Identify the 65 actors indicated in List A and the 40 movies indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match each movie on List B with two actors from List A according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 40 triples. Fifteen actors will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. “Oh stop it, Charlie, we've been through all that. I'm certainly not going to outlive you and that's all there is to it!”
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
A-3. “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-4. Long before the Woody Allen contretemps, this Oscar-winning actress raised a few eyebrows when she married her former stepson.
A-5. “What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge – tracts of land.”
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
A-7. “You came to Africa to play the White Man, but we are real! This room is real! And when you die? It will be the first real thing you have ever done!”
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. “Now look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something. We act like they don't, but they do, and that's what's so f**king cool about them.”
A-10. He appeared in films based on the works of both Euripides and Eugene O’Neill, as well as films based on the works of both Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.
A-11. “I am the Creator – of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. There's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's cold in there in the winter. So we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of., ‘Hur är läget, lilla gumman?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
A-15. “You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.”
A-16. This English actor appeared in five films based on four novels or plays by the same author – in fact, he even portrayed that author.
A-17. “This is my heart! I'm afraid that if they take it away I won't be able to love you the same.”
A-18. The scene in which she simply came down a flight of stairs sporting a new hairdo was cited by Bravo as one of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
A-20. A popular leading man in the 1960s, this Australian actor is best remembered for giving voice to one critter and being menaced by a lot of others.
A-21. “How can you be a receiver of the wedgies when you are clearly not a wearer of the underpants?”
A-22. This blonde star of the 1930s made her last film appearance playing the mother of another blonde star of the 1930s.
A-23. “Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
A-25. “’Forget about it’ is like if you agree with someone, you know, like ‘Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it.’ But then, if you disagree, like ‘A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!’ You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like ‘Mangia those peppers, forget about it.’ But it's also like saying ‘Go to hell.’ too. Like, you know, like ‘Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker?’ and Paulie says, ‘Forget about it!’ Sometimes it just means forget about it.”
A-26. Though some people might disagree, I would say that his Pulitzer Prize trumps the two Oscars won by the mother of his children.
A-27. “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”
A-28. Appropriately, this actor won a Tony award for playing a dead poet.
A-29. “We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs – yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going.”
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. “On the surface, everything seems fine. I've got this great guy. And he loves my kid. And he sure does like me a lot. And I can't live like that. It's not the way I'm built.”
A-32. The eleven films he made for the same director between 1957 and 1971 place their collaboration in the same pantheon as Mifure/Kurosawa, Mastroianni/Fellini, and DeNiro/Scorsese.
A-33. “She was the greatest of them all. You wouldn't know, you're too young. In one week, she received 17,000 fan letters. Men bribed her hairdresser to get a lock of her hair. There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. Later he strangled himself with it!”
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. “See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons, and now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it.... Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it!”
A-36. Every time this actor has won an Oscar, the woman who played the female lead in the same movie has won as well.
A-37. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
A-39. “A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. “I can breathe and I can move, but I'm not alive because I took that poison, and nothing can save me.”
A-42. He received his first Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with an older woman he considered to be passé, and received his last Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with a younger woman who considered him to be passé.
A-43. “They're up to something funny, you hear what I'm telling you? Now, did you see the blonde I brought? All covered with paint and her dressed ripped. Now what was that all about?”
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
A-45. “My family likes you more than they like me! Why? All you do is drool and shed and eat!”
A-46. The character she recently played in a historical drama was the aunt of the nemesis of the character she will soon play in a historical drama. Got that?
A-47. “Do they teach beauty queens to apologize? Because you suck at it.”
A-48. Among actors, she is the earliest winner of an Oscar still living.
A-49. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. “And now the British think I'm with the Irish, and the Irish think I'm with the British. The long and short of it is, I'm walkin' around without a dog to lick my trousers!”
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
A-53. “I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. “Gif me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don' be stingy, baby.”
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. “We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
A-59. “What the hell is it today? Less than 12% of the people in this city are colored people. I can't even have a dish of Oregon Boosenberry without runnin' into one of them.”
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. “You really blew the lid off of nookie”
A-62. Her stint as a Bond girl netted her a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer – even though she had already been in films for eight years.
A-63. “In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.”
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. “Can you help a fellow American down on his luck?”
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. “For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.”
B-4. This was the first western to yield an Oscar-winning performance.
B-5. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. “Oh, don't worry. I'm not going into that cavity. That nerve's already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive.”
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
B-11. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. This Lugosi movie later gave its name to a heavy metal band.
B-15. “There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but I'm trying to put that behind me. And this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late. A brother's a brother.”
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
B-19. “You are too old and fat to be jumping horses.”
”Well, come see a fat old man some time!”
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
B-22. This movie netted Jerome Kern his first and Dorothy Fields her only Oscar.
B-23. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man. It has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way. And that's when we started doing things like this: the KF line. Walt, are your boys proud when they go out and sell this stuff? When they know the finish is going to crack, the veneer split off and the legs come loose?”
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. “Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.”
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. “Don’t get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control!”
”Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
B-33. “I'm pregnant.”
”Pregnant... with emotion? ”
”Pregnant with a baby.”
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
B-35. “Sir! Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady!”
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. “I want my two hundred dollars.”
“I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it.”
“If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine.”
“But I don't have it!”
“Then get it!”
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
B-39. “I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.”
B-40. This classic was the first foreign language film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Game #118 -- Film Editing
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LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
MONSTERS, INC.
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
LOGAN'S RUN
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
MONSTERS, INC.
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
LOGAN'S RUN
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Re: Game #118 -- Film Editing
franktangredi wrote:Identify the 65 actors indicated in List A and the 40 movies indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match each movie on List B with two actors from List A according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 40 triples. Fifteen actors will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. “Oh stop it, Charlie, we've been through all that. I'm certainly not going to outlive you and that's all there is to it!”
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
Bill Murray?
A-3. “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-4. Long before the Woody Allen contretemps, this Oscar-winning actress raised a few eyebrows when she married her former stepson.
A-5. “What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge – tracts of land.”
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
Laurence Olivier
A-7. “You came to Africa to play the White Man, but we are real! This room is real! And when you die? It will be the first real thing you have ever done!”
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. “Now look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something. We act like they don't, but they do, and that's what's so f**king cool about them.”
A-10. He appeared in films based on the works of both Euripides and Eugene O’Neill, as well as films based on the works of both Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.
Anthony Perkins
A-11. “I am the Creator – of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. There's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's cold in there in the winter. So we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of., ‘Hur är läget, lilla gumman?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
Vanessa Redgrave
A-15. “You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.”
A-16. This English actor appeared in five films based on four novels or plays by the same author – in fact, he even portrayed that author.
A-17. “This is my heart! I'm afraid that if they take it away I won't be able to love you the same.”
A-18. The scene in which she simply came down a flight of stairs sporting a new hairdo was cited by Bravo as one of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
Elsa Lanchester
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
A-20. A popular leading man in the 1960s, this Australian actor is best remembered for giving voice to one critter and being menaced by a lot of others.
Rod Taylor
A-21. “How can you be a receiver of the wedgies when you are clearly not a wearer of the underpants?”
A-22. This blonde star of the 1930s made her last film appearance playing the mother of another blonde star of the 1930s.
A-23. “Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
A-25. “’Forget about it’ is like if you agree with someone, you know, like ‘Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it.’ But then, if you disagree, like ‘A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!’ You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like ‘Mangia those peppers, forget about it.’ But it's also like saying ‘Go to hell.’ too. Like, you know, like ‘Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker?’ and Paulie says, ‘Forget about it!’ Sometimes it just means forget about it.”
A-26. Though some people might disagree, I would say that his Pulitzer Prize trumps the two Oscars won by the mother of his children.
A-27. “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”
A-28. Appropriately, this actor won a Tony award for playing a dead poet.
A-29. “We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs – yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going.”
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. “On the surface, everything seems fine. I've got this great guy. And he loves my kid. And he sure does like me a lot. And I can't live like that. It's not the way I'm built.”
A-32. The eleven films he made for the same director between 1957 and 1971 place their collaboration in the same pantheon as Mifure/Kurosawa, Mastroianni/Fellini, and DeNiro/Scorsese.
A-33. “She was the greatest of them all. You wouldn't know, you're too young. In one week, she received 17,000 fan letters. Men bribed her hairdresser to get a lock of her hair. There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. Later he strangled himself with it!”
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. “See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons, and now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it.... Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it!”
A-36. Every time this actor has won an Oscar, the woman who played the female lead in the same movie has won as well.
Jack Nicholson (although this is undoubtedly true about other actors who have only won one Oscar such as Clark Gable).
A-37. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
Cliff Robertson
A-39. “A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. “I can breathe and I can move, but I'm not alive because I took that poison, and nothing can save me.”
A-42. He received his first Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with an older woman he considered to be passé, and received his last Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with a younger woman who considered him to be passé.
A-43. “They're up to something funny, you hear what I'm telling you? Now, did you see the blonde I brought? All covered with paint and her dressed ripped. Now what was that all about?”
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
A-45. “My family likes you more than they like me! Why? All you do is drool and shed and eat!”
A-46. The character she recently played in a historical drama was the aunt of the nemesis of the character she will soon play in a historical drama. Got that?
A-47. “Do they teach beauty queens to apologize? Because you suck at it.”
A-48. Among actors, she is the earliest winner of an Oscar still living.
A-49. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. “And now the British think I'm with the Irish, and the Irish think I'm with the British. The long and short of it is, I'm walkin' around without a dog to lick my trousers!”
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
A-53. “I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. “Gif me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don' be stingy, baby.”
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. “We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
Bob Hope?
A-59. “What the hell is it today? Less than 12% of the people in this city are colored people. I can't even have a dish of Oregon Boosenberry without runnin' into one of them.”
