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Quiz 3
Quiz 4
Quiz 5
Quiz 1:
1.) "What are you going to do? Charge me with smoking?" Who says
this and I need a complete answer?
2.) What is the connection between Betty Field, Cassie Yates and
Sherilyn Fenn?
3.) "Make a wrong turn in the Bronx, then sit back and watch the
sparks fly!" Hollywood marketing hype for what movie?
4.) "There was this one girl everybody was rushin'. Her body was
just boomin' like a centerfold. so I'm eyeballin' her. She
walks right up to me and she says, 'Is this your ride'?"
Name the movie.
5.) There have been 77 books written about this Hollywood figure,
who is surely the most written about public figure in
history. Who?
6.) Which were the three major disapppointments of the summer season
of 1992, according to cinema score and their tabulation of 1st
night interviews with movie audiences? (hint: all were sequals)
7.) Comptemptuously, Mark Twain referred to one of the main characters
as "Chicago." Appropriate, then, that a guy from Chicago got to
make the latest movie in which the characte Twain called "Chicago"
appears. What film?
8.) The following movie titles are all missing one word:
_ in Harlem, _ in Paris and _ Among the Angels, what word?
9.) As one of Hollywoods naughtier legends has it, a key word in one
of Hollywood's most honored films (Citizen Kane) si actually a
flagrently obscene in-joke, based on the secretly overheard
intimate conversations of a famous man and the women he loved.
What is the word?
10.) "We are in uncharted territory now, making up history as we went
along." What movie is this from?
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Quiz 2:
11.) This is the unsentimental description of a legendary star from a
man who saw him close up without illusions: He hid money in
mattresses, slept on the floor at various people's houses, was
a chronic pothead who forgot rehearsals and stayed out all night
before important studio calls. Writers who managed to wangle
interviews with him were rewarded with stony silence in response
to their question until they would finally leave in embarrassment.
Who was he?
12.) Fortunate indeed for this singularly beautiful child that her father
ran a chi chi gallery inside the Beverly Hills Hotel, where she
was noticed at the tender age of nine, and signed a long term
contract the following year. Her name?
13.) It was one of the most memorable scenes in a movie with more than
it's share of them. The actor talked in the first take, then the
director had an inspired idea: "Do it again," he said, "but this
time don't say anything. Do everything, but don't let a word come
out." That was how they did it. Set the scene, name the actor and
the movie.
14.) She was originaly cast in the Geena Davis part in A League
of Their Own. Reportedly she objected to the casting of
Madonna, and walked. She still received $2,000,000. Who is she?
15.) What is the significance of this list: Boyz 'n the Hood,
Silence of the Lambs, New Jack City, Sleeping With the Enemy and
City Slickers?
16.) The whole experience, and the personal scorn he received, left him
shattered, and, he admits, he still hasn't recovered. He says, "I
hope I survive it. Has it hut? A lot." And he gracefully accepts
full blame for the fiasco, a combination of hubris, and his not
grasping the material. Who is he and what is he talking about?
17.) One measure of Hollywood's present disgust with extortionate
saleries for fading stars is the fact that these two men recently
had to agree to zero money up front, with their compensation to
come as a percent of the gross (and idea i fully embrace). Who
are they?
18.) Charlie Chaplin had a few proteges over his long life and career
but none of them ever acheived more independent success then this
early associate, close friend, confidant, and reliable understudy.
Who was he?
19.) We of it today with a very different function, but it began as the
company union at MGM, created to hold off any real labor
organizing among actors, writers and directors. What is it?
20.) This movie had been banned in Britain for nearly 20 years. At the
insistance of its American director. What movie, and why?
more to come so stay tuned!
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Quiz 3:
21.) The following are all fine films, but they also share in one of
Hollywood's less noble traditions: Meet John doe, The
Magnificent Ambersons and Fatal Attraction. What
tradition?
22.) The drunken monologue that the James Dean character delivers to
an empty Texas ballroom in the movie Giant has
a very special distinction, and I wonder if you know what it is?
