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Turpin, Dan -- Joseph Bologna in *Superman* (1996)

Quilley, Helen -- Gwyneth Paltrow in *Sliding Doors*

The wronged author: War hero (WWI Ace), adventurer, brilliant and popular writer. Now aging, ill and going blind. Married to a local blueblood, and the wife is the one complaining about the unpaid royalties. An official of the pubishing firm, now deceased, seems to have diverted the royalties elsewhere, and the checks were cashed by a woman. The wife's verdict: "___'s been buying black panties for some ****!" The lawyer is finding it difficult to get a face-to-face interview with the writer himself. Edited by: cmvgor on Apr 20, 2010 12:14 PM

Divisions along racial, social and economic lines. A woman who once had been the lawyer's sweetheart had married socially beneath her station in order to marry money and get her husband to purchase and renovate her family's former estate. "We're the Chinese of America. We eat rice and worship our ancestors."

This one hasn't got legs. That was Mel Brooks' first speech in *High Anxiety* (1977) Open thread.

> {quote:title=cmvgor wrote:}{quote} > Sixes, I'll hold rodag's place until he gets back. > New one, first line: > > "Geeeze, what a dramatic airport!" The film is a satire, one of this actor-producer-director's specialities.

Locale: Southeastern US coastal region. A lawyer from a New York firm who had grown up in the vacinity of the author's home, goes back there to investigate. Meets old friends and makes new acquaintences. Renewed memories of why he left.

True that. Yours.

Jackal, The -- Edward Fox in *Day Of The Jackal* (1973)

deleated. Edited by: cmvgor on Apr 19, 2010 2:20 PM

*Jerusalem* (1996)

Thanks, finance. Accidental good luck. -- I scoped out *Seven-Ups* recently with the thought of posting it myself. For my money, a strong contender for the best urban chase scene ever, giveortake *Bullitt*. New one: Serious charges that a book publishing firm has robbed one of it's authors of a large sum of money by diverting his royalty checks to another party -- a woman. The author's wife is the complaining party. Mid 50s. Color.

Thanks, Eve. Another one; also should not be hard: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

*The Seven-Ups* ??

*In The Bedroom*

At some 150 Views or so, this has about used me up. *Five Finger Exercize* (1962) had Jack Hawkins and Rosalind Russell as the parents. Richard Beymer as the son. Daughter Annette Gorman's career tapered off after a few TV sitcom appearences. For Maximilian Schell, the tudor was his first role after taking home his Oscar for *Judgement At Nuremberg*. Open thread. I'll come back with another title in about 24 hours if no one has posted by then.

duplicate H deleated. Edited by: cmvgor on Apr 19, 2010 7:45 AM

*101* yet again "Naaah. In this economy, a used helicopter franchise is just a slow way to starve."

> {quote:title=theladyeve wrote:}{quote} > This one shouldnt be too difficult: > > Nothings to good for ___________________ (blank is the title of the movie) "...*The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance* " finishes the quote. Could also be used in the "first/last lines" thread. Irony: the man actually fitting that description is now dead, and has been buried by charitable friends in a pauper's funeral.

Correct, Eve. A Brooklynite named Joseph A. Maggio had been in the same Infantry company with James Jones, the novelist who later wrote From Here To Eternity, at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii in the period before the Japanese attack on 12/7/1941. Circumstances of the war later separated them into different outfits, and they lost contact with each other. Jones admittedly gave a character the name _Angelo_ Maggio, but aspects of the character (dishonorable discharge, rolled gays for pocket money) were just creations of the author. This first brought complaints, with the publisher (Scribner's) the deep-pocket defendent. It actually went into court later, near the publication date of another novel, Some Came Running. The Defense was able to produce witnesses who had heard Joseph A. Maggio actually boast about the connection with the novel. The jury found for the Defense after some 4 hours deliberation. I picked this up only because I'm currently reading Into Eternity:The Life Of James Jones, American Writer by Frank MacShane. An amusing similar story that I won't wait to pose as a question: English novelist / scriptwriter Graham Greene got so tired of nuisance law suits over his characters' names that, upon writing the novel (then the screenplay) for *The Comedians*, he named his three main characters Smith, Jones and Brown. Eve's thread.

deleated. duplicate post. Edited by: cmvgor on Apr 19, 2010 3:19 AM

Sixes, I'll hold rodag's place until he gets back. New one, first line: "Geeeze, what a dramatic airport!"

Early Fifties movie.

deleated duplicate W Edited by: cmvgor on Apr 18, 2010 10:44 PM

Utley, George -- Tom Poston in *Newhart* (1980s TV)