Game #214: Talking Pictures
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2023 7:48 am
Game #214: Talking Pictures
Identify the 50 actors in List A and the 50 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 75 pairs consisting of one actor and one movie according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Eighteen actors will be use twice, two actors will be used three times, and one actor will be used four times. 25 movies will be used twice.
Alternate matches are probably inevitable, but I tried!
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. He was the only Sexiest Man Alive to win an Oscar for Best Director.
A-2. “You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.”
A-3. He gleefully commented that he’d been waiting 20 years to get his own light saber, although he was well known for displaying an expandable weapon of a different kind.
A-4. “Is it possible … or could I have just imagined it … have my children by any chance been climbing trees today?”
A-5. A founding member of the Mercury Theatre, she made her screen debut in their first screen production and received her first Oscar nomination for their second.
A-6. “I couldn't explain the things I did. So I went to this psychiatrist who told me that I was a woman trapped in a man's body. Well, so right away Sonny wanted to get me money for a sex change operation, but where was he going to get that? $2,500? My God, he was in hock up to his ears already.”
A-7. She considered herself the only true actress among her sisters, and was the only one never married to the same actor.
A-8. “A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to buy his wife some lingerie but he's too embarrassed to shop for it at a department store. He comes up with an idea for a high-end place that doesn't make you feel like a pervert. He gets a $40,000 bank loan, borrows another $40,000 from his in-laws, opens a store, and calls it Victoria's Secret. Makes a half million dollars his first year. He starts a catalog, opens three more stores and after five years he sells the company to Leslie Wexner and the Limited for four million dollars. Happy ending, right? Except two years later, the company's worth 500 million dollars and Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. Poor guy just wanted to buy his wife a pair of thigh-highs.”
A-9. His real-life roles have included an ancient king, a Wild West gunslinger, and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
A-10. “I shall force someone to take the body away from him and Johnny will really hit those microphones and those cameras with blood all over him, fighting off anyone who tries to help him, defending America even if it means his own death, rallying a nation of television viewers to hysteria, to sweep us up into the White House with powers that will make martial law seem like anarchy!”
A-11. In an acclaimed BBC miniseries, he was able to finish something Charles Laughton had started nearly 40 years earlier.
A-12. “I'm in a glass case of emotion!”
A-13. His film career included adaptations of works by Herman Melville, Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, and Polish Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz.
A-14. “You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why? Why?”
A-15. In a 2001 biopic, he played an author who wrote an award-winning play while serving a sentence for armed robbery at Sing Sing.
A-16. “You shut up! You are the audience! I am the author! I outrank you!”
A-17. He and Morgan Freeman both got Golden Globe nominations for playing the same real-life figure.
A-18. “What do you mean, ‘Who's flying the plane?’ Nobody's flying the plane!”
A-19. In 2013, she received an honor that had previously been bestowed upon – among others – Bob Hope, Martha Raye, Danny Kaye, Audrey Hepburn, Jerry Lewis, and Oprah Winfrey.
A-20. “One chance to answer with some dignity or I swear you're going into this barrel while you're still alive to feel the pain!”
A-21. In her most notable screen role to date, she followed in the footsteps of Kim Darby.
A-22. “It's for Paris. I'm on this new diet. Well, I don't eat anything and when I feel like I'm about to faint I eat a cube of cheese. I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.”
A-23. In 1967, this British actor released a record in which he recited the lyrics of Bob Dylan – which earned him inclusion on the first two Golden Throats albums.
A-24. “It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong. You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin. You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass. You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas. You're supposed to love being a mother but don't talk about your kids all the damn time. You have to be a career woman, but also always be looking out for other people.”
A-25. In one of his most memorable film roles, he played an ‘actor’ who combined the arts of magic and pornography.
A-26. “One other thing. If you guys ever have kids, and one of them, when he's eight years old, accidentally sets fire to the living room rug ... go easy on him.”
A-27. He got more press after the 2022 Oscar show than anyone who didn’t actually win an award.
A-28. “Have I mentioned that I am the preeminent Proust scholar in the US?”
A-29. He was appearing in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s legendary production of Nicholas Nickleby when he got the movie offer that would change the trajectory of his entire career, eventually leading to an Oscar and a knighthood.
