Game #157: Encore
Identify the 80 actors in List A and the 40 movies in List B. (For questions A-1 and A-2, you need to identify both actors involved in the given dialogue; every other clue after that is a quotation.) Then, pair one actor with one movie according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 87 pairs.
Seven actors will be used twice. Thirteen movies will be used twice, ten will be used three times, one will be used four times, one will be used six times, and one will be used seven (!) times.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1 & A-2. “And after you shot your husband... how did you feel?”
“Hungry!”
A-3. This actress completes the following list: Cate Blanchett, Robert DeNiro, Paul Newman, Joe Pesci.
A-4. “It's good, and it's bad. There's a guaranteed return, and that's good. But the guarantor is Amusa, and Amusa's a rookie, and that's bad. But it's an easily transportable object, and that's good. Only it's in a rotten position in the museum, thirty steps to the quickest exit, and that's bad. And the glass over the stone, that's bad too, because that's glass with metal mixed in it, bulletproof, shatterproof. But the locks don't look impossible, three, maybe five tumblers. But there's no alarm system, and that's the worst, because that means no one's going to get lazy watching, knowing the alarm will pick up their mistakes. Which means the whole thing has got to be a diversion job, and that's good and that's bad, because if the diversion's too big, it'll draw pedestrians, and if the diversion's not big enough, it won't draw that watchman.”
A-5. This one-time WWI intelligence officer was a lifelong friend of the man who wrote the score for the musical in Clue B-33.
A-6. “I don't believe that God made man in his image. 'Cause most of the shit that happens comes from man. No, I think man was made in the Devil's image. And women were created out of God. 'Cause after all, women can have babies, which is kind of like creating. And which also accounts for the fact that women are so attracted to men... 'cause let's face it... the Devil is a hell of a lot more interesting! Believe me, I've slept with some saints in my day, I know what I'm talking about. So the whole point in life is for men and women to get married... so that God and the Devil can get together and work it out. Not that we have to get married. God forbid.”
A-7. This father of an Oscar-winning actress had one of the shortest tenures on one of the longest-running television series of all time.
A-8. “You can't help that you were born Christian instead of Jewish. It doesn't mean you're glad you were. But I am glad. There, I said it”
A-9. The stabbing death of this actor is one of the most closely analyzed sequences in Francois Truffaut’s celebrated interview with Alfred Hitchcock.
A-10. “Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right!”
A-11. Taking on a role previously played by Will Rogers, this character actor had one of his few starring parts in a what was reputedly John Ford’s favorite among his films.
A-12. “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
A-13. For 25 years, she held the record as the oldest Oscar-winning actor and still holds the #10 spot. (At 5' 2¼", she was also one of the shortest, and at six films compiled one of the shortest filmographies.)
A-14. “It's funny how some distance/Makes everything seem small/And the fears that once controlled me/Can't get to me at all!”
A-15. She received no screen credit for her 1947 role as victim of arguably the most shocking and vicious murder in the history of film noir.
A-16. “It's as clear as a buttonhook in the well water!
A-17. This Canadian actor’s divorce from his second wife provided the inspiration for one of the films quoted above.
A-18. “Thank you, Honore. That was the most charming and endearing excuse for infidelity I've ever heard.”
A-19. Just as her career was getting started, this actress was blacklisted due to her eulogy for an earlier blacklisted actor – and her refusal to testify against her own husband.
A-20. “You hear me now! You rode into my place and beat my men for the last time and I give you warnin'. You set foot in Blanco Canyon once more and this country's gonna run red with blood 'til there ain't one of us left! Now I don't hold mine so precious, so if you want to start, here, start now! What's the matter? Can't you shoot a man a-facin' ya? I'll make it easy fer ya. Here's my back.”
A-21. In her 1987 autobiography, this Oscar-winning actress became the first celebrity to go public about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
A-22. “Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever. My armor! The war crown! Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment!”
A-23. She was the first of two actresses to receive posthumous Emmy awards for their work on the same television series.
A-24. “Suppose I tell you exactly what's gonna happen to you. You're gonna be back in television. Only it won't be quite the same as it was before. There'll be a reasonable cooling-off period and then somebody will say: ‘Why don't we try him again in an inexpensive format. People's memories aren't too long.’ And you know, in a way, he'll be right. Some of the people will forget, and some of them won't. Oh, you'll have a show. Maybe not the best hour or, you know, top 10. Maybe not even in the top 35. But you'll have a show. It just won't be quite the same as it was before. Then a couple of new fellas will come along. And pretty soon, a lot of your fans will be flocking around them. And then one day, somebody'll ask: ‘Whatever happened to, a, whatshisname? You know, the one who was so big. The number-one fella a couple of years ago. He was famous. How can we forget a name like that?’”
A-25. Other than Edward Asner himself, she was the only actor to play the same role on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant.
A-26. “You killed the car.”
A-27. In two of the highest-grossing costume epics of the 1950s, she played the mother of the same actor – who was only eleven years her junior.
A-28. “I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.”
A-29. In a classic thriller, she played the mother of one Charlie and the sister of another.
A-30. “Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world's a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”
A-31. He had a memorable bit as his own father in a 1942 musical biopic.
A-32. “You know, you never were an actor. You did have looks, but they're gone now. You don't have to take my word for it. Just look in any mirror. They don't lie. Take a good look. Look at those pouches under your eyes. Look at those creases. You sag like an old woman! Get a load of yourself! Wait till you start tramping around the offices, looking for a job, because no agent's going to handle you. Sitting in those anterooms hour after hour, giving your name to office boys that never even heard of you. You're through!”
A-33. She was the first African American actress to lose an Oscar.
A-34. “You'll publish your novel, you'll make a million bucks, you'll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you'll live with your conscience, if you have any.”
A-35. As far as I can tell, he was the only actor to have appeared in support of both Cary Grant and Eddie Murphy.
A-36. “Now what kind of an attitude is that, ‘These things happen?’ They only happen because this whole country is just full of people, who when these things happen, they just say, ‘These things happen,’ and that's why they happen!”
A-37. In 1962, this actor took on a role that had previously been played by both the actors referenced in Clue A-11.
A-38. “Older? You mean like Shelley Winters older or Shirley MacLaine older?”
A-39. This actor appeared in films based on novels by Louisa May Alcott, Sinclair Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, and Joseph Conrad.
A-40. “You are a caged lion! But lions can't be captive their entire lives. They have to be free to roam the bush. Free and wild! Your wife is a hot sexy tigress and she's waiting for you to pounce on her! Let me hear you roar, baby, roar! Your body is talking to me. It's hungry for action! I can feel it. Unleash the beast inside you, Jack!”
A-41. His impressive gallery of character roles included a Wild West showman, a Roman general, and a Sylvanian diplomat.
A-42. “Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries.”
A-43. Though he came First, this actor had a much smaller role than the guys who played Second Cab Driver and Third Cab Driver.
A-44. “Look how they massacred my boy!”
A-45. In what would become the longest-running nationally-aired commercial in U.S. television history, this actor reminded us that many popular melodies were actually written by the great masters.
A-46. “Running was always a big thing in our family, specially running away from the police. It's hard to understand. All I know is that you've got to run, running without knowing why, through fields and woods. And the winning post's no end, even though the barmy crowds might be cheering themselves daft.”
A-47. In a highly unlikely casting choice, this baby-faced actor gave lessons in adultery to an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-48. “You only live once, and once is enough if you play your cards right.”
A-49. He reprised one of his most popular big screen roles in a small screen spinoff, while his most popular small screen role was reprised on the big screen by Christopher Lloyd.
