Deborah Lipp

1. The hero visits his boss’s home, which is a stately manor with a butler and an extensive butterfly collection.
Solved by ArthurLB (comment #10—third try’s the charm).

2. They live on a space ship with flowers and vines painted on the walls of the mess.
Solved by maurinsky (comment #14).

3. First she lives in a lovely English manor, then a palace, then a tower.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #1).

4. The telepaths live in an underground fortress reached through abandoned subway stations.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #1).

5. A mountaintop convent in the Indian Himalayas.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #2) and Melville one minute later (comment #3).

6. Many of the film’s characters are sleeping on the floor of a New York apartment that belongs to one of them.
HINT: A lesser known film by a famous and highly-regarded director, made in the 21st Century.

7. They live in a town that has the “first mountain in Wales.”
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #1).

All solved in record time!

Name the actor or actress by identifying spouses they’ve had in the movies.

1. Peter O’Toole, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

2. Carla Gugino, Tamlyn Tomita, Angelina Jolie
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #5).

3. John Lithgow, Alan Arkin, Chris Cooper
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #9).

4. Lauren Bacall, Ann Todd, Polly Bergen
Solved by Melville (comment #4).

5. Anthony Hopkins, Ian Richardson, Jim Broadbent
Solved by George (comment #10).

6. Téa Leoni, Laura Linney, Maura Tierney
Solved by maurinsky (comment #6).

7. Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, Christopher Walken
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #7).

This was a tough one, with lots of wrong guesses, but it was an awful lot of fun, and guess what? Pretty easy to write. So it’s definitely going to make a reappearance.

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He’s a tough one, so I added co-stars.

Name the actors based on their roles:

1. He’s played a drag queen, a terrorist, and a blind man.
Solved by Cosette (comment #26).

2. A teacher of the deaf, a mob wife, and a Marxist journalist.
Solved by fiona (comment #20).

3. He’s been an author, a KGB traitor, Satan, and an evil doctor.
HINT: (Fixed) Movie #1 is with Amy Irving, Movie #2 has John Rhys-Davies, movie #3 is with Debra Messing, and movie #4 is with Harrison Ford.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #32).

4. She’s played a Mother Superior, a suicidal countess, and an Evil Queen.
Solved by Steve H. (comment #11).

5. He’s had two famous roles as generals, been a con man, and robbed a bank in a most unusual way.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #4).

6. An assassain, a fashion model, a sociopath, and a car thief.
Solved by Brandi (comment #14).

7. A computer designer, a sports manager, and Thomas Edison.
Solved by Melville (comment #23), but TehipiteTom knew it three minutes too late (comment #24).

This was like the lightning round, with Amy coming in and doing a total wipe-out. I see that Amy is to Whedonverse as Roberta is to songs.

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Said by whom on what show or in what movie?

1. Who remembers Connery? I mean, Roger Moore was smooth!
Solved by Amy (comment #13).

2. When you die, I can’t hurt you any more.
Solved by Amy (comment #13).

3. Somebody get me a lawyer, because my civil rights have seriously been violated.
Solved by Randal Graves (comment #5).

4. You’re like… a trained ape. Without the training.
Solved by Jarred (comment #12).

5. Respect the cruller, and tame the doughnut!
Solved by Evn (comments #9 and 10).

6. Can I say somethin about destiny? Screw destiny!
Solved by Amy (comment #14).

7. You guys always bring me the very best violence.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #1).

8. I don’t believe in tiny Jewish Santa anymore. (I’ve already told several people this, so it’s easy, but I love it so very, very much. So it’s your extra.)
Solved by Amy (comment #13) (and she wasn’t one of the people I told, either).

Although I specialize in vignettes and quotes, this week we’re doing real trivia. Because real trivia is harder to assemble and harder (I think) to solve, you’re only getting five questions.

1. In this courtroom drama, the two leads had each played the same role in two different film versions of the same story, ten years apart.
Solved by Evn (comment #11).

2. The star of this movie is the son of an Oscar-winning actor and a famous singer. His even-more-famous first cousin appears in the credits as “Lip Syncing Transvestite.” (You can’t make this shit up.)
Solved by Evn (comment #5).

3. This all-star, testosterone-laden extravaganza features a James Bond, two Bond villains, a famous “thief,” a Rat Packer, two famous singers, and two actors arguably more famous for their marriages than their work.
Solved by George (comment #8).

4. The two leads of this Western buddy pic were originally cast in each other’s roles. Two minor roles are played by Mel Brooks stock players.
Solved by Ken (comment #3).

5. In this adaptation of a novel, involving (in part) a love triangle, the star had worked with the director twice before, once in an Oscar-nominated ensemble piece. The “other woman” in this movie’s triangle was married, at the time of filming this movie, to a co-star of that ensemble piece. The wife in this movie’s triangle has played a novelist, a killer, a femme fatale, and an animated sexpot.
Solved (unseen) by Roberta (comment #1).

Since this was so successful when Tom did it, and since I am still recovering from my trip, I am doing a trivia roundtable this week. Answer the following question and you get to post the next question. It can go as long as people are having fun.

In The Graduate, there’s a scene near the end where Dustin Hoffman confronts Katharine Ross in her apartment. An uncredited bit player would rise to stardom and Oscar victory. Name him.