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#1 Post by franktangredi » Mon Mar 24, 2025 8:16 am

Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

Identify the 85 actors below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

Nine actors will be used twice and three actors will be used three times.

1. “I fear I am a relic, and I have misplaced my tambourine.”

2. He completes a very specific Oscar list that also includes George Arliss, Daniel Day Lewis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Kingsley, Sean Penn, and George C. Scott.

3. “Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me a warped, frustrated, old man! What are you but a warped, frustrated young man?”

4. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Tim Burton, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, Kenneth Branagh, and Alejandro Iñárritu

5. “The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”

6. In 2005, he publicly apologized to his girlfriend for having an affair with his children’s nanny. (Well, at least he was sorry.)

7. “My children are in need of medical assistance! And you can sit here and smugly lecture me on the importance of tests? Tests which exist to pigeonhole children's potential, a thing which cannot possibly be measured, least of all by anal-compulsive huns! And my husband may be a ‘large child,’ but that's none of your business! And my children may be rotten, but they're mine. And I think that they're bright, and sensitive, so I have no doubts whatsoever about their intelligence. I do, however, have serious doubts about yours!”

8. In 1967, he made it to Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 with a song that would later be taken to Number One by Donna Summer.

9. “When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”

10. At the age of fourteen, he made the first of seven films for the same renowned director – and the first of five playing the same character.

11. “Oooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it? ‘That's a bingo?’"

12. She completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Adrien Brody, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Kevin Spacey, Hilary Swank, and the actor in the preceding clue.

13. “They take you to a tree and hang you by your skin. Each time you scream the evil comes out of you. Sometimes, it can take three days for your evil to be spent. Pull him up.”

14. He completes a list that includes Alan Ladd, Robert Redford, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

15. “Oh, Michael! Michael, you are blind! It wasn't a miscarriage! It was an abortion! An abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion! Something that's unholy and evil!”

16. When she died in 1985, France’s Minister of Culture called her “an unshakeable militant, in the front rank of all the battles for human rights, under all regimes and on all horizons.”

17. “Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.”

18. Three members of the Oriental Lazy Boyz street gang were tried and convicted for his 1996 murder.

19. “I'm just gettin' warmed up! I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell, whoever. Their spirit is dead, if they ever had one. It's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for seagoing snitches, and if you think you're preparing these minnows for manhood, you better think again, because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills.”

20. Her real-life characters included an English queen, a French actress, a British poet, a French assassin, the mistress of a British military hero, and the wife of a Russian composer.

21. “Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you.”

22. The shortest distance between Tennessee Williams and the most famous reindeer of all is through this performer.

23. “Here I am, goin' to Florida, my leg hurts, my butt hurts, my chest hurts, my face hurts, and like that ain't enough, I gotta pee all over myself.”

24. He was the second Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to get an Oscar nomination for acting.

25. “My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once as he talked to my parents about his border flowers. I was aiming for the bushes when he got in the way. He stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He ruined a lot of things.”

26. She achieved international prominence for her role in the first major film produced in Italy after World War II.

27. “Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”

28. His personal motto, and the name of his charitable foundation, is Just Keep Livin’.

29. “I know him. He'll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back, following me around the apartment, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning....”

30. Three of her most notable roles were later reprised by (among others) Simone Simon, Jeanne Crain, and Judy Garland.

31. “I left Elton's, where there were a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open, in order to hang out with you, at Christmas.”

32. Her on-screen offspring included Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power, and Henry Fonda.

33. “I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”

34. Her chronic anxiety and stage fright caused her to drop out of the lead of the original Broadway production of Born Yesterday three days before opening night.

35. “I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. I take only such cases now as interest me, and to be frank, my interest in your case is ... dwindling.”

36. Of all the scenes she filmed under the direction of Ingmar Bergman, the most memorable – and disturbing – was one in which she mutilates her genitals with a broken glass.

37. “You wakened me from an eternity of darkness. You. You. You are not for the living. You are not for human kind. And shall you be one with me ever ¬– eternally? Do you swear it?”

38. Her filmography includes adaptations of works by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Edith Wharton, Ross MacDonald, John O’Hara, and William Inge.

39. “Would you give a guy a foot massage?”

40. He starred on two episodes of Columbo – once as the killer and once as the victim’s husband.

41. “Make no mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.”

42. She received consecutive Oscar nominations for the film versions of two different plays by Tennessee Williams.

43. “We just lost the moon.”

44. The titular character he played in a 2008 film has something significant in common with me and a number of other active and inactive members of the BORED.

45. “I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.”

46. He first met his long-time life partner on the set of a Disney movie, when she was 22 and he was 16.

47. “The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.”

48. Her career has included adaptations of works by Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, and Carlo Collodi.

49. “Everybody thinks I'm suicidal, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me; or they think I'm faking to draw a psycho pension, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me. Basically, I'm f**ked.”

50. He played a reformed jewel thief turned detective in a series of 14 films from 1941 to 1949.

51. “All right, now look at me. I said look at me, don't turn your face away! I'm the looking glass you created to see yourself in! All right, all right see yourself now in me! Look at this ugly picture! And then get outta here! But keep this picture before your face for as long as you live!”

52. This actress was the unfortunate recipient of the diatribe in the preceding clue.

53. “Do I understand this correctly? I'm being marked down? What is this? The Bargain Basement? I've been kidnapped by Kmart!”

54. His real-life roles included a 19th century dictator, a 20th century dictator, and a popular vaudeville and film comedian.

55. “What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs!”

56. Presenting the Best Actor Oscar, she pointedly did not join in the applause for the winner.

57. “With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.”

58. He co-starred with Shirley Temple in her first three movies.

59. “I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”

60. He appeared in four adaptations of works by Charles Dickens, including his first two films.

61. “Look, you know how these people lie! It's born in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! They don't know what the truth is! And lemme tell ya: they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No sir! They get drunk! Oh, they're real big drinkers, all of 'em - you know that - and bang! someone's lyin' in the gutter! Oh, nobody's blaming them for it. That's the way they are, by nature! You know what I mean?”

62. As a teenager, this actress was diagnosed with hyposomatotropism.

63. “Kill white folks and they pay you for it? What's not to like?”

64. She has been nominated for 16 César Awards – more than any other actress – but her most notable American film was one of Hollywood’s most notorious bombs.

65. “We must have boat. Even now may be too late. This is your island; I make your responsibility. You help us get boat quickly, otherwise there is World War III, and everybody is blaming you!”

66. She and Ethel Merman made their Broadway debuts in the same Gershwin musical, each introducing at least one timeless song. (What an opening night that must have been!)

67. “Men like Janning, my husband and I, we hated Hitler. I want you to know that. And he hated us. He hated my husband because he was a real war hero – and the little corporal couldn't tolerate that. And he hated him because he married into nobility, which was my family. Hitler was in awe of the nobility, but he hated it. That's why it's so ironic, what happened.”

68. In a 1978 box office blockbuster, she played a high school student. (She was 34 at the time.)

69. “There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society ... outside of a kennel.”

70. She had a much-publicized manic episode that was triggered when a computer virus caused her to lose three years’ worth of work on her autobiography.

71. “Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water – to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Are you beginning to understand?”

72. His on-screen romantic partners have included Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kim Cattrall, Molly Ringwald, Jami Gertz, Ally Sheedy, and Rosalind Chao.

73. “You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you've got to get off my back!”

74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

75. “For three years we had her under contract, singing lessons, dancing lessons, acting lessons. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was gonna make her a big star. And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man, that it's not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful! She was young, she was innocent. She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world!”

76. She received her first Oscar nomination for playing a character named after a phrase in a poem by Katharine Lee Bates.

77. “In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature.”

78. He made theatrical history when, as a producer for the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project, he hired Orson Welles to direct a production the Scottish play transplanted to Haiti and substituting three voodoo witch doctors for the Weird Sisters.

79. “I don't know what you do for your four percent but my husband has a whole plan, an image and when you put him in a waterbed warehouse commercial you're making him common, when you know he deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink. I know about the four jewels of the celebrity endorsement dollar. I majored in marketing and so did my husband. We came to play.”

80. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Taylor Hackford, Garry Marshall and Terrence Mallick.

81. “Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here?”

82. He appeared in two of Alfred Hitchcock’s last five films – once in a small role, once in a starring role.

83. “Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something.”

84. Her autobiography was modestly titled The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me.

85. “There is a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.”

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#2 Post by littlebeast13 » Mon Mar 24, 2025 8:38 am

8. In 1967, he made it to Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 with a song that would later be taken to Number One by Donna Summer.

RICHARD HARRIS


40. He starred on two episodes of Columbo – once as the killer and once as the victim’s husband.

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#3 Post by mikehardware » Mon Mar 24, 2025 9:23 am

33. “I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”
A quote from Alex in CLOCKWORK ORANGE, so Malcolm McDowell?

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74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.
ANNA MAY WONG

76. She received her first Oscar nomination for playing a character named after a phrase in a poem by Katharine Lee Bates.
JULIANNE MOORE

84. Her autobiography was modestly titled The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me.
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#5 Post by PanicinDetroit » Mon Mar 24, 2025 11:04 am

15. “Oh, Michael! Michael, you are blind! It wasn't a miscarriage! It was an abortion! An abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion! Something that's unholy and evil!”
DIANE KEATON

23. “Here I am, goin' to Florida, my leg hurts, my butt hurts, my chest hurts, my face hurts, and like that ain't enough, I gotta pee all over myself.”
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35. “I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. I take only such cases now as interest me, and to be frank, my interest in your case is ... dwindling.”
ALBERT FINNEY

44. The titular character he played in a 2008 film has something significant in common with me and a number of other active and inactive members of the BORED.
DEV PATEL

59. “I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”
CLARK GABLE

83. “Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something.”
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#7 Post by kroxquo » Mon Mar 24, 2025 3:56 pm

2. He completes a very specific Oscar list that also includes George Arliss, Daniel Day Lewis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Kingsley, Sean Penn, and George C. Scott.

Actors who won Best Actor for playing a real person - Paul Scofield

3. “Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me a warped, frustrated, old man! What are you but a warped, frustrated young man?”

Lionel Barrymore

6. In 2005, he publicly apologized to his girlfriend for having an affair with his children’s nanny. (Well, at least he was sorry.)

Woody Allen?

8. In 1967, he made it to Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 with a song that would later be taken to Number One by Donna Summer.

Richard Harris

15. “Oh, Michael! Michael, you are blind! It wasn't a miscarriage! It was an abortion! An abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion! Something that's unholy and evil!”

Diane Keaton

16. When she died in 1985, France’s Minister of Culture called her “an unshakeable militant, in the front rank of all the battles for human rights, under all regimes and on all horizons.”

Brigitte Bardot?

17. “Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.”

Matthew Broderick

18. Three members of the Oriental Lazy Boyz street gang were tried and convicted for his 1996 murder.

Biggy Smalls

22. The shortest distance between Tennessee Williams and the most famous reindeer of all is through this performer.

Burl Ives

24. He was the second Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to get an Oscar nomination for acting.

Jason Miller

27. “Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”

MIchael Caine

28. His personal motto, and the name of his charitable foundation, is Just Keep Livin’.

Paul Newman?

29. “I know him. He'll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back, following me around the apartment, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning....”

Walter Matthau

31. “I left Elton's, where there were a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open, in order to hang out with you, at Christmas.”

Billy Crystal?

33. “I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”

Malcolm McDowell

43. “We just lost the moon.”

It's from Apollo 13. Tom Hanks? Ed Harris?

46. He first met his long-time life partner on the set of a Disney movie, when she was 22 and he was 16.

Kurt Russell?

57. “With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.”

Ingrid Bergman

58. He co-starred with Shirley Temple in her first three movies.

Bill Robinson

59. “I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”

Clark Gable

61. “Look, you know how these people lie! It's born in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! They don't know what the truth is! And lemme tell ya: they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No sir! They get drunk! Oh, they're real big drinkers, all of 'em - you know that - and bang! someone's lyin' in the gutter! Oh, nobody's blaming them for it. That's the way they are, by nature! You know what I mean?”

From 12 Angry Men Ed Begley?

66. She and Ethel Merman made their Broadway debuts in the same Gershwin musical, each introducing at least one timeless song. (What an opening night that must have been!)

Natalie Wood

68. In a 1978 box office blockbuster, she played a high school student. (She was 34 at the time.)

Stockard Channing

71. “Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water – to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Are you beginning to understand?”

The crazy colonel in Dr. Strangelove

74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

Anna Mae Wong

82. He appeared in two of Alfred Hitchcock’s last five films – once in a small role, once in a starring role.

Bruce Dern

83. “Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something.”

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#8 Post by mellytu74 » Mon Mar 24, 2025 5:47 pm

A little late to this. QUICK PASS

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Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

Identify the 85 actors below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

Nine actors will be used twice and three actors will be used three times.

1. “I fear I am a relic, and I have misplaced my tambourine.”

And, right off the bat, we have DAME MAGGIE SMITH

2. He completes a very specific Oscar list that also includes George Arliss, Daniel Day Lewis, iPhilip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Kingsley, Sean Penn, and George C. Scott.

It can't just be Oscar for real-life person - We've got Laughton's Henry VIII, Scofield's Thomas More, DeNiro's LaMotta. etc.

3. “Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me a warped, frustrated, old man! What are you but a warped, frustrated young man?”

LIONEL BARRYMORE

4. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Tim Burton, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, Kenneth Branagh, and Alejandro Iñárritu

5. “The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”

AUDRE Y HEPBURN

6. In 2005, he publicly apologized to his girlfriend for having an affair with his children’s nanny. (Well, at least he was sorry.)

JUDE LAW

8. In 1967, he made it to Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 with a song that would later be taken to Number One by Donna Summer.

RICHARD HARRIS (MacArthur Park)

14. He completes a list that includes Alan Ladd, Robert Redford, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

A Gatsby

15. “Oh, Michael! Michael, you are blind! It wasn't a miscarriage! It was an abortion! An abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion! Something that's unholy and evil!”

DIANE KEATON

16. When she died in 1985, France’s Minister of Culture called her “an unshakeable militant, in the front rank of all the battles for human rights, under all regimes and on all horizons.”

SIMONE SIGNORET

17. “Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.”

MATTHEW BRODERICK

21. “Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you.”

HERBERT MARSHALL

22. The shortest distance between Tennessee Williams and the most famous reindeer of all is through this performer.

BURL IVES

23. “Here I am, goin' to Florida, my leg hurts, my butt hurts, my chest hurts, my face hurts, and like that ain't enough, I gotta pee all over myself.”

DUSTIN HOFFMAN??

24. He was the second Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to get an Oscar nomination for acting.

Is SAM SHEPHERD before or after JASON MILLER?? One of the two.

25. “My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once as he talked to my parents about his border flowers. I was aiming for the bushes when he got in the way. He stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He ruined a lot of things.”

SAORSIN RONIN (KNOw spelling is wrong)

28. His personal motto, and the name of his charitable foundation, is Just Keep Livin’.

MATTHEW MCCONAGHY

29. “I know him. He'll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back, following me around the apartment, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning....”

WALTER MATTHAU

30. Three of her most notable roles were later reprised by (among others) Simone Simon, Jeanne Crain, and Judy Garland.

JANET GAYNOR

34. Her chronic anxiety and stage fright caused her to drop out of the lead of the original Broadway production of Born Yesterday three days before opening night.

JEAN ARTHUR

35. “I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. I take only such cases now as interest me, and to be frank, my interest in your case is ... dwindling.”

ALBERT FINNEY

37. “You wakened me from an eternity of darkness. You. You. You are not for the living. You are not for human kind. And shall you be one with me ever ¬– eternally? Do you swear it?”

41. “Make no mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.”

