Game #213: Tonight on HBO
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 10:11 am
Game #213: Tonight on HBO
Identify the 100 actors in List A and the 50 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 60 trios consisting of two actors and one movie according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Twenty actor will be used twice, each time in a different capacity. Ten movies will be used twice.
LIST A
A-1. His greatest comedy was named, not for a military leader, but for a locomotive.
A-2. “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid.”
A-3. This Australian actress won a Tony for playing Medea and an Emmy for playing Lady Macbeth.
A-4. “What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust. A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play.”
A-5. He was already renowned as an athlete when he was cast in the iconic role that he went on to play in 12 feature films.
A-6. “I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter. You're just a little taller.”
A-7. His uncle won an Oscar for pretending to kill his dog.
A-8. “Do ... or do not. There is no try.”
A-9. His film career included adaptations of novels by Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, and John Galsworthy.
A-10. “That is the ugliest lamp I have ever seen in my entire life!”
A-11. As a result of a series of television commercials, she began wearing a t-shirt imprinted with the phrase “I am not Mrs. James Garner.”
A-12. “Joey, there's no living with a killing. There's no going back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand. A brand sticks. There's no going back. Now you run on home to your mother, and tell her ... tell her everything's all right. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.”
A-13. Three years before playing her most famous screen role, she herself was portrayed onscreen by Myrna Loy.
A-14. “I'm ten, and I think your dress is the ugliest one I ever saw!”
A-15. This Welsh actress played a German servant in my favorite all-star murder mystery.
A-16. “Is there any way to make this a fair fight?”
“We could jump out and swim.”
“We'd have to jump out and drown.”
“Well, you could row forward and I could row backward.”
“We're genetically identical. Science says we'd stay in one place.”
“Just row the damn boat.”
A-17. This American mime is best known for several collaborations with a Mexican director.
A-18. “I don't care if I have to get out on your runway and hitchhike! If it costs me everything I own, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to get home to my son!”
A-19. In 1936, she somehow managed to turn the nerdy co-author of You Can’t Take It With You and Dinner at Eight into a national sex symbol.
A-20. “They talk about flat-footed policemen. May the saints protect us from the gifted amateur!”
A-21. She got her big break at the age of 18 when Joe Pesci spotted her in a bathing beauty contest at a Bronx bar.
A-22. “I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought.”
A-23. True to his reputation, this actor – at the age of 73 years – got into a fistfight with Quentin Tarantino, who called him “a complete lunatic.”
A-24. “Remember how you said your parents use you to get back at each other? Wouldn't I be outstanding in that capacity?”
A-25. Nothing he did on screen – including saving Earth from a deadly extraterrestrial microbe – could match his Tony-winning performance in a classic Edward Albee play.
A-26. “I don't know about the rest of 'em, but I'm gettin' a little tired of this yackity-yack and back-and-forth. It's gettin' us nowhere. So I guess I'll have to break it up. I change my vote to ‘not guilty.’”
A-27. When Richard Burton turned down the role of a child molester in order to do Camelot, this actor got the part – and an Oscar nomination.
A-28. “I feel a noose tightening. The family is truly desperate. Desperate motives, with the mystery of who hired me, the impossibility of the crime, and yet a doughnut. One central piece, and if it reveals itself, the fog would lift, the arc would resolve, the Slinky become unkinked.”
A-29. He was officially named a Disney Legend more than 40 years after Walt personally fired him as the result of an incident involving a 15-year-old boy.
A-30. “I have to buy some more pee-wees. I lost three of them playing with Little Jack Horner.”
A-31. This American actress has starred in films directed by Brian De Palma, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Richard Benjamin, and – most memorably – Dario Argento.
A-32. “Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!”
A-33. Arguably Sweden’s greatest stage actor, he also made a mark in silent films – especially the romantic epic that made Greta Garbo a star and two American dramas opposite Lillian Gish.
A-34. "Was you ever bit by a dead bee?”
A-35. Like Cliff Edwards, she is known for playing a Cricket.
A-36. “I had the strangest dream. I dreamt that some psychopath was trying to break the two of you up. Luckily, I woke up and I see that the world is just as it should be.”
A-37. This songwriter had his most notable film role as the supportive uncle of a troubled war veteran.
A-38. “Some people are worth melting for.”