A-50. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch.”
A-51. This actress made only five American films between 1957 and 1962 – winning an Oscar in the process – and retired completely from acting in 1972 after a three-year stint on a popular sitcom.
A-52. “I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up! If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong!”
A-53. In 1935, this scene-stealing character actress appeared in classic films directed by John Ford, James Whale, and George Cukor.
A-54. “There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold.”
A-55. His final film role was as the primary murder victim in the most successful “film noir” of the 1980s.
A-56. “Most fish languages are a combination of bubbles and mouth movement. At the moment, all I can make is large bubbles and they keep telling me I'm shouting”
A-57. He made the last of his five films at the age of 34 and died 44 years later.
A-58. “Beware. Beware. Beware of the big, green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big, fat snails. Beware. Take care. Beware.”
A-59. This distinguished actor starred in two episodes of my favorite television series: as a sick old man who chooses love over health and as a ghost who metes out terrifying justice to a really bad man.
A-60. “Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.”
A-61. She won two Emmy awards for playing a character first introduced in a one-panel magazine comic.
A-62. “Ladies and gentlemen, you all have one thing in common: you're all being blackmailed. For some considerable time, all of you have been paying what you can afford, and in some cases more than you can afford, to someone who threatens to expose you. And none of you know who's blackmailing you. Do you?”
A-63. This young actor caused a stir when he turned down the role of Charles Lindbergh due to his dislike of Lindy’s pro-Nazi sympathies.
A-64. “’Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.’ Nah, it's too good.”
A-65. The peak of his career was winning a Tony award for a real-life role that would later be played on screen by Dustin Hoffman.
A-66. “Don’t look for happiness, Richie, it’ll only make you miserable.”
A-67. As far as I know, he is the only man to have ever slept with both Rita Hayworth and Whoopi Goldberg.
A-68. “Who looks after your father? Tell me that. When something terrible happens, what does he do? Fends for himself, he does. Who does he tell about it? No one. Don't blab his troubles at home. He just pushes on at his job, uncomplaining and alone and silent.”
A-69. In her most popular movie, she played a tough-yet-vulnerable high school student. (She was 33 at the time.)
A-70. “I'm gonna' build me a chapel.”
A-71. He was the first actor ever to play the role of James Bond.
A-72. “If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.”
A-73. This blacklisted actor’s eleven-year exile from feature films came to an end when he was cast as a sympathetic psychiatrist in a highly regarded love story.
A-74. “I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me.”
A-75. She was the first actress ever to be named a DBE.
A-76. “Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.”
A-77. He has played the father of one of his sons three times, the father of another of his sons four times, and the father of his then daughter-in-law once.
A-78. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
A-79. Bette Davis always credited this English actor with giving her her first big break.
A-80. “One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for.”
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. It was the first film of its genre, as well as the first based on a novel by a woman, to win a Best Picture Oscar.
B-2. “You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, ‘Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness.’ You call yourself a free spirit, a ‘wild thing,’ and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself.”
B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)
B-4. “I’m a cotton-headed ninnymoggins!”
B-5. The National Legion of Decency sent representatives to Trinidad and Tobago to oversee production of this John Huston film – and were shocked when the two leads improvised a racy kissing scene entirely for their benefit.
B-6. “Don't touch the suit.”
B-7. This 1950 sports film belongs on a list that also includes To Hell and Back and Private Parts.
B-8. “Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have your never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”
B-9. This film set in England was parodied two years later by Laurel and Hardy.
B-10. “Sebastian always said, 'Mother, when you descend, it's like the Goddess from the Machine. You look just like angel coming to earth' as I float, float into view. Sebastian, my son Sebastian, was very interested in the Byzantine.”
B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.
B-12. “Now, see here Jerry. I'm sorry darling, of course. But, there's no sense in overplaying it. There's nothing to it. Oh, come on, snap out of it. It isn't the end of the world, darling. Why, gosh, I don't care a snap of my fingers for any woman in the world but you. If - if I'd killed somebody, you'd go all the way and back again for me. I'd ask you to try and forgive me, if I thought it was the right thing to do. But, that isn't the point. But, darling, you've got to get a broader look at things, that's all. Why, you're out in the world doing a man's work. Was that just a lot of talk about a man's point of view? Oh, please believe me, darling. It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing! It doesn't make the slightest difference. Come on, snap out of it. Now, pull yourself together.”
B-13. Any resemblance between this film and the actual life of Jeanine Deckers is purely coincidental.
B-14. “Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? Where did you come from? I think you're the cause of all of this. I think you're evil. Evil!”
B-15. Winning an Oscar for this film made its star the first male to win in both acting categories.
B-16. “Is that tuck and roll?”
“ Yeah.”
“ That's bitchin,' tuck and roll! You know, I really love the feel of tuck and roll upholstery. ”
B-17. This flick kicked off what would become the highest-grossing horror movie franchise in U.S. history (adjusting for inflation.)
B-18. “Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco'd been popular back then?”
“Undoubtably. Not the ascetics, of course, but, well, St. Thomas More.”
“Long, thin, and filtered!”
“St. Ignatius would smoke cigars and then stub them out on the soles of his bare feet. And of course all of the apostles?”
“Hand rolled. ”
“Even Christ would partake socially. ”
“St. Peter?”
“Pipe! ”
“Right! ”
“Mary Magdalene? ”
“Ohhh! You've come a long way baby!”
B-19. The star of this film called his castmate “one of the most natural actors I ever worked with” – high praise indeed for a Pongo pygmaeus!
B-20. “Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us, and many of us much worse.”
B-21. This 1972 comedy-drama was adapted from two different novels by Peter DeVries.
B-22. “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.”
B-23. The only surviving print of this Best Picture nominee – adapted from a scandalous Victorian best-seller – resides in the UCLA film archive.
B-24. “Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years. Heh! That's hard to say with false teeth!”
B-25. This 1939 western helped cement the mythology that has turned a onetime terrorist into an American folk hero.
B-26. “I was prepared to sue you. I don't know who I am, but I'm sure I have a lawyer.”
B-27. I won’t swear that this is the only movie in which a spilled cup of coffee leads to the deaths of 53 people, but I’ll take pretty high odds on it.
B-28. “You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about.”
B-29. This cult classic by an Italian master of horror is probably the scariest, goriest movie ever made about ballet.
B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”
B-31. If you want to see the Nutty Professor recreate a role originally played by Rhett Butler’s wife, this will surely be your only chance.
B-32. “You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret.”
B-33. In a notorious gaffe, the Academy tried to nominate this classy musical for its screenplay, but inadvertently nominated a Bowery Boys movie with a similar title instead.
B-34. “What kind of a person drives from Colorado to Louisiana to work in a dog kennel?”
“I couldn't tell you. I walked. ”
“You walked? You walked here from Colorado? ”
“I like to walk.”
B-35. The film critic for the New York Times said that this 2006 tale of restitution and redemption "may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made." (It also features a rare cinematic example of suicide-by-jellyfish.)
B-36. “Hurry up, before they come back. And, groan, groan, stagger about and don't die too soon! You must take your time. And you mustn't die before eleven o'clock.”
“Don't you worry! I'll give you the best performance you ever saw in a hotel bedroom!”
B-37. A rose. Flatulence. Model airplane glue. Pizza. Gasoline in a can. Skunk. Natural gas from an oven. A new car smell of leather upholstery. Dirty shoes. Air freshener from an aerosol can. (If you get the sequence, you know the movie.)