GARY COOPER

46. He first met his long-time life partner on the set of a Disney movie, when she was 22 and he was 16.

KURT RUSSELL

51. “All right, now look at me. I said look at me, don't turn your face away! I'm the looking glass you created to see yourself in! All right, all right see yourself now in me! Look at this ugly picture! And then get outta here! But keep this picture before your face for as long as you live!”

SUSAN HAYWARD

52. This actress was the unfortunate recipient of the diatribe in the preceding clue.

JO VAN FLEET

56. Presenting the Best Actor Oscar, she pointedly did not join in the applause for the winner.

Whoever presented Casey Affleck's Oscar.

57. “With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.”

INGRID BERGMAN

58. He co-starred with Shirley Temple in her first three movies.

JAMES DUNN?

59. “I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”

CLARK GABLE

61. “Look, you know how these people lie! It's born in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! They don't know what the truth is! And lemme tell ya: they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No sir! They get drunk! Oh, they're real big drinkers, all of 'em - you know that - and bang! someone's lyin' in the gutter! Oh, nobody's blaming them for it. That's the way they are, by nature! You know what I mean?”

ED BEGLEY, SR.

65. “We must have boat. Even now may be too late. This is your island; I make your responsibility. You help us get boat quickly, otherwise there is World War III, and everybody is blaming you!”

ALAN ARKIN

66. She and Ethel Merman made their Broadway debuts in the same Gershwin musical, each introducing at least one timeless song. (What an opening night that must have been!)

GINGER ROGERS

67. “Men like Janning, my husband and I, we hated Hitler. I want you to know that. And he hated us. He hated my husband because he was a real war hero – and the little corporal couldn't tolerate that. And he hated him because he married into nobility, which was my family. Hitler was in awe of the nobility, but he hated it. That's why it's so ironic, what happened.”

MARLENE DIETRICH

68. In a 1978 box office blockbuster, she played a high school student. (She was 34 at the time.)

STOCKARD CHANNING

69. “There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society ... outside of a kennel.”

JOAN CRAWFORD

73. “You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you've got to get off my back!”

SIDNEY POITIER

75. “For three years we had her under contract, singing lessons, dancing lessons, acting lessons. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was gonna make her a big star. And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man, that it's not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful! She was young, she was innocent. She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world!”

JOHN MARLEY

76. She received her first Oscar nomination for playing a character named after a phrase in a poem by Katharine Lee Bates.

JULIANNE MOORE

77. “In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature.”

ANTHONY HOPKINS

78. He made theatrical history when, as a producer for the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project, he hired Orson Welles to direct a production the Scottish play transplanted to Haiti and substituting three voodoo witch doctors for the Weird Sisters.

JOHN HOUSEMAN

79. “I don't know what you do for your four percent but my husband has a whole plan, an image and when you put him in a waterbed warehouse commercial you're making him common, when you know he deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink. I know about the four jewels of the celebrity endorsement dollar. I majored in marketing and so did my husband. We came to play.”

REGINA KING

81. “Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here?”

MERYL STREEP

82. He appeared in two of Alfred Hitchcock’s last five films – once in a small role, once in a starring role.

BRUCE DERN?????

83. “Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something.”

JIMMY STEWART

84. Her autobiography was modestly titled The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me.

LILLIAN GISH

85. “There is a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.”

KATHARINE HEPBURN

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#9 Post by mellytu74 » Mon Mar 24, 2025 6:22 pm

Oscar winners and nominees.

Could the Envelope we're pushing be The Envelope Please?

No idea on connections.

Yet.

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31. Bill Nighy, from Love Actually.

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56. Presenting the Best Actor Oscar, she pointedly did not join in the applause for the winner.
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#12 Post by kroxquo » Sat Mar 29, 2025 6:40 am

Consolidation

Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

Identify the 85 actors below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

Nine actors will be used twice and three actors will be used three times.

1. “I fear I am a relic, and I have misplaced my tambourine.”

MAGGIE SMITH

2. He completes a very specific Oscar list that also includes George Arliss, Daniel Day Lewis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Kingsley, Sean Penn, and George C. Scott.

ALL OF THEM WON BEST ACTOR OSCARS FOR PLAYING REAL PEOPLE, BUT SOMETHING MORE SPECIFIC

3. “Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me a warped, frustrated, old man! What are you but a warped, frustrated young man?”

LIONEL BARRYMORE

4. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Tim Burton, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, Kenneth Branagh, and Alejandro Iñárritu

5. “The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”

AUDREY HEPBURN

6. In 2005, he publicly apologized to his girlfriend for having an affair with his children’s nanny. (Well, at least he was sorry.)

JUDE LAW

7. “My children are in need of medical assistance! And you can sit here and smugly lecture me on the importance of tests? Tests which exist to pigeonhole children's potential, a thing which cannot possibly be measured, least of all by anal-compulsive huns! And my husband may be a ‘large child,’ but that's none of your business! And my children may be rotten, but they're mine. And I think that they're bright, and sensitive, so I have no doubts whatsoever about their intelligence. I do, however, have serious doubts about yours!”

8. In 1967, he made it to Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 with a song that would later be taken to Number One by Donna Summer.

RICHARD HARRIS

9. “When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”

10. At the age of fourteen, he made the first of seven films for the same renowned director – and the first of five playing the same character.

11. “Oooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it? ‘That's a bingo?’"

12. She completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Adrien Brody, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Kevin Spacey, Hilary Swank, and the actor in the preceding clue.

13. “They take you to a tree and hang you by your skin. Each time you scream the evil comes out of you. Sometimes, it can take three days for your evil to be spent. Pull him up.”

14. He completes a list that includes Alan Ladd, Robert Redford, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

A GATSBY

15. “Oh, Michael! Michael, you are blind! It wasn't a miscarriage! It was an abortion! An abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion! Something that's unholy and evil!”

DIANE KEATON

16. When she died in 1985, France’s Minister of Culture called her “an unshakeable militant, in the front rank of all the battles for human rights, under all regimes and on all horizons.”

SIMONE SIGNORET

17. “Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.”

MATTHEW BRODERICK

18. Three members of the Oriental Lazy Boyz street gang were tried and convicted for his 1996 murder.

19. “I'm just gettin' warmed up! I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell, whoever. Their spirit is dead, if they ever had one. It's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for seagoing snitches, and if you think you're preparing these minnows for manhood, you better think again, because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills.”

20. Her real-life characters included an English queen, a French actress, a British poet, a French assassin, the mistress of a British military hero, and the wife of a Russian composer.

21. “Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you.”

HERBERT MARSHALL

22. The shortest distance between Tennessee Williams and the most famous reindeer of all is through this performer.

BURL IVES

23. “Here I am, goin' to Florida, my leg hurts, my butt hurts, my chest hurts, my face hurts, and like that ain't enough, I gotta pee all over myself.”

DUSTIN HOFFMAN

24. He was the second Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to get an Oscar nomination for acting.

JASON MILLER?, SAM SHEPHERD?

25. “My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once as he talked to my parents about his border flowers. I was aiming for the bushes when he got in the way. He stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He ruined a lot of things.”

SOARISE RONAN

26. She achieved international prominence for her role in the first major film produced in Italy after World War II.

27. “Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”

MICHAEL CAINE

28. His personal motto, and the name of his charitable foundation, is Just Keep Livin’.

MATTHEW MCCONNAGHY

29. “I know him. He'll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back, following me around the apartment, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning....”

WALTER MATTHAU

30. Three of her most notable roles were later reprised by (among others) Simone Simon, Jeanne Crain, and Judy Garland.

JANET GAYNOR

31. “I left Elton's, where there were a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open, in order to hang out with you, at Christmas.”

BILL NIGHY

32. Her on-screen offspring included Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power, and Henry Fonda.

33. “I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”

MALCOLM MCDOWELL

34. Her chronic anxiety and stage fright caused her to drop out of the lead of the original Broadway production of Born Yesterday three days before opening night.

JEAN ARTHUR

35. “I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. I take only such cases now as interest me, and to be frank, my interest in your case is ... dwindling.”

