A Movie Scene Quiz

Yes to Spencer Tracy and the movies. I would have specified that "town" appeared in the titles of three of the movies, but I thought that would have made it too easy.

I got waylaid with the thought of John Sayles' movies: Sunshine State, City of Hope, and Silver City...

Hmm, I never thought of John Sayles (and I love his movies).

I don't have a question in this category yet. I could tell you about my visit to the physician, unless Mac has a "common word" question.

Do tell, Raggedy.

I have no question, and I must [heavy sigh] go back to work...

...so please do tell.

I was very wan (I usually have a blushing complexion) when I went to the physician's office the other day. When he told me that my symptoms were quite normal - just the usual when subjected to too much pollen - I was really in a cranky mood. But after he gave me a shot, although at first I felt really groggy, I soon began to feel very that I was in the right frame of mind for a long restful night.

(8 clues for this movie title if you break it down)

Are you saying the clues all relate to the title of the same movie, or are we looking for eight different movies?

We are looking for one movie. But if you break it down, you'll get the characters in the movie title.

Good one!

Snow White (very wan) and the Seven Dwarfs:

Bashful (a blushing complexion)
Doc (the physician)
Sneezy (subjected to too much pollen)
Grumpy (in a cranky mood)
Dopey (really groggy)
Happy ()
Sleepy (in the right frame of mind for a long restful night)

Thank you. That was fast. I'm not having much luck with the "Something in Common" category. I feel a little guilty about not following that format, but I will keep trying to think of one.

To paraphrase the line from "A League of Their Own": there's no guilt in A2K! It's your game, you can follow (or even "gollow", as I just typed) any damn format you like. I came up with the "something in common" variation because I was having trouble coming up with stories, but that's no reason why you have to do the same thing.

And now, having said there's no guilt in A2K, I'm going to excuse myself from asking another question for a while because -- like my fellow drone, mac -- I have to do some work for a while.

Speaking of A League of Their Own, I just made a note not to forget to record it tomorrow A.M. Thank you for the reminder.

I hope you have a pleasant weekend lined up - and will tell us about it.

See you all later.

Ciao, Tutti!

I've been and continue to be swamped under the load, not unlike mac n' bree, but Raggedy, Snow White was brilliant! I remember trying to remember the name of all 7 and got stuck on Bashful! Somehow, what came out was Shy-y (had to be 2 syllables, right?).

Well, back to the grindstone!

Loislane: I do wish we can get on the same time schedule one of these days. Shy-y mmmm - close but, ....... I couldn't remember "Happy" at first.



I watched Robin Hood yesterday. Loved it. I've decided I like Robin's hat better than Peter Pan's. Nicer feather.

Great picture of SW & the 7Ds. One of the first pieces of sheet music I bought, when I started collecting, was the sheet music for "Some Day My Prince Will Come", with a very similar picture on the cover. I think you're right about the feather in Robin Hood's hat.

My weekend (since you asked) has so far been very different from what I thought it was going to be. I thought I was going to spend this afternoon seeing a new play by Austin Pendleton called "Orson's Shadow". The play sounds intriguing: it takes place in 1960, when Orson Welles was directing a production of Ionesco's play "Rhinoceros", which starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright. Welles, Olivier, and Plowright are all characters in the play, as is Vivien Leigh, to whom Olivier was still married at the time. When I got to the theater, however, I found out that the performance had been cancelled because one of the actors was sick. (It's off-Broadway, so I guess they can't afford understudies.) The woman in the box office was very apologetic, and said they had tried to call ticketholders to tell them not to come, but they hadn't had time to reach everyone.

So I did some quick thinking and came up with Plan B for the afternoon, which was to go to the Metropolitan Museum and see an exhibition of Rubens drawings I've been meaning to see. It's a great show -- I think I probably like Rubens's drawings more than I like his paintings. Here are a couple of my favorites from the show. The first is a portrait of Rubens's first wife, who died at the age of 35. (Doesn't she look like someone you'd like to know?) The second is a portrait of Rubens's son Nicolaas. The thing around his neck is a coral necklace which, in the 17th century, was thought to protect children from disease.

Great drawings, thanks for posting them. He just had a way with faces, didn't he?

Orson's Shadow sounds very interesting. I hope you get to see it. Do you know the play Rhinoceros? It was ground-breaking in its time.

Those drawings are fabulous, Bree. Thanks for posting them. There is a pixyish charm about Rubens' wife, isn't there? And his son - beautiful!

I think the soundtrack of Snow White was the first vinyl record album I owned. "One Song" was my favorite track and then Bluddle-Uddle-Um-Dum. (lol) I still have that record. The Prince's voice is that of Harry Stockwell, actor Dean Stockwell's father.

"Orson's Shadow" does indeed sound intriguing and I hope you get to see it. Is that Austin Pendleton, the actor - the one with the slight stutter - ? I remember him in the remake of the Front Page and Ballad of the Sad Cafe, but I was first impressed by him in a comedy with Burt Reynolds and Candice Bergen (Starting Over). There was a scene where Reynolds joined a group of divorced men for counselling. As one of the divorced men in the group, Pendleton stole the scene - and every other scene he
was in in that movie.

I don't know the play Rhinoceros at all. Maybe I should read it before I re-schedule Orson's Shadow (if I do).

Yes, that's Austin Pendleton the actor, who wrote the play. I had forgotten that scene from Starting Over until you mentioned it. I tend to confuse that movie with An Unmarried Woman, which came out a year earlier and which Jill Clayburgh was also in. In fact, until I checked imdb just now, I couldn't remember which movie had the scene where Jill Clayburgh has a panic attack in Bloomingdale's and asks if anyone has a Valium, and -- it being New York City -- everyone in the store reaches into their bag for a Valium. (The scene is in An Unmarried Woman, by the way.)