A-30. “You're probably thinking, ‘Whose balls did I have to fondle to get my very own movie?’ I can't tell you his name, but it rhymes with Polverine. And let me tell you, he's got a nice pair of smooth criminals down under.”
A-31. His film career included adaptations – mostly very loose adaptation – of works by Lewis Carroll, Washington Irving, Roald Dahl, and Agatha Christie.
A-32. “The pig and the farmer regarded each other. And for a fleeting moment, something passed between them. A faint sense of some common destiny.”
A-33. He donated the $125,000 he won on WWTBAM to the firefighters’ aid foundation that he founded.
A-34. “This rock ... this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. In its entire life, ever since it was a bit of meteorite a million, billion years ago up there In space. It's been waiting, to come here. Right, right here. I've been moving towards it my entire life. The minute I was born, every breath I've taken, every action has been leading me to this crack on the earth's surface.”
A-35. In August 1991, a photograph of this actress taken by Annie Leibovitz got a lot more negative attention than it deserved.
A-36. “You really blew the lid off of nookie.”
A-37. Most audiences were surprised when he was the first major actor killed in a classic 1998 film … but war is like that.
A-38. “Yeah, Vern, Vern, what a guy, me and him go way back. I guess you could say we’re cut from the same bark, if it weren't for me he wouldn't be where he is today, I taught him everything he knows about nuclear physics. He's my best buddy and he throws the greatest parties.”
A-39. He credits his English teacher with helping him to overcome a severe stutter by encouraging to write poetry and read it aloud to the class.
A-40. “I just want you to know, if you ever need anything, don't be shy, OK? There are no rules in the house. I'm not like a regular mom, I'm a cool mom.”
A-41. I can’t swear he’s the only Oscar-winning actor ever to host a game show, but I can’t think of another one offhand.
A-42. “Look at this! My first day as a woman and I'm getting hot flashes!”
A-43. He is generally considered the greatest swordsman in Hollywood history, but he only won two of his on-screen sword fights.
A-44. “There's an old joke - um - two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know; and such small portions.’ Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”
A-45. He completes a list that also includes Cate Blanchett, Bing Crosby, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, and Sylvester Stallone.
A-46. “Being a botanist, I find an astonishing parallel between a woman's heart and the wind flower or Anemone nemorosa. Perhaps you know the plant, how it waits for the warm sunshine and soft winds before it unfolds its petals. Sensitive and delicate. One rough, impetuous bee can completely destroy the bloom.”
A-47. His maternal grandfather was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; his paternal grandfather was a legendary Hollywood producer and studio head.
A-48. “Well, just meet her. Maybe she'll be somebody you'd like to kill. "
A-49. She completes a list that also includes Bobby Driscoll, Deanna Durbin, Peggy Ann Garner, Claude Jarman, Jr, Ivan Jandl, Hayley Mills, Margaret O’Brien, Shirley Temple, Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, and a frequent co-star who appears earlier in this game.
A-50. “With all due respect, sir, I have done battle every single day of my life and many men have underestimated me before. This lot seem bound to do the same, but they will rue the day.”
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. There is some question about whether or not the most classic line in this classic movie was improvised, but the truth seems to be that the line was indeed improvised, but the scene we see in the movie is a reshoot using the improvised line, but with an extra driving the car.
B-2. “Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only.”
B-3. This adaptation of a Broadway hit was the most expensive film with an all-Black starring cast in Hollywood history.
B-4. “Next time, we don't date the girl with eleven evil ex-boyfriends.”
“It's seven.”
“Oh, well, that's not that bad.”
B-5. The actress who won an Oscar for this movie later starred in the stage and screen versions of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
B-6. “I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in!”
B-7. A Pakistani stand-up comedian received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of this film, in which he also starred
B-8. “When I was 15, my father lost me in a card game.”
“You are not serious.”
“He was very upset about it. Took off into the forest with nothing but a scullery maid and a dozen bottles for solace.
B-9. The all-star cast of this Cinerama extravaganza included actors who had previously appeared in Limelight, Rebel Without a Cause, Room at the Top, Make Way for Tomorrow, Great Expectations, I Remember Mama, Lifeboat, and the original West Side Story.
B-10. “You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an a**hole.”
