Deborah Lipp

Hey, my friend’s sister just went into labor. It’s a little bit premature (36 weeks, I think) so let’s focus positive thoughts and work this trivia on movies featuring pregnancy and/or childbirth:

1. She hit her head and then eloped. When she woke up, she couldn’t remember who she’d married.
Solved by Hogan (comment #4).

2. Doing the laundry, he is appalled by how huge maternity panties are.
Solved by Tracy (comment #8).

3. “You have a girl. Unless I cut the wrong cord.”
Solved by George (comment #6).

4. In this classic, the heroine helps her beloved’s wife give birth.
Solved by Wendy (comment #2).

5. “Can’t we just, like, kick this old school? Like, I have the baby, put it in a basket and send it your way, like, Moses and the reeds?”
Solved by Wendy (comment #2).

6. A woman becomes pregnant while in a coma.
Solved by Erik (comment #3).

7. The first of many movies that combines a famous director, a famous star, and the director’s signature location.
Solved by Melville (comment #5).

Trivia won’t go up until this evening, after 6pm (Eastern).

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.

It’s been ages since I stumped you!

» Read more..

1. A famous gunman taking a bath out in the middle of a field. Another man proud he was able to surprise him.
Solved by Barbs (comment #10).

2. Even in her fantasties of a holiday with the man she wishes loved her, he is unsmiling and grim.
Solved by George (comment #2).

3. She and her husband cross-country ski together, but when alone, she gets lost.
Solved by George (comment #1).

4. Alone in a park, a girl acts out readings from a favorite book. This will be important later.
Solved by Tina (comment #3).

5. He meets the murder victim while she is picking out a hat.
HINT: The movie is primarily about a murder trial.
Solved by Melville (comment #11).

6. He’s such a clumsy thief that she spots him easily in the train station, laughs at him, and ends up sleeping with him.
HINT: A lesser-known 1970s movie with a notable cast.

7. She doesn’t like him to look at her body, but she holds open her robe for him for just a few seconds.
HINT: A romance adapted from the stage.
Solved by maurinsky (comment #12).

That was quick. Good job, folks. This particular selection of seven quotes delights me no end. Some of them cracked me up as I typed them, and crack me up again as I typed the solutions, and some really move me…Good decade for movies, I think.

» Read more..

This is kind of depressing. It’s like, next week, I have to have an actual idea.

1. If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me. Come back to me is my request.
Solved by Barbs (comment #7).

2. I feel like if someone were to touch me, I’d dissolve into molecules.
Solved by George (comment #5).

3. What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).

4. When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I’m saying to you is this: when you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference?
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #2).

5. Woman: There’s this huge space between us, and it just keeps filling up with everything that we don’t say to each other. What’s that called?
Marriage Counselor: Marriage.
Solved by Evn (comment #4).

6. No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.
Solved by Evn (comment #4).

7. Why in pluperfect hell would you pee on corpse?
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #3).

Well done, everyone!

» Read more..

This should be good…the 1990s were a great decade for film. Let’s see what I can dig up:

1. You don’t want to turn into the town drunk, Eddie. Not in Manhattan.
Solved by George (comment #7).

2. I want to look good naked.
Solved by Trevor J (comment #1).

3. I never gave a ticket to a nun before. I gave a ticket to a guy from the IRS one time. Got audited the next year.
Solved by Barbs (comment #12).

4. We must never forget that we are human, and as humans we dream, and when we dream we dream of money.
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #4).

5. I’ve been on a diet every day since I was nineteen, which basically means I’ve been hungry for a decade. I’ve had a series of not nice boyfriends, one of whom hit me. Ah, and every time I get my heart broken, the newspapers splash it about as though it’s entertainment.
Solved by Melville (comment #2).

6. There was a moment when I used to blame everything and everyone for all the pain and suffering and vile things that happened to me, that I saw happen to my people. Used to blame everybody. Blamed white people, blamed society, blamed God. I didn’t get no answers ’cause I was asking the wrong questions. You have to ask the right questions.
Solved by Ben (comment #11).

7. Everyone thinks I’m this big dyke because I wear baggy pants and play sports and I’m not pretty like other girls.
Solved by Evn (comment #3).

No hints this week!

I have learned that I watched far more comedies in the 1980s than in any other decade.

» Read more..