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Bruce Dern from Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte Barbara Feldon from Get Smart Annette O'Toole from Superman III Melanie Griffith (Mask of Zorro Antonio Banderas's wife) Maria O'Brien (Hunchback of Notre Dame Edmund O'Brien's daughter)

Well, obviously, we are talking about Smile.

Gad, I'm proud of that one.

And obviously the hit and skip clue is because she skipping away on the yellow brick road. Amazing how quick killing someone "skipped" her mind.

Congratulations! You got it. Obviously, the time ticking away part of the clue was a reference to a clock. The part about "you'll be in Baltimore" is the musical clue. The song is Chatanooga Choo Choo, and there are two lines: "You leave the Pennsylvania station 'bout a quarter to four, Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore." The clock of the title is in Pennsylvania Station.

You are going to want to give me such a beating when you figure it out (there are no clues in that statement, so don't worry about looking for one).

Not quite. You are on the right track (pun unintended). You're halfway there. And a song is tied into that extra clue. I'll give the hint that I am dying to: in the film where she was an adolescent murderess, she actually killed two people. The first one was a hit-and-skip.

Let me know if you need another hint.

And if you get that, you have to explain it.

I suppose that could apply, but not what I am thinking. Time's ticking and if you don't hurry you'll be in Baltimore.

1940s.

Ouch. I went with the meaning of tosspot being drunkard but yours is correct and witty. Okay... Adolescent murderess falls in love with homicidal maniac before he has to leave town.

Actually this sound like "Ice Cold Katie" from Thank Your Lucky Stars, sung by Hattie McDaniel.

Oh, I am slow today. "Ship of Fools". Oskar Werner in Fahrenheit 451, Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (though he got plastered in other films), and Vivien Leigh as the Red from the South, Scarlett O'Hara in GWTW.

Wow, path40a, I am flattered by your vote. Coming from the person who organized this means a lot! And I feel humbled when I read again through your e-mail what the others have accomplished in their listings. There are so many great ideas. Even if I don't win the competition (though I know none of us ever thought about a competition at the time we did it, because we were doing it for fun and no contest had even been mentioned), I feel it is a honor to have your vote. After this is finished, we MUST do another schedule. Thanks again!

The new schedule just came out for the Hollywood Bowl: In addition to AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals (Sept. 3/06), there will be nights for Bugs Bunny on Broadway (7/7); an all-star cast doing a staged reading of Sunset Blvd with the Hollywood Bowl orchestra playing the Waxman score (8/6); Walt Disney's Fantasia - The Great American Concert (8/18 and 8/19); John Williams and the Music of the Movies (9/1 and 9/2); and American Film Classics featuring selections from The Heiress, The Red Pony, On the Waterfront and others (9/12). As to film noir, the Egyptian and the Aero theaters are running the 8th Annual Festival of Film Noir: The Damned Don't Cry, Ruby Gentry, and Beyond the Forest (4/8/06); Angel's Flight, The Naked Street, and Don't Bother to Knock (4/9); The Long Haul of A.I.Bezzerides and Thieves Highway (4/12); Dark Arc (4/13); Nobody Lives Forever and The House on Telegraph Hill (4/14); Underworld USA, Nightfall, and No Man of Her Own (4/15) The Man Who Cheated Himself and Night Editor (4/16);

Are you calling Field of Dreams a "silly fantasy"? Alright, put 'em up.

Exactly. your go, and make it not too hard, it's Monday morning, lol.

Nope, but you are close. You have to include Professor Moriarty, and the Sherlock Holmes tries to take his niece in the film.

Nope.

Oops, Professor Moriarity's niece.

The Great Profile stops Sherlock Holmes from taking Professor Moriarity's daughter.

Re having to to like the Essentials... Excellent point. For example, 2001 A Space Odyssey is an essential film for people to see, but I don't care much for it. I end up falling asleep during it each time. "Essential" basically means, as I understand it, a film that is essential to seeing in order to have a rounded education in film history. I'm sure we can all think of films considered classics and essentials that we would recommend people see but we don't particulary think is great by our individual standards. Another example is The Red Shoes, I find it interesting for its stylized camera work and colors, and would recommend it to someone who has not seen it, but I doubt I would list it in my 100 favorite movies.

I can't agree with you there. Ben Manckiewicz is a daytme host, and it is the weekend. If I go to a film on the weekend, or pretty much anytime, I am casually dressed. Ben doesn't strike me as a button down, tie-wearing person. Robert Osborne sets the right kind of note for what he does and looks good doing it. But I certainly expect a host who is talking about cartoons or westerns to go casual.

Little Caesar?