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. “You really blew the lid off of nookie”
A-62. Her stint as a Bond girl netted her a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer – even though she had already been in films for eight years.
A-63. “In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.”
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. “Can you help a fellow American down on his luck?”
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. “For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.”
B-4. This was the first western to yield an Oscar-winning performance.
B-5. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
Being There
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. “Oh, don't worry. I'm not going into that cavity. That nerve's already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive.”
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
Monsters Inc.
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
B-11. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. This Lugosi movie later gave its name to a heavy metal band.
B-15. “There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but I'm trying to put that behind me. And this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late. A brother's a brother.”
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
B-19. “You are too old and fat to be jumping horses.”
”Well, come see a fat old man some time!”
True Grit
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
B-22. This movie netted Jerome Kern his first and Dorothy Fields her only Oscar.
B-23. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man. It has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way. And that's when we started doing things like this: the KF line. Walt, are your boys proud when they go out and sell this stuff? When they know the finish is going to crack, the veneer split off and the legs come loose?”
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. “Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.”
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. “Don’t get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control!”
”Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
B-33. “I'm pregnant.”
”Pregnant... with emotion? ”
”Pregnant with a baby.”
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
B-35. “Sir! Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady!”
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. “I want my two hundred dollars.”
“I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it.”
“If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine.”
“But I don't have it!”
“Then get it!”
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
B-39. “I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.”
B-40. This classic was the first foreign language film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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Re: Game #118 -- Film Editing
franktangredi wrote:Identify the 65 actors indicated in List A and the 40 movies indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match each movie on List B with two actors from List A according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 40 triples. Fifteen actors will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. “Oh stop it, Charlie, we've been through all that. I'm certainly not going to outlive you and that's all there is to it!”
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
A-3. “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.”
MORGAN FREEMAN, The Shawshank Redemption
A-4. Long before the Woody Allen contretemps, this Oscar-winning actress raised a few eyebrows when she married her former stepson.
A-5. “What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge – tracts of land.”
MICHAEL PALIN, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
A-7. “You came to Africa to play the White Man, but we are real! This room is real! And when you die? It will be the first real thing you have ever done!”
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. “Now look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something. We act like they don't, but they do, and that's what's so f**king cool about them.”
SAMUEL L. JACKSON?, Pulp Fiction
A-10. He appeared in films based on the works of both Euripides and Eugene O’Neill, as well as films based on the works of both Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.
A-11. “I am the Creator – of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. There's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's cold in there in the winter. So we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of., ‘Hur är läget, lilla gumman?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
A-15. “You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.”
A-16. This English actor appeared in five films based on four novels or plays by the same author – in fact, he even portrayed that author.
A-17. “This is my heart! I'm afraid that if they take it away I won't be able to love you the same.”
A-18. The scene in which she simply came down a flight of stairs sporting a new hairdo was cited by Bravo as one of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
ELSA LANCHESTER?, Bride of Frankenstein?
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
A-20. A popular leading man in the 1960s, this Australian actor is best remembered for giving voice to one critter and being menaced by a lot of others.
A-21. “How can you be a receiver of the wedgies when you are clearly not a wearer of the underpants?”
A-22. This blonde star of the 1930s made her last film appearance playing the mother of another blonde star of the 1930s.
A-23. “Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”
CHRISTINA RICCI, The Addams Family
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
A-25. “’Forget about it’ is like if you agree with someone, you know, like ‘Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it.’ But then, if you disagree, like ‘A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!’ You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like ‘Mangia those peppers, forget about it.’ But it's also like saying ‘Go to hell.’ too. Like, you know, like ‘Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker?’ and Paulie says, ‘Forget about it!’ Sometimes it just means forget about it.”
A-26. Though some people might disagree, I would say that his Pulitzer Prize trumps the two Oscars won by the mother of his children.
A-27. “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”
A-28. Appropriately, this actor won a Tony award for playing a dead poet.
ROBERT SEAN LEONARD?
A-29. “We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs – yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going.”
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. “On the surface, everything seems fine. I've got this great guy. And he loves my kid. And he sure does like me a lot. And I can't live like that. It's not the way I'm built.”
A-32. The eleven films he made for the same director between 1957 and 1971 place their collaboration in the same pantheon as Mifure/Kurosawa, Mastroianni/Fellini, and DeNiro/Scorsese.
A-33. “She was the greatest of them all. You wouldn't know, you're too young. In one week, she received 17,000 fan letters. Men bribed her hairdresser to get a lock of her hair. There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. Later he strangled himself with it!”
ERICH VON STROHEIM?, Sunset Boulevard?
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. “See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons, and now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it.... Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it!”
A-36. Every time this actor has won an Oscar, the woman who played the female lead in the same movie has won as well.
A-37. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
A-39. “A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. “I can breathe and I can move, but I'm not alive because I took that poison, and nothing can save me.”
A-42. He received his first Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with an older woman he considered to be passé, and received his last Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with a younger woman who considered him to be passé.
A-43. “They're up to something funny, you hear what I'm telling you? Now, did you see the blonde I brought? All covered with paint and her dressed ripped. Now what was that all about?”
PETER FALK, IAMMMMW (The line right before the one in Frank's last movie game: "Yeah, and what about the picks and shovels?")
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
A-45. “My family likes you more than they like me! Why? All you do is drool and shed and eat!”
A-46. The character she recently played in a historical drama was the aunt of the nemesis of the character she will soon play in a historical drama. Got that?
A-47. “Do they teach beauty queens to apologize? Because you suck at it.”
A-48. Among actors, she is the earliest winner of an Oscar still living.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND?
A-49. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. “And now the British think I'm with the Irish, and the Irish think I'm with the British. The long and short of it is, I'm walkin' around without a dog to lick my trousers!”
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
A-53. “I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
KEVIN COSTNER, Bull Durham
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. “Gif me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don' be stingy, baby.”
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. “We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”
HUMPHREY BOGART?, Casablanca?
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
A-59. “What the hell is it today? Less than 12% of the people in this city are colored people. I can't even have a dish of Oregon Boosenberry without runnin' into one of them.”
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. “You really blew the lid off of nookie”
A-62. Her stint as a Bond girl netted her a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer – even though she had already been in films for eight years.
A-63. “In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.”
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. “Can you help a fellow American down on his luck?”
Ok, maybe this is HUMPHREY BOGART in Casablanca?
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. “For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.”
B-4. This was the first western to yield an Oscar-winning performance.
B-5. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
BEING THERE
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. “Oh, don't worry. I'm not going into that cavity. That nerve's already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive.”
MARATHON MAN?
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
B-11. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. This Lugosi movie later gave its name to a heavy metal band.
B-15. “There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but I'm trying to put that behind me. And this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late. A brother's a brother.”
THE STRAIGHT STORY?
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
B-19. “You are too old and fat to be jumping horses.”
”Well, come see a fat old man some time!”
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
B-22. This movie netted Jerome Kern his first and Dorothy Fields her only Oscar.
B-23. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man. It has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way. And that's when we started doing things like this: the KF line. Walt, are your boys proud when they go out and sell this stuff? When they know the finish is going to crack, the veneer split off and the legs come loose?”
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
LOGAN'S RUN
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. “Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.”
DIRTY HARRY?
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. “Don’t get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control!”
”Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
B-33. “I'm pregnant.”
”Pregnant... with emotion? ”
”Pregnant with a baby.”
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
B-35. “Sir! Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady!”
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. “I want my two hundred dollars.”
“I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it.”
“If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine.”
“But I don't have it!”
“Then get it!”
PAPER MOON
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
B-39. “I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.”
B-40. This classic was the first foreign language film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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Identify the 65 actors indicated in List A and the 40 movies indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match each movie on List B with two actors from List A according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 40 triples. Fifteen actors will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. “Oh stop it, Charlie, we've been through all that. I'm certainly not going to outlive you and that's all there is to it!”
KATHARINE HEPBURN (African Queen)
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
A-3. “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.”
MORGAN FREEMAN (Shawshank)
A-4. Long before the Woody Allen contretemps, this Oscar-winning actress raised a few eyebrows when she married her former stepson.
GLORIA GRAHAME
A-5. “What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge – tracts of land.”
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
A-7. “You came to Africa to play the White Man, but we are real! This room is real! And when you die? It will be the first real thing you have ever done!”
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. “Now look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something. We act like they don't, but they do, and that's what's so f**king cool about them.”
A-10. He appeared in films based on the works of both Euripides and Eugene O’Neill, as well as films based on the works of both Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.
A-11. “I am the Creator – of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. There's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's cold in there in the winter. So we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of., ‘Hur är läget, lilla gumman?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
ED BEGLEY, JR.
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
VANESSA REDGRAVE
A-15. “You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.”
A-16. This English actor appeared in five films based on four novels or plays by the same author – in fact, he even portrayed that author.
HERBERT MARSHALL (the author is Maugham)
A-17. “This is my heart! I'm afraid that if they take it away I won't be able to love you the same.”
A-18. The scene in which she simply came down a flight of stairs sporting a new hairdo was cited by Bravo as one of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
ELSA LANCHESTER?
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
A-20. A popular leading man in the 1960s, this Australian actor is best remembered for giving voice to one critter and being menaced by a lot of others.
A-21. “How can you be a receiver of the wedgies when you are clearly not a wearer of the underpants?”
A-22. This blonde star of the 1930s made her last film appearance playing the mother of another blonde star of the 1930s.
GINGER ROGERS?
A-23. “Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
A-25. “’Forget about it’ is like if you agree with someone, you know, like ‘Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it.’ But then, if you disagree, like ‘A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!’ You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like ‘Mangia those peppers, forget about it.’ But it's also like saying ‘Go to hell.’ too. Like, you know, like ‘Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker?’ and Paulie says, ‘Forget about it!’ Sometimes it just means forget about it.”
