Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2025 8:16 am
Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope
Identify the 85 actors below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
Nine actors will be used twice and three actors will be used three times.
1. “I fear I am a relic, and I have misplaced my tambourine.”
2. He completes a very specific Oscar list that also includes George Arliss, Daniel Day Lewis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Kingsley, Sean Penn, and George C. Scott.
3. “Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me a warped, frustrated, old man! What are you but a warped, frustrated young man?”
4. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Tim Burton, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, Kenneth Branagh, and Alejandro Iñárritu
5. “The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”
6. In 2005, he publicly apologized to his girlfriend for having an affair with his children’s nanny. (Well, at least he was sorry.)
7. “My children are in need of medical assistance! And you can sit here and smugly lecture me on the importance of tests? Tests which exist to pigeonhole children's potential, a thing which cannot possibly be measured, least of all by anal-compulsive huns! And my husband may be a ‘large child,’ but that's none of your business! And my children may be rotten, but they're mine. And I think that they're bright, and sensitive, so I have no doubts whatsoever about their intelligence. I do, however, have serious doubts about yours!”
8. In 1967, he made it to Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 with a song that would later be taken to Number One by Donna Summer.
9. “When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”
10. At the age of fourteen, he made the first of seven films for the same renowned director – and the first of five playing the same character.
11. “Oooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it? ‘That's a bingo?’"
12. She completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Adrien Brody, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Kevin Spacey, Hilary Swank, and the actor in the preceding clue.
13. “They take you to a tree and hang you by your skin. Each time you scream the evil comes out of you. Sometimes, it can take three days for your evil to be spent. Pull him up.”
14. He completes a list that includes Alan Ladd, Robert Redford, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
15. “Oh, Michael! Michael, you are blind! It wasn't a miscarriage! It was an abortion! An abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion! Something that's unholy and evil!”
16. When she died in 1985, France’s Minister of Culture called her “an unshakeable militant, in the front rank of all the battles for human rights, under all regimes and on all horizons.”
17. “Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.”
18. Three members of the Oriental Lazy Boyz street gang were tried and convicted for his 1996 murder.
19. “I'm just gettin' warmed up! I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell, whoever. Their spirit is dead, if they ever had one. It's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for seagoing snitches, and if you think you're preparing these minnows for manhood, you better think again, because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills.”
20. Her real-life characters included an English queen, a French actress, a British poet, a French assassin, the mistress of a British military hero, and the wife of a Russian composer.
21. “Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you.”
22. The shortest distance between Tennessee Williams and the most famous reindeer of all is through this performer.
23. “Here I am, goin' to Florida, my leg hurts, my butt hurts, my chest hurts, my face hurts, and like that ain't enough, I gotta pee all over myself.”
24. He was the second Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to get an Oscar nomination for acting.
25. “My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once as he talked to my parents about his border flowers. I was aiming for the bushes when he got in the way. He stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He ruined a lot of things.”
26. She achieved international prominence for her role in the first major film produced in Italy after World War II.
27. “Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
28. His personal motto, and the name of his charitable foundation, is Just Keep Livin’.
29. “I know him. He'll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back, following me around the apartment, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning....”
30. Three of her most notable roles were later reprised by (among others) Simone Simon, Jeanne Crain, and Judy Garland.
31. “I left Elton's, where there were a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open, in order to hang out with you, at Christmas.”
32. Her on-screen offspring included Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power, and Henry Fonda.
33. “I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”
34. Her chronic anxiety and stage fright caused her to drop out of the lead of the original Broadway production of Born Yesterday three days before opening night.
35. “I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. I take only such cases now as interest me, and to be frank, my interest in your case is ... dwindling.”
36. Of all the scenes she filmed under the direction of Ingmar Bergman, the most memorable – and disturbing – was one in which she mutilates her genitals with a broken glass.
37. “You wakened me from an eternity of darkness. You. You. You are not for the living. You are not for human kind. And shall you be one with me ever ¬– eternally? Do you swear it?”
38. Her filmography includes adaptations of works by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Edith Wharton, Ross MacDonald, John O’Hara, and William Inge.
39. “Would you give a guy a foot massage?”
40. He starred on two episodes of Columbo – once as the killer and once as the victim’s husband.
41. “Make no mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.”