23.) What is the connection between Jeremy Irons, Michael O'Shea and
Vanessa Redgrave?
24.) Ultra-low-budget, ultra-high-profit, with few if any pretenses
at seriousness of message or artistic merit, this film is
acknowledged as the commercial model black film of the '90's.
What is it?
25.) The story has been told many differnt ways, but this is the way
it really hapened, in the words the great star actually used:
"I can't do this scene. I can't go on with the picture. I won't
be directed by a fairy. I have to work with a real man." Who
said it, where and about who?
26.) He was a farmer in the central Wisconsin town of Plainfield, who
died seven years ago in a hospital in Waupun, Wisconsin, at the
age of 78. Obscure for most of his life and penniless for all,
he nevertheless served as the acknowledged inspiration for half
a dozen major American films. Who was he, and what were some of
the films?
27.) He was one of WWII's most decorated flier, with 89 missions over
places like Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Rabaul. After the war
he flew Boeing Stratocrusers for Pan Am. then he left this well-
paid job with the airline to become a cop in L.A. that led to
writing speeches for the chief, which led to more writing
assignments, including TV, and an Emmy for an acclaimed Western
serious. Other serious followed and ultimately the movies. Who
was he?
28.) Perhaps the most troubled set in recent movie history (The Crow
with Brandon Lee is a close second). Hysteria and disease and
heart attacks and drug abuse and violent weather and a local
civil war all conspired against the making of the film, not to
mention the behavior of one of it's stars, who at one point
"waddled" off the set, announcing, "I can't think of any more
dialogue today." What was the film?
29.) His versatality in the theatrical and cinematic arts has probably
never been equalled: stage director, property master, lighting
director, makeup artist of international renown (he wrote the
entry on movie makeup for the Encyclopedia Britannica), screen-
writer, producer, director, and actor. All crammed into a life
of only 46 years! who was he?
30.) "Before he came down here, it never snowed, and afterwards, it did.
If he weren't up there now, I don't think it would be snowing."
Who said this and in what movie?
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How'd you do?
Answers:
Quiz 1:
1.) Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct .
2.) They all played Curly's doomed wife Mae in different versions of
Of Mice and Men .
3.) Bonfire of the Vanities.
4.) Boyz 'N the Hood.
5.) Marilyn Monroe
6.) Batman Returns, Aliens III, Honey, I Blew up the Kid.
7.) Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, with Indian
activist Russell Means playing Chingachgook.
8.) The word Rage.
9.) Rosebud.
Quiz 2:
10.) Terminator 2.
11.) James Dean.
12.) Elizebeth Taylor.
13.) Christopher Walken's being questioned by a doctor in a Shangai
hostipal in The Deerhunter.
14.) Debra Winger.
15.) The most successful films of 1991 as measured by box office
return on production cost.
16.) Brian De Palma talking about the failure of his screen
adaptation of Bonfire of the Vanities.
17.) Robert Redford and Bruce Willis (both of whom earned the right
to once again demand upfront money).
18.) Stan Laurel
19.) The Acedemy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science, the Oscar people!
20.) Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange because of
past violence.
Quiz 3:
21.) Grafting on a "happy" ending after adverse reactions by studio
execs or test audiences.
22.) The voice that we hear is not Dean's, but another, uncredited
actor, called in for re-dubbing after Dean's death when it was
found his lines were unintelligible.
23.) All played real life authors, in Kafka, Jack London, and
Agatha, respectively.
24.) New Jack City.
25.) Clark Gable, on the set of Gone With the Wind,
about George Cukor. The next day, Gable didn't show up for work.
The day after that, Cukor was gone, replaced by Victor Flemming.
26.) The transsexual cannibal and necrophilic serial killer Ed Gein,
who inspired the Psycho and Texas Chain Saw
films.
27.) Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek.
28.) Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.
(Brando was the one who walked.)
29.) Lon Chaney, Sr.
30.) "Old" Winona Ryder, in Tim Burton's utterly original film,
Edward Scissorhands.