A-26. Though some people might disagree, I would say that his Pulitzer Prize trumps the two Oscars won by the mother of his children.
SAN SHEPERD?
A-27. “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”
A-28. Appropriately, this actor won a Tony award for playing a dead poet.
A-29. “We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs – yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going.”
MARLENE DIETRICH
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. “On the surface, everything seems fine. I've got this great guy. And he loves my kid. And he sure does like me a lot. And I can't live like that. It's not the way I'm built.”
RENEE ZELLWEGER
A-32. The eleven films he made for the same director between 1957 and 1971 place their collaboration in the same pantheon as Mifure/Kurosawa, Mastroianni/Fellini, and DeNiro/Scorsese.
JACK LEMMON??
A-33. “She was the greatest of them all. You wouldn't know, you're too young. In one week, she received 17,000 fan letters. Men bribed her hairdresser to get a lock of her hair. There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. Later he strangled himself with it!”
ERICH VON STROHEIM
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. “See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons, and now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it.... Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it!”
A-36. Every time this actor has won an Oscar, the woman who played the female lead in the same movie has won as well.
A-37. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
A-39. “A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. “I can breathe and I can move, but I'm not alive because I took that poison, and nothing can save me.”
A-42. He received his first Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with an older woman he considered to be passé, and received his last Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with a younger woman who considered him to be passé.
A-43. “They're up to something funny, you hear what I'm telling you? Now, did you see the blonde I brought? All covered with paint and her dressed ripped. Now what was that all about?”
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
A-45. “My family likes you more than they like me! Why? All you do is drool and shed and eat!”
A-46. The character she recently played in a historical drama was the aunt of the nemesis of the character she will soon play in a historical drama. Got that?
A-47. “Do they teach beauty queens to apologize? Because you suck at it.”
A-48. Among actors, she is the earliest winner of an Oscar still living.
A-49. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
LAURENCE OLIVIER
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. “And now the British think I'm with the Irish, and the Irish think I'm with the British. The long and short of it is, I'm walkin' around without a dog to lick my trousers!”
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
A-53. “I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
KEVIN COSTNER
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. “Gif me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don' be stingy, baby.”
GRETA GARBO
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. “We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”
CLAUDE RAINS
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
A-59. “What the hell is it today? Less than 12% of the people in this city are colored people. I can't even have a dish of Oregon Boosenberry without runnin' into one of them.”
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. “You really blew the lid off of nookie”
A-62. Her stint as a Bond girl netted her a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer – even though she had already been in films for eight years.
A-63. “In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.”
FRED ASTAIRE (Top Hat)
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. “Can you help a fellow American down on his luck?”
HUMPHREY BOGART
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. “For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.”
RADIO DAYS
B-4. This was the first western to yield an Oscar-winning performance.
IN OLD ARIZONA?
B-5. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. “Oh, don't worry. I'm not going into that cavity. That nerve's already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive.”
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
B-11. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. This Lugosi movie later gave its name to a heavy metal band.
B-15. “There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but I'm trying to put that behind me. And this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late. A brother's a brother.”
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
THE LITTLE PRINCESS (Shirley Temple version_
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
B-19. “You are too old and fat to be jumping horses.”
”Well, come see a fat old man some time!”
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
WAYNE'S WORLD
B-22. This movie netted Jerome Kern his first and Dorothy Fields her only Oscar.
SWING TIME
B-23. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man. It has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way. And that's when we started doing things like this: the KF line. Walt, are your boys proud when they go out and sell this stuff? When they know the finish is going to crack, the veneer split off and the legs come loose?”
EXECUTIVE SUITE
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. “Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.”
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. “Don’t get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control!”
”Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
JAMAICA INN?
B-33. “I'm pregnant.”
”Pregnant... with emotion? ”
”Pregnant with a baby.”
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
THE MORTAL STORM?
B-35. “Sir! Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady!”
THE QUIET MAN
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. “I want my two hundred dollars.”
“I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it.”
“If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine.”
“But I don't have it!”
“Then get it!”
PAPER MOON
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
B-39. “I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.”
B-40. This classic was the first foreign language film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Identify the 65 actors indicated in List A and the 40 movies indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match each movie on List B with two actors from List A according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 40 triples. Fifteen actors will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. “Oh stop it, Charlie, we've been through all that. I'm certainly not going to outlive you and that's all there is to it!”
KATHARINE HEPBURN (African Queen)
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
A-3. “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.”
MORGAN FREEMAN (Shawshank)
A-4. Long before the Woody Allen contretemps, this Oscar-winning actress raised a few eyebrows when she married her former stepson.
GLORIA GRAHAME
A-5. “What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge – tracts of land.”
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
A-7. “You came to Africa to play the White Man, but we are real! This room is real! And when you die? It will be the first real thing you have ever done!”
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. “Now look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something. We act like they don't, but they do, and that's what's so f**king cool about them.”
A-10. He appeared in films based on the works of both Euripides and Eugene O’Neill, as well as films based on the works of both Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.
A-11. “I am the Creator – of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. There's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's cold in there in the winter. So we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of., ‘Hur är läget, lilla gumman?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
ED BEGLEY, JR.
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
VANESSA REDGRAVE
A-15. “You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.”
A-16. This English actor appeared in five films based on four novels or plays by the same author – in fact, he even portrayed that author.
HERBERT MARSHALL (the author is Maugham)
A-17. “This is my heart! I'm afraid that if they take it away I won't be able to love you the same.”
A-18. The scene in which she simply came down a flight of stairs sporting a new hairdo was cited by Bravo as one of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
ELSA LANCHESTER?
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
A-20. A popular leading man in the 1960s, this Australian actor is best remembered for giving voice to one critter and being menaced by a lot of others.
A-21. “How can you be a receiver of the wedgies when you are clearly not a wearer of the underpants?”
A-22. This blonde star of the 1930s made her last film appearance playing the mother of another blonde star of the 1930s.
GINGER ROGERS?
A-23. “Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
A-25. “’Forget about it’ is like if you agree with someone, you know, like ‘Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it.’ But then, if you disagree, like ‘A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!’ You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like ‘Mangia those peppers, forget about it.’ But it's also like saying ‘Go to hell.’ too. Like, you know, like ‘Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker?’ and Paulie says, ‘Forget about it!’ Sometimes it just means forget about it.”
A-26. Though some people might disagree, I would say that his Pulitzer Prize trumps the two Oscars won by the mother of his children.
SAN SHEPERD?
A-27. “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”
A-28. Appropriately, this actor won a Tony award for playing a dead poet.
A-29. “We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs – yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going.”
MARLENE DIETRICH
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. “On the surface, everything seems fine. I've got this great guy. And he loves my kid. And he sure does like me a lot. And I can't live like that. It's not the way I'm built.”
RENEE ZELLWEGER
A-32. The eleven films he made for the same director between 1957 and 1971 place their collaboration in the same pantheon as Mifure/Kurosawa, Mastroianni/Fellini, and DeNiro/Scorsese.
JACK LEMMON??
A-33. “She was the greatest of them all. You wouldn't know, you're too young. In one week, she received 17,000 fan letters. Men bribed her hairdresser to get a lock of her hair. There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. Later he strangled himself with it!”
ERICH VON STROHEIM
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. “See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons, and now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it.... Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it!”
A-36. Every time this actor has won an Oscar, the woman who played the female lead in the same movie has won as well.
A-37. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
A-39. “A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. “I can breathe and I can move, but I'm not alive because I took that poison, and nothing can save me.”
A-42. He received his first Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with an older woman he considered to be passé, and received his last Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with a younger woman who considered him to be passé.
A-43. “They're up to something funny, you hear what I'm telling you? Now, did you see the blonde I brought? All covered with paint and her dressed ripped. Now what was that all about?”
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
A-45. “My family likes you more than they like me! Why? All you do is drool and shed and eat!”
A-46. The character she recently played in a historical drama was the aunt of the nemesis of the character she will soon play in a historical drama. Got that?
A-47. “Do they teach beauty queens to apologize? Because you suck at it.”
A-48. Among actors, she is the earliest winner of an Oscar still living.
A-49. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
LAURENCE OLIVIER
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. “And now the British think I'm with the Irish, and the Irish think I'm with the British. The long and short of it is, I'm walkin' around without a dog to lick my trousers!”
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
A-53. “I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
KEVIN COSTNER
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. “Gif me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don' be stingy, baby.”
GRETA GARBO
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. “We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”
CLAUDE RAINS
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
A-59. “What the hell is it today? Less than 12% of the people in this city are colored people. I can't even have a dish of Oregon Boosenberry without runnin' into one of them.”
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. “You really blew the lid off of nookie”
A-62. Her stint as a Bond girl netted her a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer – even though she had already been in films for eight years.
A-63. “In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.”
FRED ASTAIRE (Top Hat)
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. “Can you help a fellow American down on his luck?”
HUMPHREY BOGART
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. “For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.”
RADIO DAYS
B-4. This was the first western to yield an Oscar-winning performance.
IN OLD ARIZONA?
B-5. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. “Oh, don't worry. I'm not going into that cavity. That nerve's already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive.”
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
B-11. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. This Lugosi movie later gave its name to a heavy metal band.
B-15. “There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but I'm trying to put that behind me. And this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late. A brother's a brother.”
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
THE LITTLE PRINCESS (Shirley Temple version_
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
B-19. “You are too old and fat to be jumping horses.”
”Well, come see a fat old man some time!”
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
WAYNE'S WORLD
B-22. This movie netted Jerome Kern his first and Dorothy Fields her only Oscar.
SWING TIME
B-23. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man. It has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way. And that's when we started doing things like this: the KF line. Walt, are your boys proud when they go out and sell this stuff? When they know the finish is going to crack, the veneer split off and the legs come loose?”