42. She received consecutive Oscar nominations for the film versions of two different plays by Tennessee Williams.
43. “We just lost the moon.”
44. The titular character he played in a 2008 film has something significant in common with me and a number of other active and inactive members of the BORED.
45. “I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.”
46. He first met his long-time life partner on the set of a Disney movie, when she was 22 and he was 16.
47. “The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.”
48. Her career has included adaptations of works by Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, and Carlo Collodi.
49. “Everybody thinks I'm suicidal, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me; or they think I'm faking to draw a psycho pension, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me. Basically, I'm f**ked.”
50. He played a reformed jewel thief turned detective in a series of 14 films from 1941 to 1949.
51. “All right, now look at me. I said look at me, don't turn your face away! I'm the looking glass you created to see yourself in! All right, all right see yourself now in me! Look at this ugly picture! And then get outta here! But keep this picture before your face for as long as you live!”
52. This actress was the unfortunate recipient of the diatribe in the preceding clue.
53. “Do I understand this correctly? I'm being marked down? What is this? The Bargain Basement? I've been kidnapped by Kmart!”
54. His real-life roles included a 19th century dictator, a 20th century dictator, and a popular vaudeville and film comedian.
55. “What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs!”
56. Presenting the Best Actor Oscar, she pointedly did not join in the applause for the winner.
57. “With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.”
58. He co-starred with Shirley Temple in her first three movies.
59. “I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”
60. He appeared in four adaptations of works by Charles Dickens, including his first two films.
61. “Look, you know how these people lie! It's born in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! They don't know what the truth is! And lemme tell ya: they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No sir! They get drunk! Oh, they're real big drinkers, all of 'em - you know that - and bang! someone's lyin' in the gutter! Oh, nobody's blaming them for it. That's the way they are, by nature! You know what I mean?”
62. As a teenager, this actress was diagnosed with hyposomatotropism.
63. “Kill white folks and they pay you for it? What's not to like?”
64. She has been nominated for 16 César Awards – more than any other actress – but her most notable American film was one of Hollywood’s most notorious bombs.
65. “We must have boat. Even now may be too late. This is your island; I make your responsibility. You help us get boat quickly, otherwise there is World War III, and everybody is blaming you!”
66. She and Ethel Merman made their Broadway debuts in the same Gershwin musical, each introducing at least one timeless song. (What an opening night that must have been!)
67. “Men like Janning, my husband and I, we hated Hitler. I want you to know that. And he hated us. He hated my husband because he was a real war hero – and the little corporal couldn't tolerate that. And he hated him because he married into nobility, which was my family. Hitler was in awe of the nobility, but he hated it. That's why it's so ironic, what happened.”
68. In a 1978 box office blockbuster, she played a high school student. (She was 34 at the time.)
69. “There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society ... outside of a kennel.”
70. She had a much-publicized manic episode that was triggered when a computer virus caused her to lose three years’ worth of work on her autobiography.
71. “Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water – to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Are you beginning to understand?”
72. His on-screen romantic partners have included Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kim Cattrall, Molly Ringwald, Jami Gertz, Ally Sheedy, and Rosalind Chao.
73. “You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you've got to get off my back!”
74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.
75. “For three years we had her under contract, singing lessons, dancing lessons, acting lessons. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was gonna make her a big star. And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man, that it's not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful! She was young, she was innocent. She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world!”
76. She received her first Oscar nomination for playing a character named after a phrase in a poem by Katharine Lee Bates.
77. “In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature.”
78. He made theatrical history when, as a producer for the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project, he hired Orson Welles to direct a production the Scottish play transplanted to Haiti and substituting three voodoo witch doctors for the Weird Sisters.
79. “I don't know what you do for your four percent but my husband has a whole plan, an image and when you put him in a waterbed warehouse commercial you're making him common, when you know he deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink. I know about the four jewels of the celebrity endorsement dollar. I majored in marketing and so did my husband. We came to play.”
80. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Taylor Hackford, Garry Marshall and Terrence Mallick.
81. “Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here?”
82. He appeared in two of Alfred Hitchcock’s last five films – once in a small role, once in a starring role.
83. “Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something.”
84. Her autobiography was modestly titled The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me.
85. “There is a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.”