A-39. In 1966, she completed an eponymous set that also included Candace, Elizabeth, Jessica, Joanna, Kathleen, Mary, and Shirley.
A-40. "We have got to get organized!”
A-41. His real-life roles included a railway mogul and gourmand, a New Hampshire congressman, and the King of France.
A-42. “You keep forgetting if a girl is six-feet-five inches tall, she's bound to have special problems. They had some argument and then they started screaming at each other. And now the whole engagement's off, and she says she's leaving.”
A-43. His notable early roles included a young man possessed by a dead serial killer, a leather-jacked Brooklyn teen, and a gay man who falls in love with a lesbian.
A-44. “I pick up the ball and I throw it to Naturally.”
A-45. His role as a sailor in Since You Went Away lasted a mere three minutes, but his good looks brought him thousands of fan letters and a contract with Selznick.
A-46. “I mean, no offence or anything, but I've never been with a black man in my life.”
A-47. In 1939, he played the world’s most famous bhisti.
A-48. “This is my Boomstick!”
A-49. This Tony- and Emmy-award-winning actor played Harry Truman three times … and was probably the first person to moon someone on a prime-time network television series.
A-50. “Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it's the sand of the coliseum. He'll bring them death - and they will love him for it.”
A-51. This English actress played the female lead in three of Roger Corman’s Poe adaptations.
A-52. “They're heeeeere.”
A-53. He showed up in person to accept his three Golden Raspberry Awards – for Worst Actor, Worst Director, and Worst Screen Couple (in tandem with “any animal he abuses”) – and proceeded to play the harmonica so badly and for so long that he had to be dragged off stage.
A-54. “Unlimited technology from the whole universe, and we cruise 'round in a Ford P.O.S.”
A-55. She voiced the only official African American Disney princess.
A-56. “I can't believe my Grandmother actually felt me up!”
A-57. This English actress played the female lead in a Rex Harrison musical that most emphatically did not need a female lead.
A-58. “If I marry you, my mother will die!”
A-59. While doing stunt work on Fort Apache, he stopped a stampeding horse, saving three men from harm – and earning him an acting contract that started him on the road to an Oscar.
A-60. “Boss, if you didn't want the guys to call you queer, you became a rough, tough, sonofabitchin' football player.”
A-61. His leading ladies included Ann Sheridan, Eleanor Parker, Doris Day, his second wife, and … Shirley Temple??????
A-62. “Push 'em in! All of them! This is what happens when you dummies try to think! We're all just trash waitin' to be thrown away!”
A-63. She was the third wife of the actor who came in second on the AFI list of greatest screen legends.
A-64. “Why do we spend our time living through them? Look at poor old Lewis. If her own mother had a heart attack, she'd think it was less important than one of Lady Sylvia's farts.”
A-65. He had six #1 records in the 1950s and early 1960s, including the title song to one of the movies he starred.
A-66. “Oh God, I pierced the toast!”
A-67. In his last film, James Cagney memorably called this actor “a worthless piece of slime.”
A-68. “I always think there's a band, kid.”
A-69. During their 51-year marriage, she and her fourth husband starred together in 35 films – almost all for Republic Pictures – but they are most fondly remembered for their work on television.
A-70. “Now I say this: the Americans keep cattle but they are not soft or weak. Why should not the Apache be able to learn new ways? It is not easy to change, but sometimes it is required. The Americans grow stronger while we grow weaker. If a big wind comes, a tree must bend ... or be lifted out by the roots.”
A-71. Her first five movies were directed by Elaine May, Martin Scorsese, and her boyfriend.
A-72. “Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you! Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it – every, every minute?”
A-73. In the 1960s, she played a role on the small screen that had been played on the big screen by Lana Turner.
A-74. “We Romans are rich. We've got a lot of gods. We've got a god for everything. The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation ... but I hear that's coming quickly.”
A-75. He received billing equal to – or even above – his human partner in most of the films they made together, but nowadays he’s living in retirement at the Smithsonian Institution.
A-76. “My counsel says we were not aware of the extermination of the millions. He would give you the excuse: We were only aware of the extermination of the hundreds. Does that make us any the less guilty? Maybe we didn't know the details. But if we didn't know, it was because we didn't want to know.”
A-77. This comedian has given voice to a white rabbit in an animated feature and to Kanye West in a music video.
