littlebeast13 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:03 pm
CONSOLIDATION:
Identify the 60 actors in List A and the 50 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 40 groups, each consisting of two actors and two moves, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
Twenty actors will be used twice, each time in a different way. Thirty movies will be used twice.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. He has received more Oscar nominations for acting than any other winner of the Irving Thalberg Award.
CLINT EASTWOOD? WARREN BEATTY?
A-2. “I've been to a million auditions, and the same thing happens every time, where I get interrupted because someone wants to get a sandwich. Or I'm crying, and they start laughing. Or there's people sitting in the waiting room, and they're ... and they're like me but prettier and better at the ... because maybe I'm not good enough.”
TERI GARR? EMMA STONE?
A-3. This veteran actor made his last feature film in 1954 – the same year he began starring in the first of the two television series for which he won Emmy awards.
ROBERT YOUNG
A-4. “I brought a young lady swimming out here once - more than 20 years ago. It was after my wife had lost her mind. And my boys was dead. Me and this young lady was pretty wild, I guess. In pretty deep. We used to come out here on horseback and go swimmin' without no bathin' suits. One day she wanted to swim the horses across this tank. Kind of a crazy thing to do, but we done it anyway. She bet me a silver dollar she could beat me across. She did. This old horse I was riding didn't want to take the water. But she was always looking for somethin' to do like that. Somethin' wild. I bet she's still got that silver dollar.”
BEN JOHNSON?
A-5. Her screen career has included adaptations of works by Shakespeare, Dostoevski, Ibsen, Hemingway, John Osborne, and Ray Bradbury.
CLAIRE BLOOM
A-6. “Epilepsy, my friends, epilepsy! The same disease that struck down our own beloved Dostoevski! Give, give! From the bottom of your hearts!”
FRANK LANGELLA
A-7. This English actor starred in the first live-action film ever made from a video game.
BOB HOSKINS
A-8. “I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture ... and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill!”
MATTHEW MODINE
A-9. More than forty years after her untimely death, this actress was cited in Number One songs by Kim Carnes and Madonna.
JEAN HARLOW
A-10. “Never underestimate the power of the Schwartz!”
MEL BROOKS
A-11. Thanks to a new drug treatment, he was able to overcome crippling arthritis and revitalize his career – eventually winning an Oscar.
JAMES COBURN
A-12. “I am the King. I tell, I am not TOLD. I am the VERB, sir, not the OBJECT.”
NIGEL HAWTHORNE
A-13. He famously played a suspicious landlord on the big screen and an even more suspicious landlord on the small screen.
NORMAN FELL
A-14. “Yeah, my dog ate my stash, man.”
TOMMY CHONG?
A-15. She cemented her status as a Broadway legend when she asked the musical question, “Does anyone still wear a hat?”
ELAINE STRITCH
A-16. “Now, you said that - you know, he was worshiped like a god. Now, is he a god? I don’t know if he's a god. I mean he ate a cat, so I mean, I don't, I don't know!”
RICHARD JENKINS
A-17. She was leaving a restaurant with Goldie Hawn when she was hit by a passing motorist, which put her career on hold for three years.
EILEEN BRENNAN
A-18. “You watch your phraseology, young lady!”
PAUL FORD
A-19. In a single year, she had an affair with the action hero who starred in her first film and married the action hero who starred in her second film.
A-20. “Thank you for a memorable afternoon. Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.”
JOHN GIELGUD
A-21. On screen, she responded passionately to the kisses of Marlon Brando, but accepted with reluctance a friendly peck from Charlton Heston.
KIM HUNTER
A-22. “Barney Quill … was my father!”
KATHRYN GRANT
A-23. This highly decorated World War II veteran starred in a controversial episode of The Twilight Zone that was removed from circulation for decades.
NEVILLE BRAND?
A-24. “God forgive me. I've persecuted her, and I did not believe her ... because I was filled with hate and envy. God help me to serve this chosen soul for the rest of my days. God help me! God help me!”
GLADYS COOPER
A-25. Lots of people over the years may have expressed a desire to kill this television commentator, but the conspirators in a 1995 thriller actually succeeded.
A-26. “Poppies. Poppies will put them to sleep.”
