Deborah Lipp

In honor of the Oscar nominations, announced today, each of the following movies won a different number of Academy Awards (from one to seven)

1. Shaving cream on the mirror to disable a spy hole.
Hint: The mirror is in a bathroom on an airplane.

2. A feel-good star, a feel-good director, a small role for the director’s brother, and a portentous lost wedding ring.
Solved by maurinsky.

3. Man: “What watch?”
Woman: “Ten watch.”
Man: “Such much?”
Solved by Ken.

4. The electroshock therapy portrayed in this loose-with-the-facts biopic (made in the current decade) was less horrific than the insulin therapy that was actually used.
Solved by Ken.

5. The director decided a duet would be sung in shadow because one of the singers couldn’t stop giggling during takes.
Solved by maurinsky.

6. Update: The title is the name of both a person and a rose.
Solved by Tom.

7. Update: A post-war graveyard for fighter planes. In retrospect, I’m not sure if this is a graveyard, a maintenance facility, or what (even though I’ve seen the movie many times). It’s a big ol’ field of fighter planes.
Solved by Tom.

Hints added to yesterday’s trivia.

Use the description or scene to identify the movie.

1. Her older sister makes the father of her illegitimate child sleep in the barn…and she joins him there.
Hint: A period piece set in Ireland.
Solved by Maurinsky.

2. He’s a writer who asks a coat check girl to explain the plot of a novel to him.
Solved by Melville.

3. The women in this movie are a bored yachtswoman, a pipeline worker, a concert cellist, and an executive secretary.
Hint: A wild ride with the Mujahadeen.
Solved by George.

4. When the owners of the loft arrive, he is wearing his own underwear on his head.
Hint: He’s an Englishman who also speaks Russian.
Solved by Ken.

5. A dream disguises the name of a New York nightclub.
Hint: The dream sequence is the most celebrated part of this classic film by a renowned director.
Solved by George.

6. Despite her mother’s urging, she doesn’t want to learn how to make aloo gobi.
Solved by Amy.

7. He meets his girlfriend when he hides behind her legs under her retail counter at Bloomingdale’s.
Solved by Melville.

Answers below the fold.
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You all certainly pulled it out at the last minute yesterday. Only two movies left. Hints have been added.

Update: Only one left!

1. The customer doesn’t know if a computer accessory will work on his Mac. He also doesn’t know that the man talking to him will meet him at a hotel in the near future.
Hint: The star of this film is one of those comics-turned-dramatic-actors.

2. The American persuades the Englishman to trespass in a walled garden, where they find a lovely bench.
Solved by Melville.

3. A college student goes to a costume party dressed as a Freudian slip.
Solved by Amy.

4. “Why can’t you just be a good boy and die?” / “You first.”
Solved by Proteus.

5. She rows out to a lighthouse to paint, and that’s where she falls in love.
Solved by Evn.

6. He holds a jail hostage by threatening to blow it up with fake dynamite. (This is obscure.)
Hint: This little-known (but delightful) film features a remarkable cast, including an Oscar-winner who is also the father of a well-known Indie actor, an actress best-known for a Kubrick film, and an array of comic character actors (including Strother Martin) stealing their respective scenes .
Solved by George.

7. “My patients didn’t like my cough.”
Solved by Proteus.

Quickest answers ever.

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Guess the movie. Now with exciting New Year’s features: All of the following movies feature a New Year’s Eve celebration.
Update: All done!

1. He runs all the way to the New Year’s Eve party.
Solved by Daven.

2. The theives leave behind a monkey mask.
Solved by (record-holder) Daven.

3. “Fredo, you broke my heart.”
Solved by Daven.

4. The painter lives upstairs from the pianist; both are expatriates.
Solved by Tom.

5. A “Vicars and Tarts” party doesn’t quite work out for our heroine.
Solved by Daven.

6. A coven revives a goddess.
Solved (with much enthusiasm) by Evn.

7. “Keep passing the open windows.”
Solved by Ken.

(Note: Do not look for the Bond tie-in this week. I skipped it in favor of the New Year’s tie-in.)

Good job, everyone! This week, every movie was figured out, with only one hint.

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Today we feature Terse Trivia. Each brief description or quotation leads to a movie.

1. A white dog named Bullseye.
Solved by The Minstrel Boy.

2. Two characters in this movie played side-by-side as doctor and nurse in a Kubrick film.
HINT: A colorful Connery film.

3. A Senator’s painting of a llama indicates corruption.
Solved by Dawa Lhamo.

4. A redhead named Juanita is the school slut.
Solved by Tom.

5. “Mozarrella! Gorgonzola! Volare!”
Solved by Tom.

6. A New England intellectual is told he’s too indecisive to be President. (This is fiction.)
Solved by Melville.

7. Mom says “chapeau” instead of “chateau.”
Solved by Danny Hostetter.