this Italian beauty includes films directed by Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Werner Herzog, and Richard Brooks.
CLAUDIA CARDINALE
12. “I wish, I wish/I wish I were a fish/’Causes fishes have a better life than people.”
DON KNOTTS
13. One of Hollywood’s most active activists, she has been arrested for her roles in several protests – including one in which she chained herself to a walnut tree for three weeks.
DARYL HANNAH
14. “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body. Not my obedience!”
BEN KINGSLEY? MEL GIBSON?
15. Cartoonist Milton Caniff claimed that he modeled the Dragon Lady after this actress.
JOAN CRAWFORD? GAIL SONDERGAARD?
16. “Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see. You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known.”
GRACE KELLY
17. In 2006, he officially announced that he no longer wanted to be known by the name that had brought him fame in his pre-film career, and that he now considered himself an actor exclusively.
DWAYNE JOHNSON? MARK WAHLBERG?
18. “I did it for my old man. I tortured this poor kid because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about how when he was in school and all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right? So I'm sitting in the locker room and I'm taping up my knee, and Larry's undressing a couple lockers down from me. And he's kinda, he's kinda skinny. Weak. And I started thinkin' about my father, and his attitude about, about weakness. And the next thing I knew, I jumped on top of him and started whaling on him. And my friends, they just laughed and cheered me on. And afterwards, when I'm sitting in Vernon's office, all I could think about was Larry's father and Larry having to go home and explain what happened to him. And the humiliation - the f**king humiliation he must have felt. It must have been unreal. I mean, how... how do you apologize for something like that? There's no way. It's all because of me and my old man. God, I f**king hate him. He's like this mindless machine that I can't even relate to anymore.”
EMILIO ESTEVEZ
19. It is now common knowledge that this Hollywood star had a sexual relationship with Jimmy Olson.
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
20. “Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me.”
CHARLES BRONSON?
21. This British actor – who died this past January at the age of 82 – is one of a handful of people to have appeared in both the Dr. Who and Star Trek franchises.
22. “You know Mr. Gorbachev, the guy that ran Russia for so long? I am a firm believer that he would still be in power today if he had had that ugly purple thing taken off his head.”
23. In 1999, this star stretched his considerable muscles in a different direction by taking on a role previously played by Rex Harrison and Yul Brynner.
CHOW YUN FAT
24. “Tell mama ... tell mama all.”
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
25. He received his only Oscar nomination for a musical role that he had created on the London stage, but he didn’t play the role on Broadway until a revival more than a decade later.
CLIVE REVILL?
26. “All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I f**k like you wanna f**k, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.”
BRAD PITT
27. In 1945, this leading man of B-movies took on a comedic role that had earlier been played by Fatty Arbuckle and would later be played by Richard Pryor. (No, you read that right.)
DENNIS O'KEEFE
28. “Wait a minute! Wait. I'm having a thought. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm gonna have a thought. It's coming... It's gone.”
29. When Alfred Hitchcock couldn’t coax Greta Garbo out of retirement for one of his thrillers, he cast this Italian actress instead. However, she is best known for a different thriller that she made for a different British director.
ALIDA VALLI
30. “I crap bigger than you!”
JACK PALANCE
31. She broke down in tears when Nelson Mandela hugged her and congratulated her for her Oscar win.
CHARLIZE THERON? LUPITA NYONGO?
32. “God does not play dice with the universe, but I will”
33. In 1985, he gave birth. (On film.) (It was science fiction, that’s how.)
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.
34. “I'm an adult. I want to have fun. I want to go to Liverpool and discover the Beatles.”
KATHLEEN TURNER?
35. The brother of an Oscar-winning actor, one of his last gigs was supplying the voice of a stalwart collie in a Disney animated classic.
TOM CONWAY
36. “Where’s your Moses now?”
EDWARD G. ROBINSON
37. She was married eight times to seven men; her first husband was married eight times to eight women.
LANA TURNER? ELIZABETH TAYLOR?
38. “You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.”
