Deborah Lipp

1. “After the therapy, and the psychiatry, and the meetings, you know what it all comes down to? You’re all fucked up.”
Hint: Based on a true story, the star (who speaks this line) is an Oscar winner who was nominated an additional seven times. Solved by George (comment #14).

2. The character played by a two-time Oscar winner hides a gun in a cup of coffee.
Hint: The writer/director is most famous as a playwright.
Solved by George (comment #11).

3. This 1930s musical has the same name as a 2004 remake–but not a remake of this movie.
Solved by Melville (comment #2).

4. “I like the stink of the streets. It cleans out my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on.”
Solved by George (comment #10).

5. The actual San Quentin gas chamber was measured so it could be perfectly replicated in the studio for this movie.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

6. “Hey! Didn’t I see you on Cops?”
Hint: 2008.
Solved by George (comment #11).

7. Based on a true story about an unsolved crime, a cartoonist is the investigator.
Solved by Bill (comment #3).

Honestly, I never saw a bunch of people stress so much over Madonna.

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1. “Queer how the folks on the bottom looks down on the folks on the top. It was always that way.”
Solved by George (comment #12).

2. Trash can lids as dancing shoes.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

3. “You’re dead and you’re still into party politics?”
Solved by Evn (comment #25).

4. This is the first sequel of a multi-sequel franchise. The star of the first movie would only consent to return for this movie if he was killed off.
Solved by Bill (comment #10).

5. One of the stars of this film wrote an autobiographical account of the filming process. In addition, one of the screenwriters wrote a (barely) fictionalized version of the experience. The fictionalized version was itself turned into a film.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

6. “It’s the truth that you should never trust anybody who wears a bow tie. Cravat’s supposed to point down to accentuate the genitals. Why’d you wanna trust somebody whose tie points out to accentuate his ears?”
Solved by Melissa (comment #27).

7. This movie features a pop star who also co-wrote its theme song. Her stand-in for the film was a woman who worked impersonating her in Vegas.
Solved by George (comment #22).

Mostly by Evn:
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1. “You ruthlessly slept with me twice.”
Solved by Evn (comment #1)

2. Based in part on a real-life incident, the movie’s pinball machine was a pool table in reality.
Solved by Evn (comment #1)

3. River Phoenix was scheduled to appear in this film. The actor who replaced him upon Phoenix’s death donated a large sum from his salary to two of Phoenix’s favorite charities.
Solved by Evn (comment #1)

4. “We knew the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love, and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
Solved by Evn (comment #3)

5. “All radio is dead, which means that these tape recordings I’m making are for the sake of future history – If any.”
Solved by Evn (comment #3)

6. A real-life former Supreme Court Justice plays a Supreme Court Justice in this film.
Solved by Evn (comment #3)

7. “You should have seen the Atlantic Ocean back then.”
TIE: Solved by Melville (comment #2) and Evn (comment #3)

I am not feeling good. My brain thinks it’s three a.m. and I shouldn’t be awake. I have no idea why.

Anyway, no damn chance of seven trivia questions, so we’re doing more actor round-robin. It was a lot of fun last week. I’ll start:

An obsessed fan, a boxer, an overprotective father.

Today it’ll be a round robin, and it’s guess the actor.

I’ll start.

A historical bandit. A professional reader. A mentor to a younger spy.

Good job, folks. Melville kicked it.

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Name the actor. Roles listed are not necessarily Oscar-winning roles, but each actor has at least one naked gold man on his or her mantle.

1. A superhero. A supervillain. A covert political operative. A real-life movie star (made for TV movie).
Solved by Melville (comment #17).

2. A Quaker. The new husband of a Quaker. A fake suicide.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

3. A princess. A beatnik-turned-model. A mother superior.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

4. A supervillain. A real-life singer. A cuckolded husband.
Solved by Trevor J. (comment #4).

5. A mother superior. The mother of a rabbi.A philandering music-hall performer.
Solved by Evn (comment #9).

6. A murderer on death row. A newly-inducted soldier about to ship out. A jazz guitarist.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

7. The First Lady. A painter. A wealthy daughter planning her father’s party.
Solved by Melville (comment #17). (But maurinsky knew it.)