ALBERT FINNEY

36. Of all the scenes she filmed under the direction of Ingmar Bergman, the most memorable – and disturbing – was one in which she mutilates her genitals with a broken glass.

37. “You wakened me from an eternity of darkness. You. You. You are not for the living. You are not for human kind. And shall you be one with me ever ¬– eternally? Do you swear it?”

38. Her filmography includes adaptations of works by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Edith Wharton, Ross MacDonald, John O’Hara, and William Inge.

39. “Would you give a guy a foot massage?”

40. He starred on two episodes of Columbo – once as the killer and once as the victim’s husband.

RAY MILLAND

41. “Make no mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.”

GARY COOPER

42. She received consecutive Oscar nominations for the film versions of two different plays by Tennessee Williams.

43. “We just lost the moon.”

TOM HANKS? ED HARRIS?

44. The titular character he played in a 2008 film has something significant in common with me and a number of other active and inactive members of the BORED.

DEV PATEL

45. “I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.”

46. He first met his long-time life partner on the set of a Disney movie, when she was 22 and he was 16.

KURT RUSSELL

47. “The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.”

48. Her career has included adaptations of works by Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, and Carlo Collodi.

49. “Everybody thinks I'm suicidal, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me; or they think I'm faking to draw a psycho pension, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me. Basically, I'm f**ked.”

50. He played a reformed jewel thief turned detective in a series of 14 films from 1941 to 1949.

51. “All right, now look at me. I said look at me, don't turn your face away! I'm the looking glass you created to see yourself in! All right, all right see yourself now in me! Look at this ugly picture! And then get outta here! But keep this picture before your face for as long as you live!”

SUSAN HAYWARD

52. This actress was the unfortunate recipient of the diatribe in the preceding clue.

JO VAN FLEET

53. “Do I understand this correctly? I'm being marked down? What is this? The Bargain Basement? I've been kidnapped by Kmart!”

54. His real-life roles included a 19th century dictator, a 20th century dictator, and a popular vaudeville and film comedian.

55. “What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs!”

56. Presenting the Best Actor Oscar, she pointedly did not join in the applause for the winner.

BRIE LARSON

57. “With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.”

INGRID BERGMAN

58. He co-starred with Shirley Temple in her first three movies.

BILL ROBINSON? JAMES DUNN?

59. “I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”

CLARK GABLE

60. He appeared in four adaptations of works by Charles Dickens, including his first two films.

61. “Look, you know how these people lie! It's born in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! They don't know what the truth is! And lemme tell ya: they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No sir! They get drunk! Oh, they're real big drinkers, all of 'em - you know that - and bang! someone's lyin' in the gutter! Oh, nobody's blaming them for it. That's the way they are, by nature! You know what I mean?”

ED BEGLEY

62. As a teenager, this actress was diagnosed with hyposomatotropism.

63. “Kill white folks and they pay you for it? What's not to like?”

64. She has been nominated for 16 César Awards – more than any other actress – but her most notable American film was one of Hollywood’s most notorious bombs.

65. “We must have boat. Even now may be too late. This is your island; I make your responsibility. You help us get boat quickly, otherwise there is World War III, and everybody is blaming you!”

ALAN ARKIN

66. She and Ethel Merman made their Broadway debuts in the same Gershwin musical, each introducing at least one timeless song. (What an opening night that must have been!)

GINGER ROGERS

67. “Men like Janning, my husband and I, we hated Hitler. I want you to know that. And he hated us. He hated my husband because he was a real war hero – and the little corporal couldn't tolerate that. And he hated him because he married into nobility, which was my family. Hitler was in awe of the nobility, but he hated it. That's why it's so ironic, what happened.”

MARLENE DIETRICH

68. In a 1978 box office blockbuster, she played a high school student. (She was 34 at the time.)

STOCKARD CHANNING

69. “There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society ... outside of a kennel.”

JOAN CRAWFORD

70. She had a much-publicized manic episode that was triggered when a computer virus caused her to lose three years’ worth of work on her autobiography.

71. “Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water – to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Are you beginning to understand?”

THE CRAZY COLONEL IN DR STRANGELOVE

72. His on-screen romantic partners have included Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kim Cattrall, Molly Ringwald, Jami Gertz, Ally Sheedy, and Rosalind Chao.

73. “You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you've got to get off my back!”

SIDNEY POITIER

74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

ANNA MAY WONG

75. “For three years we had her under contract, singing lessons, dancing lessons, acting lessons. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was gonna make her a big star. And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man, that it's not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful! She was young, she was innocent. She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world!”

JOHN MARLEY

76. She received her first Oscar nomination for playing a character named after a phrase in a poem by Katharine Lee Bates.

JULIANNE MOORE

77. “In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature.”

ANTHONY HOPKINS

78. He made theatrical history when, as a producer for the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project, he hired Orson Welles to direct a production the Scottish play transplanted to Haiti and substituting three voodoo witch doctors for the Weird Sisters.

JOHN HOUSEMAN

79. “I don't know what you do for your four percent but my husband has a whole plan, an image and when you put him in a waterbed warehouse commercial you're making him common, when you know he deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink. I know about the four jewels of the celebrity endorsement dollar. I majored in marketing and so did my husband. We came to play.”

REGINA KING

80. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Taylor Hackford, Garry Marshall and Terrence Mallick.

RICHARD GERE

81. “Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here?”

MERYL STREEP

82. He appeared in two of Alfred Hitchcock’s last five films – once in a small role, once in a starring role.

BRUCE DERN?

83. “Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something.”

JIMMY STEWART

84. Her autobiography was modestly titled The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me.

LILLIAN GISH

85. “There is a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.”

KATHERINE HEPBURN
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Re: Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

#13 Post by mellytu74 » Sat Mar 29, 2025 10:23 am

A couple of Oh, goshes!

9. “When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”

EDMUND GWENN at the end of THEM!

47. “The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.”

GRETA GARBO in Ninotchka

71. “Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water – to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Are you beginning to understand?”

THE CRAZY COLONEL IN DR STRANGELOVE IS STERLING HAYDEN



And some guesses

72. His on-screen romantic partners have included Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kim Cattrall, Molly Ringwald, Jami Gertz, Ally Sheedy, and Rosalind Chao.

How about ANDREW McCARTHY - we've got Less Than Zero, Mannequin, Pretty in Pink (TEAM DUCKY, DAMMIT!!!). Not sure about all of them, though

70. She had a much-publicized manic episode that was triggered when a computer virus caused her to lose three years’ worth of work on her autobiography.

MARGOT KIDDER??

32. Her on-screen offspring included Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power, and Henry Fonda.

ALICE BRADY?? Lombard is My Man Godfrey, Power is In Old Chicago. Not sure on Fonda, though

42. She received consecutive Oscar nominations for the film versions of two different plays by Tennessee Williams.

GERALDINE PAGE?? For Summer and Smoke and Sweet Bird of Youth? Not sure on either consecutive or if Summer and Smoke is Williams but she is stuck in my mind.

Speaking of Tennessee Williams plays (Rose Tattoo) ...

26. She achieved international prominence for her role in the first major film produced in Italy after World War II.

I will bet this is ANNA MAGNANI IN OPEN CITY

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#14 Post by franktangredi » Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:36 am

There is only one 'definite' answer on this consolidation that is wrong.

The answer with a question mark is right.

All the answers with two alternates include the right answer.

All suggestions made after this consolidation are right.

kroxquo wrote:
Sat Mar 29, 2025 6:40 am
Consolidation

Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

Identify the 85 actors below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

Nine actors will be used twice and three actors will be used three times.

1. “I fear I am a relic, and I have misplaced my tambourine.”

MAGGIE SMITH

2. He completes a very specific Oscar list that also includes George Arliss, Daniel Day Lewis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Kingsley, Sean Penn, and George C. Scott.

ALL OF THEM WON BEST ACTOR OSCARS FOR PLAYING REAL PEOPLE, BUT SOMETHING MORE SPECIFIC

3. “Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me a warped, frustrated, old man! What are you but a warped, frustrated young man?”