Identify the 85 actors below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
Nine actors will be used twice and three actors will be used three times.
1. “I fear I am a relic, and I have misplaced my tambourine.”
2. He completes a very specific Oscar list that also includes George Arliss, Daniel Day Lewis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Kingsley, Sean Penn, and George C. Scott.
3. “Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me a warped, frustrated, old man! What are you but a warped, frustrated young man?”
4. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Tim Burton, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, Kenneth Branagh, and Alejandro Iñárritu
5. “The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”
6. In 2005, he publicly apologized to his girlfriend for having an affair with his children’s nanny. (Well, at least he was sorry.)
7. “My children are in need of medical assistance! And you can sit here and smugly lecture me on the importance of tests? Tests which exist to pigeonhole children's potential, a thing which cannot possibly be measured, least of all by anal-compulsive huns! And my husband may be a ‘large child,’ but that's none of your business! And my children may be rotten, but they're mine. And I think that they're bright, and sensitive, so I have no doubts whatsoever about their intelligence. I do, however, have serious doubts about yours!”
8. In 1967, he made it to Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 with a song that would later be taken to Number One by Donna Summer.
9. “When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”
10. At the age of fourteen, he made the first of seven films for the same renowned director – and the first of five playing the same character.
11. “Oooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it? ‘That's a bingo?’"
12. She completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Adrien Brody, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Kevin Spacey, Hilary Swank, and the actor in the preceding clue.
13. “They take you to a tree and hang you by your skin. Each time you scream the evil comes out of you. Sometimes, it can take three days for your evil to be spent. Pull him up.”
14. He completes a list that includes Alan Ladd, Robert Redford, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
15. “Oh, Michael! Michael, you are blind! It wasn't a miscarriage! It was an abortion! An abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion! Something that's unholy and evil!”
16. When she died in 1985, France’s Minister of Culture called her “an unshakeable militant, in the front rank of all the battles for human rights, under all regimes and on all horizons.”
17. “Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.”
18. Three members of the Oriental Lazy Boyz street gang were tried and convicted for his 1996 murder.
19. “I'm just gettin' warmed up! I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell, whoever. Their spirit is dead, if they ever had one. It's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for seagoing snitches, and if you think you're preparing these minnows for manhood, you better think again, because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills.”
20. Her real-life characters included an English queen, a French actress, a British poet, a French assassin, the mistress of a British military hero, and the wife of a Russian composer.
21. “Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you.”
22. The shortest distance between Tennessee Williams and the most famous reindeer of all is through this performer.
23. “Here I am, goin' to Florida, my leg hurts, my butt hurts, my chest hurts, my face hurts, and like that ain't enough, I gotta pee all over myself.”
24. He was the second Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to get an Oscar nomination for acting.
25. “My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once as he talked to my parents about his border flowers. I was aiming for the bushes when he got in the way. He stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He ruined a lot of things.”
26. She achieved international prominence for her role in the first major film produced in Italy after World War II.
27. “Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
28. His personal motto, and the name of his charitable foundation, is Just Keep Livin’.
29. “I know him. He'll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back, following me around the apartment, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning....”
30. Three of her most notable roles were later reprised by (among others) Simone Simon, Jeanne Crain, and Judy Garland.
31. “I left Elton's, where there were a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open, in order to hang out with you, at Christmas.”
32. Her on-screen offspring included Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power, and Henry Fonda.
33. “I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”
34. Her chronic anxiety and stage fright caused her to drop out of the lead of the original Broadway production of Born Yesterday three days before opening night.
35. “I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. I take only such cases now as interest me, and to be frank, my interest in your case is ... dwindling.”
36. Of all the scenes she filmed under the direction of Ingmar Bergman, the most memorable – and disturbing – was one in which she mutilates her genitals with a broken glass.
37. “You wakened me from an eternity of darkness. You. You. You are not for the living. You are not for human kind. And shall you be one with me ever ¬– eternally? Do you swear it?”
38. Her filmography includes adaptations of works by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Edith Wharton, Ross MacDonald, John O’Hara, and William Inge.
39. “Would you give a guy a foot massage?”
40. He starred on two episodes of Columbo – once as the killer and once as the victim’s husband.
41. “Make no mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.”