B-38. “I've been jealous all my life. Jealous, I couldn't even stand it. Tonight, I even tried to buy your love, but now I don't want it anymore. I can't use it anymore. I don't want any kind of love anymore. It doesn't pay off.”
B-39. The title character of this movie was based on a jazz pioneer who died at the age of 28.
B-40. “A part in a play. You'd do all that just for a part in a play?”
“I'd do much more for a part that good.”
Game #157: Encore
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Re: Game #157: Encore
[quote="franktangredi"]A-4. “It's good, and it's bad. There's a guaranteed return, and that's good. But the guarantor is Amusa, and Amusa's a rookie, and that's bad. But it's an easily transportable object, and that's good. Only it's in a rotten position in the museum, thirty steps to the quickest exit, and that's bad. And the glass over the stone, that's bad too, because that's glass with metal mixed in it, bulletproof, shatterproof. But the locks don't look impossible, three, maybe five tumblers. But there's no alarm system, and that's the worst, because that means no one's going to get lazy watching, knowing the alarm will pick up their mistakes. Which means the whole thing has got to be a diversion job, and that's good and that's bad, because if the diversion's too big, it'll draw pedestrians, and if the diversion's not big enough, it won't draw that watchman.”
Somebody in Topkapi?
A-9. The stabbing death of this actor is one of the most closely analyzed sequences in Francois Truffaut’s celebrated interview with Alfred Hitchcock.
Probably too obvious - JANET LEIGH?
A-10. “Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right!”
JASON ROBARDS?
A-13. For 25 years, she held the record as the oldest Oscar-winning actor and still holds the #10 spot. (At 5' 2¼", she was also one of the shortest, and at six films compiled one of the shortest filmographies.)
RUTH GORDON?
A-22. “Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever. My armor! The war crown! Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment!”
YUL BRYNNER?
A-25. Other than Edward Asner himself, she was the only actor to play the same role on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant.
His ex-wife, I think - can't remember actress
A-36. “Now what kind of an attitude is that, ‘These things happen?’ They only happen because this whole country is just full of people, who when these things happen, they just say, ‘These things happen,’ and that's why they happen!”
I vaguely recall her slipping on a banana peel
A-44. “Look how they massacred my boy!”
MARLON BRANDO
A-50. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch.”
HENRY FONDA
A-64. “’Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.’ Nah, it's too good.”
ZERO MOSTEL
A-70. “I'm gonna' build me a chapel.”
SIDNEY POITIER?
A-74. “I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me.”
Actor who played George Marshall in Saving Private Ryan
B-1. It was the first film of its genre, as well as the first based on a novel by a woman, to win a Best Picture Oscar.
THE GOOD EARTH?
B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)
NORMAN JEWISON?
B-7. This 1950 sports film belongs on a list that also includes To Hell and Back and Private Parts.
FEAR STRIKES OUT?
B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”
THE AVIATOR?
B-35. The film critic for the New York Times said that this 2006 tale of restitution and redemption "may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made." (It also features a rare cinematic example of suicide-by-jellyfish.)
SEVEN POUNDS
Somebody in Topkapi?
A-9. The stabbing death of this actor is one of the most closely analyzed sequences in Francois Truffaut’s celebrated interview with Alfred Hitchcock.
Probably too obvious - JANET LEIGH?
A-10. “Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right!”
JASON ROBARDS?
A-13. For 25 years, she held the record as the oldest Oscar-winning actor and still holds the #10 spot. (At 5' 2¼", she was also one of the shortest, and at six films compiled one of the shortest filmographies.)
RUTH GORDON?
A-22. “Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever. My armor! The war crown! Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment!”
YUL BRYNNER?
A-25. Other than Edward Asner himself, she was the only actor to play the same role on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant.
His ex-wife, I think - can't remember actress
A-36. “Now what kind of an attitude is that, ‘These things happen?’ They only happen because this whole country is just full of people, who when these things happen, they just say, ‘These things happen,’ and that's why they happen!”
I vaguely recall her slipping on a banana peel
A-44. “Look how they massacred my boy!”
MARLON BRANDO
A-50. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch.”
HENRY FONDA
A-64. “’Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.’ Nah, it's too good.”
ZERO MOSTEL
A-70. “I'm gonna' build me a chapel.”
SIDNEY POITIER?
A-74. “I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me.”
Actor who played George Marshall in Saving Private Ryan
B-1. It was the first film of its genre, as well as the first based on a novel by a woman, to win a Best Picture Oscar.
THE GOOD EARTH?
B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)
NORMAN JEWISON?
B-7. This 1950 sports film belongs on a list that also includes To Hell and Back and Private Parts.
FEAR STRIKES OUT?
B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”
THE AVIATOR?
B-35. The film critic for the New York Times said that this 2006 tale of restitution and redemption "may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made." (It also features a rare cinematic example of suicide-by-jellyfish.)
SEVEN POUNDS
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Re: Game #157: Encore
Myopia on my part. Of course Janet Leigh would be correct, but that's not who I was thinking of.smilergrogan wrote:
A-9. The stabbing death of this actor is one of the most closely analyzed sequences in Francois Truffaut’s celebrated interview with Alfred Hitchcock.
Probably too obvious - JANET LEIGH?
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Maybe MARTIN BALSAM, then? That was probably equally cinematically stylish.franktangredi wrote:Myopia on my part. Of course Janet Leigh would be correct, but that's not who I was thinking of.smilergrogan wrote:
A-9. The stabbing death of this actor is one of the most closely analyzed sequences in Francois Truffaut’s celebrated interview with Alfred Hitchcock.
Probably too obvious - JANET LEIGH?
And I meant FIDDLER ON THE ROOF for B-3.
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And Fear Strikes Out can't be right for B-7 because Jimmy Piersall didn't play himself. What sports star played himself/herself in a 1950 autobiographical movie?
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LIST A: ACTORS
A-4. “It's good, and it's bad. There's a guaranteed return, and that's good. But the guarantor is Amusa, and Amusa's a rookie, and that's bad. But it's an easily transportable object, and that's good. Only it's in a rotten position in the museum, thirty steps to the quickest exit, and that's bad. And the glass over the stone, that's bad too, because that's glass with metal mixed in it, bulletproof, shatterproof. But the locks don't look impossible, three, maybe five tumblers. But there's no alarm system, and that's the worst, because that means no one's going to get lazy watching, knowing the alarm will pick up their mistakes. Which means the whole thing has got to be a diversion job, and that's good and that's bad, because if the diversion's too big, it'll draw pedestrians, and if the diversion's not big enough, it won't draw that watchman.”
I think it's from Ocean's 12. Brad Pitt? George Clooney?
A-7. This father of an Oscar-winning actress had one of the shortest tenures on one of the longest-running television series of all time.
Paul Sorvino?
A-10. “Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right!”
From All the President's Men. Jack Warden? Jason Robards?
A-49. He reprised one of his most popular big screen roles in a small screen spinoff, while his most popular small screen role was reprised on the big screen by Christopher Lloyd.
Jackie Coogan?
A-61. She won two Emmy awards for playing a character first introduced in a one-panel magazine comic.
Carolyn Jones?
A-69. In her most popular movie, she played a tough-yet-vulnerable high school student. (She was 33 at the time.)
Stockard Channing
A-72. “If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.”
Paul Newman
A-76. “Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.”
James Earl Jones
LIST B: MOVIES
B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)
Jesus Christ Superstar?
B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.
The Great Dictator
B-14. “Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? Where did you come from? I think you're the cause of all of this. I think you're evil. Evil!”
The Birds
B-15. Winning an Oscar for this film made its star the first male to win in both acting categories.
Save the Tiger?