B-11. This British film is a loose adaptation of a Russian novelette by way of a Japanese movie.
B-12. “Do you know where I am?”
“Um, you're behind the couch, I can see your feet.”
“D’oh!”
B-13. A Booker Prize-winning novelist won her first Oscar for this film, and her second for her adaptation of another novel by the same author.
B-14. “Dirty Dee, you're a baddy daddy lamatai tebby chai!”
B-15. Only four songs from the original Cole Porter score were retained in this 1936 film and – due to censorship – two of the four were substantially rewritten.
B-16. “This time travel crap just fries your brain like an egg.”
B-17. Based on the best-selling autobiography of a musical superstar, this movie dumped the original title in favor of the title of her biggest song hit.
B-18. “I like you, and I want to spend the night with you.”
“Do you mean sleep over?”
“Well … yeah.”
“OK ... but I get to be on top.”
B-19. This may not be the only movie about a dentist who sees dead people, but it’s the only one I know about.
B-20. “I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may even disagree with the law but I will enforce it. No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars. If you run away I will chase you. If you fight me I will fight back. If you shoot at me I will shoot back. By law I am unable to walk away. I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun. Behind my badge is a heart like yours. I bleed, I think, I love, and yes, I can be killed. And although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me, and I them. We stand watch together. The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We are the police.”
B-21. Roger Ebert called it "the worst movie of the year,” Gene Siskel stated, “I hated watching this film,” and even David Lynch had his name removed from some cuts.
B-22. “Try as they will, and try as they might, who steals me gold won't live through the night.”
B-23. One of the three Oscars won by this film is on display at a museum in Amsterdam.
B-24. “Do you think I made a mistake splitting his brain between the two of them?”
B-25. This film tells the story of the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom.
B-26. “I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”
B-27. The 24th film in the franchise, it marked the return of a master villain who had not appeared since the 7th film in the franchise.
B-28. “I'd say, ‘Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.’ That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She'd say, ‘Would you stop naming nuts!’"
B-29. An attempt to recreate all of the positions shown in The Joy of Sex kicks off the plot of this widely-panned comedy.
B-30. “If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'.”
B-31. This was the only film set largely in outer space to win an Oscar for its director.
B-32. “You put anybody on television sixteen hours a day, and sooner or later they're going to fall off a table and land on a cat.”
B-33. The original version of this movie received a record-breaking ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, but the butchered American cut – which excised nearly half the film – was a box office bomb. (Wonder what could have gone wrong….)
B-34. “Ready your breakfast and eat hearty ... for tonight, we dine in hell!
B-35. The subject of this musical biopic died only twelve days before its world premiere in Missouri.
B-36. “We'll love him when he's bad, we'll love him even more when he gets worse, then one day he's gonna crack and say, ‘Hey, these people really do love me! They ain't gonna quit on me! I don't have to be bad anymore. What the hey, I can be President of the United States!’”
“President of the United States? Are you brain-damaged? Junior is gonna be a convict before he's in third grade!”
B-37. This movie features Wolverine in a role previously played by Pancho Villa.
B-38. “There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.”
“Which one am I?”
“You're the worst kind; you're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance.”
B-39. As a result of this 1997 film, all SONY movies were blocked from release in China and its director and stars were banned from entering the country.
B-40. “Did you have sex with the dead guy's mother?”
“Don’t make a big deal out of it!”
B-41. This movie completes a list that also includes Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, and Welcome to Hard Times.
B-42. “I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you.”
B-43. The real-life subject of this film had been in a vegetative state for ten years before the film came out, and remained so for another 18 years afterward.
B-44. “It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.”
“Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.”
“We all got it coming, kid.”
B-45. This 1966 coming-of-age comedy was the breakthrough film for a director who would go on to make four of the greatest films of the 1970s … and also the breakthrough film for a young Canadian actor who was barely heard from again.
B-46. “All those moments will be lost in time ... like tears in rain.”
B-47. This movie marks the shortest distance between Isaac Bashevis Singer and Dolly Gallagher Levi.
B-48. “Mediocrities everywhere ... I absolve you ... I absolve you ... I absolve you ... I absolve you ... I absolve you all.”
B-49. Appearing at the 89th Academy Award ceremony, the 99-year-old mathematician who was the subject of this film received a standing ovation.
