flashback42
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Whiplash Willie -- sneering nickname applied by some to Willie Gingrich (Walter Matthau) in *The Fortune Cookie*
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"You've all been in a lineup. It's always four dummies and you. The PD pays homeless guys ten dollars a head, half the time. And this? No way they'd have five felons in one room. No way."
...Gabriel Byrne in *The Usual Suspects*
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Uh, okay. Who said wrote this?
"Never forget that taking a bow and ducking are essentially the same thing."
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(Lt. Cmdr) Uhura -- Nichelle Nichols in *Star Trek The Motion Picture* (1979)
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#6. The source novel has the trial and its headliners dividing their party so badly that they blow their chance to take over the State House. The incumbant Governor, an earnest plodder with more good standards than crowd appeal, gets another term to advance and improve some good work already started. This version of the story does not end that way.
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NOW THREAD OPEN
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cujas, this one is intriguing, but it has me stumped. I think you've planted a clue pointing toward *The Name of the Game*, but I spent those years in an environment where the TV was in the Common Room, and the sports fans usually carried the vote. For the same reason, I saw very little of *Slattery's People*. Someone else is going to have to solve this one.
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The movie was remade under a different title. Those named are not the leads. Another support role was played by Tom Noonan.
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Okay, this one has lamed out at about 30 views (but, to be fair, the last question here had extra baggage beyond the matchup of film, song title and performer).
1991's *Switch*, a remake of *Goodbye Charlie*, featured a womanizer shot to death by one of his conquests, learning his lesson by being reincarnated as a woman. Result: Ellen Barkin walking around with Perry King's co-ordination: fumbling with lingerie, falling off of high heels, being hit on by men like he had been in his previous life, etc. Lessons learned, resolutions; again in the afterlife the combined creature ponders the question of whether to enter Eternity as male or female. Paul Young and Clannad perform a duet of Both Sides Now while it/they try to reach a decision.
mudskipper's thread; he spotted the song
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Correct, skipper. It doesn't surprise me that this excellent number was used more than once. Can you comment on its use in the closing of a 1991 film? It is a good touch that it is performed as a duet on that occasion.
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Sneezy -- voiced by Billy Gilbert (uncredited) in *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1937)
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#5. The Defense Attorney -- U.S Senator, returned to his home state and, like the Prosecutor, planning to run for Governor of the State. The actor in this role -- Not a series star, but a respected long established name in the industry.
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Couple of good passages from a good script:
"Arnie, you know my feelings about arming morons. Arm one, you got to arm them all. Otherwise it wouldn't be good sport."
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"You know what **** Mom off? She thinks you've had fun."
"(pause) Tell her not to worry."
From *Nobody's Fool* (1994)
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Thanks, cujas. The bare facts I gave on that post was just about everything I could find on the subject. Based on a biopic I watched some time last year, I wonder about the nature of that friendship.
Next up: This song was an easy listnin' standard for a couple of decades before it was used on the film I have in mind. A middle verse:
♫ Moons and Junes and Ferris Wheels,
The laughing, dancing way it feels, ♪
When every fairy tale comes real,
I've looked at love that way---♪
But now it's just another show,
You leave them laughing when you go, ♫
And if you care don't let them know,
Don't give yourself away...♪
♫ I've looked at love from both sides now,
From give and take, and still somehow,
It's love's illusions I recall --
I really don't know love,
At all...♫
Name of the movie that used this song with the closing credits? With this song, that is uaually recorded as a solo, what artistic point was made by having it performed as a duet in this instance? And who were the singers, by the way?
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Thanks, lavender. Next up:
Opening scene. Characters walking across a Studio lot are discussing, with admiration, the long tracking shot at the opening of a famous movie. This conversation takes place in a long tracking shot.
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Thank you, Sixes. Next up:
Brian Cox
Stephen Lang
Joan Allen
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Newman, George -- "Wierd Al" Yankovic in *UHF* (1989)
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#4. The trial Judge -- Also a current (as of filming) series star. "Judge" was a P.I. on littlescreen, The "proceture" had worked on a series with a Western setting.
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Uh, lemesee, lemesee... There's a title character. "Delores" on the birth certificate,.."Dolly" to her friends,.."Lo" when she decided to be sophisticated... *Lolita* *?* And her mother died in the vehicle -- pedestrian accident.
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Without looking anything up...*The Front*
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*I Am Curious (Blue)* :_|
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*I Am Curious (Yellow)*
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Julio -- Erik Estrada in *Airport 1975* (1974)
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I forgot this was the thread with the numbers. Call this clue #3.
The trial prosecutor. Ambitious, smart, up from the slums, a fighter and an attractive candidate for rising higher. Also a current TV series star for the Studio producing the picture
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♫ And those three that I miss most --
The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost, ♪
Why, they took the last train for the Coast,
The day the MUsic diiiiied! ♫