B-17. This flick kicked off what would become the highest-grossing horror movie franchise in U.S. history (adjusting for inflation.)
Friday the 13th?
B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”
The Aviator
B-32. “You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret.”
Godfather Part II
A-4. “It's good, and it's bad. There's a guaranteed return, and that's good. But the guarantor is Amusa, and Amusa's a rookie, and that's bad. But it's an easily transportable object, and that's good. Only it's in a rotten position in the museum, thirty steps to the quickest exit, and that's bad. And the glass over the stone, that's bad too, because that's glass with metal mixed in it, bulletproof, shatterproof. But the locks don't look impossible, three, maybe five tumblers. But there's no alarm system, and that's the worst, because that means no one's going to get lazy watching, knowing the alarm will pick up their mistakes. Which means the whole thing has got to be a diversion job, and that's good and that's bad, because if the diversion's too big, it'll draw pedestrians, and if the diversion's not big enough, it won't draw that watchman.”
I think it's from Ocean's 12. Brad Pitt? George Clooney?
A-7. This father of an Oscar-winning actress had one of the shortest tenures on one of the longest-running television series of all time.
Paul Sorvino?
A-10. “Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right!”
From All the President's Men. Jack Warden? Jason Robards?
A-49. He reprised one of his most popular big screen roles in a small screen spinoff, while his most popular small screen role was reprised on the big screen by Christopher Lloyd.
Jackie Coogan?
A-61. She won two Emmy awards for playing a character first introduced in a one-panel magazine comic.
Carolyn Jones?
A-69. In her most popular movie, she played a tough-yet-vulnerable high school student. (She was 33 at the time.)
Stockard Channing
A-72. “If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.”
Paul Newman
A-76. “Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.”
James Earl Jones
LIST B: MOVIES
B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)
Jesus Christ Superstar?
B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.
The Great Dictator
B-14. “Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? Where did you come from? I think you're the cause of all of this. I think you're evil. Evil!”
The Birds
B-15. Winning an Oscar for this film made its star the first male to win in both acting categories.
Save the Tiger?
B-17. This flick kicked off what would become the highest-grossing horror movie franchise in U.S. history (adjusting for inflation.)
Friday the 13th?
B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”
The Aviator
B-32. “You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret.”
Godfather Part II
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First pass, as always...
A-12. “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
RICHARD CASTELLANO
A-23. She was the first of two actresses to receive posthumous Emmy awards for their work on the same television series.
ALICE PEARCE from "Bewitched". Marion Lorne died soon after her and also won.
A-25. Other than Edward Asner himself, she was the only actor to play the same role on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant.
EILEEN HECKART
A-33. She was the first African American actress to lose an Oscar.
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE?
A-35. As far as I can tell, he was the only actor to have appeared in support of both Cary Grant and Eddie Murphy.
Were Don Ameche or Ralph Bellamy in any films with Cary Grant?
A-38. “Older? You mean like Shelley Winters older or Shirley MacLaine older?”
HARVEY FIERSTEIN
A-42. “Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries.”
Somebody from "12 Angry Men", obviously.
A-51. This actress made only five American films between 1957 and 1962 – winning an Oscar in the process – and retired completely from acting in 1972 after a three-year stint on a popular sitcom.
Has to be MIYOSHI UMEKI from "The Courtship of Eddie's Father".
A-60. “Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.”
PAUL SCOFIELD in Quiz Show
A-71. He was the first actor ever to play the role of James Bond.
BARRY NELSON
A-74. “I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me.”
It's from Saving Private Ryan, but I can't put my finger on the actor's name.
B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.
CASABLANCA?
B-15. Winning an Oscar for this film made its star the first male to win in both acting categories.
SAVE THE TIGER (for Jack Lemmon)?
B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”
THE AVIATOR
B-33. In a notorious gaffe, the Academy tried to nominate this classy musical for its screenplay, but inadvertently nominated a Bowery Boys movie with a similar title instead.
HIGH SOCIETY
A-12. “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
RICHARD CASTELLANO
A-23. She was the first of two actresses to receive posthumous Emmy awards for their work on the same television series.
ALICE PEARCE from "Bewitched". Marion Lorne died soon after her and also won.
A-25. Other than Edward Asner himself, she was the only actor to play the same role on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant.
EILEEN HECKART
A-33. She was the first African American actress to lose an Oscar.
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE?
A-35. As far as I can tell, he was the only actor to have appeared in support of both Cary Grant and Eddie Murphy.
Were Don Ameche or Ralph Bellamy in any films with Cary Grant?
A-38. “Older? You mean like Shelley Winters older or Shirley MacLaine older?”
HARVEY FIERSTEIN
A-42. “Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries.”
Somebody from "12 Angry Men", obviously.
A-51. This actress made only five American films between 1957 and 1962 – winning an Oscar in the process – and retired completely from acting in 1972 after a three-year stint on a popular sitcom.
Has to be MIYOSHI UMEKI from "The Courtship of Eddie's Father".
A-60. “Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.”
PAUL SCOFIELD in Quiz Show
A-71. He was the first actor ever to play the role of James Bond.
BARRY NELSON
A-74. “I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me.”
It's from Saving Private Ryan, but I can't put my finger on the actor's name.
B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.
CASABLANCA?
B-15. Winning an Oscar for this film made its star the first male to win in both acting categories.
SAVE THE TIGER (for Jack Lemmon)?
B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”
THE AVIATOR
B-33. In a notorious gaffe, the Academy tried to nominate this classy musical for its screenplay, but inadvertently nominated a Bowery Boys movie with a similar title instead.
HIGH SOCIETY
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A-12. “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
<B>Richard Castellano</B>
A-21. In her 1987 autobiography, this Oscar-winning actress became the first celebrity to go public about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
<B>WAG - Patty Duke?</B>
A-24. “Suppose I tell you exactly what's gonna happen to you. You're gonna be back in television. Only it won't be quite the same as it was before. There'll be a reasonable cooling-off period and then somebody will say: ‘Why don't we try him again in an inexpensive format. People's memories aren't too long.’ And you know, in a way, he'll be right. Some of the people will forget, and some of them won't. Oh, you'll have a show. Maybe not the best hour or, you know, top 10. Maybe not even in the top 35. But you'll have a show. It just won't be quite the same as it was before. Then a couple of new fellas will come along. And pretty soon, a lot of your fans will be flocking around them. And then one day, somebody'll ask: ‘Whatever happened to, a, whatshisname? You know, the one who was so big. The number-one fella a couple of years ago. He was famous. How can we forget a name like that?’”
<B>Walter Matthau - said to Andy Griffith in the great 'A Face in the Crowd'</B>
A-26. “You killed the car.”
<B>Matthew Broderick</B>
A-27. In two of the highest-grossing costume epics of the 1950s, she played the mother of the same actor – who was only eleven years her junior.
<B>Figure this is Martha Scott who was Judah Ben-Hur and Moses's mom in Ben Hur and The 10 Commandments</B>
A-29. In a classic thriller, she played the mother of one Charlie and the sister of another.
<B>Patricia Collinge as Emma Newton in 'Shadow of a Doubt'</B>
A-31. He had a memorable bit as his own father in a 1942 musical biopic.
<B>Eddie Foy Jr.? in Yankee Doodle Dandy?</B>
A-36. “Now what kind of an attitude is that, ‘These things happen?’ They only happen because this whole country is just full of people, who when these things happen, they just say, ‘These things happen,’ and that's why they happen!”
<B>Ethel Merman in - do I really need to say...</B>
A-44. “Look how they massacred my boy!”