B-50. “What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end.”
Identify the 50 actors in List A and the 50 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 75 pairs consisting of one actor and one movie according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Eighteen actors will be use twice, two actors will be used three times, and one actor will be used four times. 25 movies will be used twice.
Alternate matches are probably inevitable, but I tried!
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. He was the only Sexiest Man Alive to win an Oscar for Best Director.
A-2. “You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.”
A-3. He gleefully commented that he’d been waiting 20 years to get his own light saber, although he was well known for displaying an expandable weapon of a different kind.
A-4. “Is it possible … or could I have just imagined it … have my children by any chance been climbing trees today?”
A-5. A founding member of the Mercury Theatre, she made her screen debut in their first screen production and received her first Oscar nomination for their second.
A-6. “I couldn't explain the things I did. So I went to this psychiatrist who told me that I was a woman trapped in a man's body. Well, so right away Sonny wanted to get me money for a sex change operation, but where was he going to get that? $2,500? My God, he was in hock up to his ears already.”
A-7. She considered herself the only true actress among her sisters, and was the only one never married to the same actor.
A-8. “A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to buy his wife some lingerie but he's too embarrassed to shop for it at a department store. He comes up with an idea for a high-end place that doesn't make you feel like a pervert. He gets a $40,000 bank loan, borrows another $40,000 from his in-laws, opens a store, and calls it Victoria's Secret. Makes a half million dollars his first year. He starts a catalog, opens three more stores and after five years he sells the company to Leslie Wexner and the Limited for four million dollars. Happy ending, right? Except two years later, the company's worth 500 million dollars and Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. Poor guy just wanted to buy his wife a pair of thigh-highs.”
A-9. His real-life roles have included an ancient king, a Wild West gunslinger, and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
A-10. “I shall force someone to take the body away from him and Johnny will really hit those microphones and those cameras with blood all over him, fighting off anyone who tries to help him, defending America even if it means his own death, rallying a nation of television viewers to hysteria, to sweep us up into the White House with powers that will make martial law seem like anarchy!”
A-11. In an acclaimed BBC miniseries, he was able to finish something Charles Laughton had started nearly 40 years earlier.
A-12. “I'm in a glass case of emotion!”
A-13. His film career included adaptations of works by Herman Melville, Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, and Polish Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz.
A-14. “You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why? Why?”
A-15. In a 2001 biopic, he played an author who wrote an award-winning play while serving a sentence for armed robbery at Sing Sing.
A-16. “You shut up! You are the audience! I am the author! I outrank you!”
A-17. He and Morgan Freeman both got Golden Globe nominations for playing the same real-life figure.
A-18. “What do you mean, ‘Who's flying the plane?’ Nobody's flying the plane!”
A-19. In 2013, she received an honor that had previously been bestowed upon – among others – Bob Hope, Martha Raye, Danny Kaye, Audrey Hepburn, Jerry Lewis, and Oprah Winfrey.
A-20. “One chance to answer with some dignity or I swear you're going into this barrel while you're still alive to feel the pain!”
A-21. In her most notable screen role to date, she followed in the footsteps of Kim Darby.
A-22. “It's for Paris. I'm on this new diet. Well, I don't eat anything and when I feel like I'm about to faint I eat a cube of cheese. I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.”
A-23. In 1967, this British actor released a record in which he recited the lyrics of Bob Dylan – which earned him inclusion on the first two Golden Throats albums.
A-24. “It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong. You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin. You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass. You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas. You're supposed to love being a mother but don't talk about your kids all the damn time. You have to be a career woman, but also always be looking out for other people.”
A-25. In one of his most memorable film roles, he played an ‘actor’ who combined the arts of magic and pornography.
A-26. “One other thing. If you guys ever have kids, and one of them, when he's eight years old, accidentally sets fire to the living room rug ... go easy on him.”
A-27. He got more press after the 2022 Oscar show than anyone who didn’t actually win an award.
A-28. “Have I mentioned that I am the preeminent Proust scholar in the US?”
A-29. He was appearing in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s legendary production of Nicholas Nickleby when he got the movie offer that would change the trajectory of his entire career, eventually leading to an Oscar and a knighthood.
