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REBOOTING A fictitious town in a movie. A sequel is made, and the town's name has been changed in hopes that prestige and better business will follow. First film's title? Town's name? Town's new name for the sequel?

Little to go on here. Lorenzo Lamas as Tom Chisum in *Grease* ??

Thanks, stick. Next up is one that I saw and enjoyed shortly after I returned from living abroad for three years. Anthology of 60 min dramas. Following the loss of his family in an accident, a man has gone badly on the skids, and has become a wino derelict. He learns that a friend and fellow panhandler has been shot and killed. Reports are that this happened while the friend was trying to rob a store. This does not sound right to the fallen man, and he starts his own investigation from the bottom of society's heap. The episode star of this drama. Any additional info?

Still beyond me. Maybe somebody else can work with that.

Sampson -- Victor Mature in *Sampson and Delilah* (1949)

Role Call: Those with roles in this TVM include: "Feathers" "Robert Cohen" "Phillip Marlowe" (well, one of 'em. The two films he made in that persona were remakes.)

Aha! Jean Stapleton was on Broadway in *Damn Yankees* when Mr. Lear saw her, contacted her. She got the role of Edith "Dingbat" Bunker in *All In The Family.* ???

Stick, I'm pretty sure now that I have no knowledge whatsoever about this one. But I have one question that may be helpful to someone else: Is it one of the recent spate of Horror flicks with great SPFX that have not aroused my interest at all?

*Duel In The Sun* ???

Bea Arthur? Norman Lear called her and asked her to do a guest appearance on *All In The Family.* That appearance segued into her starring role on *Maude.* ???

American film? Foreign?

Nation, Novalee -- Natale Portman in *Where The Heart Is*

'lana, I don't know what the other Item he supposedly had in that script, but I do have another bit of info about that routine: Both Mr. Benny and his biographer (and writer and producer) Milt Josefberg claimed credit for being the one who wrote that joke. Other radio stuff to answer all or in part: ...Fill-in-the-blank title: Mr.____, Tracer of Lost Persons. ...What radio sleuth, an insurance claims investigator, narrated his cases in the form of itemizing his expense accounts as the story unfolded? ...Freebie: Who was radio's Marshal Dillon? Edited by: flashback42 on Feb 14, 2012 12:35 PM

Correct at an even 40 Views. Mona drowned at the begenning of the story, but the investigation generated flashbacks that gave her a lot of screen time. Showed many reasons why so many hated her. It may be one of Bette Middler's signature performances. stick's thread.

Jones, Gravedigger -- Godfrey Cambridge in *Cotton Comes To Harlem* (1970)

The P.I. on this case is an alcoholic, currently dry. The man who hired him took a chance. With this actor in this role, both the performer and his audience are on comfortable, familiar ground.

(14,251) Guest Star -- Second generation Showbiz. Later to have two popular series of his own. He passed away during the run of the later series: some adjustments were made, and that series continued. Edited by: flashback42 on Feb 13, 2012 9:04 PM

(1,043) The deceased's car went into a lake, and she drowned. The best local mechanic, a woman, demonstrated that the brake line had been cut.

Small town, everybody knows everybody. The deceased was talented and relentless at making enemies. Her husband and one of her sons are among the prime suspects.

The TVM's title mentions the clue that focused the sleuth's attention.

"Uhh...Let's see now, the bride on my forehand and the groom on my backhand..."

(7,620) Early in the surveillance, a body turns up. A man who was many stories up is now at street level and very dead. Officials are considering suicide, but the P.I. , based on one fact, is thinking murder.

lavender, I'll try one that should go down quickly. Popular sitcom. Two support characters in a romance. She gives him a putup/shutup on their strung-out engagement. They decide to wed right then and there, in the company of the friends that are present. (Can you spot a no-new-set plot device when you see one? I thought you could.) The hastily-summoned minister who shows up (Guest Star} thought he was being called to someone's emergency, and he did not detour or delay. He's dressed and ready for a tennis match. What show? Who?

Cullen, Noah -- Sidney Poitier in *The Defiant Ones* (1958)

Good matchup of the plot point, Sixes, but note the title of this thread.