EXECUTIVE SUITE
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. “Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.”
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. “Don’t get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control!”
”Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
JAMAICA INN?
B-33. “I'm pregnant.”
”Pregnant... with emotion? ”
”Pregnant with a baby.”
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
THE MORTAL STORM?
B-35. “Sir! Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady!”
THE QUIET MAN
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. “I want my two hundred dollars.”
“I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it.”
“If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine.”
“But I don't have it!”
“Then get it!”
PAPER MOON
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
B-39. “I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.”
B-40. This classic was the first foreign language film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. “Oh stop it, Charlie, we've been through all that. I'm certainly not going to outlive you and that's all there is to it!”
KATHARINE HEPBURN in "The African Queen"
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
A-3. “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-4. Long before the Woody Allen contretemps, this Oscar-winning actress raised a few eyebrows when she married her former stepson.
A-5. “What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge – tracts of land.”
MORGAN FREEMAN in "The Shawshank Redemption"
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
A-7. “You came to Africa to play the White Man, but we are real! This room is real! And when you die? It will be the first real thing you have ever done!”
FOREST WHITAKER in "The Last King of Scotland"
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. “Now look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something. We act like they don't, but they do, and that's what's so f**king cool about them.”
A-10. He appeared in films based on the works of both Euripides and Eugene O’Neill, as well as films based on the works of both Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.
A-11. “I am the Creator – of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
ED HARRIS in "The Truman Show"
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. There's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's cold in there in the winter. So we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of., ‘Hur är läget, lilla gumman?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
A-15. “You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG in "The Color Purple"
A-16. This English actor appeared in five films based on four novels or plays by the same author – in fact, he even portrayed that author.
A-17. “This is my heart! I'm afraid that if they take it away I won't be able to love you the same.”
A-18. The scene in which she simply came down a flight of stairs sporting a new hairdo was cited by Bravo as one of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
A-20. A popular leading man in the 1960s, this Australian actor is best remembered for giving voice to one critter and being menaced by a lot of others.
A-21. “How can you be a receiver of the wedgies when you are clearly not a wearer of the underpants?”
ANTONIO BANDERAS in "Shrek the Third"
A-22. This blonde star of the 1930s made her last film appearance playing the mother of another blonde star of the 1930s.
A-23. “Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”
CHRISTINA RICCI in "The Addams Family"
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
A-25. “’Forget about it’ is like if you agree with someone, you know, like ‘Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it.’ But then, if you disagree, like ‘A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!’ You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like ‘Mangia those peppers, forget about it.’ But it's also like saying ‘Go to hell.’ too. Like, you know, like ‘Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker?’ and Paulie says, ‘Forget about it!’ Sometimes it just means forget about it.”
A-26. Though some people might disagree, I would say that his Pulitzer Prize trumps the two Oscars won by the mother of his children.
A-27. “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”
AL PACINO in "Scarface"
A-28. Appropriately, this actor won a Tony award for playing a dead poet.
A-29. “We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs – yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going.”
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. “On the surface, everything seems fine. I've got this great guy. And he loves my kid. And he sure does like me a lot. And I can't live like that. It's not the way I'm built.”
A-32. The eleven films he made for the same director between 1957 and 1971 place their collaboration in the same pantheon as Mifure/Kurosawa, Mastroianni/Fellini, and DeNiro/Scorsese.
A-33. “She was the greatest of them all. You wouldn't know, you're too young. In one week, she received 17,000 fan letters. Men bribed her hairdresser to get a lock of her hair. There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. Later he strangled himself with it!”
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. “See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons, and now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it.... Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it!”
A-36. Every time this actor has won an Oscar, the woman who played the female lead in the same movie has won as well.
JACK NICHOLSON--Louise Fletcher, Shirley MacLaine, and Helen Hunt all won Best Actress Oscars
A-37. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
A-39. “A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
Is that Alan Ladd in "Shane"?
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. “I can breathe and I can move, but I'm not alive because I took that poison, and nothing can save me.”
A-42. He received his first Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with an older woman he considered to be passé, and received his last Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with a younger woman who considered him to be passé.
I'm gonna guess Peter O'Toole...
A-43. “They're up to something funny, you hear what I'm telling you? Now, did you see the blonde I brought? All covered with paint and her dressed ripped. Now what was that all about?”
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
Jackie Chan?
A-45. “My family likes you more than they like me! Why? All you do is drool and shed and eat!”
CHARLES GRODIN in "Beethoven"
A-46. The character she recently played in a historical drama was the aunt of the nemesis of the character she will soon play in a historical drama. Got that?
A-47. “Do they teach beauty queens to apologize? Because you suck at it.”
ALBERT FINNEY's last line in "Erin Brockovich"
A-48. Among actors, she is the earliest winner of an Oscar still living.
Shirley Temple, maybe?
A-49. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. “And now the British think I'm with the Irish, and the Irish think I'm with the British. The long and short of it is, I'm walkin' around without a dog to lick my trousers!”
VICTOR McLAGLEN in "The Informer"
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
I'm thinking Annette Bening here...
A-53. “I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. “Gif me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don' be stingy, baby.”
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. “We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
A-59. “What the hell is it today? Less than 12% of the people in this city are colored people. I can't even have a dish of Oregon Boosenberry without runnin' into one of them.”
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. “You really blew the lid off of nookie”
ALBERT BROOKS in "Broadcast News"
A-62. Her stint as a Bond girl netted her a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer – even though she had already been in films for eight years.
A-63. “In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.”
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. “Can you help a fellow American down on his luck?”
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. “For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.”
B-4. This was the first western to yield an Oscar-winning performance.
B-5. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. “Oh, don't worry. I'm not going into that cavity. That nerve's already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive.”
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
B-11. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. This Lugosi movie later gave its name to a heavy metal band.
B-15. “There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but I'm trying to put that behind me. And this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late. A brother's a brother.”
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
B-19. “You are too old and fat to be jumping horses.”
”Well, come see a fat old man some time!”
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
B-22. This movie netted Jerome Kern his first and Dorothy Fields her only Oscar.
B-23. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man. It has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way. And that's when we started doing things like this: the KF line. Walt, are your boys proud when they go out and sell this stuff? When they know the finish is going to crack, the veneer split off and the legs come loose?”
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. “Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.”
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. “Don’t get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control!”
”Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
B-33. “I'm pregnant.”
”Pregnant... with emotion? ”
”Pregnant with a baby.”
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
B-35. “Sir! Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady!”
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. “I want my two hundred dollars.”
“I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it.”
“If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine.”
“But I don't have it!”
“Then get it!”
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
B-39. “I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.”
B-40. This classic was the first foreign language film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
A-1. “Oh stop it, Charlie, we've been through all that. I'm certainly not going to outlive you and that's all there is to it!”
KATHARINE HEPBURN in "The African Queen"
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
A-3. “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-4. Long before the Woody Allen contretemps, this Oscar-winning actress raised a few eyebrows when she married her former stepson.
A-5. “What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge – tracts of land.”
MORGAN FREEMAN in "The Shawshank Redemption"
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
A-7. “You came to Africa to play the White Man, but we are real! This room is real! And when you die? It will be the first real thing you have ever done!”
FOREST WHITAKER in "The Last King of Scotland"
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. “Now look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something. We act like they don't, but they do, and that's what's so f**king cool about them.”
A-10. He appeared in films based on the works of both Euripides and Eugene O’Neill, as well as films based on the works of both Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.
A-11. “I am the Creator – of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
ED HARRIS in "The Truman Show"
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. There's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's cold in there in the winter. So we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of., ‘Hur är läget, lilla gumman?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
A-15. “You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG in "The Color Purple"
A-16. This English actor appeared in five films based on four novels or plays by the same author – in fact, he even portrayed that author.
A-17. “This is my heart! I'm afraid that if they take it away I won't be able to love you the same.”
A-18. The scene in which she simply came down a flight of stairs sporting a new hairdo was cited by Bravo as one of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
A-20. A popular leading man in the 1960s, this Australian actor is best remembered for giving voice to one critter and being menaced by a lot of others.
A-21. “How can you be a receiver of the wedgies when you are clearly not a wearer of the underpants?”
ANTONIO BANDERAS in "Shrek the Third"
A-22. This blonde star of the 1930s made her last film appearance playing the mother of another blonde star of the 1930s.
A-23. “Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”
CHRISTINA RICCI in "The Addams Family"
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
A-25. “’Forget about it’ is like if you agree with someone, you know, like ‘Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it.’ But then, if you disagree, like ‘A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!’ You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like ‘Mangia those peppers, forget about it.’ But it's also like saying ‘Go to hell.’ too. Like, you know, like ‘Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker?’ and Paulie says, ‘Forget about it!’ Sometimes it just means forget about it.”
A-26. Though some people might disagree, I would say that his Pulitzer Prize trumps the two Oscars won by the mother of his children.
A-27. “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”
AL PACINO in "Scarface"
A-28. Appropriately, this actor won a Tony award for playing a dead poet.
A-29. “We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs – yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going.”
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. “On the surface, everything seems fine. I've got this great guy. And he loves my kid. And he sure does like me a lot. And I can't live like that. It's not the way I'm built.”
A-32. The eleven films he made for the same director between 1957 and 1971 place their collaboration in the same pantheon as Mifure/Kurosawa, Mastroianni/Fellini, and DeNiro/Scorsese.
A-33. “She was the greatest of them all. You wouldn't know, you're too young. In one week, she received 17,000 fan letters. Men bribed her hairdresser to get a lock of her hair. There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. Later he strangled himself with it!”
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. “See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons, and now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it.... Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it!”
A-36. Every time this actor has won an Oscar, the woman who played the female lead in the same movie has won as well.
JACK NICHOLSON--Louise Fletcher, Shirley MacLaine, and Helen Hunt all won Best Actress Oscars
A-37. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
A-39. “A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
Is that Alan Ladd in "Shane"?