A-30. “You're probably thinking, ‘Whose balls did I have to fondle to get my very own movie?’ I can't tell you his name, but it rhymes with Polverine. And let me tell you, he's got a nice pair of smooth criminals down under.”
A-31. His film career included adaptations – mostly very loose adaptation – of works by Lewis Carroll, Washington Irving, Roald Dahl, and Agatha Christie.
A-32. “The pig and the farmer regarded each other. And for a fleeting moment, something passed between them. A faint sense of some common destiny.”
A-33. He donated the $125,000 he won on WWTBAM to the firefighters’ aid foundation that he founded.
A-34. “This rock ... this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. In its entire life, ever since it was a bit of meteorite a million, billion years ago up there In space. It's been waiting, to come here. Right, right here. I've been moving towards it my entire life. The minute I was born, every breath I've taken, every action has been leading me to this crack on the earth's surface.”
A-35. In August 1991, a photograph of this actress taken by Annie Leibovitz got a lot more negative attention than it deserved.
A-36. “You really blew the lid off of nookie.”
A-37. Most audiences were surprised when he was the first major actor killed in a classic 1998 film … but war is like that.
A-38. “Yeah, Vern, Vern, what a guy, me and him go way back. I guess you could say we’re cut from the same bark, if it weren't for me he wouldn't be where he is today, I taught him everything he knows about nuclear physics. He's my best buddy and he throws the greatest parties.”
A-39. He credits his English teacher with helping him to overcome a severe stutter by encouraging to write poetry and read it aloud to the class.
A-40. “I just want you to know, if you ever need anything, don't be shy, OK? There are no rules in the house. I'm not like a regular mom, I'm a cool mom.”
A-41. I can’t swear he’s the only Oscar-winning actor ever to host a game show, but I can’t think of another one offhand.
A-42. “Look at this! My first day as a woman and I'm getting hot flashes!”
A-43. He is generally considered the greatest swordsman in Hollywood history, but he only won two of his on-screen sword fights.
A-44. “There's an old joke - um - two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know; and such small portions.’ Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”
A-45. He completes a list that also includes Cate Blanchett, Bing Crosby, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, and Sylvester Stallone.
A-46. “Being a botanist, I find an astonishing parallel between a woman's heart and the wind flower or Anemone nemorosa. Perhaps you know the plant, how it waits for the warm sunshine and soft winds before it unfolds its petals. Sensitive and delicate. One rough, impetuous bee can completely destroy the bloom.”
A-47. His maternal grandfather was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; his paternal grandfather was a legendary Hollywood producer and studio head.
A-48. “Well, just meet her. Maybe she'll be somebody you'd like to kill. "
A-49. She completes a list that also includes Bobby Driscoll, Deanna Durbin, Peggy Ann Garner, Claude Jarman, Jr, Ivan Jandl, Hayley Mills, Margaret O’Brien, Shirley Temple, Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, and a frequent co-star who appears earlier in this game.
A-50. “With all due respect, sir, I have done battle every single day of my life and many men have underestimated me before. This lot seem bound to do the same, but they will rue the day.”
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. There is some question about whether or not the most classic line in this classic movie was improvised, but the truth seems to be that the line was indeed improvised, but the scene we see in the movie is a reshoot using the improvised line, but with an extra driving the car.
B-2. “Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only.”
B-3. This adaptation of a Broadway hit was the most expensive film with an all-Black starring cast in Hollywood history.
B-4. “Next time, we don't date the girl with eleven evil ex-boyfriends.”
“It's seven.”
“Oh, well, that's not that bad.”
B-5. The actress who won an Oscar for this movie later starred in the stage and screen versions of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
B-6. “I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in!”
B-7. A Pakistani stand-up comedian received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of this film, in which he also starred
B-8. “When I was 15, my father lost me in a card game.”
“You are not serious.”
“He was very upset about it. Took off into the forest with nothing but a scullery maid and a dozen bottles for solace.
B-9. The all-star cast of this Cinerama extravaganza included actors who had previously appeared in Limelight, Rebel Without a Cause, Room at the Top, Make Way for Tomorrow, Great Expectations, I Remember Mama, Lifeboat, and the original West Side Story.
B-10. “You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an a**hole.”
B-11. This British film is a loose adaptation of a Russian novelette by way of a Japanese movie.
