A Movie Scene Quiz

Wouldn't you know it, when I finally have the time (and the bandwidth), and I try to come back to play this game, A2K is down for a good part of the evening. (It was down, wasn't it -- it's not just me?)

Clue #4 made me think of Voyage of the Damned, but I can't make any of the other clues fit Oskar Werner, who was the male lead in that movie.

Orson Welles was also in Voyage of the Damned, and he was in a movie called Black Magic, which would fit Clue #3 (strangely, he was also in a movie that was actually called Necromancy), but that's all I can find for him.

To get a clue, I'll also guess Ralph Richardson, who was in the movie version of Long Day's Journey into Night, which was certainly a hair-raising trip (even if it wasn't a "trip of hair-raising proportions").

Yes A2K was down. I notice that my message about the Screen Actors Guild didn't go through. The Screen Actors Guild Awards will be on this Saturday at 8PM on TNT. James Garner will receive a special award.

Let me check out Orson Welles. I didn't see Necromancy. I was going for Black Magic. Voyage of the Damned is correct for "Cursed cruise". He was in another "trip" movie and another one I thought "destructive forces" defined. Want to check it out again, or should I tell you.

I was going to give a clue ,if requested, that "after the cursed cruise he met a gentlewoman from an Asian seaport and they lived happily ever after in Xanadu."

Yikes. I never even saw "Necromancy" in Orson's screen credits.

I look forward to the James Garner show. I loved him in Murphy's Romance.

So, for Orson Welles we have:

The fortuneteller told him it was an ominous time to travel, but he didn't heed her advice. From day one it was a

1. Journey into Fear

He could sense the

2. Touch of Evil

and

3. Black Magic

He should have listened, as it was indeed a

4. Voyage of the Damned

After the cursed cruise he met a Lady from Shanghai and they lived happily ever after in Xanadu (Charles Foster Kane's estate in Citizen Kane).

Correct on all counts for Orson. I thought Garner was great in Murphy's Romance.

I just saw an ad on TCM that said "Little Women" is a musical on Broadway.

Well, I'm off to bed now, but am looking forward to your question and will check in first thing in the A.M. I hope the bandwidth is down to size now.

"Little Women" is indeed a Broadway musical, starring Sutton Foster (who was supposed to be wonderful in Thoroughly Modern Millie, which I didn't see) as Jo, and Maureen McGovern as Marmee. Unfortunately, it's gotten kind of mixed reviews. My favorite critic, Michael Feingold of the Village Voice, said this about it: "Cut down, unplugged, reshaped for a more intimate house, this Little Women might have been a delight. How sad that, Broadway being Broadway, it's been allowed to grow too big for its entirely anachronistic britches."

I'm about to log off too, but before I go I'll leave this question, which I'm sure you will have answered correctly by the time I log back on tomorrow morning (assuming I'm allowed to do so, fingers crossed).

A bedtime story with a moral about how crime doesn't pay:

He read

1. An instruction manual on spouse-i-cide,

hoping to find a way of

2. Committing a heinous crime without suffering the consequences,

but things went wrong, and he ended up an

3. East side inmate

who had to share a cell with some

4. Elderly curmudgeons.

Good Morning. Thanks for comments on "Little Women". I'm going to check into it further. I'm curious about the music. I can imagine the Professor singing "Younger Than Springtime" and Jo, "I've Grown Accustomed to His Face". Hey, why not?

Here's the site for Screen Actors Guild Award. Garner will receive the Life Achievement Award.

http://www.sagawards.com/PR_050110.htm


Jack Lemmon read:

A bedtime story with a moral about how crime doesn't pay:

1. How To Murder Your wife
hoping to find a way of
committing a heinous crime and

2. Getting Away With It
but things went wrong, and he ended up

3. The Prisoner of Second Ave.
who had to share a cell with some

4. Grumpy/ and Grumpier / Old Men

Yes to Jack Lemmon and all the movies. If you had needed a clue, it was going to be, "With all that bad luck, it's no wonder he was a sour kind of guy."