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. “I can breathe and I can move, but I'm not alive because I took that poison, and nothing can save me.”
A-42. He received his first Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with an older woman he considered to be passé, and received his last Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with a younger woman who considered him to be passé.
I'm gonna guess Peter O'Toole...
A-43. “They're up to something funny, you hear what I'm telling you? Now, did you see the blonde I brought? All covered with paint and her dressed ripped. Now what was that all about?”
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
Jackie Chan?
A-45. “My family likes you more than they like me! Why? All you do is drool and shed and eat!”
CHARLES GRODIN in "Beethoven"
A-46. The character she recently played in a historical drama was the aunt of the nemesis of the character she will soon play in a historical drama. Got that?
A-47. “Do they teach beauty queens to apologize? Because you suck at it.”
ALBERT FINNEY's last line in "Erin Brockovich"
A-48. Among actors, she is the earliest winner of an Oscar still living.
Shirley Temple, maybe?
A-49. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. “And now the British think I'm with the Irish, and the Irish think I'm with the British. The long and short of it is, I'm walkin' around without a dog to lick my trousers!”
VICTOR McLAGLEN in "The Informer"
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
I'm thinking Annette Bening here...
A-53. “I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. “Gif me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don' be stingy, baby.”
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. “We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
A-59. “What the hell is it today? Less than 12% of the people in this city are colored people. I can't even have a dish of Oregon Boosenberry without runnin' into one of them.”
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. “You really blew the lid off of nookie”
ALBERT BROOKS in "Broadcast News"
A-62. Her stint as a Bond girl netted her a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer – even though she had already been in films for eight years.
A-63. “In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.”
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. “Can you help a fellow American down on his luck?”
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. “For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.”
B-4. This was the first western to yield an Oscar-winning performance.
B-5. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. “Oh, don't worry. I'm not going into that cavity. That nerve's already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive.”
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
B-11. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. This Lugosi movie later gave its name to a heavy metal band.
B-15. “There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but I'm trying to put that behind me. And this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late. A brother's a brother.”
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
B-19. “You are too old and fat to be jumping horses.”
”Well, come see a fat old man some time!”
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
B-22. This movie netted Jerome Kern his first and Dorothy Fields her only Oscar.
B-23. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man. It has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way. And that's when we started doing things like this: the KF line. Walt, are your boys proud when they go out and sell this stuff? When they know the finish is going to crack, the veneer split off and the legs come loose?”
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. “Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.”
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. “Don’t get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control!”
”Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
B-33. “I'm pregnant.”
”Pregnant... with emotion? ”
”Pregnant with a baby.”
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
B-35. “Sir! Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady!”
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. “I want my two hundred dollars.”
“I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it.”
“If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine.”
“But I don't have it!”
“Then get it!”
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
B-39. “I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.”
B-40. This classic was the first foreign language film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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A couple more
I didn't even realize these until I posted.
A-48. Among actors, she is the earliest winner of an Oscar still living.
This is Luise Rainier. She's, like, 99 years old.
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
This is INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, an early 1930s curio about the first "television" broadcast.
A-48. Among actors, she is the earliest winner of an Oscar still living.
This is Luise Rainier. She's, like, 99 years old.
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
This is INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, an early 1930s curio about the first "television" broadcast.
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Re: Game #118 -- Film Editing
A-11. “I am the Creator – of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
Ed Harris
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
Vanessa Redgrave?
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
Richard Burton
A-31. “On the surface, everything seems fine. I've got this great guy. And he loves my kid. And he sure does like me a lot. And I can't live like that. It's not the way I'm built.”
Renee Zelwegger
A-39. “A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
Alan Ladd
A-46. The character she recently played in a historical drama was the aunt of the nemesis of the character she will soon play in a historical drama. Got that?
Scarlett Johannsen? Natalie Portman?
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
The Little Princess
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
Road to Perdition
Ed Harris
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
Vanessa Redgrave?
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
Richard Burton
A-31. “On the surface, everything seems fine. I've got this great guy. And he loves my kid. And he sure does like me a lot. And I can't live like that. It's not the way I'm built.”
Renee Zelwegger
A-39. “A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
Alan Ladd
A-46. The character she recently played in a historical drama was the aunt of the nemesis of the character she will soon play in a historical drama. Got that?
Scarlett Johannsen? Natalie Portman?
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
The Little Princess
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
Road to Perdition
Catfish
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Re: Game #118 -- Film Editing
[quote="franktangredi"]Identify the 65 actors indicated in List A and the 40 movies indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match each movie on List B with two actors from List A according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 40 triples. Fifteen actors will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. “Oh stop it, Charlie, we've been through all that. I'm certainly not going to outlive you and that's all there is to it!”
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
The only Hemingway remake that jumps out at me is Siegel's The Killers, but I somehow don't see that working.
A-3. “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.”
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
A-4. Long before the Woody Allen contretemps, this Oscar-winning actress raised a few eyebrows when she married her former stepson.
A-5. “What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge – tracts of land.”
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
Someone in THE CARPETBAGGERS?
A-7. “You came to Africa to play the White Man, but we are real! This room is real! And when you die? It will be the first real thing you have ever done!”
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. “Now look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something. We act like they don't, but they do, and that's what's so f**king cool about them.”
A-10. He appeared in films based on the works of both Euripides and Eugene O’Neill, as well as films based on the works of both Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.
A-11. “I am the Creator – of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
THE TRUMAN SHOW
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. There's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's cold in there in the winter. So we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of., ‘Hur är läget, lilla gumman?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
A-15. “You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.”
A-16. This English actor appeared in five films based on four novels or plays by the same author – in fact, he even portrayed that author.
A-17. “This is my heart! I'm afraid that if they take it away I won't be able to love you the same.”
A-18. The scene in which she simply came down a flight of stairs sporting a new hairdo was cited by Bravo as one of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
NORMA BATES?
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
A-20. A popular leading man in the 1960s, this Australian actor is best remembered for giving voice to one critter and being menaced by a lot of others.
A-21. “How can you be a receiver of the wedgies when you are clearly not a wearer of the underpants?”
A-22. This blonde star of the 1930s made her last film appearance playing the mother of another blonde star of the 1930s.
A-23. “Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”
THE ADDAMS FAMILY
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
A-25. “’Forget about it’ is like if you agree with someone, you know, like ‘Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it.’ But then, if you disagree, like ‘A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!’ You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like ‘Mangia those peppers, forget about it.’ But it's also like saying ‘Go to hell.’ too. Like, you know, like ‘Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker?’ and Paulie says, ‘Forget about it!’ Sometimes it just means forget about it.”
DONNIE BRASCO
A-26. Though some people might disagree, I would say that his Pulitzer Prize trumps the two Oscars won by the mother of his children.
SAM SHEPARD
Be back later
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. “Oh stop it, Charlie, we've been through all that. I'm certainly not going to outlive you and that's all there is to it!”
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
The only Hemingway remake that jumps out at me is Siegel's The Killers, but I somehow don't see that working.
A-3. “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.”
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
A-4. Long before the Woody Allen contretemps, this Oscar-winning actress raised a few eyebrows when she married her former stepson.
A-5. “What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge – tracts of land.”
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
Someone in THE CARPETBAGGERS?
A-7. “You came to Africa to play the White Man, but we are real! This room is real! And when you die? It will be the first real thing you have ever done!”
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. “Now look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something. We act like they don't, but they do, and that's what's so f**king cool about them.”
A-10. He appeared in films based on the works of both Euripides and Eugene O’Neill, as well as films based on the works of both Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.
A-11. “I am the Creator – of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
THE TRUMAN SHOW
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. There's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's cold in there in the winter. So we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of., ‘Hur är läget, lilla gumman?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
A-15. “You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.”
A-16. This English actor appeared in five films based on four novels or plays by the same author – in fact, he even portrayed that author.
A-17. “This is my heart! I'm afraid that if they take it away I won't be able to love you the same.”
A-18. The scene in which she simply came down a flight of stairs sporting a new hairdo was cited by Bravo as one of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
NORMA BATES?
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
A-20. A popular leading man in the 1960s, this Australian actor is best remembered for giving voice to one critter and being menaced by a lot of others.
A-21. “How can you be a receiver of the wedgies when you are clearly not a wearer of the underpants?”
A-22. This blonde star of the 1930s made her last film appearance playing the mother of another blonde star of the 1930s.
A-23. “Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”
THE ADDAMS FAMILY
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
A-25. “’Forget about it’ is like if you agree with someone, you know, like ‘Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it.’ But then, if you disagree, like ‘A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!’ You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like ‘Mangia those peppers, forget about it.’ But it's also like saying ‘Go to hell.’ too. Like, you know, like ‘Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker?’ and Paulie says, ‘Forget about it!’ Sometimes it just means forget about it.”
DONNIE BRASCO
A-26. Though some people might disagree, I would say that his Pulitzer Prize trumps the two Oscars won by the mother of his children.
SAM SHEPARD
Be back later
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Re: Game #118 -- Film Editing
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
BLACK NARCISSUS
B-3. “For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.”
B-4. This was the first western to yield an Oscar-winning performance.
IN OLD ARIZONA, unless something won in 1928
B-5. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. “Oh, don't worry. I'm not going into that cavity. That nerve's already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive.”
MARATHON MAN?
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
Well, it's one of the SE Hinton films - either RUMBLE FISH or THE OUTSIDERS. I am assuming it is THE OUTSIDERS since I do not believe anyone could actually sit through RUMBLE FISH.
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
A hunch - THE BLUE ANGEL
B-11. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. This Lugosi movie later gave its name to a heavy metal band.
WHITE ZOMBIE
B-15. “There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but I'm trying to put that behind me. And this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late. A brother's a brother.”