<B>WAG: Marlen Brando in The Godfather?</B>
A-47. In a highly unlikely casting choice, this baby-faced actor gave lessons in adultery to an actor in one of the preceding clues.
<B>Most likely Robert Morse in The Guide for a Married Man (he gave advice to Walter Matthau</B>
A-52. “I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up! If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong!”
<B>WAG: Rosiland Russell in His Girl Friday?</B>
A-54. “There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold.”
<B>Robert Preston in Victor/Victoria</B>
A-55. His final film role was as the primary murder victim in the most successful “film noir” of the 1980s.
<B>Can't be Richard Crenna in Body Heat, I'm sure that wasn't his last role...</B>
A-60. “Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.”
<B>Just rewatched this this weekend - Ralph Fiennes in "Quiz Show" (Unless it was uttered by his dad - Paul Scofield)</B>
A-62. “Ladies and gentlemen, you all have one thing in common: you're all being blackmailed. For some considerable time, all of you have been paying what you can afford, and in some cases more than you can afford, to someone who threatens to expose you. And none of you know who's blackmailing you. Do you?”
<B>Tim Curry in Clue? or from one of the various 10 Little Indians/And Then There Were None films</B>
A-64. “’Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.’ Nah, it's too good.”
<B>Zero Mostel in The Producers (unless it's Nathan Lane in the musical remake)</B>
A-68. “Who looks after your father? Tell me that. When something terrible happens, what does he do? Fends for himself, he does. Who does he tell about it? No one. Don't blab his troubles at home. He just pushes on at his job, uncomplaining and alone and silent.”
<B>Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins</B>
A-69. In her most popular movie, she played a tough-yet-vulnerable high school student. (She was 33 at the time.)
<B>Stockard Channing in Grease</B>
A-72. “If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.”
<B>WAG: Paul Newman in BC&TSK?</B>
A-77. He has played the father of one of his sons three times, the father of another of his sons four times, and the father of his then daughter-in-law once.
<B>WAG: Martin Sheen?</B>
A-78. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
<B>Laurence Olivier in Rebecca</B>
LIST B: MOVIES
B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)
<B>Fiddler on the Roof - directed by Norman Jewison who is not a jewish son</B>
B-8. “Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have your never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”
<B>Frankenstein? King Kong?</B>
B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.
<B>The Great Dictator?</B>
B-14. “Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? Where did you come from? I think you're the cause of all of this. I think you're evil. Evil!”
<B>The Birds</B>
B-28. “You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about.”
<B>The Deer Hunter</B>
B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”
<B>WAG: The Aviator?</B>
B-32. “You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret.”
<B>The Godfather: Part II</B>
B-40. “A part in a play. You'd do all that just for a part in a play?”
“I'd do much more for a part that good.”
<B>Rosemary's Baby?</B>
<B>Richard Castellano</B>
A-21. In her 1987 autobiography, this Oscar-winning actress became the first celebrity to go public about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
<B>WAG - Patty Duke?</B>
A-24. “Suppose I tell you exactly what's gonna happen to you. You're gonna be back in television. Only it won't be quite the same as it was before. There'll be a reasonable cooling-off period and then somebody will say: ‘Why don't we try him again in an inexpensive format. People's memories aren't too long.’ And you know, in a way, he'll be right. Some of the people will forget, and some of them won't. Oh, you'll have a show. Maybe not the best hour or, you know, top 10. Maybe not even in the top 35. But you'll have a show. It just won't be quite the same as it was before. Then a couple of new fellas will come along. And pretty soon, a lot of your fans will be flocking around them. And then one day, somebody'll ask: ‘Whatever happened to, a, whatshisname? You know, the one who was so big. The number-one fella a couple of years ago. He was famous. How can we forget a name like that?’”
<B>Walter Matthau - said to Andy Griffith in the great 'A Face in the Crowd'</B>
A-26. “You killed the car.”
<B>Matthew Broderick</B>
A-27. In two of the highest-grossing costume epics of the 1950s, she played the mother of the same actor – who was only eleven years her junior.
<B>Figure this is Martha Scott who was Judah Ben-Hur and Moses's mom in Ben Hur and The 10 Commandments</B>
A-29. In a classic thriller, she played the mother of one Charlie and the sister of another.
<B>Patricia Collinge as Emma Newton in 'Shadow of a Doubt'</B>
A-31. He had a memorable bit as his own father in a 1942 musical biopic.
<B>Eddie Foy Jr.? in Yankee Doodle Dandy?</B>
A-36. “Now what kind of an attitude is that, ‘These things happen?’ They only happen because this whole country is just full of people, who when these things happen, they just say, ‘These things happen,’ and that's why they happen!”
<B>Ethel Merman in - do I really need to say...</B>
A-44. “Look how they massacred my boy!”
<B>WAG: Marlen Brando in The Godfather?</B>
A-47. In a highly unlikely casting choice, this baby-faced actor gave lessons in adultery to an actor in one of the preceding clues.
<B>Most likely Robert Morse in The Guide for a Married Man (he gave advice to Walter Matthau</B>
A-52. “I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up! If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong!”
<B>WAG: Rosiland Russell in His Girl Friday?</B>
A-54. “There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold.”
<B>Robert Preston in Victor/Victoria</B>
A-55. His final film role was as the primary murder victim in the most successful “film noir” of the 1980s.
<B>Can't be Richard Crenna in Body Heat, I'm sure that wasn't his last role...</B>
A-60. “Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.”
<B>Just rewatched this this weekend - Ralph Fiennes in "Quiz Show" (Unless it was uttered by his dad - Paul Scofield)</B>
A-62. “Ladies and gentlemen, you all have one thing in common: you're all being blackmailed. For some considerable time, all of you have been paying what you can afford, and in some cases more than you can afford, to someone who threatens to expose you. And none of you know who's blackmailing you. Do you?”
<B>Tim Curry in Clue? or from one of the various 10 Little Indians/And Then There Were None films</B>
A-64. “’Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.’ Nah, it's too good.”
<B>Zero Mostel in The Producers (unless it's Nathan Lane in the musical remake)</B>
A-68. “Who looks after your father? Tell me that. When something terrible happens, what does he do? Fends for himself, he does. Who does he tell about it? No one. Don't blab his troubles at home. He just pushes on at his job, uncomplaining and alone and silent.”
<B>Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins</B>
A-69. In her most popular movie, she played a tough-yet-vulnerable high school student. (She was 33 at the time.)
<B>Stockard Channing in Grease</B>
A-72. “If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.”
<B>WAG: Paul Newman in BC&TSK?</B>
A-77. He has played the father of one of his sons three times, the father of another of his sons four times, and the father of his then daughter-in-law once.
<B>WAG: Martin Sheen?</B>
A-78. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
<B>Laurence Olivier in Rebecca</B>
LIST B: MOVIES
B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)
<B>Fiddler on the Roof - directed by Norman Jewison who is not a jewish son</B>
B-8. “Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have your never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”
<B>Frankenstein? King Kong?</B>
B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.
<B>The Great Dictator?</B>
B-14. “Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? Where did you come from? I think you're the cause of all of this. I think you're evil. Evil!”
<B>The Birds</B>
B-28. “You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about.”
<B>The Deer Hunter</B>
B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”
<B>WAG: The Aviator?</B>
B-32. “You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret.”
<B>The Godfather: Part II</B>
B-40. “A part in a play. You'd do all that just for a part in a play?”
“I'd do much more for a part that good.”
<B>Rosemary's Baby?</B>
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#21. Margot Kidder
#31. Eddie Foy
#54 Robert Preston
Guesses all.