LIONEL BARRYMORE

4. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Tim Burton, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, Kenneth Branagh, and Alejandro Iñárritu

5. “The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”

AUDREY HEPBURN

6. In 2005, he publicly apologized to his girlfriend for having an affair with his children’s nanny. (Well, at least he was sorry.)

JUDE LAW

7. “My children are in need of medical assistance! And you can sit here and smugly lecture me on the importance of tests? Tests which exist to pigeonhole children's potential, a thing which cannot possibly be measured, least of all by anal-compulsive huns! And my husband may be a ‘large child,’ but that's none of your business! And my children may be rotten, but they're mine. And I think that they're bright, and sensitive, so I have no doubts whatsoever about their intelligence. I do, however, have serious doubts about yours!”

8. In 1967, he made it to Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 with a song that would later be taken to Number One by Donna Summer.

RICHARD HARRIS

9. “When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”

10. At the age of fourteen, he made the first of seven films for the same renowned director – and the first of five playing the same character.

11. “Oooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it? ‘That's a bingo?’"

12. She completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Adrien Brody, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Kevin Spacey, Hilary Swank, and the actor in the preceding clue.

13. “They take you to a tree and hang you by your skin. Each time you scream the evil comes out of you. Sometimes, it can take three days for your evil to be spent. Pull him up.”

14. He completes a list that includes Alan Ladd, Robert Redford, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

A GATSBY

15. “Oh, Michael! Michael, you are blind! It wasn't a miscarriage! It was an abortion! An abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion! Something that's unholy and evil!”

DIANE KEATON

16. When she died in 1985, France’s Minister of Culture called her “an unshakeable militant, in the front rank of all the battles for human rights, under all regimes and on all horizons.”

SIMONE SIGNORET

17. “Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.”

MATTHEW BRODERICK

18. Three members of the Oriental Lazy Boyz street gang were tried and convicted for his 1996 murder.

19. “I'm just gettin' warmed up! I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell, whoever. Their spirit is dead, if they ever had one. It's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for seagoing snitches, and if you think you're preparing these minnows for manhood, you better think again, because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills.”

20. Her real-life characters included an English queen, a French actress, a British poet, a French assassin, the mistress of a British military hero, and the wife of a Russian composer.

21. “Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you.”

HERBERT MARSHALL

22. The shortest distance between Tennessee Williams and the most famous reindeer of all is through this performer.

BURL IVES

23. “Here I am, goin' to Florida, my leg hurts, my butt hurts, my chest hurts, my face hurts, and like that ain't enough, I gotta pee all over myself.”

DUSTIN HOFFMAN

24. He was the second Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to get an Oscar nomination for acting.

JASON MILLER?, SAM SHEPHERD?

25. “My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once as he talked to my parents about his border flowers. I was aiming for the bushes when he got in the way. He stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He ruined a lot of things.”

SOARISE RONAN

26. She achieved international prominence for her role in the first major film produced in Italy after World War II.

27. “Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”

MICHAEL CAINE

28. His personal motto, and the name of his charitable foundation, is Just Keep Livin’.

MATTHEW MCCONNAGHY

29. “I know him. He'll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back, following me around the apartment, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning....”

WALTER MATTHAU

30. Three of her most notable roles were later reprised by (among others) Simone Simon, Jeanne Crain, and Judy Garland.

JANET GAYNOR

31. “I left Elton's, where there were a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open, in order to hang out with you, at Christmas.”

BILL NIGHY

32. Her on-screen offspring included Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power, and Henry Fonda.

33. “I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”

MALCOLM MCDOWELL

34. Her chronic anxiety and stage fright caused her to drop out of the lead of the original Broadway production of Born Yesterday three days before opening night.

JEAN ARTHUR

35. “I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. I take only such cases now as interest me, and to be frank, my interest in your case is ... dwindling.”

ALBERT FINNEY

36. Of all the scenes she filmed under the direction of Ingmar Bergman, the most memorable – and disturbing – was one in which she mutilates her genitals with a broken glass.

37. “You wakened me from an eternity of darkness. You. You. You are not for the living. You are not for human kind. And shall you be one with me ever ¬– eternally? Do you swear it?”

38. Her filmography includes adaptations of works by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Edith Wharton, Ross MacDonald, John O’Hara, and William Inge.

39. “Would you give a guy a foot massage?”

40. He starred on two episodes of Columbo – once as the killer and once as the victim’s husband.

RAY MILLAND

41. “Make no mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.”

GARY COOPER

42. She received consecutive Oscar nominations for the film versions of two different plays by Tennessee Williams.

43. “We just lost the moon.”

TOM HANKS? ED HARRIS?

44. The titular character he played in a 2008 film has something significant in common with me and a number of other active and inactive members of the BORED.

DEV PATEL

45. “I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.”

46. He first met his long-time life partner on the set of a Disney movie, when she was 22 and he was 16.

KURT RUSSELL

47. “The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.”

48. Her career has included adaptations of works by Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, and Carlo Collodi.

49. “Everybody thinks I'm suicidal, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me; or they think I'm faking to draw a psycho pension, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me. Basically, I'm f**ked.”

50. He played a reformed jewel thief turned detective in a series of 14 films from 1941 to 1949.

51. “All right, now look at me. I said look at me, don't turn your face away! I'm the looking glass you created to see yourself in! All right, all right see yourself now in me! Look at this ugly picture! And then get outta here! But keep this picture before your face for as long as you live!”

SUSAN HAYWARD

52. This actress was the unfortunate recipient of the diatribe in the preceding clue.

JO VAN FLEET

53. “Do I understand this correctly? I'm being marked down? What is this? The Bargain Basement? I've been kidnapped by Kmart!”

54. His real-life roles included a 19th century dictator, a 20th century dictator, and a popular vaudeville and film comedian.

55. “What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs!”

56. Presenting the Best Actor Oscar, she pointedly did not join in the applause for the winner.

BRIE LARSON

57. “With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.”

INGRID BERGMAN

58. He co-starred with Shirley Temple in her first three movies.

BILL ROBINSON? JAMES DUNN?

59. “I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”

CLARK GABLE

60. He appeared in four adaptations of works by Charles Dickens, including his first two films.

61. “Look, you know how these people lie! It's born in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! They don't know what the truth is! And lemme tell ya: they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No sir! They get drunk! Oh, they're real big drinkers, all of 'em - you know that - and bang! someone's lyin' in the gutter! Oh, nobody's blaming them for it. That's the way they are, by nature! You know what I mean?”

ED BEGLEY

62. As a teenager, this actress was diagnosed with hyposomatotropism.

63. “Kill white folks and they pay you for it? What's not to like?”

64. She has been nominated for 16 César Awards – more than any other actress – but her most notable American film was one of Hollywood’s most notorious bombs.

65. “We must have boat. Even now may be too late. This is your island; I make your responsibility. You help us get boat quickly, otherwise there is World War III, and everybody is blaming you!”

ALAN ARKIN

66. She and Ethel Merman made their Broadway debuts in the same Gershwin musical, each introducing at least one timeless song. (What an opening night that must have been!)

GINGER ROGERS

67. “Men like Janning, my husband and I, we hated Hitler. I want you to know that. And he hated us. He hated my husband because he was a real war hero – and the little corporal couldn't tolerate that. And he hated him because he married into nobility, which was my family. Hitler was in awe of the nobility, but he hated it. That's why it's so ironic, what happened.”

MARLENE DIETRICH

68. In a 1978 box office blockbuster, she played a high school student. (She was 34 at the time.)

STOCKARD CHANNING

69. “There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society ... outside of a kennel.”

JOAN CRAWFORD

70. She had a much-publicized manic episode that was triggered when a computer virus caused her to lose three years’ worth of work on her autobiography.

71. “Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water – to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Are you beginning to understand?”

THE CRAZY COLONEL IN DR STRANGELOVE

72. His on-screen romantic partners have included Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kim Cattrall, Molly Ringwald, Jami Gertz, Ally Sheedy, and Rosalind Chao.

73. “You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you've got to get off my back!”