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
B-19. “You are too old and fat to be jumping horses.”
”Well, come see a fat old man some time!”
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
I alwaus thought his first play was Henry VI. Which seems like something difficult to overhaul. So maybe THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE, based on A Comedy of Errors?
B-21. “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
B-22. This movie netted Jerome Kern his first and Dorothy Fields her only Oscar.
I would assume this is for "The Way You Look Tonight"
B-23. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man. It has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way. And that's when we started doing things like this: the KF line. Walt, are your boys proud when they go out and sell this stuff? When they know the finish is going to crack, the veneer split off and the legs come loose?”
EXECUTIVE SUITE
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
LOGAN's RUN
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. “Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.”
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
ROAD TO PERDITION
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. “Don’t get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control!”
”Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
That Kim Basinger/Bruce Willis movie.
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
Citizen Kane????
B-33. “I'm pregnant.”
”Pregnant... with emotion? ”
”Pregnant with a baby.”
KNOCKED UP, I think
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
Gotta be THE MORTAL STORM, which has Margaret Sullavan and Jimmy Stewart, who also starred together in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER.
B-35. “Sir! Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady!”
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
STAGECOACH doesn't seem right, but...
B-37. “I want my two hundred dollars.”
“I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it.”
“If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine.”
“But I don't have it!”
“Then get it!”
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
SWING VOTER?
B-39. “I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.”
BLUE VELVET
B-40. This classic was the first foreign language film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
LA GRANDE ILLUSION
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
BLACK NARCISSUS
B-3. “For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.”
B-4. This was the first western to yield an Oscar-winning performance.
IN OLD ARIZONA, unless something won in 1928
B-5. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. “Oh, don't worry. I'm not going into that cavity. That nerve's already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive.”
MARATHON MAN?
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
Well, it's one of the SE Hinton films - either RUMBLE FISH or THE OUTSIDERS. I am assuming it is THE OUTSIDERS since I do not believe anyone could actually sit through RUMBLE FISH.
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
A hunch - THE BLUE ANGEL
B-11. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. This Lugosi movie later gave its name to a heavy metal band.
WHITE ZOMBIE
B-15. “There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but I'm trying to put that behind me. And this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late. A brother's a brother.”
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
B-19. “You are too old and fat to be jumping horses.”
”Well, come see a fat old man some time!”
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
I alwaus thought his first play was Henry VI. Which seems like something difficult to overhaul. So maybe THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE, based on A Comedy of Errors?
B-21. “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
B-22. This movie netted Jerome Kern his first and Dorothy Fields her only Oscar.
I would assume this is for "The Way You Look Tonight"
B-23. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man. It has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way. And that's when we started doing things like this: the KF line. Walt, are your boys proud when they go out and sell this stuff? When they know the finish is going to crack, the veneer split off and the legs come loose?”
EXECUTIVE SUITE
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
LOGAN's RUN
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. “Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.”
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
ROAD TO PERDITION
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. “Don’t get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control!”
”Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
That Kim Basinger/Bruce Willis movie.
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
Citizen Kane????
B-33. “I'm pregnant.”
”Pregnant... with emotion? ”
”Pregnant with a baby.”
KNOCKED UP, I think
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
Gotta be THE MORTAL STORM, which has Margaret Sullavan and Jimmy Stewart, who also starred together in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER.
B-35. “Sir! Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady!”
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
STAGECOACH doesn't seem right, but...
B-37. “I want my two hundred dollars.”
“I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it.”
“If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine.”
“But I don't have it!”
“Then get it!”
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
SWING VOTER?
B-39. “I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.”
BLUE VELVET
B-40. This classic was the first foreign language film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
LA GRANDE ILLUSION
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A-22. This blonde star of the 1930s made her last film appearance playing the mother of another blonde star of the 1930s.
It's Ginger Rogers, who played Jean Harlow's mother in the "other" Harlow movie with Carol Lynley.
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
I guess the question here is what does Frank mean by "series." This could be Vin Diesel, who was in Private Ryan but whose most popular films might be the two Riddick movies. It also could be Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun, if you consider Batman as science fiction.
It's Ginger Rogers, who played Jean Harlow's mother in the "other" Harlow movie with Carol Lynley.
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
I guess the question here is what does Frank mean by "series." This could be Vin Diesel, who was in Private Ryan but whose most popular films might be the two Riddick movies. It also could be Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun, if you consider Batman as science fiction.
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William Holden - Sunset Boulevard and NetworkNellyLunatic1980 wrote:LIST A: ACTORS
A-42. He received his first Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with an older woman he considered to be passé, and received his last Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with a younger woman who considered him to be passé.
I'm gonna guess Peter O'Toole...
All the others I knew have already been answered.
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
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A-32. The eleven films he made for the same director between 1957 and 1971 place their collaboration in the same pantheon as Mifure/Kurosawa, Mastroianni/Fellini, and DeNiro/Scorsese.
Max Von Sydow with Ingmar Bergman
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
Rumble Fish
Max Von Sydow with Ingmar Bergman
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
Rumble Fish
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I haven't had a chance to look over these, but I'm sure you guys have already made a nice dent in these. I'll work on it when I get back from my pub trivia later this evening.
Note to Frank: Dammit, buddy, never post a movie game midday on a Tuesday! I won't get to work on it until late in the evening!
Note to Frank: Dammit, buddy, never post a movie game midday on a Tuesday! I won't get to work on it until late in the evening!
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust while the infamous sit at banquets.
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To everyone who posts in this thread:
Should my friend get called to be on the Netflix Million Dollar Movie Week (yeah, like that's a real possibility!), be forewarned that you...yes, you!...may be solicited as a PAF....
Should my friend get called to be on the Netflix Million Dollar Movie Week (yeah, like that's a real possibility!), be forewarned that you...yes, you!...may be solicited as a PAF....
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust while the infamous sit at banquets.
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Re: Game #118 -- Film Editing
I don't have too much time this evening, and don't feel up to reading through the other posts/answers, so here's some low-hanging-fruit-picking.
franktangredi wrote:Identify the 65 actors indicated in List A and the 40 movies indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match each movie on List B with two actors from List A according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 40 triples. Fifteen actors will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. “Oh stop it, Charlie, we've been through all that. I'm certainly not going to outlive you and that's all there is to it!”
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
A-3. “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.”
MORGAN FREEMAN ("The Shawshank Redemption")
A-4. Long before the Woody Allen contretemps, this Oscar-winning actress raised a few eyebrows when she married her former stepson.
GLORIA GRAHAME
A-5. “What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge – tracts of land.”
MICHAEL PALIN ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail")
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
A-7. “You came to Africa to play the White Man, but we are real! This room is real! And when you die? It will be the first real thing you have ever done!”
FORREST WHITAKER? ("The Last King of Scotland"?)
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. “Now look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something. We act like they don't, but they do, and that's what's so f**king cool about them.”
SAMUEL L. JACKSON ("Pulp Fiction")
A-10. He appeared in films based on the works of both Euripides and Eugene O’Neill, as well as films based on the works of both Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.
ANTHONY PERKINS
A-11. “I am the Creator – of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.”
ED HARRIS ("The Truman Show")
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. “I had a garage band in Stockholm, which was a challenge in its own right, to keep an instrument tuned with that temperature swing. There's a block warmer for the Volvo in the garage but it's cold in there in the winter. So we played and I had a hit that you might have heard of., ‘Hur är läget, lilla gumman?’ which means, ‘How's It Hanging, Grandma?’ and it was big on the Swedish charts.”
ED BEGLEY, JR. ("A Mighty Wind")
A-14. Her real-life roles have included two queens, a dancer, a suffragist, and a writer referenced in one of the preceding clues.
VANESSA REDGRAVE?
A-15. “You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG? ("The Color Purple"?)
A-16. This English actor appeared in five films based on four novels or plays by the same author – in fact, he even portrayed that author.
A-17. “This is my heart! I'm afraid that if they take it away I won't be able to love you the same.”
CHRISTIAN SLATER ("Untamed Heart")
A-18. The scene in which she simply came down a flight of stairs sporting a new hairdo was cited by Bravo as one of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
ELSA LANCHESTER ("Bride of Frankenstein")
A-19. “What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
RICHARD BURTON ("The Spy Who Came In From the Cold")
A-20. A popular leading man in the 1960s, this Australian actor is best remembered for giving voice to one critter and being menaced by a lot of others.
ROD TAYLOR?
A-21. “How can you be a receiver of the wedgies when you are clearly not a wearer of the underpants?”
ANTONIO BANDERAS ("Shrek the Third")
A-22. This blonde star of the 1930s made her last film appearance playing the mother of another blonde star of the 1930s.
A-23. “Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”
CHRISTINA RICCI ("The Addams Family" or "Addams Family Values"...the former, I think)
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
A-25. “’Forget about it’ is like if you agree with someone, you know, like ‘Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it.’ But then, if you disagree, like ‘A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!’ You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like ‘Mangia those peppers, forget about it.’ But it's also like saying ‘Go to hell.’ too. Like, you know, like ‘Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker?’ and Paulie says, ‘Forget about it!’ Sometimes it just means forget about it.”
JOHNNY DEPP ("Donnie Brasco")
A-26. Though some people might disagree, I would say that his Pulitzer Prize trumps the two Oscars won by the mother of his children.
SAM SHEPHARD
A-27. “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”
AL PACINO ("Scarface")
A-28. Appropriately, this actor won a Tony award for playing a dead poet.
ROBERT SEAN LEONARD (His Tony was for playing Housman, I think, in a Tom Stoppard play
A-29. “We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs – yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going.”
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. “On the surface, everything seems fine. I've got this great guy. And he loves my kid. And he sure does like me a lot. And I can't live like that. It's not the way I'm built.”