#31. Eddie Foy
#54 Robert Preston
Guesses all.
"When you argue with a fool, there are two fools in the argument."
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A-62. “Ladies and gentlemen, you all have one thing in common: you're all being blackmailed. For some considerable time, all of you have been paying what you can afford, and in some cases more than you can afford, to someone who threatens to expose you. And none of you know who's blackmailing you. Do you?”
I'm pretty sure this is JAMES MASON in The Last of Sheila.
I'm pretty sure this is JAMES MASON in The Last of Sheila.
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I'm not so sure, he announces that they all have secrets but I don't think that the James Coburn character was actively blackmailing anyone - it wouldn't fit the theme of the movie or of Coburn's character - he wanted them to feel uncomfortable and they were all there because they wanted in on his latest project, but I don't think he was blackmailing any of them. Of course I could be wrong...plasticene wrote:A-62. “Ladies and gentlemen, you all have one thing in common: you're all being blackmailed. For some considerable time, all of you have been paying what you can afford, and in some cases more than you can afford, to someone who threatens to expose you. And none of you know who's blackmailing you. Do you?”
I'm pretty sure this is JAMES MASON in The Last of Sheila.
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Wouldn't 'The Jackie Robinson Story' work?smilergrogan wrote:And Fear Strikes Out can't be right for B-7 because Jimmy Piersall didn't play himself. What sports star played himself/herself in a 1950 autobiographical movie?
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A-15. She received no screen credit for her 1947 role as victim of arguably the most shocking and vicious murder in the history of film noir.
This has to be the person in the wheelchair who Richard Widmark pushes down the stairs in 'Kiss of Death' - not sure the name of the actress.
This has to be the person in the wheelchair who Richard Widmark pushes down the stairs in 'Kiss of Death' - not sure the name of the actress.
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Ralph Bellamy was in His Girl Friday.Pastor Fireball wrote: A-35. As far as I can tell, he was the only actor to have appeared in support of both Cary Grant and Eddie Murphy.
Were Don Ameche or Ralph Bellamy in any films with Cary Grant?
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A-46. “Running was always a big thing in our family, specially running away from the police. It's hard to understand. All I know is that you've got to run, running without knowing why, through fields and woods. And the winning post's no end, even though the barmy crowds might be cheering themselves daft.”
Could this be Tom Courtney in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner? The daft line makes me think of a British film...
Could this be Tom Courtney in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner? The daft line makes me think of a British film...
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B-9. This film set in England was parodied two years later by Laurel and Hardy.
Could this be 'A Yank at Oxford' (which I watched not to long ago, as my son-in-law went to Oxford and I was curious if I should recommend it) - L&H made A Chump at Oxford.
Could this be 'A Yank at Oxford' (which I watched not to long ago, as my son-in-law went to Oxford and I was curious if I should recommend it) - L&H made A Chump at Oxford.
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A-53. In 1935, this scene-stealing character actress appeared in classic films directed by John Ford, James Whale, and George Cukor.
1935 - scene stealing character actress - James Whale - it's gotta be Una O'Conner
1935 - scene stealing character actress - James Whale - it's gotta be Una O'Conner
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A-59. This distinguished actor starred in two episodes of my favorite television series: as a sick old man who chooses love over health and as a ghost who metes out terrifying justice to a really bad man.
Frank's favorite TV series is The Twilight Zone - So it must be Joseph Schildkraut who was in the one where the SS comadant returns to the concentration camp.
Frank's favorite TV series is The Twilight Zone - So it must be Joseph Schildkraut who was in the one where the SS comadant returns to the concentration camp.
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A-43. Though he came First, this actor had a much smaller role than the guys who played Second Cab Driver and Third Cab Driver.
Could this be another IAMMMMW reference - Leo Gorcey as opposed to Peter Faulk and Rochester?
Could this be another IAMMMMW reference - Leo Gorcey as opposed to Peter Faulk and Rochester?
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franktangredi wrote:Game #157: Encore
Identify the 80 actors in List A and the 40 movies in List B. (For questions A-1 and A-2, you need to identify both actors involved in the given dialogue; every other clue after that is a quotation.) Then, pair one actor with one movie according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 87 pairs.
Seven actors will be used twice. Thirteen movies will be used twice, ten will be used three times, one will be used four times, one will be used six times, and one will be used seven (!) times.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1 & A-2. “And after you shot your husband... how did you feel?”
“Hungry!”
JUDY HOLLIDAY is the one who says Hungry. Can't remember who asked the question. It's in Adam's Rib.
A-3. This actress completes the following list: Cate Blanchett, Robert DeNiro, Paul Newman, Joe Pesci.
A-4. “It's good, and it's bad. There's a guaranteed return, and that's good. But the guarantor is Amusa, and Amusa's a rookie, and that's bad. But it's an easily transportable object, and that's good. Only it's in a rotten position in the museum, thirty steps to the quickest exit, and that's bad. And the glass over the stone, that's bad too, because that's glass with metal mixed in it, bulletproof, shatterproof. But the locks don't look impossible, three, maybe five tumblers. But there's no alarm system, and that's the worst, because that means no one's going to get lazy watching, knowing the alarm will pick up their mistakes. Which means the whole thing has got to be a diversion job, and that's good and that's bad, because if the diversion's too big, it'll draw pedestrians, and if the diversion's not big enough, it won't draw that watchman.”
A-5. This one-time WWI intelligence officer was a lifelong friend of the man who wrote the score for the musical in Clue B-33.
A-6. “I don't believe that God made man in his image. 'Cause most of the shit that happens comes from man. No, I think man was made in the Devil's image. And women were created out of God. 'Cause after all, women can have babies, which is kind of like creating. And which also accounts for the fact that women are so attracted to men... 'cause let's face it... the Devil is a hell of a lot more interesting! Believe me, I've slept with some saints in my day, I know what I'm talking about. So the whole point in life is for men and women to get married... so that God and the Devil can get together and work it out. Not that we have to get married. God forbid.”
A-7. This father of an Oscar-winning actress had one of the shortest tenures on one of the longest-running television series of all time.
A-8. “You can't help that you were born Christian instead of Jewish. It doesn't mean you're glad you were. But I am glad. There, I said it”
A-9. The stabbing death of this actor is one of the most closely analyzed sequences in Francois Truffaut’s celebrated interview with Alfred Hitchcock.
It's the "offscreen" stabbing in Sabotage, but I have no idea who the actor is.
A-10. “Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story? You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right!”
JASON ROBARDS, I think??
A-11. Taking on a role previously played by Will Rogers, this character actor had one of his few starring parts in a what was reputedly John Ford’s favorite among his films.
A-12. “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
Shoot. Paging Killer Tomato, Mr. Tomato!
A-13. For 25 years, she held the record as the oldest Oscar-winning actor and still holds the #10 spot. (At 5' 2¼", she was also one of the shortest, and at six films compiled one of the shortest filmographies.)
A-14. “It's funny how some distance/Makes everything seem small/And the fears that once controlled me/Can't get to me at all!”
A-15. She received no screen credit for her 1947 role as victim of arguably the most shocking and vicious murder in the history of film noir.
A-16. “It's as clear as a buttonhook in the well water!
A-17. This Canadian actor’s divorce from his second wife provided the inspiration for one of the films quoted above.
A-18. “Thank you, Honore. That was the most charming and endearing excuse for infidelity I've ever heard.”
HERMIONE GINGOLD
A-19. Just as her career was getting started, this actress was blacklisted due to her eulogy for an earlier blacklisted actor – and her refusal to testify against her own husband.