A-78. “The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it. The way the sun goes down when you're tired, comes up when you want to be on the move. That's real magic. The way a leaf grows. The song of the birds. The way the desert looks at night, with the moon embracing it. Oh, my boy, that's ... that's circus enough for anyone. Every time you watch a rainbow and feel wonder in your heart. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand. Every time you stop and think, ‘I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!’”
A-79. Her onscreen children included Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power, and Henry Fonda.
A-80. “I was most unfortunate in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I'm afraid I've lost my liking for them.”
A-81. A real-life sharpshooter and expert on Native American culture, this early Western star was also a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army – though in some of his later films he billed himself at the lesser rank of ‘Colonel.’
A-82. “She said I was ugly, a hideous creature! I heard the two of you talking!”
A-83. Her onscreen fathers included Rock Hudson, Charles Bickford, and Karl Malden.
A-84. “My last wife was an acrobatic dancer. You know, sort of a contortionist. She could smoke a cigarette while holding it between her toes. Zowie! But Mama broke it up.”
A-85. She won an Oscar for a villainous role that had been turned down by – among others – Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury, and Colleen Dewhurst.
A-86. “Hey, now, look, now somebody's gonna have to give me a hand with that Simmons dame. She's terrible! You know, I had to take her corset off all by myself!”
A-87. He won an NAACP Image Award for his performance as Booker T. Washington.
A-88. “Very well, if that’s the way you want it. Very well, if you won’t play for me, you shan’t play for anyone else ever again!”
A-89. She remains the oldest person ever to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
A-90. “You give us the tapes. We get the record contract. We come back and give you your f**kin' money. Have you heard the tapes? Have you even heard them? We're guaranteed a record deal. Our stuff is that good!”
A-91. Her last film role before her suicide was as a motherly mouse.
A-92. “I won't be here when you get back, don't you see? It's going to happen before then. Don't ask me to explain it, I just know. There'll be somebody with my name, and she'll cook and clean like crazy, but she won't take pictures, and she won't be me! She'll, she'll, she'll be like one of those the robots in Disneyland.”
A-93. Her screen husbands have included Walter Matthau, William Holden, Sam Wanamaker, Telly Savalas, Richard Crenna, and – most memorably – the actor in Clue A-26.
A-94. “Here I come, ready or not! You f**k! I can hear your f**kin' radio, you stupid s**t! You got about one f**kin' second to live, buddy! You're one sorry piece of s**t, mister. Hey, pretty, pretty! What the f**k? Where are you? Where are you?”
A-95. This Austrian actor is best remembered for playing a bombastic Norwegian.
A-96. “Those aren't pillows!”
A-97. She completes a quintet that also includes Angelina, Seth, Jackie, and David.
A-98. “What a nice little dog. And you, my dear, what an unexpected pleasure. It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness.”
A-99. She has played a First Lady and a Pink Lady.
A-100. “And Robert? Try not to blow up the world.”
LIST B
B-1. This all-star disaster movie was one of the first to use “staggered” billing, so that either of its two male leads would appear to have top billing depending on whether you read left-to-right or top-to-bottom.
B-2. “One minute you're defending the whole galaxy and suddenly, you find yourself sucking down Darjeeling with Marie Antoinette and her little sister.”
B-3. When Robert Redford tested for the lead in this movie, the director told him, “Bob, look in the mirror. Can you honestly imagine a guy like you having difficulty seducing a woman?"
B-4. “Bless us, oh Lord, for these Thy gifts which we are about to receive. And yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of no food, I will fear no hunger. We want you to give us this day, our daily bread. And to the republic for which it stands, and by the power invested in me, I pronounce us ready to eat. Amen.”
B-5. This adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel won an honorary Juvenile Oscar for the boy chosen to play the lead.
B-6. “When Man entered the Atomic Age, he opened the door to a new world. What we may eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”
B-7. In this movie, as in real life, the title character finally gets the Oscar that he had won almost 20 years earlier.
B-8. “If I were not mad, I could have helped you. Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you. But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!”
B-9. Stephen Sondheim went on record saying that this was the only successful film version of one of his musicals.
B-10. “From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now ... 16 years old!”
B-11. Based on a comic strip, this notorious turkey featured a 7-year-old actor – who never made another movie – in the title role.
B-12. “What's a logical explanation for a woman taking a trip with no luggage?”
