flashback42
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*Yo, Stick,*
Want to referee here? It's possible both of these are right.
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Jenkins, Carl -- Neil Patrick Harris in *Starship Troopers* (1997)
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Even the hallway bullies at school had supernatural connotations.
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Thankee, thankee. Next:
Michael Landon
Buddy Hackett
Aldo Ray
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Boris -- "You're a dictator, and a tyrant and you start wars!"
Napleon -- "Why is he reciting my credits?"
...Woody Allen, etc in *Love And Death*
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*Til The Clouds Roll By* (1946)
???
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Late 1980s. 2-part miniseries. Horror. Attempts to touch all bases on what could threaten and terrify children.
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Juzo Atimi? As in *Tampopo, A Taxing Woman, The Funeral,* etc.
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Nick Charles to Nora Charles or vice or versa?
Edited by: flashback42 on Jan 13, 2012 10:22 PM
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Coogan -- Clint Eastwood in *Coogan's Bluff*
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Whew!! Lost my Views count notes, but it's been five days. I was about to resort to: "Georgie Cohan said it Tom Joad."
Sixes' thread.
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think I saw it recently. looking nothing up:
*Washington Square* ?? Jennifer Jason to Albert?
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*139*
"Damnit, nobody knows where EugeniaH got off to. And next thing you know, all these photos will be gone, replaced by those obnoxious little red Xs."
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Correct, Anraxa. Your thread. Note that it isn't necessary to use only Lead Caharacter names.
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...and I think you'll find that Chill Wills was the man who cut his own throat.
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Mid-1960s. When distinguished visitors came to my campus as a part of the "Cultural Affairs" program, I was one of 4 or 5 students who got tapped to play host to them in the auditorium and handle their needs there. We set up for them what they requested in terms of lighting, props, etc. This was unpaid work, but we were glad to do it because it helped us control the stage inventory. -- The lights, wires, mikes, amps etc. The Drama Club were possessive about such things. Quite often the only thing you had to do was turn down the house lights, turn up the lights on stage, open the curtain and let the visitor take over. Reverse these actions when the performance ended.
I was on duty when Baroness Maria Von Trapp visited to give a speech that was essentially a review of her life story. I was able to help her on one point: She had read a biography of the founder of the college, but she could not remember the title. I knew of the book, but hadn't read it; I told her the title, and she was able to mention it by name when she began to address the audience.
I did the duties also for Newsman Sander Vanocur on his visit. John Carridine, whom I would have loved to talk with a little, arrived late, did his poetry and cultural readings, and had to leave immediately. Sort of ricocheted off us.
Others did similar duties for Hans Conried, Victor Buono, Henry Morgan (not Col. Potter; the one who didn't change his name to Harry), and others whose names escape my memory now.
For me the big giggle was the visit by Tom Ewell. I had last seen him as the tragic, blocked music composer who died in a bar brawl in *Tender Is the Night*. We were conversing backstage when a campus official who was usually audience only at these programs joined us. He introduced himself and welcomed Mr. Ewell, and then got around to what he was there for: "I know you've been asked before, but what was it like working with Marilyn Monroe?" The Dean and I got a few minutes of rapture about "what you saw on the screen was what was there, lovely person," etc. I had never seen (as of that time) *The Seven Year Itch*, but that name brought up a question I wanted to ask. At the first lull, I asked "Did you ever meet Mr.Miller?" (I didn't mention that I had portrayed Biff Loman of *Death of a Salesman* the previous semester.) Ewell shrugged. "Yeah. You wouldn't like him." His series of readings from Twain, Poe, Hawthorne, etc, went well.
My Halle Berry story is more complicated and, of course, more recent. I may get around to it some time.
Edited by: flashback42 on Jan 11, 2012 6:12 PM
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I've lost my note on a Views count, but the character speaking had other problems besides 'college guys'. Lemesee, lemesee... He had an upset tummy and he threw up into his brand-new hat. And he did some loud talking in the presence of a microphone that he forgot was turned on.
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Thanks, metz. One thing about this kind of cluing up is that someone may blunder into a list that has more than one right answer. (How many titles could one match up with George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evens and Roy Rogers?) Anyway, something a little more contemporary:
Wallace Shawn
Ann Reinking
Richard Mulligan
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Awwwww! I thought I was being very subtle about that. Answered at 70 Views. I think it was Dean Martin's variety show where I heard Mr. Berle do this routine. I believe that in the same set, he used the old one about addressing a member of the audience: "Excuse me, sir, are you in show business? Then get your arm off the stage."
BTW, during this research I ran across an old Jessel line from the WWII years: "My draft status is 8-T. That means I go when the Japs are in the lobby."
metz44's thread.
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Considering my last response, I'm forced to admit that I'm not sure of the original source of the quip. The guy I heard tell the joke had a history of stealing jokes. Other comics made jokes about this guy stealing jokes. This guy made jokes about this guy stealing jokes.
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Down in about 90 minutes, lavender. Your thread.
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metz;
I found those performers' names together in a movie as old as I am -- 1942's *The Undying Monster*. Never saw it. The brief synopsis makes it seem like a Welsh version of *The Hound of the Baskerfields*. Is that the one you had in mind?
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Ivanova, Pola -- Fiona Fullerton in *A View to a Kill* (1985)
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Thank you, Sixes. This "role call" set up has its moments. Let me try another: Three character names from different films identifying actors united in one film.
"Homer Smith"
"Johnny Gannon"
"Luke Sanderson"
[b]Who said this? No, really, who said this?[/b]
in Games and Trivia
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This not a challenge thread. It's for comments where the poster is not sure of the source, and is asking for that info. I have two of them at the moment:
*1.* Read recently, jotted it down, did not write down the name of the speaker. Who said this?
"When you get to my age you get a lot of "Lifetime Achievement Awards". I'm getting about two every week. There ought to be a Survivor Award. I nominate myself."
*2.* Read a few years ago, do not remember the name of the writer. Brought to mind by a recent obit:
"Any nation that thinks Andy Rooney is a curmudgeon can not really handle a lot of stress."
Any info on the sources of these quotes