JAMES EARL JONES? DAVID PROWSE? LIAM NEESON? Emperor Palpatine?
39. This actor – who was married one time to one woman – died on his 57th wedding anniversary
JOEL MCCREA
40. “Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri?”
PETER SELLERS
41. When she was sixteen, she played a role that had previously been played onscreen by – among others – Dorothy Cumming, Siobhan McKenna, Dorothy McGuire, and Verna Bloom.
KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES?
42. “Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It's all bad. People have forgotten what life is all about. They've forgotten what it is to be alive. They need to be reminded. They need to be reminded of what they have and what they can lose. What I feel is the joy of life, the gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life!”
ROBERT DENIRO
43. In a 1952 biopic, he played the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season.
DAN DAILY
44. “It must have been hard on your mother, not having any children.”
GINGER ROGERS
45. In a 1952 biopic, he played the pitcher who still holds the National League record for the most career shutouts.
RONALD REAGAN
46. “Gentlemen, I address you not as judge and jury, but as a fellow American male. The crime that you have just seen Harold Lampson commit in his imagination I have been accused of committing in reality. Too long has the American man allowed himself to be bullied, coddled, and mothered, and tyrannized, and in general meant to feel like a feeble-minded idiot by the female of the species. Do you realize the power that you have in your hand here today? If one man - just one man - can stick his wife in the goop from the gloppitta-gloppitta machine, and get away with it! Whoa-ho-ho, boy, we've got it made. We have got it made. All of us.”
JACK LEMMON
47. He has appeared in every single feature film made by a certain director – a total of seventeen in all.
HECTOR ELIZONDO? JOHNNY DEPP?
48. “I hate to say it, Chester, but maybe we need to cut back on the shibbying.”
ASHTON KUTCHER
49. His career as a stand-up comic got a boost when Anne Murray saw him on the Tonight show and hired him as her opening act.
50. “If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain.”
OLIVIA DE HAVILAND? CLARK GABLE?
51. He was the most recent British actor to receive a knighthood.
52. “A plague on you. A plague on the whole stinking lot of ya, without morals or laws. And all you whores got no laws. You got no honor. It's no wonder you all emigrated to America, because they wouldn't have you in England. You're a lot of savages, that's what you all are. A bunch of bloody savages. A plague on you. I'll be back.”
53. He is younger than his actor brother Tim, but older than his actor brother Sam.
JOSEPH BOTTOMS
54. “This is all wrong. I don't know what it is. But when I kiss you, it's like I'm kissing my brother.”
LEA THOMPSON
55. She was not the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical, but she was the first actress to win a supporting Oscar for a role in the film adaptation of a Broadway musical that was not originally played on Broadway by Chita Rivera.
JENNIFER HUDSON? CATHERINE ZETA-JONES?
56. “We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper.”
RAUL JULIA
57. He remains the youngest male actor ever to win a supporting Oscar.
HALEY JOEL OSMENT? TIMOTHY HUTTON?
58. “I am Carrot Top: confident, clever, capable of running his life and yours, and everybody else's. And I'm Golo the Giant: cowardly, stupid, longing to be loved, clumsy and in need of comforting. And I'm Marguerite too: vain, jealous, obsessed with self, looking at my face in the mirror - are my teeth nice? Is my hair growing thin? And I'm Reynaldo: the thief, the opportunist, full of compromise and lies like any other man. I have in me all these things.”
59. This character actress’s onscreen children included Paul Newman, George Segal, Gene Hackman, and Diane Keaton.
EILEEN HECKERT
60. “According to the map, we've only gone four inches.”
61. People magazine once described this cult star as “the Goddess of Gross” and “a Miss Piggy for the blissfully depraved.”
DIVINE?
62. “Who's that?”
“Oh, your boyfriend.”
“ Are you kidding? Ricky Nelson!”
“I wish he was! You mean you've never heard of him? Where do ya come from? Outer space?”
HAYLEY MILLS
63. He has a master’s degree in chemical engineering and a black belt in karate, and worked as a bodyguard and bouncer before turning to the movies.
