I only watched one movie last week, and that was yesterday. I hoped to watch and then review, but I dunno, I didn’t get it, really. Next week.
Since we’re all back to work or school, and we haven’t been talking much lately, I’m opening the trivia to the free-for-all format. First person to solve the question gets to post the next question.
The plot centers around a woman having an affair with a married man, except he’s keeping a secret: He’s not really married.
Is it Indiscreet?
Yep.
O.K., next question:
Who is the only movie character to win two Oscars, i.e. both times he (or she) was portrayed, the performer playing him/her won the Academy Award.
Tricky!
Hint: It was two different performers in the role.
Queen Elizabeth I?
No.
Vito Corleone?
Second hint: It’s a male.
I was surprised to find out that Elizabeth I wasn’t even “nominated” until fairly recently: Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth” and Judi Dench (who won) in “Shakespeare in Love.” But not Bette Davis or Glenda Jackson (though Jackson won an Emmy for playing her.)
Vito Corleone is correct! Marlon Brando, then Robert DeNiro.
Test.
The site is being hinky with my posts. Evn is correct.
I don’t know why you ended up in the spam queue again. I’ll keep my eye on it.
Evn, you’re up!
Since I’ve got royalty on the brain now…
“Do you think an old queen’s capable of raising a child?”
“Well, Elizabeth did a pretty good job. Prince Charles is a wonderful boy.”
“Edward’s still a bit of a worry.”
Hint:
“No more fucking ABBA.”
It’s not To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar”, is it?
It’s not. But close.
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?
Huzzah!
A: “What’s up with that?”
B: “I slit my wrists.”
C: “What’d you do it with?”
B: “A–a kitchen knife.”
C: “You even did it the right way.”
B: “Yeah . . . ”
A: “PUNK ROCK! Let’s go.”
D: “The right way? How do you know the right way?”
C: “Shut up, Rochelle.”
D: “Well how do you know?”
The Craft.
And the lady/gentleman/genderless elemental wins another cigar.
After he catches her snooping in his apartment, she puts a curse on his telephone.
Bell, Book & Candle? (Don’t remember this scene, but it sounds kinda Jack Lemmonesque.)
You are correct! It was one of the opening scenes between Aunt Queenie and Shep, although in the stage version, Nicky (played by Jack Lemmon in the film) does the cursing.
Here you are: The same actor, the same character, two very different movies some years apart (NOT sequels). Each performance Oscar-nominated, neither won.
Peter O’Toole as Henry II, first in Becket, then in The Lion in Winter.
‘zactly.
Name the actress who played the romantic interest to a time traveler in two completely unrelated movies.
maybe Rachel Weisz?
Rachel Weisz waasn’t who I was thinking of. What movies?
Or Jane Seymour?
It was more by way of a guess. You know, like “The Fountain and some other movie I haven’t seen but maybe exists.”
And I was thinking “Somewhere in Time, and that other movie where she dates that guy.”
Oh, then no on Rachel Weisz. And no on Jane Seymour. Unless anyone knows of another time-travel movie they were the love interest in.
I don’t actually think I know that many time travel movies. This appears to be not my favorite sub-genre. Who knew?
Mary Steenburgen was in Time After Time and Back to the Future Part III. She’s a longtime romantic interest of mine as well.
Hint: One of the films isn’t well-remembered (I don’t think it was a hit even when it released), but the other was part of an enormously successful multi-part film franchise.
Hogan’s got it!
Time After Time has been on my list of films to watch FOREVER.
^It’s definitely worth seeing.
Oh, and Hogan has excellent taste in romantic interests. 🙂
Actress who in a ten-year span played a murderer, a murderer for hire, a woman falsely accused of murder, and a private detective investigating a murder.
This shouldn’t take long.
Kathleen Turner!
And Hazel takes it to the hoop.
This actress has played an engineer, an astronomer and a nun.
That sounds like Jodie Foster; Secret Lives of Altar Boys & Contact; not sure about the engineer.
She’s an engineer in “Flightplan.”
Deborah and George have it. I don’t know who gets to ask the next question though…
Deborah actually got the answer: I just cleaned up. It’s all hers.
Ho ho! I got it!
This actor was hired to play a small role as the brother of a lead character. Eventually he ended up playing both brothers. The script was changed for them to be twins, although this was never mentioned in the movie.