MARGARET HAMILTON
A-27. This western star was the most famous of the 492 victims of the second most deadly single-building fire in American history.
BUCK JONES
A-28. “Great game, Jimmy. I especially liked that move in the seventh inning when you scratched your balls for an hour.”
DAVID STRATHAIRN
A-29. Her on-screen husbands included Cornel Wilde, Don Ameche, John Lund, and John Payne.
GENE TIERNEY
A-30. “Don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy! You can do that in China, but you can get your ass killed out here, man!”
CHRIS TUCKER
A-31. Her Broadway role in a Eugene O’Neill revival enabled her to complete the Triple Crown of Acting.
JESSICA LANGE
A-32. “Look at this! Look at this! I'm so ticked off that I'm molting!
GILBERT GOTTFRIED
A-33. Known for her supporting roles in eleven Jerry Lewis comedies, this veteran character actress died of cancer five days after leaving the cast of the Broadway musical that brought her her only major award nomination.
KATHLEEN FREEMAN
A-34. “I need that wedding. I need some beauty and some music and some place cards before I die. It's like heroin.”
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
A-35. Bette Davis, Cate Blanchett, and this character actress each played the same real-life role on the big screen twice.
FLORA ROBSON
A-36. “One night, Bobby Vinton sent us champagne. There was nothing like it. I didn't think there was anything strange in any of this. You know, a twenty-one-year-old kid with such connections. He was an exciting guy. He was really nice. He introduced me to everybody. Everybody wanted to be nice to him. And he knew how to handle it.”
LORRAINE BRACCO
A-37. She made her film debut in a Shakespearean role that would later be played onscreen by Francesca Annis, Marion Cotillard, and Isuzu Yamada.
JEANETTE NOLAN
A-38. “Danny, Danny, there's a lot of, uh, well, badness in the world today. I see it in court today. I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't wanna do it, but felt I owed it to them.”
TED KNIGHT
A-39. In two of his best-known film roles, he helped kill an entire family and single-handedly killed Robert Redford.
SCOTT WILSON
A-40. “If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy. Pez. Cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it.”
JERRY O'CONNELL
A-41. In stage musicals, he played roles that had previously been played on film by Jack Lemmon and Adolphe Menjou.
JERRY ORBACH
A-42. “Something hit us! All the flight crew is dead or badly injured! There's no one left to fly the plane! Help us! Oh my God, help us!”
KAREN BLACK? JULIE HAGERTY?
A-43. This was the youngest African American actor to win a competitive Oscar.
LUPITA N'YONGO? JENNIFER HUDSON?
A-44. “If there's nothing else, there's applause. I've listened backstage to people applaud. It's like - like waves of love coming over the footlights and wrapping you up. Imagine, to know every night that different hundreds of people love you. They smile, their eyes shine, you've pleased them. They want you. You belong. Just that alone is worth anything.”
ANNE BAXTER
A-45. He appeared in screen versions of both an Arthur Miller play and a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical.
CAMERON MITCHELL
A-46. “I'm gonna hit you so hard that when you wake up your clothes will be out of style!”
JOSH BROLIN
A-47. Two decades after this British actor played an iconic television role, his son-in-law took over the same role.
PETER DAVISON
A-48. “Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.”
JANE POWELL
A-49. He appeared onscreen in adaptations of novels by – among others – Rudyard Kipling, Herman Melville, Larry McMurtry, Conrad Richter, and Jerzy Kosinski.
A-50. “Some people have a hard time explaining rock 'n' roll. I don't think anyone can really explain rock 'n' roll. Maybe Pete Townshend, but that's okay. Rock 'n' roll is a lifestyle and a way of thinking ... and it's not about money and popularity. Although, some money would be nice. But it's a voice that says, ‘Here I am ... and f**k you if you can't understand me.’ And one of these people is gonna save the world. And that means that rock 'n' roll can save the world ... all of us together. And the chicks are great. But what it all comes down to is that thing. The indefinable thing when people catch something in your music.”
JASON LEE
A-51. When she was in her sixties, this respected Irish actress launched a second career as a cabaret singer. (I saw her one-woman show and she was wonderful.)
A-52. “I think I do remember hearing something on TV about colon cleansin'. They say everyone should have one. I'm thinkin' about gettin' me an appointment and go down and get my colon cleansed thoroughly.”