SIDNEY POITIER

74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

ANNA MAY WONG

75. “For three years we had her under contract, singing lessons, dancing lessons, acting lessons. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was gonna make her a big star. And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man, that it's not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful! She was young, she was innocent. She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world!”

JOHN MARLEY

76. She received her first Oscar nomination for playing a character named after a phrase in a poem by Katharine Lee Bates.

JULIANNE MOORE

77. “In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature.”

ANTHONY HOPKINS

78. He made theatrical history when, as a producer for the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project, he hired Orson Welles to direct a production the Scottish play transplanted to Haiti and substituting three voodoo witch doctors for the Weird Sisters.

JOHN HOUSEMAN

79. “I don't know what you do for your four percent but my husband has a whole plan, an image and when you put him in a waterbed warehouse commercial you're making him common, when you know he deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink. I know about the four jewels of the celebrity endorsement dollar. I majored in marketing and so did my husband. We came to play.”

REGINA KING

80. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Taylor Hackford, Garry Marshall and Terrence Mallick.

RICHARD GERE

81. “Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here?”

MERYL STREEP

82. He appeared in two of Alfred Hitchcock’s last five films – once in a small role, once in a starring role.

BRUCE DERN?

83. “Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something.”

JIMMY STEWART

84. Her autobiography was modestly titled The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me.

LILLIAN GISH

85. “There is a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.”

KATHERINE HEPBURN

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9. “When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”
EDMUND GWENN

10. At the age of fourteen, he made the first of seven films for the same renowned director – and the first of five playing the same character.
TOSHIRO MIFUNE

11. “Oooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it? ‘That's a bingo?’"
CHRISTOPH WALTZ

12. She completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Adrien Brody, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Kevin Spacey, Hilary Swank, and the actor in the preceding clue.
VIVIAN LEIGH

13. “They take you to a tree and hang you by your skin. Each time you scream the evil comes out of you. Sometimes, it can take three days for your evil to be spent. Pull him up.”
FOREST WHITAKER

18. Three members of the Oriental Lazy Boyz street gang were tried and convicted for his 1996 murder.
HAING NGOR

9. “I'm just gettin' warmed up! I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell, whoever. Their spirit is dead, if they ever had one. It's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for seagoing snitches, and if you think you're preparing these minnows for manhood, you better think again, because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills.”
AL PACINO

26. She achieved international prominence for her role in the first major film produced in Italy after World War II.
ANNA MAGNANI

36. Of all the scenes she filmed under the direction of Ingmar Bergman, the most memorable – and disturbing – was one in which she mutilates her genitals with a broken glass.
INGRID THULIN

37. “You wakened me from an eternity of darkness. You. You. You are not for the living. You are not for human kind. And shall you be one with me ever ¬– eternally? Do you swear it?”
BILL SKARSGARD

39. “Would you give a guy a foot massage?”
JOHN TRAVOLTA

42. She received consecutive Oscar nominations for the film versions of two different plays by Tennessee Williams.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

43. “We just lost the moon.”
TOM HANKS

45. “I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.”
JOAQUIN PHOENIX

47. “The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.”
FELIX BRESSART

49. “Everybody thinks I'm suicidal, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me; or they think I'm faking to draw a psycho pension, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me. Basically, I'm f**ked.”
MEL GIBSON

50. He played a reformed jewel thief turned detective in a series of 14 films from 1941 to 1949.
CHESTER MORRIS

53. “Do I understand this correctly? I'm being marked down? What is this? The Bargain Basement? I've been kidnapped by Kmart!”
BETTE MIDLER

55. “What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs!”
MIA FARROW

63. “Kill white folks and they pay you for it? What's not to like?”
JAMIE FOXX

64. She has been nominated for 16 César Awards – more than any other actress – but her most notable American film was one of Hollywood’s most notorious bombs.
ISABELLE HUPPERT
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#16 Post by mellytu74 » Sun Mar 30, 2025 9:39 am

20. Her real-life characters included an English queen, a French actress, a British poet, a French assassin, the mistress of a British military hero, and the wife of a Russian composer.

The death of Richard Chamberlain reminded me that GLENDA JACKSON played his wife in The Music Lovers.

Bernhardt, Lady Hamilton, Elizabeth I.... it works.

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#17 Post by mrkelley23 » Sun Mar 30, 2025 12:07 pm

Back from the cruise...

I think 2. must be CILLIAN MURPHY. Each of the actors in the list won a Best Actor Oscar for portraying a real person, and the title of the film was just that person's last name.

4. might be MICHAEL KEATON -- just because Beetlejuice was Tim Burton, and Birdman was Inarritu.

7. is GOLDIE HAWN, in Overboard.

14. is TOBY STEPHENS -- the 2000 Gatsby with Paul Rudd as Nick Carraway
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60. He appeared in four adaptations of works by Charles Dickens, including his first two films.
RALPH INESON

62. As a teenager, this actress was diagnosed with hyposomatotropism.
LINDA HUNT

70. She had a much-publicized manic episode that was triggered when a computer virus caused her to lose three years’ worth of work on her autobiography.
MARGOT KIDDER
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#19 Post by jarnon » Sun Mar 30, 2025 8:31 pm

Time for a new consolidation. Frank confirmed that some answers are certainly correct. If we identify the answer that Frank says is wrong, many others can also be confirmed.

Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

Identify the 85 actors below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

Nine actors will be used twice and three actors will be used three times.

1. “I fear I am a relic, and I have misplaced my tambourine.”
MAGGIE SMITH

2. He completes a very specific Oscar list that also includes George Arliss, Daniel Day Lewis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Kingsley, Sean Penn, and George C. Scott.
CILLIAN MURPHY (Each of the actors in the list won a Best Actor Oscar for portraying a real person, and the title of the film was just that person's last name.)

3. “Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me a warped, frustrated, old man! What are you but a warped, frustrated young man?”
LIONEL BARRYMORE

4. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Tim Burton, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, Kenneth Branagh, and Alejandro Iñárritu
MICHAEL KEATON

5. “The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”
AUDREY HEPBURN

6. In 2005, he publicly apologized to his girlfriend for having an affair with his children’s nanny. (Well, at least he was sorry.)
JUDE LAW

7. “My children are in need of medical assistance! And you can sit here and smugly lecture me on the importance of tests? Tests which exist to pigeonhole children's potential, a thing which cannot possibly be measured, least of all by anal-compulsive huns! And my husband may be a ‘large child,’ but that's none of your business! And my children may be rotten, but they're mine. And I think that they're bright, and sensitive, so I have no doubts whatsoever about their intelligence. I do, however, have serious doubts about yours!”
GOLDIE HAWN (Overboard)

8. In 1967, he made it to Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 with a song that would later be taken to Number One by Donna Summer.
RICHARD HARRIS (MacArthur Park)

9. EDMUND GWENN (Them!)

10. At the age of fourteen, he made the first of seven films for the same renowned director – and the first of five playing the same character.
TOSHIRO MIFUNE

11. “Oooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it? ‘That's a bingo?’"
CHRISTOPH WALTZ

12. She completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Adrien Brody, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Kevin Spacey, Hilary Swank, and the actor in the preceding clue.
VIVIAN LEIGH

13. “They take you to a tree and hang you by your skin. Each time you scream the evil comes out of you. Sometimes, it can take three days for your evil to be spent. Pull him up.”
FOREST WHITAKER

14. He completes a list that includes Alan Ladd, Robert Redford, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
TOBY STEPHENS (Gatsby)

15. “Oh, Michael! Michael, you are blind! It wasn't a miscarriage! It was an abortion! An abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion! Something that's unholy and evil!”
DIANE KEATON

16. When she died in 1985, France’s Minister of Culture called her “an unshakeable militant, in the front rank of all the battles for human rights, under all regimes and on all horizons.”
SIMONE SIGNORET

17. “Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.”
MATTHEW BRODERICK

18. Three members of the Oriental Lazy Boyz street gang were tried and convicted for his 1996 murder.
HAING NGOR

19. “I'm just gettin' warmed up! I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell, whoever. Their spirit is dead, if they ever had one. It's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for seagoing snitches, and if you think you're preparing these minnows for manhood, you better think again, because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills.”
AL PACINO

20. Her real-life characters included an English queen, a French actress, a British poet, a French assassin, the mistress of a British military hero, and the wife of a Russian composer.
GLENDA JACKSON

21. “Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you.”
HERBERT MARSHALL

22. The shortest distance between Tennessee Williams and the most famous reindeer of all is through this performer.
BURL IVES

23. “Here I am, goin' to Florida, my leg hurts, my butt hurts, my chest hurts, my face hurts, and like that ain't enough, I gotta pee all over myself.”
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

24. He was the second Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to get an Oscar nomination for acting.
JASON MILLER? SAM SHEPHERD?

