I guess I can finally go now!
I hope I do this right!
Tie to Audrey Hepburn:
Aging movie star
Piano Teacher
Nun
Taxi Dancer
Prostitute
Bree: I've not seen Laughter in Paradise, but I had read that Audrey Hepburn played a cigarette girl in that one. And when you have time. we'd love to hear about your trip.
Fealola: I know this one, but I want to get the roles matched with the movies.
Shirley MacLaine
Aging movie star - Postcards from the Edge
Piano Teacher - Madame Sousatzka
Prostitute - Irma la Douce
Taxi Dancer - Sweet Charity
Nun - She pretends do be a nun in Two Mules for Sister Sara
Yes!
I forgot about the "pretend" nun
I asked that question (Nun) once upon a long time ago in this game and Max set me straight. Good question, Fealola.
Tie to Shirley MacLaine
(1955-1996 is the time span)
Ex-President
Priest
Newspaper reporter
Musician in a band
Ensign in the Navy
Jack Lemmon
Pres. -- My Fellow Americans
Priest- Mass Appeal
Reporter - Front Page
Musician - Some Like It Hot
Ensign- Mr. Roberts
Tie to Jack Lemmon:
Telephone Operator
Journalist's Wife
Mass Murderer
Southern Housewife
Sissy Spacek
Telephone operator - Raggedy Man
Journalist's wife - Missing?
Mass murderer - Carrie
Southern housewife - Crimes of the Heart?
That's it!
I was thinking Badlands for mass murderer and The Long Walk Home for southern housewife.
I'm not sure that I deserve that one. (lol) (I think she did kill a lot of people in Carrie, though.)
We've been giving the time span for all our questions, because we're covering a lot of territory.
Tie to Sissy Spacek ( time span 1989-1999)
U. S. Marshal
Soap Opera star
Real-life silent movie star
Ex-cop who returns to police force
Impersonator/President
Kevin Kline:
U. S. Marshal - Wild Wild West
Soap Opera star Soap Dish
Real-life silent movie star- Chaplain
Ex-cop who returns to police force- January Man
Impersonator/President- Dave
Yes to Kevin Kline. Yes to every movie. Your turn. I must sign off now. Have fun.
Raggedy, if you're serious about wanting to hear about my trip to London (and even if you're not), here goes. I had a great time. Even the weather was good: it only rained one day, and that was a brief thunderstorm that took place while I was inside a museum, so I never had to use my umbrella.
I saw four plays:
Henry V, in a modern-dress production starring Adrian Lester (who's probably best known in this country for his role in Primary Colors). I was a little concerned ahead of time about whether the modern stuff would be annoying, but it worked surprisingly well. For example, when Henry gives the French an ultimatum before going to war with them, the actor doesn't appear onstage, but is shown on a big video screen with French subtitles running across the bottom of the screen.
Jumpers, a revival of an early play by Tom Stoppard. Not surprisingly (if you've noticed my signature line), I loved it.
His Girl Friday, an adaptation by John Guare that combines elements of the play, The Front Page, and the movie, His Girl Friday. A large British cast does a great job of sounding like fast-talking Chicago newspaper reporters.
The Three Sisters. This was the closest thing to a disappointment that I had on the trip, mainly because Kristin Scott Thomas (who played Masha when the play opened a couple of months ago) has already left the show, and also because the performance just seemed a little flat. But it was still Chekhov, and how bad can that be?
I also went to a choral concert at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and went on a walking tour of Christopher Wren's London, which took us into several churches that I never would have known to go into on my own. And I went to a whole bunch of museums, including the Victoria & Albert, where they currently have a great Art Deco exhibit. The audioguide for the exhibit is narrated by Stephen Fry, and it has lots of nice touches: for example, at the end of the section on 1920's evening gowns, the audioguide plays a brief snippet of Fred Astaire singing "The Way You Look Tonight."
And I paid my first-ever visit to the Imperial War Museum, which turned out to be fascinating. One of the most interesting parts, to me, was the special section on Field Marshall Montgomery. The displays included his pocket diary, which was open to this entry for June 6, 1944: "Invaded Normandy." Talk about British understatement!
And now (if anyone is still awake), back to the game!
Tie to Kevin Kline:
1982-2002
Very wealthy publisher
Very wealthy Vice President
Very wealthy President
Very wealthy father
Bree: Your trip sounds wonderful. I've been reading about Tom Stoppard on the net this morning. I hadn't realized he wrote screenplays for Brazil, Empire of the Sun and Shakespeare in Love. How about this quote from
Arcadia! "It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we go out the way we came in."
"Invaded Normandy". I love it. And the Fred Astaire touch "cracked me up". So glad that you had such a wonderful time and saw so many beautiful things.
Okay, fealola, I'm ready for a small clue. And I'm assuming that the actor played both a President and a Vice-President of the United States? (not of a bank or some-such?)
That's correct he played both. (U.S.) One of them several times for which he is well known.
The connection to Kevin Kline is very recent and not in the listed films.
I'm thinking that it's Edward Hermann (very tentatively).
He was FDR in Annie (1982), Nelson Rockefeller in Nixon (1995), but his only credit in 2000 was for Better Living in which he played a priest.
I haven't found his credit as a publisher or as a wealthy dad.
