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5. In life he was a musician (cellist), and his instrument is still in her possession. They resume taking pleasure in panio-cello duets.

BRIT -- gamekeeper AMER -- poacher

Xiu Xiu -- Chinese actress Lu Lu, title character in Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl

30"Not yet. The Robot Lumberjack is back on the drawing board."

4. "Your lips are a bit cold."

3. 1990. She is a competent and dedicated social worker, and her workplace scenes deal with some realistic problems concerinig racial and class descrimination. But co-workers, clients and neighbors are quite understandably puzzled by her shift to a bubbly state of happiness. The harassed tradesmen trying to deal with with her problematic apart, uh,_flat_ find her much easier to deal with.

2. Heroine's deceased lover returns from the Afterlife because she is grieving piteously and she needs him. Some friends accompany him because (this is simply presented, not explained) electronics are lacking Over There. They come back to use her TV and VCR to watch vidio movies.

visualfest; Thankee, thanky'ver'much... This one will likely go down quickly too. 1. UK setting. Turns out mice are absolutely terrified of ghosts. But then a mouse appears in your pest-riddled flat after they were absent for a while. You take that as an indication that the ghosts that have been visiting you are no longer present. At least for the moment.

Ivey, Frank -- Preston Foster in Ramrod (1947)

L A Confidential ??

Xerxes -- David Farrer in The 300 Spartans (1962)

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Orlando (1992) -- Title role for Tilda Swinton.

> {quote:title=visualfeast wrote:}{quote} > Is it THE LAST GOOD FRIDAY? No, but it's close enough for me to settle for that. Its The _Long_ Good Friday (1980), and its a b***h to clue up. I've been trying to avoid references to Easter Weekend, Mafia financing for a real-estate venture, the Irish Republican Army, a gay honey-trap and everything else that would have been an instant giveaway. That left me with covert references to Bob Hoskins (his breakout role), Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan. You saved me a lot of work. visualfest, tag. You're It.

Yo, Mongo; A real wierd one this time,and I'll understand if there's no info forthcoming. Basically: I've heard the punchline. Can anybody tell me the joke? Over perhaps the past seven years, and on maybe five occasions I've run across a scrap of dialogue, always from a British source and always in a context where it was supposed to be funny. The phrase: _"Maybe its because I'm a Londoner"_ . I've heard and seen this in a television show, on a PBS radio show that origionated in England and in British magazines. On TV and radio, it generated a studio laugh. I get the impression that it is a portable punch line instantlly understood by insiders -- but I'm an outsider. I have the impression that this phrase is like the American portable punchline,"That's my story, and I'm sticking to it," which crops up from time to time. Its usually applied to someone who has just told some ridiculous story, usually a bullstuff alibi. It has entered American humor and lore as a staple, and a C&W artist even wrote a song on that theme. And it supposedly has a definate point of origin. -- An incident in the home life of a former pro footballer. From context, I theorize that the "I'm a Londoner" quote means to make fun of provincials trying to pass as urbanites. But I just don't _know_. Do you have any way of tracking down the original source of that phrase? Waiting with baited breath, cmvgor

4. Another member of this cast also generated a high profile in the US. as a TV series star, and then as a star in a movie series.

Farmer, Andy -- Chevy Chase in Funny Farm (1988)

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3. 1980s. This film included breakout roles for an actor and an actress who subsequantly became very well known in the US. Distruction comes close to the Boss when his Limo is bombed and his driver is killed.

Darby, Col. William O. -- James Garner in Darby's Rangers When we run out of title characters, this is going to start looking like work!

Xerxes ("The Great King") -- Rodrigo Santoro in 300.

2. Set in the U.K. The Boss has been out of town for a few days; comes home to find things unravling. Has no idea who the enemy is.

Shucks! I was completely lost at sea until the poker game came up. Here goes: *1.* A criminal boss is in trouble, but he is slow realizing it. Some men are being killed at a distant points, and he is getting the news piecemeal. And he doesn't know why.

Morris, Ben -- James Garner in *The Pink Jungle*.

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