A-20. “You hear me now! You rode into my place and beat my men for the last time and I give you warnin'. You set foot in Blanco Canyon once more and this country's gonna run red with blood 'til there ain't one of us left! Now I don't hold mine so precious, so if you want to start, here, start now! What's the matter? Can't you shoot a man a-facin' ya? I'll make it easy fer ya. Here's my back.”
A-21. In her 1987 autobiography, this Oscar-winning actress became the first celebrity to go public about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
PATTY DUKE
A-22. “Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever. My armor! The war crown! Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment!”
A-23. She was the first of two actresses to receive posthumous Emmy awards for their work on the same television series.
The woman who played Mrs. Kravitz on Bewitched
A-24. “Suppose I tell you exactly what's gonna happen to you. You're gonna be back in television. Only it won't be quite the same as it was before. There'll be a reasonable cooling-off period and then somebody will say: ‘Why don't we try him again in an inexpensive format. People's memories aren't too long.’ And you know, in a way, he'll be right. Some of the people will forget, and some of them won't. Oh, you'll have a show. Maybe not the best hour or, you know, top 10. Maybe not even in the top 35. But you'll have a show. It just won't be quite the same as it was before. Then a couple of new fellas will come along. And pretty soon, a lot of your fans will be flocking around them. And then one day, somebody'll ask: ‘Whatever happened to, a, whatshisname? You know, the one who was so big. The number-one fella a couple of years ago. He was famous. How can we forget a name like that?’”
A-25. Other than Edward Asner himself, she was the only actor to play the same role on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant.
BETTY WHITE?
A-26. “You killed the car.”
A-27. In two of the highest-grossing costume epics of the 1950s, she played the mother of the same actor – who was only eleven years her junior.
A-28. “I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.”
A-29. In a classic thriller, she played the mother of one Charlie and the sister of another.
A-30. “Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world's a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”
A-31. He had a memorable bit as his own father in a 1942 musical biopic.
A-32. “You know, you never were an actor. You did have looks, but they're gone now. You don't have to take my word for it. Just look in any mirror. They don't lie. Take a good look. Look at those pouches under your eyes. Look at those creases. You sag like an old woman! Get a load of yourself! Wait till you start tramping around the offices, looking for a job, because no agent's going to handle you. Sitting in those anterooms hour after hour, giving your name to office boys that never even heard of you. You're through!”
A-33. She was the first African American actress to lose an Oscar.
Dorothy Dandridge?
A-34. “You'll publish your novel, you'll make a million bucks, you'll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you'll live with your conscience, if you have any.”
A-35. As far as I can tell, he was the only actor to have appeared in support of both Cary Grant and Eddie Murphy.
You'd think it's either Don Ameche or Ralph Bellamy
A-36. “Now what kind of an attitude is that, ‘These things happen?’ They only happen because this whole country is just full of people, who when these things happen, they just say, ‘These things happen,’ and that's why they happen!”
A-37. In 1962, this actor took on a role that had previously been played by both the actors referenced in Clue A-11.
A-38. “Older? You mean like Shelley Winters older or Shirley MacLaine older?”
A-39. This actor appeared in films based on novels by Louisa May Alcott, Sinclair Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, and Joseph Conrad.
A-40. “You are a caged lion! But lions can't be captive their entire lives. They have to be free to roam the bush. Free and wild! Your wife is a hot sexy tigress and she's waiting for you to pounce on her! Let me hear you roar, baby, roar! Your body is talking to me. It's hungry for action! I can feel it. Unleash the beast inside you, Jack!”
I think Bruno said this on the last episode of Dancing with the Stars.
A-41. His impressive gallery of character roles included a Wild West showman, a Roman general, and a Sylvanian diplomat.
A-42. “Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries.”
A-43. Though he came First, this actor had a much smaller role than the guys who played Second Cab Driver and Third Cab Driver.
A-44. “Look how they massacred my boy!”
MARLON BRANDO
A-45. In what would become the longest-running nationally-aired commercial in U.S. television history, this actor reminded us that many popular melodies were actually written by the great masters.
A-46. “Running was always a big thing in our family, specially running away from the police. It's hard to understand. All I know is that you've got to run, running without knowing why, through fields and woods. And the winning post's no end, even though the barmy crowds might be cheering themselves daft.”
A-47. In a highly unlikely casting choice, this baby-faced actor gave lessons in adultery to an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-48. “You only live once, and once is enough if you play your cards right.”
A-49. He reprised one of his most popular big screen roles in a small screen spinoff, while his most popular small screen role was reprised on the big screen by Christopher Lloyd.
RAY WALSTON?
A-50. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch.”
A-51. This actress made only five American films between 1957 and 1962 – winning an Oscar in the process – and retired completely from acting in 1972 after a three-year stint on a popular sitcom.
A-52. “I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up! If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong!”
A-53. In 1935, this scene-stealing character actress appeared in classic films directed by John Ford, James Whale, and George Cukor.
A-54. “There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold.”
A-55. His final film role was as the primary murder victim in the most successful “film noir” of the 1980s.
I would have guessed Body Heat as the most successful film noir of the 80s, but I guess not, because Richard Crenna definitely made more movies after that. Maybe the quotes mean the film noir is a pun or something.
A-56. “Most fish languages are a combination of bubbles and mouth movement. At the moment, all I can make is large bubbles and they keep telling me I'm shouting”
A-57. He made the last of his five films at the age of 34 and died 44 years later.
A-58. “Beware. Beware. Beware of the big, green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big, fat snails. Beware. Take care. Beware.”
A-59. This distinguished actor starred in two episodes of my favorite television series: as a sick old man who chooses love over health and as a ghost who metes out terrifying justice to a really bad man.
A-60. “Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.”
A-61. She won two Emmy awards for playing a character first introduced in a one-panel magazine comic.
Blanking on the woman's name who played Blondie.
A-62. “Ladies and gentlemen, you all have one thing in common: you're all being blackmailed. For some considerable time, all of you have been paying what you can afford, and in some cases more than you can afford, to someone who threatens to expose you. And none of you know who's blackmailing you. Do you?”
Tim Curry
A-63. This young actor caused a stir when he turned down the role of Charles Lindbergh due to his dislike of Lindy’s pro-Nazi sympathies.
A-64. “’Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.’ Nah, it's too good.”
A-65. The peak of his career was winning a Tony award for a real-life role that would later be played on screen by Dustin Hoffman.
A-66. “Don’t look for happiness, Richie, it’ll only make you miserable.”
A-67. As far as I know, he is the only man to have ever slept with both Rita Hayworth and Whoopi Goldberg.
A-68. “Who looks after your father? Tell me that. When something terrible happens, what does he do? Fends for himself, he does. Who does he tell about it? No one. Don't blab his troubles at home. He just pushes on at his job, uncomplaining and alone and silent.”
A-69. In her most popular movie, she played a tough-yet-vulnerable high school student. (She was 33 at the time.)
A-70. “I'm gonna' build me a chapel.”
Sidney Poitier??
A-71. He was the first actor ever to play the role of James Bond.
A-72. “If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.”
A-73. This blacklisted actor’s eleven-year exile from feature films came to an end when he was cast as a sympathetic psychiatrist in a highly regarded love story.
A-74. “I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me.”
A-75. She was the first actress ever to be named a DBE.
A-76. “Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.”
James Earl Jones
A-77. He has played the father of one of his sons three times, the father of another of his sons four times, and the father of his then daughter-in-law once.
A-78. “I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
Clark Gable
A-79. Bette Davis always credited this English actor with giving her her first big break.
