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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#26 Post by mrkelley23 » Tue Oct 17, 2017 10:39 am

frogman042 wrote:
Pastor Fireball wrote: A-24. Robert Altman directed both the stage and screen versions of this film, the title of which references an actor you will find in List B.

COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN
I would have bet dollars to donuts that that was directed by Mike Nichols - but I would have lost...
Yet another old phrase that has kind of lost its original meaning, hasn't it?
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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#27 Post by franktangredi » Tue Oct 17, 2017 10:50 am

mrkelley23 wrote:
frogman042 wrote:
Pastor Fireball wrote: A-24. Robert Altman directed both the stage and screen versions of this film, the title of which references an actor you will find in List B.

COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN
I would have bet dollars to donuts that that was directed by Mike Nichols - but I would have lost...
Yet another old phrase that has kind of lost its original meaning, hasn't it?
Which one? Five and dime or Dollars to donuts? Inflation has kind of knocked the starch out of both of them.

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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#28 Post by Pastor Fireball » Thu Oct 19, 2017 7:24 am

I've been lost with the states out of play, but I've been trying to work on the clues in the meantime. I can clear out one wrong answer from the consolidation.
He was the only cast member of the film referenced in the previous clue to appear
in its prequel ten years later.
STROTHER MARTIN? RICHARD KIEL?
Neither of these is correct. It was actually JEFF COREY.
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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#29 Post by Pastor Fireball » Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:58 am

Going through a few more additions and corrections...

A-19. “Some people were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people dance.”

Another familiar one that I should have gotten earlier... THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

A-23. “The guy was killed in an auto accident! I looked it up! He was driving in the Yukon, in a pink convertible, to visit his brother who's an ex-con named Frances, when a tractor trailer comes along and decapitates him. You know what that mean, it means he doesn't have a head. How am I supposed to write for a guy who doesn't have a head? He's got no lips, no vocal cords. What do you want me to do?”

SOAPDISH

A-39. “Well you know, honey, many unplanned pregnancies happen because the man is such a sexual dynamo, and the woman craves his sperm on an unconscious but very powerful level.”
“Mm-hmm. Mom, I'm truly not comfortable having this conversation with you.”

MEET THE FOCKERS

B-17. MISOGYNY AT THE MOVIES, PART THREE:
“Women. Nice ones, the most frigid of the race, it doesn't matter in the end. Inside they're all the same meat and gristle and hatred just simmering.”

AARON ECKHART in In the Company of Men

B-53. “You are privy to a great becoming, but you recognize nothing. To me, you are a slug in the sun. You are an ant in the afterbirth. It is your nature to do one thing correctly. Before me, you rightly tremble. But, fear is not what you owe me. You owe me awe!”

RALPH FIENNES in Red Dragon

B-61. “I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the post. That's for sure. I'm in the junkie limbo at the moment. Too ill to sleep. Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea. Pain and craving. A need like nothing else I've ever known will soon take hold of me. It's on its way.”

EWAN MacGREGOR in Trainspotting

B-64. Both of his Oscar nominations for Best Actor have been for films which he directed.
WARREN BEATTY?

This has to be one of the wrong ones because Beatty has been nominated four times for Best Actor. The clue is looking for somebody who has been nominated only twice. CLINT EASTWOOD fits.

B-83. “When your mother left, you cried so hard you were throwin' up. All over the parlor. So I told you if you looked around you might find her. It was to, eh, give you an activity. I didn't think you'd carry it like a f**kin' disease.”

CHRIS COOPER in The Town

B-86. She was married 15 years to a major Hollywood star and 39 years to a major Czechoslovakian-born British director.

Gene Kelly's ex-wife, BETSY BLAIR.
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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#30 Post by mellytu74 » Thu Oct 19, 2017 12:04 pm

A-21. A CATERED AFFAIR.

One of the stars of A Catered Affair was Ernest Borgnine. He was the STAR of MARTY, with B-86. BETSY BLAIR.

Borgnine was married to B-72. KATY JURADO

There has t a tie-in with something someplace.