RENEE ZELLWEGER ("Jerry Maguire")
A-32. The eleven films he made for the same director between 1957 and 1971 place their collaboration in the same pantheon as Mifure/Kurosawa, Mastroianni/Fellini, and DeNiro/Scorsese.
A-33. “She was the greatest of them all. You wouldn't know, you're too young. In one week, she received 17,000 fan letters. Men bribed her hairdresser to get a lock of her hair. There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. Later he strangled himself with it!”
ERIC VON STROHEIM ("Sunset Blvd.")
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. “See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons, and now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it.... Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it!”
JASON LEE ("The Incredibles")
A-36. Every time this actor has won an Oscar, the woman who played the female lead in the same movie has won as well.
JACK NICHOLSON?
A-37. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
MARK WAHLBERG ("Boogie Nights")
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
A-39. “A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. “I can breathe and I can move, but I'm not alive because I took that poison, and nothing can save me.”
EDMUND O'BRIEN ("DOA")
A-42. He received his first Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with an older woman he considered to be passé, and received his last Oscar nomination for playing someone having an affair with a younger woman who considered him to be passé.
WILLIAM HOLDEN?
A-43. “They're up to something funny, you hear what I'm telling you? Now, did you see the blonde I brought? All covered with paint and her dressed ripped. Now what was that all about?”
It wouldn't be a Tangredi puzzle without IAMMMMW! PETER FALK.
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
A-45. “My family likes you more than they like me! Why? All you do is drool and shed and eat!”
A-46. The character she recently played in a historical drama was the aunt of the nemesis of the character she will soon play in a historical drama. Got that?
SCARLETT JOHANNSON (she's remaking "Mary Queen of Scots")
A-47. “Do they teach beauty queens to apologize? Because you suck at it.”
ALBERT FINNEY ("Erin Brockovich")
A-48. Among actors, she is the earliest winner of an Oscar still living.
LUISE RAINER?
A-49. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
LAURENCE OLIVIER ("Rebecca")
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. “And now the British think I'm with the Irish, and the Irish think I'm with the British. The long and short of it is, I'm walkin' around without a dog to lick my trousers!”
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
A-53. “I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
KEVIN COSTNER ("Bull Durham")
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. “Gif me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don' be stingy, baby.”
GRETA GARBO? ("Anna Christie"?)
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. “We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”
CLAUDE RAINS ("Casablanca")
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
A-59. “What the hell is it today? Less than 12% of the people in this city are colored people. I can't even have a dish of Oregon Boosenberry without runnin' into one of them.”
SPENCER TRACY ("Guess Who's Coming to Dinner")
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. “You really blew the lid off of nookie”
ALBERT BROOKS ("Broadcast News")
A-62. Her stint as a Bond girl netted her a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer – even though she had already been in films for eight years.
Gotta be someone early. Ursula Andress, maybe?
A-63. “In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.”
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. “Can you help a fellow American down on his luck?”
HUMPHREY BOGART ("The Treasure of the Sierra Madre")
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. “This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don't know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.”
AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. “For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.”
RADIO DAYS
B-4. This was the first western to yield an Oscar-winning performance.
B-5. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. “Oh, don't worry. I'm not going into that cavity. That nerve's already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive.”
MARATHON MAN
B-8. The third movie made from the work of a popular author of adolescent fiction, it helped make a star of a young actor who appeared in all three of them.
B-9. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
”Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.”
MONSTERS, INC.
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
B-11. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
BACHELOR PARTY
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. This Lugosi movie later gave its name to a heavy metal band.
B-15. “There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but I'm trying to put that behind me. And this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late. A brother's a brother.”
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. “Oh, Daddy, you've got to know me! Look at me! Oh, Daddy!”
”You mustn't cry. We must be good soldiers.”
”But I have been a good soldier, and you don't know me, Daddy!”
B-18. Billed as the “Grand Hotel of Comedy,” this flick featured a wealth of radio stars, but nary a flapjack in sight.
B-19. “You are too old and fat to be jumping horses.”
”Well, come see a fat old man some time!”
TRUE GRIT
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
WAYNE'S WORLD
B-22. This movie netted Jerome Kern his first and Dorothy Fields her only Oscar.
SWING TIME
B-23. “The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man. It has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way. And that's when we started doing things like this: the KF line. Walt, are your boys proud when they go out and sell this stuff? When they know the finish is going to crack, the veneer split off and the legs come loose?”
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. “Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!”
LOGAN'S RUN
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. “Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.”
SUDDEN IMPACT (I just saw this again this weekend! The new boxed set of the Dirty Harry movies rocks.)
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun.”
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. “Don’t get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control!”
”Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
BLIND DATE?
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
B-33. “I'm pregnant.”
”Pregnant... with emotion? ”
”Pregnant with a baby.”
KNOCKED UP
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
B-35. “Sir! Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady!”
THE QUIET MAN
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. “I want my two hundred dollars.”
“I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it.”
“If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine.”
“But I don't have it!”
“Then get it!”
PAPER MOON
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
B-39. “I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.”
BLUE VELVET
B-40. This classic was the first foreign language film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
GRAND ILLUSION?
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust while the infamous sit at banquets.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
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Re: Game #118 -- Film Editing
Early morning consolidation time!
Identify the 65 actors indicated in List A and the 40 movies indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match each movie on List B with two actors from List A according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 40 triples. Fifteen actors will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. KATHARINE HEPBURN
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
Bill Murray?
A-3. MORGAN FREEMAN
A-4. GLORIA GRAHAME
A-5. MICHAEL PALIN
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
A-7. FOREST WHITAKER
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. SAMUEL L. JACKSON
A-10. ANTHONY PERKINS
A-11. ED HARRIS
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. ED BEGLEY, JR.
A-14. VANESSA REDGRAVE
A-15. WHOOPI GOLDBERG
A-16. HERBERT MARSHALL
A-17. CHRISTIAN SLATER
A-18. ELSA LANCHESTER
A-19. RICHARD BURTON
A-20. ROD TAYLOR
A-21. ANTONIO BANDERAS
A-22. GINGER ROGERS
A-23. CHRISTINA RICCI
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
Vin Diesel?
A-25. JOHNNY DEPP
A-26. SAM SHEPARD
A-27. AL PACINO
A-28. ROBERT SEAN LEONARD
A-29. MARLENE DIETRICH
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. RENEE ZELLWEGER
A-32. MAX VON SYDOW
A-33. ERIC VON STROHEIM
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. JASON LEE
A-36. JACK NICHOLSON
A-37. MARK WAHLBERG
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
Cliff Robertson?
A-39. ALAN LADD
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. EDMUND O'BRIEN
A-42. WILLIAM HOLDEN
A-43. PETER FALK
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
Jackie Chan?
A-45. CHARLES GRODIN
A-46. SCARLETT JOHANNSON
A-47. ALBERT FINNEY
A-48. LUISE RAINER
A-49. LAURENCE OLIVIER
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. VICTOR McLAGLEN
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
Annette Bening?
A-53. KEVIN COSTNER
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. GRETA GARBO
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. CLAUDE RAINS
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
Bob Hope?
A-59. SPENCER TRACY
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. ALBERT BROOKS
A-62. URSULA ANDRESS
A-63. FRED ASTAIRE
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. HUMPHREY BOGART
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. RADIO DAYS
B-4. IN OLD ARIZONA
B-5. BEING THERE
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. MARATHON MAN
B-8. RUMBLE FISH
B-9. MONSTERS, INC.
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
"The Blue Angel"?
B-11. BACHELOR PARTY
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. WHITE ZOMBIE
B-15. THE STRAIGHT STORY
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. THE LITTLE PRINCESS
B-18. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
B-19. TRUE GRIT
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. WAYNE'S WORLD
B-22. SWING TIME
B-23. EXECUTIVE SUITE
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. LOGAN'S RUN
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. SUDDEN IMPACT
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. THE ROAD TO PERDITION
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. BLIND DATE
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
"Citizen Kane"?
B-33. KNOCKED UP
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
It has to be THE MORTAL STORM--both it and "The Shop Around the Corner" starred Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan
B-35. THE QUIET MAN
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. PAPER MOON
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
"Swing Voter"?
B-39. BLUE VELVET
B-40. LA GRANDE ILLUSION (GRAND ILLUSION)
Identify the 65 actors indicated in List A and the 40 movies indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match each movie on List B with two actors from List A according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 40 triples. Fifteen actors will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. KATHARINE HEPBURN
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
Bill Murray?
A-3. MORGAN FREEMAN
A-4. GLORIA GRAHAME
A-5. MICHAEL PALIN
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
A-7. FOREST WHITAKER
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. SAMUEL L. JACKSON
A-10. ANTHONY PERKINS
A-11. ED HARRIS
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. ED BEGLEY, JR.
A-14. VANESSA REDGRAVE
A-15. WHOOPI GOLDBERG
A-16. HERBERT MARSHALL
A-17. CHRISTIAN SLATER
A-18. ELSA LANCHESTER
A-19. RICHARD BURTON
A-20. ROD TAYLOR
A-21. ANTONIO BANDERAS
A-22. GINGER ROGERS
A-23. CHRISTINA RICCI
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
Vin Diesel?
A-25. JOHNNY DEPP
A-26. SAM SHEPARD
A-27. AL PACINO
A-28. ROBERT SEAN LEONARD
A-29. MARLENE DIETRICH
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. RENEE ZELLWEGER
A-32. MAX VON SYDOW
A-33. ERIC VON STROHEIM
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. JASON LEE
A-36. JACK NICHOLSON
A-37. MARK WAHLBERG
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
Cliff Robertson?
A-39. ALAN LADD
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. EDMUND O'BRIEN
A-42. WILLIAM HOLDEN
A-43. PETER FALK
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
Jackie Chan?