“That she didn't know she was going on a trip and where she was going she wouldn't need any luggage.”
B-13. The last film produced by David O. Selznick, it featured his wife in a role previously played on screen by Charles MacArthur’s wife.
B-14. “I think back to that Christmas morning and I wish I'd just gotten a Teddy Ruxpin.”
“Say that again.”
“Teddy Rux-f**kin'-pin.”
B-15. The treehouse that plays a prominent role in this Disney movie was later destroyed when Hurricane Flora devastated Tobago.
B-16. “A single mom who's working two jobs and still finds time to take her kid to soccer practice, that's a miracle. A teenager who says ‘no’ to drugs and ‘yes’ to an education, that's a miracle. People want me to do everything for them. But what they don't realize is they have the power. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.”
B-17. In this literary adaptation, Rameses plays the brother of Ishmael.
B-18. “Am I still in this world?”
“Yes, Grandfather.”
“I was afraid of that. Well, sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't.”
B-19. A visit to an AA meeting was one of the scenes added to this adaptation of William Inge’s first play.
B-20. “Did you hear I finally graduated?”
“Yeah, and just a shade under a decade, too.”
B-21. Every time I drive through the Holland Tunnel, I think about the climax of this 1957 movie, which shares a genre with the movie in Clue B-6.
B-22. “You fight for me, you get to kill the English.”
“Excellent!”
B-23. Only four films have ever received Oscar nominations for three different songs: Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Dreamgirls, and this one.
B-24. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, you know, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. You know, there's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's pretty cold in there in the winter. So, we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of. ‘Hur hänger det, mormor?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
B-25. Douglas MacArthur said that his participation in the trial depicted in this film was one of the most distasteful orders he ever received.
B-26. “How can something so small create so much of something so disgusting?”
B-27. In this 1971 film, a group of Bedwetters set out to rescue a herd of bison.
B-28. “You know, I don't care which dress we get. I just need to get off this white carpet!”
B-29. This movie featured Ronald Colman in a role that would later be played – most unfortunately – by the actor in Clue A-32.
B-30. “It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it comin'. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.”
B-31. A well-regarded drama on a serious theme, it had the misfortune to be released the same year as a classic comedy on the same theme.
B-32. “It's my leg! I want my leg, you understand? Can't you understand that? All's I'm sayin' is that I want to be treated like a human being! I fought for my country!”
B-33. This movie represented a “collaboration” between the composer of L'Arlésienne and the lyricist of Show Boat.
B-34. “The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angka are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive.”
B-35. This film was slightly more successful than its director’s previous opus, Piranha II: The Spawning.
B-36. “Why don't you grow up, Baxter? Be a mensch! You know what that means?”
“I'm not sure.”
“A mensch - a human being!”
B-37. The much-touted audio process developed for this disaster movie was used for only a few later films, including Midway and Rollercoaster.
B-38. “All right people, we got 10 minutes 'till game time, let's all gather 'round. I'm not much for giving inspirational addresses, but I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves.”
B-39. This movie by the Oscar-winning director of a film about the war on drugs is a remake of a movie by the Oscar-winning director of a film about the War to End All Wars.
B-40. “Give me a Tab.”
“Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something.”
“Right. Give me a Pepsi Free.”
“You want a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it.”
B-41. This film about actresses was based – very loosely – on a Broadway hit co-written by the playwright cited in Clue A-19.
B-42. “Scream all you want, small mailman.”
“None of your mailman friends can hear you.”
B-43. The visual effects for this Hitchcock film were created by longtime Disney animator Ub Iwerks.
B-44. “Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.”
“What?”
“He lived happily ever after.”
B-45. Oscar-wise, this movie completes a list that also includes Born Yesterday, Funny Girl, and the film in Clue B-19.
B-46. “We all know most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia.”
B-47. This was the only sequel that John Carpenter ever directed.
B-48. “I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.”
B-49. No alarm bells went off to save the actress who starred in this film, the winner of seven Golden Raspberry awards.
B-50. “When he was nine years old he ran away from a fight. I saw it; I was so embarrassed I almost threw up. I said, ‘I'm gonna make a man outta you if I have to break you in two tryin'.’ And I made a man out of him. When he was sixteen, we had a fight. Hit me in the jaw - a big kid. Haven't seen him for two years. Kids ... work your heart out....”