But, I am on a conference call and cannot play with this until after work. :(

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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#31 Post by franktangredi » Sun Oct 22, 2017 7:06 am

I'm sorry this has proven so much more difficult than I expected. So let me just say that Melly started on the right track. Not everything she said in her last post is relevant ... but the big thing is very relevant.

One of the last actor/movie links that the Pastor suggested is also relevant.

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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#32 Post by Pastor Fireball » Mon Oct 23, 2017 5:01 am

How about a brand new consolidation to start this new work week?


Game #172: Star Power

Identify the 50 movies in List A and the 90 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a
quotation.) Then, form 50 groups – 43 consisting of a movie plus three actors and 7
consisting of a movie plus four actors – according to a Tangredi, or principle you must
discover for yourself.

18 actors will be used twice. 17 actors will be used three times. 3 actors will be used
four times. One actor will be used seven times.

I like to think that there will be no alternate correct matches. (I’m probably wrong.)

I also think this one's fairly easy to get. (I’m probably wrong.)

And my apologies to everyone: I just could not work IAMMMMW into this game.

LIST A: MOVIES

A-1. SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
A-2. THE ELEPHANT MAN
A-3. BEAU GESTE
A-4. EXODUS
A-5. AMERICAN GANGSTER
A-6. EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU
A-7. MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT
A-8. MISS FIRECRACKER
A-9. POLYANNA
A-10. THE TENANT
A-11. CHARADE

A-12. Bosley Crowther wrote in the New York Times that this film was “so strongly
dedicated to the purpose of the American anti-Communist purge that it seethes with the
sort of emotionalism and illogic that is characteristic of so much thinking these days.”
On the other hand, Senator Karl Mundt of South Dakota entered a statement into the
Congressional Record praising it as “undoubtedly the greatest and most stirring
pro-American motion picture of the last decade.”
You just can’t please everybody!
HIGH NOON? MY SON JOHN?

A-13. THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
A-14. CATCH-22
A-15. SE7EN
A-16. COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG
A-17. ADAM'S RIB
A-18. CARNAGE
A-19. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
A-20. FOREVER AMBER
A-21. A CATERED AFFAIR
A-22. SIDEWALKS OF LONDON
A-23. SOAPDISH
A-24. COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN
A-25. THE OX-BOW INCIDENT
A-26. LONE STAR
A-27. MURDER BY DEATH
A-28. OF HUMAN HEARTS
A-29. MAGNOLIA
A-30. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
A-31. DINNER AT EIGHT
A-32. OKLAHOMA
A-33. LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS
A-34. OCEAN'S THIRTEEN
A-35. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
A-36. THE JUNGLE BOOK
A-37. OUR TOWN
A-38. CLOUD ATLAS
A-39. MEET THE FOCKERS
A-40. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
A-41. HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE

A-42. This 1952 film noir about a crusading newspaperman was partly inspired by the
closing of the New York Sun.
DEADLINE USA? CALL NORTHSIDE 777?

A-43. THE WOMEN
A-44. GONE IN 60 SECONDS (original)
A-45. MIDNIGHT

A-46. This film does not include the scene from the original novel in which the
protagonist stabs a five year-old boy to death at the zoo. (I guess they afraid of
making him too unsympathetic.)

A-47. THE BIRDCAGE

A-48. A member of sitting royalty received a platinum record as a result of this movie.

A-49. THE PROFESSIONALS
A-50. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

LIST B: ACTORS

B-1. CARY GRANT
B-2. JUDI DENCH
B-3. TOM CRUISE

B-4. Reviewing the seminal film that made an international star of this actor, Bosley
Crowther – whom we last heard from back in Clue A-12 – described him as “the most
effective cigarette-mouther and thumb-to-lip-rubber since time began.”
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO

B-5. TYRONE POWER

B-6. To the relief of mystery fans everywhere, plans to cast this actress as a young
version of a beloved fictional sleuth apparently perished in the bowels of Development
Hell.
JENNIFER GARNER?

B-7. GREGORY PECK

B-8. Real-life roles played by this English actress included a 19th century French
novelist and a 19th century French empress.
MERLE OBERON?