DOLPH LUNDGREN
64. “Yes, some Germans will die, and yes, it will ruin the evening, and yes, Goebbels will be very, very, very mad at you for what you've done to his big night... but you won't get Hitler, you won't get Goebbels, you won't get Göring, and you won't get Bormann. And you need all four to win the war.”
CHRISTOPH WALTZ
65. His most acclaimed role has been as a real-life adventurer who died of starvation at the age of 24.
EMILE HIRSCH
66. “What the cops never figured out, and what I know now, was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody. Anybody.”
KEVIN SPACEY
67. This Wyoming-born “Venezuelan Volcano” was nominated for a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Screen Name. (Other nominees included Joy Bang, Lash Larue, and eventual winner Sleep ‘n’ Eat.)
ACQUNETTA??
68. “Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was sixteen.”
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
69. In his last film, at the age of 88, he played the father of an actor in one of the previous clues (who was 70 at the time.)
BURGESS MEREDITH
70. “Sure you got drunk. You have the best excuse in the world for losing; no trouble losing when you got a good excuse. Winning, that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You'll drop that load too when you got an excuse. All you gotta do is learn to feel sorry for yourself. One of the best indoor sports, feeling sorry for yourself. A sport enjoyed by all, especially the born losers.”
GEORGE C. SCOTT
71. On screen, she has portrayed characters created by Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, Henry James, Victor Hugo, and William Shakespeare.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER?
72. “You know, I don't want to spoil the party, but does anyone notice that we're stuck in the middle of the ocean on this couch? Do you know what kind of sunburn I'm going to get? None, 'cause I'm covered in latex, but you guys are going to get seriously fried. I mean it's not like a – like a big gigantic ship is just going to come out of nowhere and save us, by gosh.”
73. She made a notable film debut at the age of 12 under the direction of the man who gave us La Femme Nikita.
NATALIE PORTMAN
74. “This crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again.”
75. While in dramatic school, he once played Romeo to Judy Davis’s Juliet.
76. “Normally, both your asses would be dead as f**king fried chicken, but you happen to pull this s**t while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you.”
SAMUEL L. JACKSON
77. He set an Oscar record in 1978 which was tied in 1983 and surpassed in 2007 by a former co-star.
78. “Go into the office, and make out a check, for ‘cash,’ for the sum of $5,000. Then carefully, but carefully Hilary, remove absolutely everything that might subsequently remind me that you had ever been there, including that yellow thing with the blue bulbs which you have such an affection for. Then take the check for $5,000, which I feel you deserve, and get - permanently - lost.”
KATHARINE HEPBURN
79. In 2002, TV Guide ranked him #1 male on their listing of the Sexiest TV Stars of All Time. (The distaff honor went to Diana Rigg.)
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN?
80. “That's why I'm sitting here with you. Because you remind me of you. Your eyes, your throat, your lips! Everything about you reminds me of you. Except you. How do you account for that?”
GROUCHO MARX?[/quote]
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 6:44 pm
by mrkelley23
So, at the very least, 37 is Lana Turner, 50 is Olivia de Havilland, and 57 is Timothy Hutton.
Re: Game #151: Hollywood Menage a Trois
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:47 pm
by mellytu74
9. He was the first actor to reprise the role that won him an Oscar.
BING CROSBY
This is not Der Bingle. It's WARNER BAXTER.
He reprised The Cisco Kid in 1931 after winning the Oscar for In Old Arizona in 1929.
So, that fixes the "no ambiguity" one. Mea maxima culpa.
AND here's the "right church, wrong pew" one.
25. He received his only Oscar nomination for a musical role that he had created on the London stage, but he didn’t play the role on Broadway until a revival more than a decade later.
CLIVE REVILL?
It's RON MOODY.
AND I am betting this is the other wrong single question mark....
79. In 2002, TV Guide ranked him #1 male on their listing of the Sexiest TV Stars of All Time. (The distaff honor went to Diana Rigg.)
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN?
I will bet this is GEORGE CLOONEY