Identify the 100 actors in List A and the 50 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 60 trios consisting of two actors and one movie according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Twenty actor will be used twice, each time in a different capacity. Ten movies will be used twice.
LIST A
A-1. His greatest comedy was named, not for a military leader, but for a locomotive.
A-2. “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid.”
A-3. This Australian actress won a Tony for playing Medea and an Emmy for playing Lady Macbeth.
A-4. “What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust. A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play.”
A-5. He was already renowned as an athlete when he was cast in the iconic role that he went on to play in 12 feature films.
A-6. “I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter. You're just a little taller.”
A-7. His uncle won an Oscar for pretending to kill his dog.
A-8. “Do ... or do not. There is no try.”
A-9. His film career included adaptations of novels by Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, and John Galsworthy.
A-10. “That is the ugliest lamp I have ever seen in my entire life!”
A-11. As a result of a series of television commercials, she began wearing a t-shirt imprinted with the phrase “I am not Mrs. James Garner.”
A-12. “Joey, there's no living with a killing. There's no going back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand. A brand sticks. There's no going back. Now you run on home to your mother, and tell her ... tell her everything's all right. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.”
A-13. Three years before playing her most famous screen role, she herself was portrayed onscreen by Myrna Loy.
A-14. “I'm ten, and I think your dress is the ugliest one I ever saw!”
A-15. This Welsh actress played a German servant in my favorite all-star murder mystery.
A-16. “Is there any way to make this a fair fight?”
“We could jump out and swim.”
“We'd have to jump out and drown.”
“Well, you could row forward and I could row backward.”
“We're genetically identical. Science says we'd stay in one place.”
“Just row the damn boat.”
A-17. This American mime is best known for several collaborations with a Mexican director.
A-18. “I don't care if I have to get out on your runway and hitchhike! If it costs me everything I own, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to get home to my son!”
A-19. In 1936, she somehow managed to turn the nerdy co-author of You Can’t Take It With You and Dinner at Eight into a national sex symbol.
A-20. “They talk about flat-footed policemen. May the saints protect us from the gifted amateur!”
A-21. She got her big break at the age of 18 when Joe Pesci spotted her in a bathing beauty contest at a Bronx bar.
A-22. “I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought.”
A-23. True to his reputation, this actor – at the age of 73 years – got into a fistfight with Quentin Tarantino, who called him “a complete lunatic.”
A-24. “Remember how you said your parents use you to get back at each other? Wouldn't I be outstanding in that capacity?”
A-25. Nothing he did on screen – including saving Earth from a deadly extraterrestrial microbe – could match his Tony-winning performance in a classic Edward Albee play.
A-26. “I don't know about the rest of 'em, but I'm gettin' a little tired of this yackity-yack and back-and-forth. It's gettin' us nowhere. So I guess I'll have to break it up. I change my vote to ‘not guilty.’”
A-27. When Richard Burton turned down the role of a child molester in order to do Camelot, this actor got the part – and an Oscar nomination.
A-28. “I feel a noose tightening. The family is truly desperate. Desperate motives, with the mystery of who hired me, the impossibility of the crime, and yet a doughnut. One central piece, and if it reveals itself, the fog would lift, the arc would resolve, the Slinky become unkinked.”
A-29. He was officially named a Disney Legend more than 40 years after Walt personally fired him as the result of an incident involving a 15-year-old boy.
A-30. “I have to buy some more pee-wees. I lost three of them playing with Little Jack Horner.”
A-31. This American actress has starred in films directed by Brian De Palma, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Richard Benjamin, and – most memorably – Dario Argento.
A-32. “Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!”
A-33. Arguably Sweden’s greatest stage actor, he also made a mark in silent films – especially the romantic epic that made Greta Garbo a star and two American dramas opposite Lillian Gish.
A-34. "Was you ever bit by a dead bee?”
A-35. Like Cliff Edwards, she is known for playing a Cricket.
A-36. “I had the strangest dream. I dreamt that some psychopath was trying to break the two of you up. Luckily, I woke up and I see that the world is just as it should be.”
A-37. This songwriter had his most notable film role as the supportive uncle of a troubled war veteran.
A-38. “Some people are worth melting for.”