EDDIE MURPHY
A-53. He and Diana Ross are the only performers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to have also received Oscar nominations as actors.
BOBBY DARIN
A-54. “The only reason for being a bee is to make honey. And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.”
STERLING HOLLOWAY
A-55. As a result of their work on their most popular movie, this British actor and his wife became ardent supporters of animal rights and eventually established a foundation named for that movie.
A-56. “I'm hard to get, Steve. All you have to do is ask me.”
LAUREN BACALL
A-57. Though he was undoubtedly part Polynesian, there is some doubt about the accuracy of his claim that his mother was a Tahitian princess.
JON HALL
A-58. “You can start by wiping that f**king dumb-ass smile off your rosy f**ing cheeks! Then you can give me a f**ing automobile! A f**ing Datsun, a f**ing Toyota, a f**ing Mustang, a f**ing Buick! Four f**ing wheels and a seat!”
STEVE MARTIN
A-59. The knee movements of the smallest mushroom in Fantasia were modeled after this screen funnyman.
CURLY HOWARD
A-60. “You wouldn't be able to do these awful things to me if I weren't still in this chair.”
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. Stephen Spielberg named the main antagonist in this movie after his lawyer.
JAWS
B-2. “What is your nationality?”
“I'm a drunkard.”
CASABLANCA
B-3. While many think this movie cops out on the ending of the original novel, it actually follows the changes that Agatha Christie herself made in the stage adaptation.
TEN LITTLE INDIANS (OR AND THEN THERE WERE NONE)? MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS? WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION?
B-4. “Listen kid, I'm not gonna bulls**t you, all right? I don't give a good f**k what you know or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing to me to torture a cop. You can say anything you want ‘cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get.”
RESERVOIR DOGS
B-5. The 1966 remake of this 1943 comedy marked the final screen appearance of one of Hollywood’s most beloved stars.
THE MORE THE MERRIER
B-6. “You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.”
GIANT
B-7. This 1957 classic was the first Disney movie sans animation to be selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
OLD YELLER
B-8. “Forgive me?”
“Forgive you for what?”
“For everything. For meeting you, in the first place. For taking the piece of grit out of your eye. For loving you. For bringing you so much misery.”
“I'll forgive you if you'll forgive me.”
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
B-9. This horror movie features the only Oscar nominee for Best Original Song written in Latin … but the Pope would not have approved.
THE OMEN
B-10. “You're probably thinking, ‘My boyfriend said this was a superhero movie, but that guy in the suit just turned that other guy into a f**king kebab!’ Well, I may be super, but I'm no hero. And yeah, technically, this is a murder. But some of the best love stories start with a murder. And that's exactly what this is, a love story. And to tell it right, I gotta take you back to long before I squeezed this ass into red spandex.
DEADPOOL
B-11. Ira Hayes played himself in this movie.
SANDS OF IWO JIMA
B-12. “We don't commit murder here. We're a deeply religious people.”
“Religious? With ruined churches, no ministers, no priests, and children dancing naked?”
“They do love their divinity lessons.”
“But they are naked!”
“Naturally! It's much too dangerous to jump through the fire with your clothes on!”
THE WICKER MAN
B-13. This film marks the only time Frederick Douglass was portrayed – albeit briefly – by an actor in a feature film. (Now there’s a biopic waiting to happen….)
LINCOLN
B-14. “Sorry to wake you but something has come up.”
“Yeah, I know, she just paid me a visit with a butcher knife.”
PLAY MISTY FOR ME
B-15. The University of Arizona Agricultural Department were given the assignment of making sure the corn in this musical lived up to the claims made about it.
OKLAHOMA
B-16. “I'm not a mouse and I'm not a man. I'm a dentist!”
THE PALEFACE
B-17. Four words have been added to the title of this blockbuster to match the titles of its three sequels.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
B-18. ‘He used to be a big shot.”
THE ROARING TWENTIES
B-19. This 1934 movie reunited a popular character star with the actor who had played his son in his Oscar-winning role.
TREASURE ISLAND
B-20. Did you hear that, Annie?”
“I heard it. About time one of you lunkheads said it!”
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
B-21. If you want to see President Harry Truman sing a duet with Colonel Bat Guano, this will surely be your only chance.