B-9. THELMA RITTER
B-10. CLAIRE BLOOM
B-11. PETER GRAVES
B-12. JOHN IRELAND
B-13. JANE FONDA
B-14. PATRICK SWAYZE
B-15. SCOTT GLENN
B-16. SEAN PENN
B-17. AARON ECKHART

B-18. This Swedish actor has made six films (so far) for Denmark’s most important
living director.

B-19. MICHELLE WILLIAMS
B-20. LEE GRANT
B-21. WILFORD BRIMLEY
B-22. WALLACE FORD
B-23. ROBERT DE NIRO
B-24. WALLACE BEERY
B-25. GEORGE CLOONEY
B-26. GENE LOCKHART
B-27. HUMPHREY BOGART

B-28. This actress probably could have penned the best-selling tell-all book ever if she
had not steadfastly refused to discuss her fourteen-year marriage to a very famous man.

B-29. KATHLEEN TURNER
B-30. VIVIEN LEIGH
B-31. ELIZABETH TAYLOR
B-32. ROBERT TAYLOR
B-33. JACK LEMMON
B-34. BROCK PETERS
B-35. BILLY BOB THORNTON
B-36. VICTOR JORY
B-37. SIMON OAKLAND
B-38. WILFRID HYDE-WHITE
B-39. WILLIAM HOLDEN
B-40. GREG KINNEAR
B-41. WINONA RYDER

B-42. He is the most prominent of the three actors who have played both the 35th
President of the United States and his Attorney General.
MARTIN SHEEN? WILLIAM DEVANE?

B-43. ALEC BALDWIN
B-44. MARK WAHLBERG
B-45. BRUNO KIRBY

B-46. This actress showed up in my last movie game by way of the film version of a
popular television sitcom.

B-47. WOODY ALLEN

B-48. He was undoubtedly the best known movie star ever to attend Oxford on an organ
scholarship. (He was also adept at the harpsichord and piano.)
DUDLEY MOORE

B-49. STEVE BUSCEMI
B-50. RICHARD FARNSWORTH
B-51. PAUL NEWMAN
B-52. JEFF COREY
B-53. RALPH FIENNES

B-54. Known chiefly as a strong-jawed leading man, he had his best – and most
uncharacteristic – role as a serial killer who targets disabled women.
TONY CURTIS?

B-55. HARVEY KEITEL
B-56. JACKIE COOPER
B-57. LEW AYRES
B-58. CATHY O'DONNELL
B-59. JULIAN SANDS
B-60. JEAN ARTHUR
B-61. EWAN MacGREGOR
B-62. CHRIS O'DONNELL
B-63. WALTER PIDGEON
B-64. CLINT EASTWOOD
B-65. JOHN CLEESE

B-66. Don Adams said that Maxwell Smart’s distinctive voice was an exaggerated version of
his impression of this suave actor.
CARY GRANT? WILLIAM POWELL?

B-67. NICK NOLTE
B-68. JACQUELINE BISSET
B-69. ROBERT MORLEY

B-70. His film career included adaptations of novels by Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence,
Bernard Malamud, L.P. Hartley, and Rebecca West.
ALAN BATES?

B-71. DAN AYKROYD
B-72. KATY JURADO
B-73. NICOLAS CAGE

B-74. In 2010, he apologized to a talk show host. We all know why.
HUGH GRANT?

B-75. “Inside me, I'm screaming and yelling and howling like a trapped animal and nobody
pays any attention. If I had arms, I could kill myself. If I had legs, I could run away.
If I had a voice, I could talk and be some kind of company for myself. I could yell for
help, but nobody would help me.”
TIMOTHY BOTTOMS? BEN McKENZIE?

B-76. NAOMIE HARRIS
B-77. JOHN CARRADINE
B-78. RON LEIBMAN
B-79. DEBORAH KERR
B-80. JASON ROBARDS

B-81. “Tomorrow, mankind will know mutants exist. Shaw, us, they won't differentiate.
They'll fear us. And that fear will turn to hatred.”
MICHAEL FASSBENDER

B-82. CONRAD NAGLE
B-83. CHRIS COOPER

B-84. In a 1991 miniseries based on a Dickens novel, she played the guardian of the
young girl she had played on the big screen 45 years earlier.