A-39. In 1966, she completed an eponymous set that also included Candace, Elizabeth, Jessica, Joanna, Kathleen, Mary, and Shirley.
A-40. "We have got to get organized!”
A-41. His real-life roles included a railway mogul and gourmand, a New Hampshire congressman, and the King of France.
A-42. “You keep forgetting if a girl is six-feet-five inches tall, she's bound to have special problems. They had some argument and then they started screaming at each other. And now the whole engagement's off, and she says she's leaving.”
A-43. His notable early roles included a young man possessed by a dead serial killer, a leather-jacked Brooklyn teen, and a gay man who falls in love with a lesbian.
A-44. “I pick up the ball and I throw it to Naturally.”
A-45. His role as a sailor in Since You Went Away lasted a mere three minutes, but his good looks brought him thousands of fan letters and a contract with Selznick.
A-46. “I mean, no offence or anything, but I've never been with a black man in my life.”
A-47. In 1939, he played the world’s most famous bhisti.
A-48. “This is my Boomstick!”
A-49. This Tony- and Emmy-award-winning actor played Harry Truman three times … and was probably the first person to moon someone on a prime-time network television series.
A-50. “Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it's the sand of the coliseum. He'll bring them death - and they will love him for it.”
A-51. This English actress played the female lead in three of Roger Corman’s Poe adaptations.
A-52. “They're heeeeere.”
A-53. He showed up in person to accept his three Golden Raspberry Awards – for Worst Actor, Worst Director, and Worst Screen Couple (in tandem with “any animal he abuses”) – and proceeded to play the harmonica so badly and for so long that he had to be dragged off stage.
A-54. “Unlimited technology from the whole universe, and we cruise 'round in a Ford P.O.S.”
A-55. She voiced the only official African American Disney princess.
A-56. “I can't believe my Grandmother actually felt me up!”
A-57. This English actress played the female lead in a Rex Harrison musical that most emphatically did not need a female lead.
A-58. “If I marry you, my mother will die!”
A-59. While doing stunt work on Fort Apache, he stopped a stampeding horse, saving three men from harm – and earning him an acting contract that started him on the road to an Oscar.
A-60. “Boss, if you didn't want the guys to call you queer, you became a rough, tough, sonofabitchin' football player.”
A-61. His leading ladies included Ann Sheridan, Eleanor Parker, Doris Day, his second wife, and … Shirley Temple??????
A-62. “Push 'em in! All of them! This is what happens when you dummies try to think! We're all just trash waitin' to be thrown away!”
A-63. She was the third wife of the actor who came in second on the AFI list of greatest screen legends.
A-64. “Why do we spend our time living through them? Look at poor old Lewis. If her own mother had a heart attack, she'd think it was less important than one of Lady Sylvia's farts.”
A-65. He had six #1 records in the 1950s and early 1960s, including the title song to one of the movies he starred.
A-66. “Oh God, I pierced the toast!”
A-67. In his last film, James Cagney memorably called this actor “a worthless piece of slime.”
A-68. “I always think there's a band, kid.”
A-69. During their 51-year marriage, she and her fourth husband starred together in 35 films – almost all for Republic Pictures – but they are most fondly remembered for their work on television.
A-70. “Now I say this: the Americans keep cattle but they are not soft or weak. Why should not the Apache be able to learn new ways? It is not easy to change, but sometimes it is required. The Americans grow stronger while we grow weaker. If a big wind comes, a tree must bend ... or be lifted out by the roots.”
A-71. Her first five movies were directed by Elaine May, Martin Scorsese, and her boyfriend.
A-72. “Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you! Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it – every, every minute?”
A-73. In the 1960s, she played a role on the small screen that had been played on the big screen by Lana Turner.
A-74. “We Romans are rich. We've got a lot of gods. We've got a god for everything. The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation ... but I hear that's coming quickly.”
A-75. He received billing equal to – or even above – his human partner in most of the films they made together, but nowadays he’s living in retirement at the Smithsonian Institution.
A-76. “My counsel says we were not aware of the extermination of the millions. He would give you the excuse: We were only aware of the extermination of the hundreds. Does that make us any the less guilty? Maybe we didn't know the details. But if we didn't know, it was because we didn't want to know.”
A-77. This comedian has given voice to a white rabbit in an animated feature and to Kanye West in a music video.