KISS ME KATE
B-22. “According to the map, we've only gone four inches.”
A WALK IN THE WOODS
B-23. Frank Capra wanted Marie Dressler to play the title role in this movie, but Harry Cohen nixed the idea of borrowing her from MGM.
LADY FOR A DAY
B-24. “So what resolution should we make for the new year? It's to let God know that you have the guts and the will to do it alone. Resolve to fight for yourselves, and for others, for those you love. And that part of God within you will be fighting with you all the way.”
THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
B-25. This movie marked the second time that Deborah Kerr played a role that had previously earned Margaret Leighton a Tony.
NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
B-26. “Don't f**k with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.”
MOMMY DEAREST
B-27. This 1953 adaptation of a sci-fi classic changed the setting from Victorian England to southern California.
WAR OF THE WORLDS
B-28. “This country and its institutions belong to the people who inhibit it.”
BORN YESTERDAY
B-29. This widely-panned 2011 film was a remake of one of the movies quoted in Part A.
ARTHUR
B-30. “I mean, why do we have a winner? I mean, if we just wanted to intimidate the districts, why not round up twenty-four of them at random and execute them all at once? Be a lot faster.”
One of the HUNGER GAMES movies
B-31. One of the young stars of this movie famously – but temporarily – changed her name to honor a bird injured during filming.
LAST SUMMER
B-32. “How's this for a new team name: The Ducks!”
“Please! What kind of Mickey Mouse organization would name their team the Ducks?”
SPACE JAM
B-33. This 1951 film is generally regarded as the best of more than 50 screen and television adaptations of the same source material – including an animated version twenty years later in which the lead actor reprised his role.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
B-34. “My first novel, on which I had labored for seven years, was just out. Surprisingly for a scholarly work on early Virginia, it was doing a brisk nationwide sale - possibly because it was liberally peppered with sex. Because, after all, early Virginia was liberally peppered with sex. Could that have been why Hollywood bought it?”
BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
B-35. The big band classic performed by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers in this movie was the first recording to receive a Gold Record.
SUN VALLEY SERENADE
B-36. “Four years ago something terrible happened here. We did nothing about it, nothing. The whole town fell into a sort of settled melancholy and all the people in it closed their eyes and held their tongues and failed the test with a whimper. And now something terrible's going to happen again – and in a way, we're lucky, because we've been given a second chance.”
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
B-37. This movie featured my favorite actress in a role originated on Broadway by Tammy Grimes.
CALIFORNIA SUITE
B-38. “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
DEAD POETS SOCIETY
B-39. The first American film by a European director who went on to win two Oscars, it was notorious at the time for its strip poker scene.
THE ICE STORM
B-40. “Now go out there and be so swell that you'll make me hate you!”
42ND STREET
B-41. One of the stars of the preceding film made a long-desired transition – and successful – transition to tougher roles with this movie.
MURDER MY SWEET
B-42. “I'm ten years old. My life is half over and I don't even know if I'm black with white stripes or white with black stripes!”
MADAGASCAR
B-43. This comedy was a gender-reversed remake of an earlier film starring Clark Gable’s wife and Florence Eldredge’s husband.
LIVING IT UP
B-44. “You've got it all wrong, the issue here ain't p*ssy. The issue here is monkey.”
THE RIGHT STUFF
B-45. This movie featured Nora Charles as Glinda.
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
B-46. “Well I'm as much agin' killin' as ever, sir. But it was this way, Colonel. When I started out, I felt just like you said, but when I hear them machine guns a-goin', and all them fellas are droppin' around me, I figured them guns was killin' hundreds, maybe thousands, and there weren't nothin' anybody could do, but to stop them guns. And that's what I done.”
SERGEANT YORK
B-47. Four of the five actors nominated for Oscars for this movie were never nominated before or after; the fifth was nominated four other times without ever winning.
B-48. “It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room.”
“”No, it’s awful!”
BROADCAST NEWS
B-49. The censors wanted to cut General McAuliffe’s famous reply to a Nazi surrender demand out of this film, but were finally convinced that no other word would do.
BATTLEGROUND
B-50. “Hey, that's my cat! His name's Jake, not Fellini! I won't have any ‘eenie’ in this house!”
BREAKING AWAY