flashback42 Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 The title of the source novel, winner of an Edgar Award, was a clue on Jeopardy! this evening. The response was to be the author's name. (The contestant missed it.) The plot uses a popular feature in that genre. -- The P.I.'s client double-crosses him. Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Mark Rydell in *The Long Goodbye* ( Elliot Gould as Philip Marlowe) Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Correct. Just over 180 Views. Director Robert Altman's take on a Raymond Chandler story. lavenderblue's thread. Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Thanks. Thread Open Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 "I live alone within myself, like a hut within the woods. I keep my heart high upon a shelf, barren of other goods. I need another's arms to reach for it and place it where it belongs. I need another's touch and smile to fill my hut with songs." ...quoted aloud by character in a mystery story... Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Published in a "get acquainted' magazine service, the poem is instrumental in helping bring down a serial killer. Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 The Homicide Squad are after a person -- presumably a woman -- who answers messages submitted by correspondents who work in poetry. The contacts wind up dead. Edited by: flashback42 on Mar 20, 2013 10:19 PM Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 The investigators come to the conclusion that the killer is not a woman, but a vengeful man who is following the movements of a certain woman. Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 "Sea of Love" Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 At just over 225 Views, correct. William Hickey was the elderly man who remembered the poem his wife had written decades before -- in high school. dpompper's thread. Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 OK, you 1930s film buffs . . . "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."^[[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years...100_Movie_Quotes#cite_note-17]^ Link to post Share on other sites
twinkeee Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Sounds like something Groucho Marx might have said.....I'm only guessing Twink Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Correct, Twinkeee, woo-hoo! Check out the master: Your thread, twink! Edited by: dpompper on Mar 24, 2013 2:47 PM Link to post Share on other sites
twinkeee Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Pass ( I was only guessing, have No Idea how I came up with Marx...beginners luck) Twink Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 "We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!" Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 > {quote:title=flashback42 wrote:}{quote}"We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!" Retiring the question, posing another. Homer, voiced by Dan Castellaneta in *The Simpsons Movie*. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next up; narration. "Paulie may have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody." Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 "Goodfellas" (1990), Ray Liotta narrating as Henry Hilll Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Correct. Your thread. Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 (Thanks, FB.) This quote is from someone who's referring to a movie theater serial. "He didn't get out of the cockadoodie car!" Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 First and fondest guess: Sounds like Seth McFarlaine voicing Stewie Griffin on the Family Guy series. More likely it's Kathy Bates in her Oscar-winning role in *Misery*. ?? Link to post Share on other sites
dpompper Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 <More likely it's Kathy Bates in her Oscar-winning role in *Misery>* *Correct!* *You're up, FB.* Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Thanks. Let's go for the Politically Incorrect Trophy this time. "I know about you! Your name's not Bell, it's Belini; you're a ****, like me! Stay away from my mother, you big ****!" Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Early 60s. Non-musical street-gang warfare. B&W. Prosecutor and a teen suspect. The speaker had a short career; the man addressed had a long career and a recent Oscar. Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 ROLE CALL "Ben Zachery" played the man addressed in the quote. "Petronella Van Daan" played the mother who was mentioned. Both of them are Oscar winners. -- For other productions. Link to post Share on other sites
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