A-78. “The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it. The way the sun goes down when you're tired, comes up when you want to be on the move. That's real magic. The way a leaf grows. The song of the birds. The way the desert looks at night, with the moon embracing it. Oh, my boy, that's ... that's circus enough for anyone. Every time you watch a rainbow and feel wonder in your heart. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand. Every time you stop and think, ‘I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!’”
A-79. Her onscreen children included Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power, and Henry Fonda.
A-80. “I was most unfortunate in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I'm afraid I've lost my liking for them.”
A-81. A real-life sharpshooter and expert on Native American culture, this early Western star was also a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army – though in some of his later films he billed himself at the lesser rank of ‘Colonel.’
A-82. “She said I was ugly, a hideous creature! I heard the two of you talking!”
A-83. Her onscreen fathers included Rock Hudson, Charles Bickford, and Karl Malden.
A-84. “My last wife was an acrobatic dancer. You know, sort of a contortionist. She could smoke a cigarette while holding it between her toes. Zowie! But Mama broke it up.”
A-85. She won an Oscar for a villainous role that had been turned down by – among others – Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury, and Colleen Dewhurst.
A-86. “Hey, now, look, now somebody's gonna have to give me a hand with that Simmons dame. She's terrible! You know, I had to take her corset off all by myself!”
A-87. He won an NAACP Image Award for his performance as Booker T. Washington.
A-88. “Very well, if that’s the way you want it. Very well, if you won’t play for me, you shan’t play for anyone else ever again!”
A-89. She remains the oldest person ever to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
A-90. “You give us the tapes. We get the record contract. We come back and give you your f**kin' money. Have you heard the tapes? Have you even heard them? We're guaranteed a record deal. Our stuff is that good!”
A-91. Her last film role before her suicide was as a motherly mouse.
A-92. “I won't be here when you get back, don't you see? It's going to happen before then. Don't ask me to explain it, I just know. There'll be somebody with my name, and she'll cook and clean like crazy, but she won't take pictures, and she won't be me! She'll, she'll, she'll be like one of those the robots in Disneyland.”
A-93. Her screen husbands have included Walter Matthau, William Holden, Sam Wanamaker, Telly Savalas, Richard Crenna, and – most memorably – the actor in Clue A-26.
A-94. “Here I come, ready or not! You f**k! I can hear your f**kin' radio, you stupid s**t! You got about one f**kin' second to live, buddy! You're one sorry piece of s**t, mister. Hey, pretty, pretty! What the f**k? Where are you? Where are you?”
A-95. This Austrian actor is best remembered for playing a bombastic Norwegian.
A-96. “Those aren't pillows!”
A-97. She completes a quintet that also includes Angelina, Seth, Jackie, and David.
A-98. “What a nice little dog. And you, my dear, what an unexpected pleasure. It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness.”
A-99. She has played a First Lady and a Pink Lady.
A-100. “And Robert? Try not to blow up the world.”
LIST B
B-1. This all-star disaster movie was one of the first to use “staggered” billing, so that either of its two male leads would appear to have top billing depending on whether you read left-to-right or top-to-bottom.
B-2. “One minute you're defending the whole galaxy and suddenly, you find yourself sucking down Darjeeling with Marie Antoinette and her little sister.”
B-3. When Robert Redford tested for the lead in this movie, the director told him, “Bob, look in the mirror. Can you honestly imagine a guy like you having difficulty seducing a woman?"
B-4. “Bless us, oh Lord, for these Thy gifts which we are about to receive. And yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of no food, I will fear no hunger. We want you to give us this day, our daily bread. And to the republic for which it stands, and by the power invested in me, I pronounce us ready to eat. Amen.”
B-5. This adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel won an honorary Juvenile Oscar for the boy chosen to play the lead.
B-6. “When Man entered the Atomic Age, he opened the door to a new world. What we may eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”
B-7. In this movie, as in real life, the title character finally gets the Oscar that he had won almost 20 years earlier.
B-8. “If I were not mad, I could have helped you. Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you. But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!”
B-9. Stephen Sondheim went on record saying that this was the only successful film version of one of his musicals.
B-10. “From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now ... 16 years old!”
B-11. Based on a comic strip, this notorious turkey featured a 7-year-old actor – who never made another movie – in the title role.
B-12. “What's a logical explanation for a woman taking a trip with no luggage?”
