Deborah Lipp

Well, y’know, New Hampshire Primaries. We have a theme going.

1. A prop campaign button from this film is on display at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History in Washington. It is on display with several authentic campaign buttons.
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).

2. “Nice thing about you, Joe, is that you can sound like a liberal, but at heart you’re an American.”
Solved by Melville (comment #10) and Barbs (comment #11).

3. “There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off.”
Solved by Hazel (comment #7).

4. Because the Boy Scouts of America objected to the politics of this film, the fictitious “Boy Rangers” were used.
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).

5. This film about the rise and fall of a South American political figure features a scene in which a group of soldiers shower with their underwear on.
Solved by Melville (comment #6).

6. “You’re right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year.”
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).

7. John Wayne was offered the lead in this film, but refused it in a heated letter to his agent, saying it “smears the machinery of government for no purpose of humor or enlightenment.”
Solved by Melville (comment #8).

Go, nurse your hangover. Make resolutions. Break them. Come back for trivia next week.

I got nothing today. Sorry. Perils of blogging from the office.

But Roberta and Melville are having themselves a jolly ol’ sing-along in yesterday’s movie review comments, and it occurs to me that there are lots of movies with sing-alongs.

So, I will post a clue for a movie with a sing-along, and whoever gets it can post the next clue to a movie with a sing-along, and so on.

My clue: The walls of Jericho are metaphorically trumpeted down at the end.

This theme quiz was handled in short order. Congratulations!

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(Theme solved by Evn, comment #6.)

1. “To make a long story short…” / “Too late!”
Solved by Evn (comment #1).

2. Trying to get to Shell Beach.
Solved by Evn (comment #13).

3. This is the directorial debut of an actor, and his leading lady is his real life wife. It is the only English language film he directed. She made her screen debut in her teens and is the daughter of a famous actress.
Solved by Evn (comment #20).

4. This is the eight film adaptation of this classic novel. There have also been two mini-series, and two made-for-TV movies. This modernized version stars a man who started acting in his teens, and also writes and directs, and a woman who made her screen debut in her teens and is the daughter of a famous actress (but is not the same actress as in clue #3).
Solved by Hazel (comment #14 and 15).

5. The machine that goes “Ping.”
Solved by Evn (comment #2).

6. “Come on, ________, think of something clever to say, huh? Something full of magic, religion, bullshit. Come on, dazzle me.”
Solved by Evn (comment #13).

7. A famous fictional character (and his fictional co-stars) meets a famous historical character in a plot revolving around the two stars’ shared addiction.
Solved by Melville (comment #3).

Trivia was all solved with no hints! Yay! Solutions below the fold.

I’m going to drop the requirement that every trivia game have a Bond connection. My Bond readers have primarily migrated over to the other blog, and the trivia players here don’t get a lot of fun out of hunting down the Bond question, as far as I can tell.

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In support of the writer’s strike, here are things that were written:

1. So, young woman, the way forward is sometimes the way back.
Solved by Evn (comment #3).

2. Dames are put on this earth to weaken us, drain our energy, laugh at us when they see us naked.
Solved by Barbs (comment #21).

3. Merry Christmas, sorry I fucked you over.
Solved by George (comment #19).

4. Congratulations to you and Peter. I’m glad you taught me to speak so I could say that.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

5. You must excuse me, gentlemen, not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humor rather difficult to follow!
Solved by Barbs (comment #22).

6. From where I sat it looked as though you were conjugating some irregular verbs.
Solved by TomHilton (comment #14).

7. I’ve got a degree in ass wiggling, mate.
Solved by Evn (comment #2).

A satisfying array; not too easy, but solved in a few hours.

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1. “Cute as a pail full of kittens.”
Solved by Daven (comment #10).

2. Made for TV movie starring a James Bond and someone killed off in the pilot of a popular current TV show.
Solved by Roberta (comment #5).

3. Stopping to watch a pretty girl dance to a juke box proves his undoing.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

4. This movie co-stars two men who played the same character in a movie and its sequel. This is the only movie in which they both appear.
Solved by Melville (comment #2).

5. A small, pampered dog causes an airport baggage cart driver to swerve.
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #3).

6. 1st Man: “Why do they always paint hallways that color?”
2nd Man: “They say taupe is very soothing.”
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #4).

7. “I made a cardinal rule: never to answer the phone in December.”
Solved by Evn (comment #8).

More hints than usual, but we’re all solved now.

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