B-12. “Do you know where I am?”
“Um, you're behind the couch, I can see your feet.”
“D’oh!”
B-13. A Booker Prize-winning novelist won her first Oscar for this film, and her second for her adaptation of another novel by the same author.
B-14. “Dirty Dee, you're a baddy daddy lamatai tebby chai!”
B-15. Only four songs from the original Cole Porter score were retained in this 1936 film and – due to censorship – two of the four were substantially rewritten.
B-16. “This time travel crap just fries your brain like an egg.”
B-17. Based on the best-selling autobiography of a musical superstar, this movie dumped the original title in favor of the title of her biggest song hit.
B-18. “I like you, and I want to spend the night with you.”
“Do you mean sleep over?”
“Well … yeah.”
“OK ... but I get to be on top.”
B-19. This may not be the only movie about a dentist who sees dead people, but it’s the only one I know about.
B-20. “I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may even disagree with the law but I will enforce it. No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars. If you run away I will chase you. If you fight me I will fight back. If you shoot at me I will shoot back. By law I am unable to walk away. I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun. Behind my badge is a heart like yours. I bleed, I think, I love, and yes, I can be killed. And although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me, and I them. We stand watch together. The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We are the police.”
B-21. Roger Ebert called it "the worst movie of the year,” Gene Siskel stated, “I hated watching this film,” and even David Lynch had his name removed from some cuts.
B-22. “Try as they will, and try as they might, who steals me gold won't live through the night.”
B-23. One of the three Oscars won by this film is on display at a museum in Amsterdam.
B-24. “Do you think I made a mistake splitting his brain between the two of them?”
B-25. This film tells the story of the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom.
B-26. “I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”
B-27. The 24th film in the franchise, it marked the return of a master villain who had not appeared since the 7th film in the franchise.
B-28. “I'd say, ‘Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.’ That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She'd say, ‘Would you stop naming nuts!’"
B-29. An attempt to recreate all of the positions shown in The Joy of Sex kicks off the plot of this widely-panned comedy.
B-30. “If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'.”
B-31. This was the only film set largely in outer space to win an Oscar for its director.
B-32. “You put anybody on television sixteen hours a day, and sooner or later they're going to fall off a table and land on a cat.”
B-33. The original version of this movie received a record-breaking ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, but the butchered American cut – which excised nearly half the film – was a box office bomb. (Wonder what could have gone wrong….)
B-34. “Ready your breakfast and eat hearty ... for tonight, we dine in hell!
B-35. The subject of this musical biopic died only twelve days before its world premiere in Missouri.
B-36. “We'll love him when he's bad, we'll love him even more when he gets worse, then one day he's gonna crack and say, ‘Hey, these people really do love me! They ain't gonna quit on me! I don't have to be bad anymore. What the hey, I can be President of the United States!’”
“President of the United States? Are you brain-damaged? Junior is gonna be a convict before he's in third grade!”
B-37. This movie features Wolverine in a role previously played by Pancho Villa.
B-38. “There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.”
“Which one am I?”
“You're the worst kind; you're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance.”
B-39. As a result of this 1997 film, all SONY movies were blocked from release in China and its director and stars were banned from entering the country.
B-40. “Did you have sex with the dead guy's mother?”
“Don’t make a big deal out of it!”
B-41. This movie completes a list that also includes Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, and Welcome to Hard Times.
B-42. “I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you.”
B-43. The real-life subject of this film had been in a vegetative state for ten years before the film came out, and remained so for another 18 years afterward.
B-44. “It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.”
“Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.”
“We all got it coming, kid.”
B-45. This 1966 coming-of-age comedy was the breakthrough film for a director who would go on to make four of the greatest films of the 1970s … and also the breakthrough film for a young Canadian actor who was barely heard from again.
B-46. “All those moments will be lost in time ... like tears in rain.”
B-47. This movie marks the shortest distance between Isaac Bashevis Singer and Dolly Gallagher Levi.
B-48. “Mediocrities everywhere ... I absolve you ... I absolve you ... I absolve you ... I absolve you ... I absolve you all.”
B-49. Appearing at the 89th Academy Award ceremony, the 99-year-old mathematician who was the subject of this film received a standing ovation.
B-50. “What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end.”