“That she didn't know she was going on a trip and where she was going she wouldn't need any luggage.”
B-13. The last film produced by David O. Selznick, it featured his wife in a role previously played on screen by Charles MacArthur’s wife.
B-14. “I think back to that Christmas morning and I wish I'd just gotten a Teddy Ruxpin.”
“Say that again.”
“Teddy Rux-f**kin'-pin.”
B-15. The treehouse that plays a prominent role in this Disney movie was later destroyed when Hurricane Flora devastated Tobago.
B-16. “A single mom who's working two jobs and still finds time to take her kid to soccer practice, that's a miracle. A teenager who says ‘no’ to drugs and ‘yes’ to an education, that's a miracle. People want me to do everything for them. But what they don't realize is they have the power. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.”
B-17. In this literary adaptation, Rameses plays the brother of Ishmael.
B-18. “Am I still in this world?”
“Yes, Grandfather.”
“I was afraid of that. Well, sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't.”
B-19. A visit to an AA meeting was one of the scenes added to this adaptation of William Inge’s first play.
B-20. “Did you hear I finally graduated?”
“Yeah, and just a shade under a decade, too.”
B-21. Every time I drive through the Holland Tunnel, I think about the climax of this 1957 movie, which shares a genre with the movie in Clue B-6.
B-22. “You fight for me, you get to kill the English.”
“Excellent!”
B-23. Only four films have ever received Oscar nominations for three different songs: Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Dreamgirls, and this one.
B-24. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, you know, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. You know, there's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's pretty cold in there in the winter. So, we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of. ‘Hur hänger det, mormor?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
B-25. Douglas MacArthur said that his participation in the trial depicted in this film was one of the most distasteful orders he ever received.
B-26. “How can something so small create so much of something so disgusting?”
B-27. In this 1971 film, a group of Bedwetters set out to rescue a herd of bison.
B-28. “You know, I don't care which dress we get. I just need to get off this white carpet!”
B-29. This movie featured Ronald Colman in a role that would later be played – most unfortunately – by the actor in Clue A-32.
B-30. “It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it comin'. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.”
B-31. A well-regarded drama on a serious theme, it had the misfortune to be released the same year as a classic comedy on the same theme.
B-32. “It's my leg! I want my leg, you understand? Can't you understand that? All's I'm sayin' is that I want to be treated like a human being! I fought for my country!”
B-33. This movie represented a “collaboration” between the composer of L'Arlésienne and the lyricist of Show Boat.
B-34. “The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angka are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive.”
B-35. This film was slightly more successful than its director’s previous opus, Piranha II: The Spawning.
B-36. “Why don't you grow up, Baxter? Be a mensch! You know what that means?”
“I'm not sure.”
“A mensch - a human being!”
B-37. The much-touted audio process developed for this disaster movie was used for only a few later films, including Midway and Rollercoaster.
B-38. “All right people, we got 10 minutes 'till game time, let's all gather 'round. I'm not much for giving inspirational addresses, but I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves.”
B-39. This movie by the Oscar-winning director of a film about the war on drugs is a remake of a movie by the Oscar-winning director of a film about the War to End All Wars.
B-40. “Give me a Tab.”
“Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something.”
“Right. Give me a Pepsi Free.”
“You want a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it.”
B-41. This film about actresses was based – very loosely – on a Broadway hit co-written by the playwright cited in Clue A-19.
B-42. “Scream all you want, small mailman.”
“None of your mailman friends can hear you.”
B-43. The visual effects for this Hitchcock film were created by longtime Disney animator Ub Iwerks.
B-44. “Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.”
“What?”
“He lived happily ever after.”
B-45. Oscar-wise, this movie completes a list that also includes Born Yesterday, Funny Girl, and the film in Clue B-19.
B-46. “We all know most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia.”
B-47. This was the only sequel that John Carpenter ever directed.
B-48. “I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.”
B-49. No alarm bells went off to save the actress who starred in this film, the winner of seven Golden Raspberry awards.
B-50. “When he was nine years old he ran away from a fight. I saw it; I was so embarrassed I almost threw up. I said, ‘I'm gonna make a man outta you if I have to break you in two tryin'.’ And I made a man out of him. When he was sixteen, we had a fight. Hit me in the jaw - a big kid. Haven't seen him for two years. Kids ... work your heart out....”