42. She received consecutive Oscar nominations for the film versions of two different plays by Tennessee Williams.
43. “We just lost the moon.”
44. The titular character he played in a 2008 film has something significant in common with me and a number of other active and inactive members of the BORED.
45. “I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.”
46. He first met his long-time life partner on the set of a Disney movie, when she was 22 and he was 16.
47. “The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.”
48. Her career has included adaptations of works by Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, and Carlo Collodi.
49. “Everybody thinks I'm suicidal, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me; or they think I'm faking to draw a psycho pension, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me. Basically, I'm f**ked.”
50. He played a reformed jewel thief turned detective in a series of 14 films from 1941 to 1949.
51. “All right, now look at me. I said look at me, don't turn your face away! I'm the looking glass you created to see yourself in! All right, all right see yourself now in me! Look at this ugly picture! And then get outta here! But keep this picture before your face for as long as you live!”
52. This actress was the unfortunate recipient of the diatribe in the preceding clue.
53. “Do I understand this correctly? I'm being marked down? What is this? The Bargain Basement? I've been kidnapped by Kmart!”
54. His real-life roles included a 19th century dictator, a 20th century dictator, and a popular vaudeville and film comedian.
55. “What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs!”
56. Presenting the Best Actor Oscar, she pointedly did not join in the applause for the winner.
57. “With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.”
58. He co-starred with Shirley Temple in her first three movies.
59. “I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”
60. He appeared in four adaptations of works by Charles Dickens, including his first two films.
61. “Look, you know how these people lie! It's born in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! They don't know what the truth is! And lemme tell ya: they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No sir! They get drunk! Oh, they're real big drinkers, all of 'em - you know that - and bang! someone's lyin' in the gutter! Oh, nobody's blaming them for it. That's the way they are, by nature! You know what I mean?”
62. As a teenager, this actress was diagnosed with hyposomatotropism.
63. “Kill white folks and they pay you for it? What's not to like?”
64. She has been nominated for 16 César Awards – more than any other actress – but her most notable American film was one of Hollywood’s most notorious bombs.
65. “We must have boat. Even now may be too late. This is your island; I make your responsibility. You help us get boat quickly, otherwise there is World War III, and everybody is blaming you!”
66. She and Ethel Merman made their Broadway debuts in the same Gershwin musical, each introducing at least one timeless song. (What an opening night that must have been!)
67. “Men like Janning, my husband and I, we hated Hitler. I want you to know that. And he hated us. He hated my husband because he was a real war hero – and the little corporal couldn't tolerate that. And he hated him because he married into nobility, which was my family. Hitler was in awe of the nobility, but he hated it. That's why it's so ironic, what happened.”
68. In a 1978 box office blockbuster, she played a high school student. (She was 34 at the time.)
69. “There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society ... outside of a kennel.”
70. She had a much-publicized manic episode that was triggered when a computer virus caused her to lose three years’ worth of work on her autobiography.
71. “Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water – to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Are you beginning to understand?”
72. His on-screen romantic partners have included Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kim Cattrall, Molly Ringwald, Jami Gertz, Ally Sheedy, and Rosalind Chao.
73. “You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you've got to get off my back!”
74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.
75. “For three years we had her under contract, singing lessons, dancing lessons, acting lessons. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was gonna make her a big star. And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man, that it's not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful! She was young, she was innocent. She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world!”
76. She received her first Oscar nomination for playing a character named after a phrase in a poem by Katharine Lee Bates.
77. “In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature.”
78. He made theatrical history when, as a producer for the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project, he hired Orson Welles to direct a production the Scottish play transplanted to Haiti and substituting three voodoo witch doctors for the Weird Sisters.
79. “I don't know what you do for your four percent but my husband has a whole plan, an image and when you put him in a waterbed warehouse commercial you're making him common, when you know he deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink. I know about the four jewels of the celebrity endorsement dollar. I majored in marketing and so did my husband. We came to play.”
80. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Taylor Hackford, Garry Marshall and Terrence Mallick.
81. “Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here?”
82. He appeared in two of Alfred Hitchcock’s last five films – once in a small role, once in a starring role.
83. “Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something.”
84. Her autobiography was modestly titled The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me.
85. “There is a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.”