A-80. “One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for.”
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. It was the first film of its genre, as well as the first based on a novel by a woman, to win a Best Picture Oscar.
B-2. “You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, ‘Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness.’ You call yourself a free spirit, a ‘wild thing,’ and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself.”
B-3. The director of this musical was hired because the studio mistakenly thought he was Jewish. (Come on, haven’t we all made the same mistake?)
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR?
B-4. “I’m a cotton-headed ninnymoggins!”
B-5. The National Legion of Decency sent representatives to Trinidad and Tobago to oversee production of this John Huston film – and were shocked when the two leads improvised a racy kissing scene entirely for their benefit.
B-6. “Don't touch the suit.”
B-7. This 1950 sports film belongs on a list that also includes To Hell and Back and Private Parts.
B-8. “Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have your never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”
B-9. This film set in England was parodied two years later by Laurel and Hardy.
B-10. “Sebastian always said, 'Mother, when you descend, it's like the Goddess from the Machine. You look just like angel coming to earth' as I float, float into view. Sebastian, my son Sebastian, was very interested in the Byzantine.”
B-11. Although the words “Germany” and “Jew” are never spoken on screen, the Nazis got the message: they banned this 1940 film and every subsequent MGM film.
B-12. “Now, see here Jerry. I'm sorry darling, of course. But, there's no sense in overplaying it. There's nothing to it. Oh, come on, snap out of it. It isn't the end of the world, darling. Why, gosh, I don't care a snap of my fingers for any woman in the world but you. If - if I'd killed somebody, you'd go all the way and back again for me. I'd ask you to try and forgive me, if I thought it was the right thing to do. But, that isn't the point. But, darling, you've got to get a broader look at things, that's all. Why, you're out in the world doing a man's work. Was that just a lot of talk about a man's point of view? Oh, please believe me, darling. It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing! It doesn't make the slightest difference. Come on, snap out of it. Now, pull yourself together.”
B-13. Any resemblance between this film and the actual life of Jeanine Deckers is purely coincidental.
B-14. “Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? Where did you come from? I think you're the cause of all of this. I think you're evil. Evil!”
B-15. Winning an Oscar for this film made its star the first male to win in both acting categories.
B-16. “Is that tuck and roll?”
“ Yeah.”
“ That's bitchin,' tuck and roll! You know, I really love the feel of tuck and roll upholstery. ”
B-17. This flick kicked off what would become the highest-grossing horror movie franchise in U.S. history (adjusting for inflation.)
B-18. “Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco'd been popular back then?”
“Undoubtably. Not the ascetics, of course, but, well, St. Thomas More.”
“Long, thin, and filtered!”
“St. Ignatius would smoke cigars and then stub them out on the soles of his bare feet. And of course all of the apostles?”
“Hand rolled. ”
“Even Christ would partake socially. ”
“St. Peter?”
“Pipe! ”
“Right! ”
“Mary Magdalene? ”
“Ohhh! You've come a long way baby!”
B-19. The star of this film called his castmate “one of the most natural actors I ever worked with” – high praise indeed for a Pongo pygmaeus!
Every Which Way But Loose?
B-20. “Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us, and many of us much worse.”
B-21. This 1972 comedy-drama was adapted from two different novels by Peter DeVries.
B-22. “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.”
B-23. The only surviving print of this Best Picture nominee – adapted from a scandalous Victorian best-seller – resides in the UCLA film archive.
B-24. “Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years. Heh! That's hard to say with false teeth!”
B-25. This 1939 western helped cement the mythology that has turned a onetime terrorist into an American folk hero.
B-26. “I was prepared to sue you. I don't know who I am, but I'm sure I have a lawyer.”
B-27. I won’t swear that this is the only movie in which a spilled cup of coffee leads to the deaths of 53 people, but I’ll take pretty high odds on it.
I don't remember the death toll in China Syndrome being that high, but if it is, then that's it.
B-28. “You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about.”
American Sniper?
B-29. This cult classic by an Italian master of horror is probably the scariest, goriest movie ever made about ballet.
B-30. “You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!.”
B-31. If you want to see the Nutty Professor recreate a role originally played by Rhett Butler’s wife, this will surely be your only chance.
B-32. “You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret.”
B-33. In a notorious gaffe, the Academy tried to nominate this classy musical for its screenplay, but inadvertently nominated a Bowery Boys movie with a similar title instead.
High Society
B-34. “What kind of a person drives from Colorado to Louisiana to work in a dog kennel?”
“I couldn't tell you. I walked. ”
“You walked? You walked here from Colorado? ”
“I like to walk.”
B-35. The film critic for the New York Times said that this 2006 tale of restitution and redemption "may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made." (It also features a rare cinematic example of suicide-by-jellyfish.)
B-36. “Hurry up, before they come back. And, groan, groan, stagger about and don't die too soon! You must take your time. And you mustn't die before eleven o'clock.”
“Don't you worry! I'll give you the best performance you ever saw in a hotel bedroom!”
B-37. A rose. Flatulence. Model airplane glue. Pizza. Gasoline in a can. Skunk. Natural gas from an oven. A new car smell of leather upholstery. Dirty shoes. Air freshener from an aerosol can. (If you get the sequence, you know the movie.)
B-38. “I've been jealous all my life. Jealous, I couldn't even stand it. Tonight, I even tried to buy your love, but now I don't want it anymore. I can't use it anymore. I don't want any kind of love anymore. It doesn't pay off.”
B-39. The title character of this movie was based on a jazz pioneer who died at the age of 28.
B-40. “A part in a play. You'd do all that just for a part in a play?”
“I'd do much more for a part that good.”
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If that's the case, could it be Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid? I'm sure that was the last role for several of the old time stars edited in. Ray Milland maybe?mrkelley23 wrote:First pass
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A-55. His final film role was as the primary murder victim in the most successful “film noir” of the 1980s.
I would have guessed Body Heat as the most successful film noir of the 80s, but I guess not, because Richard Crenna definitely made more movies after that. Maybe the quotes mean the film noir is a pun or something.
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A-1 Katheryn Hepburn
A-2 Judy Holliday
A-3 Cate Blanchett
A-2 Judy Holliday
A-3 Cate Blanchett
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This is John Williams, the English actor who played a lot of Scotland Yard detectives over the years, not the composer.franktangredi wrote:
A-45. In what would become the longest-running nationally-aired commercial in U.S. television history, this actor reminded us that many popular melodies were actually written by the great masters.
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The "old time stars" did not appear in the movie. Instead, they edited together clips from classic film noirs and similar 40s films with the new material making it look like Steve Martin was talking to them. If Frank means this, that's really a stretch for him.kroxquo wrote:If that's the case, could it be Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid? I'm sure that was the last role for several of the old time stars edited in. Ray Milland maybe?mrkelley23 wrote:First pass
franktangredi wrote:Game #157: Encore
A-55. His final film role was as the primary murder victim in the most successful “film noir” of the 1980s.
I would have guessed Body Heat as the most successful film noir of the 80s, but I guess not, because Richard Crenna definitely made more movies after that. Maybe the quotes mean the film noir is a pun or something.
But I'm trying to think of films that could arguably be called the most successful film noir of the 80s: Fatal Attraction, Blue Velvet, Blood Simple, even Blade Runner, and I don't see how that clue fits any of them.
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Re: Game #157: Encore
It's tough to find clues that someone hasn't already guessed, but this is my type of film. It's Dario Argento's Suspiria.franktangredi wrote:
B-29. This cult classic by an Italian master of horror is probably the scariest, goriest movie ever made about ballet.
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