B-85. LEE J. COBB
B-86. BETSY BLAIR
B-87. INGRID BERGMAN

B-88. In two 1950s remakes, she played roles that had previously been played by Irene
Dunne. For one of the films, she got an Oscar nomination, which Dunne had not. For the
other film, she did not get an Oscar nomination, which Dunne had. Got that?
JANE WYMAN?

B-89. CLARK GABLE
B-90. JAMES DEAN
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"In times of crisis, the wise build bridges. The foolish build barriers." --Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)

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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#33 Post by Estonut » Mon Oct 23, 2017 7:02 am

A-46. This film does not include the scene from the original novel in which the
protagonist stabs a five year-old boy to death at the zoo. (I guess they afraid of
making him too unsympathetic.)
I think this might be "American Psycho"

B-28. This actress probably could have penned the best-selling tell-all book ever if she
had not steadfastly refused to discuss her fourteen-year marriage to a very famous man.
Priscilla Presley?

B-66. Don Adams said that Maxwell Smart’s distinctive voice was an exaggerated version of
his impression of this suave actor.
CARY GRANT? WILLIAM POWELL? - This was "The Thin Man."

B-74. In 2010, he apologized to a talk show host. We all know why.
HUGH GRANT? - NO, Hugh Grant appeared on the Tonight Show early in Jay's tenure (1993 to 1997, or so)
Tiger Woods (sort of) apologized in a press conference. Did he appear on a talk show, too?
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#34 Post by franktangredi » Mon Oct 23, 2017 7:21 am

All of the definites on both lists are correct. (Don't let it be forgotten in the shuffle that one of the definite movies was specifically a remake.

All questions on both lists that have two alternate answers include the correct answer. (In one case, the wrong alternate already appears elsewhere on the list)

Of the actors with question marks, four are right and two are wrong. One of the two wrong ones has since been identified as such.
Pastor Fireball wrote:How about a brand new consolidation to start this new work week?


Game #172: Star Power

Identify the 50 movies in List A and the 90 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a
quotation.) Then, form 50 groups – 43 consisting of a movie plus three actors and 7
consisting of a movie plus four actors – according to a Tangredi, or principle you must
discover for yourself.

18 actors will be used twice. 17 actors will be used three times. 3 actors will be used
four times. One actor will be used seven times.

I like to think that there will be no alternate correct matches. (I’m probably wrong.)

I also think this one's fairly easy to get. (I’m probably wrong.)

And my apologies to everyone: I just could not work IAMMMMW into this game.

LIST A: MOVIES

A-1. SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
A-2. THE ELEPHANT MAN
A-3. BEAU GESTE
A-4. EXODUS
A-5. AMERICAN GANGSTER
A-6. EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU
A-7. MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT
A-8. MISS FIRECRACKER
A-9. POLYANNA
A-10. THE TENANT
A-11. CHARADE

A-12. Bosley Crowther wrote in the New York Times that this film was “so strongly
dedicated to the purpose of the American anti-Communist purge that it seethes with the
sort of emotionalism and illogic that is characteristic of so much thinking these days.”
On the other hand, Senator Karl Mundt of South Dakota entered a statement into the
Congressional Record praising it as “undoubtedly the greatest and most stirring
pro-American motion picture of the last decade.”
You just can’t please everybody!
HIGH NOON? MY SON JOHN?

A-13. THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
A-14. CATCH-22
A-15. SE7EN
A-16. COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG
A-17. ADAM'S RIB
A-18. CARNAGE
A-19. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
A-20. FOREVER AMBER
A-21. A CATERED AFFAIR
A-22. SIDEWALKS OF LONDON
A-23. SOAPDISH
A-24. COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN
A-25. THE OX-BOW INCIDENT
A-26. LONE STAR
A-27. MURDER BY DEATH
A-28. OF HUMAN HEARTS
A-29. MAGNOLIA
A-30. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
A-31. DINNER AT EIGHT
A-32. OKLAHOMA
A-33. LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS
A-34. OCEAN'S THIRTEEN
A-35. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
A-36. THE JUNGLE BOOK
A-37. OUR TOWN
A-38. CLOUD ATLAS
A-39. MEET THE FOCKERS
A-40. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
A-41. HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE

A-42. This 1952 film noir about a crusading newspaperman was partly inspired by the
closing of the New York Sun.
DEADLINE USA? CALL NORTHSIDE 777?