Shortly after we posted about "Little Women" last night, I got an e-mail message offering a 35% discount on tickets to the show. But since a 35% discount on $100 tickets means a ticket would still cost $65, I don't think I'll be taking advantage of that offer.

Darn. I just saw this on the net and, of course, didn't have my TV on:

"On The Early Show Friday, Foster was joined by fellow cast members Amy McAlexander (Amy), Megan McGinnis (Beth), Jenny Powers (Meg), and Danny Gurwin (Laurie) as they performed the number "Five Forever" from the show. It's a scene where the four March girls "adopt" Laurie, the boy next door, into their fold."

How about a review from the Poughkeepsie Journal:
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/lifeentertainment/stories/li020405s10.shtml

I am still curious about the music. I wish Rosie O'Donnell's show was back with her Broadway snippets.

How's the bandwidth problem?

They'll probably turn up on more TV shows: if the show isn't doing good business (as the discount offer I got suggests), they'll want to do a lot of TV publicity to try to build interest that way.

Interesting review from the Poughkeepsie Journal -- I had no idea they covered Broadway. I'll see if I can dig up any others.

The bandwidth problem must have cleared up, because I've been surfing most of the morning (making up for yesterday's lost time), and no one has told me to stop.

New question:

He felt extreme sadness when he thought of

1. The abandoned lady

He could still hear her heartbreaking

2. Farewell

but it was almost high noon:

3. Time to get armed

and his sense of duty compelled him to

4. Stand by the regional law enforcement officer.

Sad news: I just saw a brief AP news story on the New York Times website that Ossie Davis has died. He was found dead in his hotel room in Miami (where he was making a movie) earlier today. He was 87 years old.

I'll think about your question while I'm walking around at lunch (I often find that physical movement stimulates the brain).

I just remembered: I have a meeting after lunch, so I'll think about your question while sitting in the meeting. I probably won't be back here until 3 o'clock or so.

Aaah. Yes, sad news.

Did you see my earlier Poughkeepsie Little Women link?

Maybe I should take more walks.

Yes, I saw the link -- it was one of the better reviews the show got.

As proof of my theory, the answer to your question came to me as I was walking out the door.

James Garner

He felt extreme sadness when he thought of

1. The Girl He Left Behind

He could still hear her heartbreaking

2. Sayonara

but it was almost high noon:

3. Hour of the Gun

and his sense of duty compelled him to

4. Support Your Local Sheriff.

If I'm right, and someone wants to start a new question before I get back from lunch and my post-lunch meeting, go right ahead.

And you are right. James Garner is the man.

Ohhh, I am so sad about Ossie Davis!!
I'm glad that at least he and Ruby were seranaded and applauded at the Kennedy awards before he died! Geez and at 87 and in the midst of a film! I'll have to go to nytimes and check the obit. sigh.

I saw a staged version of the Little Women opera/musical last summer directed by a friend who does coaching at the Met off and on and then comes back home here to direct student productions and the like.
The views expressed were bang on--although kind of a cliff notes version of the book or even the film, it was sweet in a 100 seat house where you're close to the actors, and they really are young. sigh.

So, bree,
bandwidth up and running ok--where's the question?? Get that pesky work outta the way and really challenge our brains!

Very sad news about Ossie. And think how hard it must be for Ruby Dee.

I agree that it's lovely that they were honored this year. I don't think they award Kennedy Center Honors posthumously, do they?

No, I don't think they do award Kennedy Center honors posthumously. In fact, an opera-loving friend of mine still grumbles about the fact that Rosa Ponselle never got a Kennedy Center award, apparently because she was so ill toward the end of her life that she was unable to make public appearances, and the Kennedy Center people didn't want to give an award to someone who couldn't show up for the ceremony.

OK, lois, hold your horses and be patient with someone who just got out of the world's most boring meeting (which we ended by concluding that we have to have another meeting next week) -- here's the next question:

I hope no one will

1. Contradict

me when I say that I bear her

2. No ill will,

even though I find it irritating that she looks so much like

3. Mac's avatar

when she's never been known to

4. Skip a meal