25. “My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once as he talked to my parents about his border flowers. I was aiming for the bushes when he got in the way. He stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He ruined a lot of things.”
SOARISE RONAN

26. ANNA MAGNANI (Open City)

27. “Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
MICHAEL CAINE

28. His personal motto, and the name of his charitable foundation, is Just Keep Livin’.
MATTHEW McCONNAGHY

29. “I know him. He'll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back, following me around the apartment, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning....”
WALTER MATTHAU

30. Three of her most notable roles were later reprised by (among others) Simone Simon, Jeanne Crain, and Judy Garland.
JANET GAYNOR

31. “I left Elton's, where there were a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open, in order to hang out with you, at Christmas.”
BILL NIGHY (Love Actually)

32. ALICE BRADY

33. “I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”
MALCOLM McDOWELL (Clockwork Orange)

34. Her chronic anxiety and stage fright caused her to drop out of the lead of the original Broadway production of Born Yesterday three days before opening night.
JEAN ARTHUR

35. “I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. I take only such cases now as interest me, and to be frank, my interest in your case is ... dwindling.”
ALBERT FINNEY

36. Of all the scenes she filmed under the direction of Ingmar Bergman, the most memorable – and disturbing – was one in which she mutilates her genitals with a broken glass.
INGRID THULIN

37. “You wakened me from an eternity of darkness. You. You. You are not for the living. You are not for human kind. And shall you be one with me ever ¬– eternally? Do you swear it?”
BILL SKARSGARD

38. Her filmography includes adaptations of works by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Edith Wharton, Ross MacDonald, John O’Hara, and William Inge.

39. “Would you give a guy a foot massage?”
JOHN TRAVOLTA

40. He starred on two episodes of Columbo – once as the killer and once as the victim’s husband.
RAY MILLAND

41. “Make no mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.”
GARY COOPER

42. GERALDINE PAGE

43. “We just lost the moon.”
TOM HANKS (Apollo 13)

44. The titular character he played in a 2008 film has something significant in common with me and a number of other active and inactive members of the BORED.
DEV PATEL

45. “I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.”
JOAQUIN PHOENIX

46. He first met his long-time life partner on the set of a Disney movie, when she was 22 and he was 16.
KURT RUSSELL

47. GRETA GARBO (Ninotchka)

48. Her career has included adaptations of works by Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, and Carlo Collodi.

49. “Everybody thinks I'm suicidal, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me; or they think I'm faking to draw a psycho pension, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me. Basically, I'm f**ked.”
MEL GIBSON

50. He played a reformed jewel thief turned detective in a series of 14 films from 1941 to 1949.
CHESTER MORRIS

51. “All right, now look at me. I said look at me, don't turn your face away! I'm the looking glass you created to see yourself in! All right, all right see yourself now in me! Look at this ugly picture! And then get outta here! But keep this picture before your face for as long as you live!”
SUSAN HAYWARD

52. This actress was the unfortunate recipient of the diatribe in the preceding clue.
JO VAN FLEET

53. “Do I understand this correctly? I'm being marked down? What is this? The Bargain Basement? I've been kidnapped by Kmart!”
BETTE MIDLER

54. His real-life roles included a 19th century dictator, a 20th century dictator, and a popular vaudeville and film comedian.

55. “What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs!”
MIA FARROW

56. Presenting the Best Actor Oscar, she pointedly did not join in the applause for the winner.
BRIE LARSON

57. “With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.”
INGRID BERGMAN

58. He co-starred with Shirley Temple in her first three movies.
BILL ROBINSON? JAMES DUNN?

59. “I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”
CLARK GABLE

60. He appeared in four adaptations of works by Charles Dickens, including his first two films.
RALPH INESON

61. “Look, you know how these people lie! It's born in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! They don't know what the truth is! And lemme tell ya: they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No sir! They get drunk! Oh, they're real big drinkers, all of 'em - you know that - and bang! someone's lyin' in the gutter! Oh, nobody's blaming them for it. That's the way they are, by nature! You know what I mean?”
ED BEGLEY (12 Angry Men)

62. As a teenager, this actress was diagnosed with hyposomatotropism.
LINDA HUNT

63. “Kill white folks and they pay you for it? What's not to like?”
JAMIE FOXX

64. She has been nominated for 16 César Awards – more than any other actress – but her most notable American film was one of Hollywood’s most notorious bombs.
ISABELLE HUPPERT

65. “We must have boat. Even now may be too late. This is your island; I make your responsibility. You help us get boat quickly, otherwise there is World War III, and everybody is blaming you!”
ALAN ARKIN

66. She and Ethel Merman made their Broadway debuts in the same Gershwin musical, each introducing at least one timeless song. (What an opening night that must have been!)
GINGER ROGERS

67. “Men like Janning, my husband and I, we hated Hitler. I want you to know that. And he hated us. He hated my husband because he was a real war hero – and the little corporal couldn't tolerate that. And he hated him because he married into nobility, which was my family. Hitler was in awe of the nobility, but he hated it. That's why it's so ironic, what happened.”
MARLENE DIETRICH

68. In a 1978 box office blockbuster, she played a high school student. (She was 34 at the time.)
STOCKARD CHANNING

69. “There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society ... outside of a kennel.”
JOAN CRAWFORD

70. MARGOT KIDDER
71. STERLING HAYDEN (Dr. Strangelove)
72. ANDREW McCARTHY

73. “You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you've got to get off my back!”
SIDNEY POITIER

74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.
ANNA MAY WONG

75. “For three years we had her under contract, singing lessons, dancing lessons, acting lessons. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was gonna make her a big star. And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man, that it's not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful! She was young, she was innocent. She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world!”
JOHN MARLEY

76. She received her first Oscar nomination for playing a character named after a phrase in a poem by Katharine Lee Bates.
JULIANNE MOORE

77. “In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature.”
ANTHONY HOPKINS

78. He made theatrical history when, as a producer for the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project, he hired Orson Welles to direct a production the Scottish play transplanted to Haiti and substituting three voodoo witch doctors for the Weird Sisters.
JOHN HOUSEMAN

79. “I don't know what you do for your four percent but my husband has a whole plan, an image and when you put him in a waterbed warehouse commercial you're making him common, when you know he deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink. I know about the four jewels of the celebrity endorsement dollar. I majored in marketing and so did my husband. We came to play.”
REGINA KING

80. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Taylor Hackford, Garry Marshall and Terrence Mallick.
RICHARD GERE

81. “Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here?”
MERYL STREEP

82. BRUCE DERN

83. “Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something.”
JIMMY STEWART

84. Her autobiography was modestly titled The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me.
LILLIAN GISH

85. “There is a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.”
KATHERINE HEPBURN
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#20 Post by mellytu74 » Sun Mar 30, 2025 9:38 pm

38. Her filmography includes adaptations of works by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Edith Wharton, Ross MacDonald, John O’Hara, and William Inge.

How about JOANNE WOODWARD?

As I Lay Dying, narrator of The Age of Innocence. Drowning Pool.

48. Her career has included adaptations of works by Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, and Carlo Collodi.

TILDA SWINTON was in Benjamin Button, Orlando and Chronicles of Narnia.

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Re: Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

#21 Post by mellytu74 » Sun Mar 30, 2025 9:41 pm

Possible wrong one???