A-43. THE WOMEN
A-44. GONE IN 60 SECONDS (original)
A-45. MIDNIGHT

A-46. This film does not include the scene from the original novel in which the
protagonist stabs a five year-old boy to death at the zoo. (I guess they afraid of
making him too unsympathetic.)

A-47. THE BIRDCAGE

A-48. A member of sitting royalty received a platinum record as a result of this movie.

A-49. THE PROFESSIONALS
A-50. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

LIST B: ACTORS

B-1. CARY GRANT
B-2. JUDI DENCH
B-3. TOM CRUISE

B-4. Reviewing the seminal film that made an international star of this actor, Bosley
Crowther – whom we last heard from back in Clue A-12 – described him as “the most
effective cigarette-mouther and thumb-to-lip-rubber since time began.”
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO

B-5. TYRONE POWER

B-6. To the relief of mystery fans everywhere, plans to cast this actress as a young
version of a beloved fictional sleuth apparently perished in the bowels of Development
Hell.
JENNIFER GARNER?

B-7. GREGORY PECK

B-8. Real-life roles played by this English actress included a 19th century French
novelist and a 19th century French empress.
MERLE OBERON?

B-9. THELMA RITTER
B-10. CLAIRE BLOOM
B-11. PETER GRAVES
B-12. JOHN IRELAND
B-13. JANE FONDA
B-14. PATRICK SWAYZE
B-15. SCOTT GLENN
B-16. SEAN PENN
B-17. AARON ECKHART

B-18. This Swedish actor has made six films (so far) for Denmark’s most important
living director.

B-19. MICHELLE WILLIAMS
B-20. LEE GRANT
B-21. WILFORD BRIMLEY
B-22. WALLACE FORD
B-23. ROBERT DE NIRO
B-24. WALLACE BEERY
B-25. GEORGE CLOONEY
B-26. GENE LOCKHART
B-27. HUMPHREY BOGART

B-28. This actress probably could have penned the best-selling tell-all book ever if she
had not steadfastly refused to discuss her fourteen-year marriage to a very famous man.

B-29. KATHLEEN TURNER
B-30. VIVIEN LEIGH
B-31. ELIZABETH TAYLOR
B-32. ROBERT TAYLOR
B-33. JACK LEMMON
B-34. BROCK PETERS
B-35. BILLY BOB THORNTON
B-36. VICTOR JORY
B-37. SIMON OAKLAND
B-38. WILFRID HYDE-WHITE
B-39. WILLIAM HOLDEN
B-40. GREG KINNEAR
B-41. WINONA RYDER

B-42. He is the most prominent of the three actors who have played both the 35th
President of the United States and his Attorney General.
MARTIN SHEEN? WILLIAM DEVANE?

B-43. ALEC BALDWIN
B-44. MARK WAHLBERG
B-45. BRUNO KIRBY

B-46. This actress showed up in my last movie game by way of the film version of a
popular television sitcom.

B-47. WOODY ALLEN

B-48. He was undoubtedly the best known movie star ever to attend Oxford on an organ
scholarship. (He was also adept at the harpsichord and piano.)
DUDLEY MOORE

B-49. STEVE BUSCEMI
B-50. RICHARD FARNSWORTH
B-51. PAUL NEWMAN
B-52. JEFF COREY
B-53. RALPH FIENNES

B-54. Known chiefly as a strong-jawed leading man, he had his best – and most
uncharacteristic – role as a serial killer who targets disabled women.
TONY CURTIS?

B-55. HARVEY KEITEL
B-56. JACKIE COOPER
B-57. LEW AYRES
B-58. CATHY O'DONNELL
B-59. JULIAN SANDS
B-60. JEAN ARTHUR
B-61. EWAN MacGREGOR
B-62. CHRIS O'DONNELL
B-63. WALTER PIDGEON
B-64. CLINT EASTWOOD
B-65. JOHN CLEESE

B-66. Don Adams said that Maxwell Smart’s distinctive voice was an exaggerated version of
his impression of this suave actor.
CARY GRANT? WILLIAM POWELL?