A-45. CHARLES GRODIN
A-46. SCARLETT JOHANNSON
A-47. ALBERT FINNEY
A-48. LUISE RAINER
A-49. LAURENCE OLIVIER
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. VICTOR McLAGLEN
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
Annette Bening?
A-53. KEVIN COSTNER
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. GRETA GARBO
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. CLAUDE RAINS
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
Bob Hope?
A-59. SPENCER TRACY
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. ALBERT BROOKS
A-62. URSULA ANDRESS
A-63. FRED ASTAIRE
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. HUMPHREY BOGART
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. RADIO DAYS
B-4. IN OLD ARIZONA
B-5. BEING THERE
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. MARATHON MAN
B-8. RUMBLE FISH
B-9. MONSTERS, INC.
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
"The Blue Angel"?
B-11. BACHELOR PARTY
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. WHITE ZOMBIE
B-15. THE STRAIGHT STORY
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. THE LITTLE PRINCESS
B-18. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
B-19. TRUE GRIT
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. WAYNE'S WORLD
B-22. SWING TIME
B-23. EXECUTIVE SUITE
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. LOGAN'S RUN
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. SUDDEN IMPACT
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. THE ROAD TO PERDITION
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. BLIND DATE
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
"Citizen Kane"?
B-33. KNOCKED UP
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
It has to be THE MORTAL STORM--both it and "The Shop Around the Corner" starred Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan
B-35. THE QUIET MAN
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. PAPER MOON
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
"Swing Voter"?
B-39. BLUE VELVET
B-40. LA GRANDE ILLUSION (GRAND ILLUSION)
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Re: Game #118 -- Film Editing
Among the actors, three of the definite answers are wrong -- and, for once, none of them is my fault! One is a case of attributing a quote to the wrong character in the right scene. One is a very understandable error made by several people, but does not fit the clue in all particulars. The third is the logical red herring to a trick question that at least one person did answer correctly.
Among the movies, correct answers given by somebody to two questions were missed.
Among the movies, correct answers given by somebody to two questions were missed.
NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Early morning consolidation time!
Identify the 65 actors indicated in List A and the 40 movies indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match each movie on List B with two actors from List A according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 40 triples. Fifteen actors will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. KATHARINE HEPBURN
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
Bill Murray?
A-3. MORGAN FREEMAN
A-4. GLORIA GRAHAME
A-5. MICHAEL PALIN
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
A-7. FOREST WHITAKER
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. SAMUEL L. JACKSON
A-10. ANTHONY PERKINS
A-11. ED HARRIS
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. ED BEGLEY, JR.
A-14. VANESSA REDGRAVE
A-15. WHOOPI GOLDBERG
A-16. HERBERT MARSHALL
A-17. CHRISTIAN SLATER
A-18. ELSA LANCHESTER
A-19. RICHARD BURTON
A-20. ROD TAYLOR
A-21. ANTONIO BANDERAS
A-22. GINGER ROGERS
A-23. CHRISTINA RICCI
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
Vin Diesel?
A-25. JOHNNY DEPP
A-26. SAM SHEPARD
A-27. AL PACINO
A-28. ROBERT SEAN LEONARD
A-29. MARLENE DIETRICH
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. RENEE ZELLWEGER
A-32. MAX VON SYDOW
A-33. ERIC VON STROHEIM
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. JASON LEE
A-36. JACK NICHOLSON
A-37. MARK WAHLBERG
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
Cliff Robertson?
A-39. ALAN LADD
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. EDMUND O'BRIEN
A-42. WILLIAM HOLDEN
A-43. PETER FALK
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
Jackie Chan?
A-45. CHARLES GRODIN
A-46. SCARLETT JOHANNSON
A-47. ALBERT FINNEY
A-48. LUISE RAINER
A-49. LAURENCE OLIVIER
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. VICTOR McLAGLEN
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
Annette Bening?
A-53. KEVIN COSTNER
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. GRETA GARBO
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. CLAUDE RAINS
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
Bob Hope?
A-59. SPENCER TRACY
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. ALBERT BROOKS
A-62. URSULA ANDRESS
A-63. FRED ASTAIRE
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. HUMPHREY BOGART
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. RADIO DAYS
B-4. IN OLD ARIZONA
B-5. BEING THERE
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. MARATHON MAN
B-8. RUMBLE FISH
B-9. MONSTERS, INC.
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
"The Blue Angel"?
B-11. BACHELOR PARTY
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. WHITE ZOMBIE
B-15. THE STRAIGHT STORY
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. THE LITTLE PRINCESS
B-18. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
B-19. TRUE GRIT
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. WAYNE'S WORLD
B-22. SWING TIME
B-23. EXECUTIVE SUITE
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. LOGAN'S RUN
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. SUDDEN IMPACT
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. THE ROAD TO PERDITION
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. BLIND DATE
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
"Citizen Kane"?
B-33. KNOCKED UP
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
It has to be THE MORTAL STORM--both it and "The Shop Around the Corner" starred Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan
B-35. THE QUIET MAN
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. PAPER MOON
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
"Swing Voter"?
B-39. BLUE VELVET
B-40. LA GRANDE ILLUSION (GRAND ILLUSION)
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Weyoun
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A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
Bill Murray?
Think this is ROCK HUDSON. I recall Gore Vidal recounting how Hudson had to turn down Ben-Hur (much to Vidal's regret!!!) because of A Farewell to Arms. Don't know what the other film is, but it fits.
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
An argument can be made that King Creole was Elvis's best work, actually, and that's based on a Robbins story. Steve McQueen was in Nevada Smith, and that's adapted from the Carpetbaggers, but that seems like a bit of a stretch. And George Peppard isn't big, at least not in my universe.
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
PAUL MUNI, or as he was then known, Weisenfreund.
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
Cliff Robertson? Yep - this would be PT 109
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
Annette Bening?
She's been nominated three times. And he's not directed her.
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
Bob Hope?
Why not Bing Crosby, then?
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
JODIE FOSTER? Parsing the question, she won two Best Actress Oscars, but was nominated for Supporting Actress at a young age for Taxi Driver.
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
As I said above, I believe this is THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE. There's a 1940 film version, it's based on a musical by Rodgers and Hart that's loosely based on Comedy of Errors, and that's an early play.
Bill Murray?
Think this is ROCK HUDSON. I recall Gore Vidal recounting how Hudson had to turn down Ben-Hur (much to Vidal's regret!!!) because of A Farewell to Arms. Don't know what the other film is, but it fits.
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
An argument can be made that King Creole was Elvis's best work, actually, and that's based on a Robbins story. Steve McQueen was in Nevada Smith, and that's adapted from the Carpetbaggers, but that seems like a bit of a stretch. And George Peppard isn't big, at least not in my universe.
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
PAUL MUNI, or as he was then known, Weisenfreund.
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
Cliff Robertson? Yep - this would be PT 109
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
Annette Bening?
She's been nominated three times. And he's not directed her.
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
Bob Hope?
Why not Bing Crosby, then?
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
JODIE FOSTER? Parsing the question, she won two Best Actress Oscars, but was nominated for Supporting Actress at a young age for Taxi Driver.
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
As I said above, I believe this is THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE. There's a 1940 film version, it's based on a musical by Rodgers and Hart that's loosely based on Comedy of Errors, and that's an early play.
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The other film, IIRC, is Bridge over the River Kwai, in which Hudson would have had the William Holden role.Weyoun wrote:A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
Bill Murray?
Think this is ROCK HUDSON. I recall Gore Vidal recounting how Hudson had to turn down Ben-Hur (much to Vidal's regret!!!) because of A Farewell to Arms. Don't know what the other film is, but it fits.
Weyoun wrote:A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
Bob Hope?
Why not Bing Crosby, then?
I went over the Best Song winners just to check.
Hope introduced Thanks for the Memory and Buttons & Bows.
Crosby introduced Sweet Leilani, Swinging on a Star, White Christmas and In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening.
So, the clue definitely fits BOB HOPE.
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franktangredi wrote:Among the actors, three of the definite answers are wrong -- and, for once, none of them is my fault! One is a case of attributing a quote to the wrong character in the right scene. One is a very understandable error made by several people, but does not fit the clue in all particulars. The third is the logical red herring to a trick question that at least one person did answer correctly.
The quote misattribution is A-9. It was Vincent -- JOHN TRAVOLTA -- who said that in Pulp Fiction, not Jules (Sam Jackson).
My bad!
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A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
This is ALLA NAZIMOVA. The O'Neill play is Mourning Becomes Electra.
In one of her last screen roles, Nazimova had one of my all-time favorite movie moments.
In Since You Went Away, she plays an immigrant woman who works with Claudette Colbert in the shipyard. She recites part of The New Collasus.
Never fails to move me to tears.
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
This is ALLA NAZIMOVA. The O'Neill play is Mourning Becomes Electra.
In one of her last screen roles, Nazimova had one of my all-time favorite movie moments.
In Since You Went Away, she plays an immigrant woman who works with Claudette Colbert in the shipyard. She recites part of The New Collasus.
Never fails to move me to tears.
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KillerTomato
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Re: Game #118 -- Film Editing
franktangredi wrote:Among the actors, three of the definite answers are wrong -- and, for once, none of them is my fault! One is a case of attributing a quote to the wrong character in the right scene. One is a very understandable error made by several people, but does not fit the clue in all particulars. The third is the logical red herring to a trick question that at least one person did answer correctly.
Is it possible that the red herring is A-48? Shirley Temple's Oscar predated Luise Rainer's win, think.
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-- Robert G. Ingersoll
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The title "Film Editing" suggests maybe combining words from film titles of two different actors from list A to make a film title related in some way to one on list B. But the link to the list B films isn't likely the director, because there are some directors represented twice, like David Lynch (The Straight Story and Blue Velvet).