74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

ANNA MAY WONG

Anna May Wong was born in California. She was Chinese American.

I'm not sure this is the kind of thing that Frank fudges. Or am I being too nitpicky??

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Re: Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

#22 Post by mrkelley23 » Mon Mar 31, 2025 5:49 am

mellytu74 wrote:
Sun Mar 30, 2025 9:41 pm
Possible wrong one???

74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

ANNA MAY WONG

Anna May Wong was born in California. She was Chinese American.

I'm not sure this is the kind of thing that Frank fudges. Or am I being too nitpicky??
Not too nitpicky. It's GONG LI
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Re: Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

#23 Post by jarnon » Mon Mar 31, 2025 6:19 am

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Sun Mar 30, 2025 9:38 pm
48. Her career has included adaptations of works by Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, and Carlo Collodi.

TILDA SWINTON was in Benjamin Button, Orlando and Chronicles of Narnia.
Her voice was in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
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Re: Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

#24 Post by jarnon » Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:25 am

mrkelley23 wrote:
Mon Mar 31, 2025 5:49 am
mellytu74 wrote:
Sun Mar 30, 2025 9:41 pm
Possible wrong one???

74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

ANNA MAY WONG

Anna May Wong was born in California. She was Chinese American.

I'm not sure this is the kind of thing that Frank fudges. Or am I being too nitpicky??
Not too nitpicky. It's GONG LI
Thanks, mellytu74 and mrkelley23. That means the other answers in kroxquo’s consolidation are confirmed.

Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

Identify the 85 actors below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

Nine actors will be used twice and three actors will be used three times.

1. MAGGIE SMITH

2. He completes a very specific Oscar list that also includes George Arliss, Daniel Day Lewis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Kingsley, Sean Penn, and George C. Scott.
CILLIAN MURPHY (Each of the actors in the list won a Best Actor Oscar for portraying a real person, and the title of the film was just that person's last name.)

3. LIONEL BARRYMORE

4. He has worked under the direction of (among others) Tim Burton, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, Kenneth Branagh, and Alejandro Iñárritu
MICHAEL KEATON

5. AUDREY HEPBURN
6. JUDE LAW

7. “My children are in need of medical assistance! And you can sit here and smugly lecture me on the importance of tests? Tests which exist to pigeonhole children's potential, a thing which cannot possibly be measured, least of all by anal-compulsive huns! And my husband may be a ‘large child,’ but that's none of your business! And my children may be rotten, but they're mine. And I think that they're bright, and sensitive, so I have no doubts whatsoever about their intelligence. I do, however, have serious doubts about yours!”
GOLDIE HAWN (Overboard)

8. RICHARD HARRIS (MacArthur Park)
9. EDMUND GWENN (Them!)

10. At the age of fourteen, he made the first of seven films for the same renowned director – and the first of five playing the same character.
TOSHIRO MIFUNE

11. “Oooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it? ‘That's a bingo?’"
CHRISTOPH WALTZ

12. She completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Adrien Brody, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Kevin Spacey, Hilary Swank, and the actor in the preceding clue.
VIVIAN LEIGH

13. “They take you to a tree and hang you by your skin. Each time you scream the evil comes out of you. Sometimes, it can take three days for your evil to be spent. Pull him up.”
FOREST WHITAKER

14. He completes a list that includes Alan Ladd, Robert Redford, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
TOBY STEPHENS (Gatsby)

15. DIANE KEATON
16. SIMONE SIGNORET
17. MATTHEW BRODERICK

18. Three members of the Oriental Lazy Boyz street gang were tried and convicted for his 1996 murder.
HAING NGOR

19. “I'm just gettin' warmed up! I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell, whoever. Their spirit is dead, if they ever had one. It's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for seagoing snitches, and if you think you're preparing these minnows for manhood, you better think again, because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills.”
AL PACINO

20. Her real-life characters included an English queen, a French actress, a British poet, a French assassin, the mistress of a British military hero, and the wife of a Russian composer.
GLENDA JACKSON

21. HERBERT MARSHALL
22. BURL IVES
23. DUSTIN HOFFMAN

24. He was the second Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to get an Oscar nomination for acting.
JASON MILLER? SAM SHEPHERD?

25. SOARISE RONAN
26. ANNA MAGNANI (Open City)
27. MICHAEL CAINE
28. MATTHEW McCONNAGHY
29. WALTER MATTHAU
30. JANET GAYNOR
31. BILL NIGHY (Love Actually)
32. ALICE BRADY
33. MALCOLM McDOWELL (Clockwork Orange)
34. JEAN ARTHUR
35. ALBERT FINNEY

36. Of all the scenes she filmed under the direction of Ingmar Bergman, the most memorable – and disturbing – was one in which she mutilates her genitals with a broken glass.
INGRID THULIN

37. “You wakened me from an eternity of darkness. You. You. You are not for the living. You are not for human kind. And shall you be one with me ever ¬– eternally? Do you swear it?”
BILL SKARSGARD

38. Her filmography includes adaptations of works by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Edith Wharton, Ross MacDonald, John O’Hara, and William Inge.
JOANNE WOODWARD

39. “Would you give a guy a foot massage?”
JOHN TRAVOLTA

40. RAY MILLAND
41. GARY COOPER
42. GERALDINE PAGE

43. “We just lost the moon.”
TOM HANKS (Apollo 13)

44. DEV PATEL

45. “I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.”
JOAQUIN PHOENIX

46. KURT RUSSELL
47. GRETA GARBO (Ninotchka)

48. Her career has included adaptations of works by Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, and Carlo Collodi.
TILDA SWINTON

49. “Everybody thinks I'm suicidal, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me; or they think I'm faking to draw a psycho pension, in which case, I'm f**ked and nobody wants to work with me. Basically, I'm f**ked.”
MEL GIBSON

50. He played a reformed jewel thief turned detective in a series of 14 films from 1941 to 1949.
CHESTER MORRIS

51. SUSAN HAYWARD
52. JO VAN FLEET

53. “Do I understand this correctly? I'm being marked down? What is this? The Bargain Basement? I've been kidnapped by Kmart!”
BETTE MIDLER

54. His real-life roles included a 19th century dictator, a 20th century dictator, and a popular vaudeville and film comedian.

55. “What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs!”
MIA FARROW

56. BRIE LARSON
57. INGRID BERGMAN

58. He co-starred with Shirley Temple in her first three movies.
BILL ROBINSON? JAMES DUNN?

59. CLARK GABLE

60. He appeared in four adaptations of works by Charles Dickens, including his first two films.
RALPH INESON

61. ED BEGLEY (12 Angry Men)

62. As a teenager, this actress was diagnosed with hyposomatotropism.
LINDA HUNT

63. “Kill white folks and they pay you for it? What's not to like?”
JAMIE FOXX

64. She has been nominated for 16 César Awards – more than any other actress – but her most notable American film was one of Hollywood’s most notorious bombs.
ISABELLE HUPPERT

65. ALAN ARKIN
66. GINGER ROGERS
67. MARLENE DIETRICH
68. STOCKARD CHANNING
69. JOAN CRAWFORD
70. MARGOT KIDDER
71. STERLING HAYDEN (Dr. Strangelove)
72. ANDREW McCARTHY
73. SIDNEY POITIER

74. She was the first Chinese movie star to appear on the cover of Time magazine.
GONG LI

75. JOHN MARLEY
76. JULIANNE MOORE
77. ANTHONY HOPKINS
78. JOHN HOUSEMAN
79. REGINA KING
80. RICHARD GERE
81. MERYL STREEP
82. BRUCE DERN
83. JIMMY STEWART
84. LILLIAN GISH
85. KATHERINE HEPBURN
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Re: Game #220 – Pushing the Envelope

#25 Post by kroxquo » Mon Mar 31, 2025 11:07 am

24. is probably Sam Shepherd since the question asks for the second person to receive the nomination. Unless I'm mistaken, Jason Miller received his nomination for The Exorcist in 1973 and Shepherd for The Right Stuff in 1983.
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