B-67. NICK NOLTE
B-68. JACQUELINE BISSET
B-69. ROBERT MORLEY

B-70. His film career included adaptations of novels by Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence,
Bernard Malamud, L.P. Hartley, and Rebecca West.
ALAN BATES?

B-71. DAN AYKROYD
B-72. KATY JURADO
B-73. NICOLAS CAGE

B-74. In 2010, he apologized to a talk show host. We all know why.
HUGH GRANT?

B-75. “Inside me, I'm screaming and yelling and howling like a trapped animal and nobody
pays any attention. If I had arms, I could kill myself. If I had legs, I could run away.
If I had a voice, I could talk and be some kind of company for myself. I could yell for
help, but nobody would help me.”
TIMOTHY BOTTOMS? BEN McKENZIE?

B-76. NAOMIE HARRIS
B-77. JOHN CARRADINE
B-78. RON LEIBMAN
B-79. DEBORAH KERR
B-80. JASON ROBARDS

B-81. “Tomorrow, mankind will know mutants exist. Shaw, us, they won't differentiate.
They'll fear us. And that fear will turn to hatred.”
MICHAEL FASSBENDER

B-82. CONRAD NAGLE
B-83. CHRIS COOPER

B-84. In a 1991 miniseries based on a Dickens novel, she played the guardian of the
young girl she had played on the big screen 45 years earlier.

B-85. LEE J. COBB
B-86. BETSY BLAIR
B-87. INGRID BERGMAN

B-88. In two 1950s remakes, she played roles that had previously been played by Irene
Dunne. For one of the films, she got an Oscar nomination, which Dunne had not. For the
other film, she did not get an Oscar nomination, which Dunne had. Got that?
JANE WYMAN?

B-89. CLARK GABLE
B-90. JAMES DEAN

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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#35 Post by mrkelley23 » Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:06 pm

franktangredi wrote:
Of the actors with question marks, four are right and two are wrong. One of the two wrong ones has since been identified as such.
Pastor Fireball wrote:How about a brand new consolidation to start this new work week?



B-54. Known chiefly as a strong-jawed leading man, he had his best – and most
uncharacteristic – role as a serial killer who targets disabled women.
TONY CURTIS?

I think this is wrong. A serial killer targeting disabled women sounds like the plot of The Spiral Staircase. I'm familiar with a version from the 70s, but it was a remake, and I can't remember the bad guy's actor's name.
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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#36 Post by mellytu74 » Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:25 pm

mrkelley23 wrote:
franktangredi wrote:
Of the actors with question marks, four are right and two are wrong. One of the two wrong ones has since been identified as such.
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B-54. Known chiefly as a strong-jawed leading man, he had his best – and most
uncharacteristic – role as a serial killer who targets disabled women.
TONY CURTIS?

I think this is wrong. A serial killer targeting disabled women sounds like the plot of The Spiral Staircase. I'm familiar with a version from the 70s, but it was a remake, and I can't remember the bad guy's actor's name.
I am pretty sure it's GEORGE BRENT

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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#37 Post by Bob78164 » Mon Oct 23, 2017 5:29 pm

I'm wondering whether A-46 is A Clockwork Orange. I've never read the book so I'm not sure. --Bob
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#38 Post by Pastor Fireball » Tue Oct 24, 2017 7:32 am

franktangredi wrote:All questions on both lists that have two alternate answers include the correct answer. (In one case, the wrong alternate already appears elsewhere on the list)
MY SON JOHN is correct at A-12.
DEADLINE -- U.S.A. is correct at A-42.
WILLIAM POWELL has already been cleared up at B-66.
TIMOTHY BOTTOMS is correct at B-75.

That leaves us with the Sheen/Devane question at B-42. We may not establish that one until the Tangredi is established.
franktangredi wrote:Of the actors with question marks, four are right and two are wrong. One of the two wrong ones has since been identified as such.
If Melly is correct on George Brent--and I have no reason to think that she is not when it comes to older movies--then that leaves us with one final wrong answer. Upon searching, I believe that the answer to B-74 will be JOAQUIN PHOENIX for his bizarre 2009 appearance on David Letterman.

With those two wrong answers cleared out, Garner, Oberon, Bates, and Wyman should all be correct answers.
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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#39 Post by franktangredi » Tue Oct 24, 2017 7:36 am

And that is all correct. As for the Sheen/Devane question, you can clear it up very quickly because one of the two is wrong.
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franktangredi wrote:All questions on both lists that have two alternate answers include the correct answer. (In one case, the wrong alternate already appears elsewhere on the list)
MY SON JOHN is correct at A-12.
DEADLINE -- U.S.A. is correct at A-42.
WILLIAM POWELL has already been cleared up at B-66.
TIMOTHY BOTTOMS is correct at B-75.

That leaves us with the Sheen/Devane question at B-42. We may not establish that one until the Tangredi is established.
franktangredi wrote:Of the actors with question marks, four are right and two are wrong. One of the two wrong ones has since been identified as such.
If Melly is correct on George Brent--and I have no reason to think that she is not when it comes to older movies--then that leaves us with one final wrong answer. Upon searching, I believe that the answer to B-74 will be JOAQUIN PHOENIX for his bizarre 2009 appearance on David Letterman.

With those two wrong answers cleared out, Garner, Oberon, Bates, and Wyman should all be correct answers.

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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#40 Post by Pastor Fireball » Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:05 am

Still a couple of untouched clues to clear out:

A-48. A member of sitting royalty received a platinum record as a result of this movie.

This has to be MAMMA MIA because Anni-Frid of ABBA, as I mentioned on the Bored earlier this year, is still a member of the Reuss royal family of Switzerland.

B-18. This Swedish actor has made six films (so far) for Denmark’s most important living director.

It did take a while for me to find this one. The director is Lars von Trier and the actor is STELLAN SKARSGARD. They're not exactly household names, but they've been involved in some fairly notable movies. Skarsgard starred in von Trier's Breaking the Waves, which was Emily Watson's breakout film. Skarsgard has also been in a bunch of those superhero movies recently.

B-84. In a 1991 miniseries based on a Dickens novel, she played the guardian of the young girl she had played on the big screen 45 years earlier.

The two versions of Great Expectations starred JEAN SIMMONS.
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#41 Post by Pastor Fireball » Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:17 am

Hey, wait a minute! Another light just went off in my head!

Stellan Skarsgard played a sailor in Mamma Mia!

People in the military usually wear... STARS!

I don't know if this works for all of the List A films, but it's another theory to test while we're this late in the game.
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#42 Post by franktangredi » Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:36 am

One of these is wrong - or, at least, not what I had in mind. I thought the person reference in the clue would be the first person to leap to mind. By far.
Pastor Fireball wrote:Still a couple of untouched clues to clear out:

A-48. A member of sitting royalty received a platinum record as a result of this movie.

This has to be MAMMA MIA because Anni-Frid of ABBA, as I mentioned on the Bored earlier this year, is still a member of the Reuss royal family of Switzerland.

B-18. This Swedish actor has made six films (so far) for Denmark’s most important living director.

It did take a while for me to find this one. The director is Lars von Trier and the actor is STELLAN SKARSGARD. They're not exactly household names, but they've been involved in some fairly notable movies. Skarsgard starred in von Trier's Breaking the Waves, which was Emily Watson's breakout film. Skarsgard has also been in a bunch of those superhero movies recently.

B-84. In a 1991 miniseries based on a Dickens novel, she played the guardian of the young girl she had played on the big screen 45 years earlier.

The two versions of Great Expectations starred JEAN SIMMONS.

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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#43 Post by mrkelley23 » Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:41 am

franktangredi wrote:One of these is wrong - or, at least, not what I had in mind. I thought the person reference in the clue would be the first person to leap to mind. By far.
Pastor Fireball wrote:Still a couple of untouched clues to clear out:

A-48. A member of sitting royalty received a platinum record as a result of this movie.

This has to be MAMMA MIA because Anni-Frid of ABBA, as I mentioned on the Bored earlier this year, is still a member of the Reuss royal family of Switzerland.

B-18. This Swedish actor has made six films (so far) for Denmark’s most important living director.

It did take a while for me to find this one. The director is Lars von Trier and the actor is STELLAN SKARSGARD. They're not exactly household names, but they've been involved in some fairly notable movies. Skarsgard starred in von Trier's Breaking the Waves, which was Emily Watson's breakout film. Skarsgard has also been in a bunch of those superhero movies recently.

B-84. In a 1991 miniseries based on a Dickens novel, she played the guardian of the young girl she had played on the big screen 45 years earlier.

The two versions of Great Expectations starred JEAN SIMMONS.
I'm thinking Frank meant Grace Kelly for High Society in A-48, but she did not receive a platinum record for it, as the RIAA didn't invent the platinum certification until the 1970s. I'm sure the record sold more than a million copies, which is the current criterion for platinum certification, but I checked the RIAA site, and they show no trace of Grace.
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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#44 Post by franktangredi » Tue Oct 24, 2017 12:33 pm

mrkelley23 wrote: I'm thinking Frank meant Grace Kelly for High Society in A-48, but she did not receive a platinum record for it, as the RIAA didn't invent the platinum certification until the 1970s. I'm sure the record sold more than a million copies, which is the current criterion for platinum certification, but I checked the RIAA site, and they show no trace of Grace.
In that case, I got some bad information. Sorry. I did mean High Society.

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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#45 Post by mellytu74 » Thu Oct 26, 2017 6:51 am

Frank - Now that I have submitted some deadline stuff, I can get back to this.

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#46 Post by frogman042 » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:00 am

A-42. This 1952 film noir about a crusading newspaperman was partly inspired by the
closing of the New York Sun.
DEADLINE USA? CALL NORTHSIDE 777?

Highly unlikely that it is CALL NORTHSIDE 777 - as I believe it took place in Chicago and it was about freeing someone wrongly in prison - plus the newspaper was the 'hero' and I don't think it had anything to do with being closed down.

So Deadline USA must be the correct one.

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#47 Post by frogman042 » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:01 am

BTW, seems like a lot of movies with numbers in their titles - but could be a coincidence.

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#48 Post by silverscreenselect » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:16 am

I'm coming to this game late because I didn't want to get involved while the other game was ongoing. But the movie I keep looking at is Gone in 60 Seconds. It was written by, directed, and starred H.B. Halicki, who has no other significant credits to his name other than a couple of other obscure auto racing movies. The supporting cast similarly appeared in nothing other than this and Halicki's other films. That would seem to leave the title. Obviously, there are a lot of movies with "Gone" and "Seconds" in the title, (Jeff Corey was in Seconds). But that wouldn't work with some of the one word titles like Polyanna.
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#49 Post by franktangredi » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:36 am

silverscreenselect wrote:I'm coming to this game late because I didn't want to get involved while the other game was ongoing. But the movie I keep looking at is Gone in 60 Seconds. It was written by, directed, and starred H.B. Halicki, who has no other significant credits to his name other than a couple of other obscure auto racing movies. The supporting cast similarly appeared in nothing other than this and Halicki's other films. That would seem to leave the title. Obviously, there are a lot of movies with "Gone" and "Seconds" in the title, (Jeff Corey was in Seconds). But that wouldn't work with some of the one word titles like Polyanna.
I apologize for the ambiguity here. I wasn't going for the original 1974 version but the 2000 version.

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Re: Game #172: Star Power

#50 Post by mrkelley23 » Thu Oct 26, 2017 11:56 am

What I keep coming back to is that Frank said he couldn't find a way to get IAMMMMW into this game. If it's casting in any way, I would think it would be easy. When a movie has everybody in it, casting Tangredis are easy.

So maybe it's what melly said about Borgnine and Katy Jurado. I didn't know anything about this marriage, so I looked her up. She did have romantic entanglements with several big-name Hollywood folks, including Tyrone Power and Marlon Brando. So maybe we're looking for spouses or affairs or something like that.

I also was looking for a connection through The African Queen somehow, since Bogie and Robert Morley are on the actor's list, and Hepburn was in Adam's Rib, but no luck there.
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