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This man played Charlotte Rampling’s cuckolded husband, Judge Grayle, in 1975’s Farewell, My Lovely. Author of the unfilmed treatments Bo, about a hobo, for Robert Redford, as well as Lunatic at Large for Stanley Kubrick, for whom he co-scripted Paths of Glory and The Killing, he penned a novel centering on sheriff Nick Corey that was moved to colonial Africa as Coup de torchon. Walter Hill fought with him over screenplay credit for a 1972 film of his book about bank robbers Doc and Carol McCoy, while Donald E. Westlake adapted a well-known movie from his story dealing with con artists Lilly and Roy Dillon. FTP, name this writer of Pop. 1280 whose works have served as a fertile source for such classics as Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway and Stephen Frears’ The Grifters. ANSWER: Jim Thompson This man played Pinder, an expert witness called in A Civil Action, and Robert Altman cast him in a role that referenced Jacques Tati. While a teenager, he spent three months in prison for stealing a credit card, an event detailed in his memoir Moab Is My Washpot. An early success with the Bram Stoker-inspired dramatic monologue “The Letter” was followed by appearances as Hutchison in A Fish Called Wanda, the stuffy James Moreland in I.Q., the Duke of Wellington – a part he had earlier essayed on TV – in Sabotage!, and Peter in Kenneth Branagh’s Peter’s Friends. He has a cameo as a chauffeur in the Evelyn Waugh adaptation Bright Young Things, which was also his directorial debut. Known for putting up with the antics of Alan Davies on QI and Hugh Laurie in Jeeves and Wooster, this is, FTP, what British polymath who portrayed the title character of Wilde? ANSWER: Stephen Fry 60 This actress’ last role was a cameo as “Woman in Hotel Lobby” in I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, a movie based on a screenplay by the person who cast her in her most famous film. She was a hag in The Magic Sword and Etta Toodie in Sex Kittens Go to College, but she is better known for being portrayed by Lisa Marie in a 1994 biopic and for suing Cassandra Peterson. Her most memorable part saw the actor playing her husband die 2 days into production, at which point he was replaced by the director’s wife’s chiropractor, a much taller man who held a cape over his face. FTP, name this woman who silently starred as a zombie in Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space, a legendary horror-movie hostess and niece of the “Flying Finn.” ANSWER: Maila Nurmi or Vampira A reverend who debates the hero of this movie is played by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chariots of Fire, and David Warner appears uncredited as the village idiot. Based on the novel The Siege of Trencher’s Farm by Gordon Williams, it was titled after a passage from the Tao Te Ching. The protagonist is tricked into going on a hunting trip, and later states, “I will not allow violence against this house.” Banned on video in the UK for decades because of a scene possibly implying that a woman enjoys being gang-raped, it climaxes with a violent confrontation in which mathematician David Sumner brutally kills several home invaders. FTP, name this enormously controversial 1971 film starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Sam Peckinpah. ANSWER: Straw Dogs This man’s most famous work begins with a quotation from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 94. He wrote that the title couple “thought and felt whatever their political commitment required them to think and to feel” in his controversial essay “The ‘Idealism’ of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg” and attacked Arthur Miller in “The Liberal Conscience in The Crucible.” One of his essays on cinema describes a “man of the city ... carrying his life in his hands like a placard” as a “tragic hero,” while another argues that the title “figure of repose” arises from society’s “refusal to acknowledge the value of violence.” FTP, name this cultural critic who analyzed “the gangster” and “the Westerner” and whose writings are collected in The Immediate Experience. ANSWER: Robert Warshow This man has an uncredited cameo as a corporate CEO who helps Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda. He is the model for Jacques Blanc, one of the protagonists of the video game Onimusha 3: Demon Siege, and two different characters played by Harvey Keitel were inspired by his performance as Victor, “the cleaner.” In another role, he pilots a helicopter that chases the hero into the Chunnel. More famously, he faced an antagonist who asked for “everyone ... EVERYONE!!!” FTP, name this Morocco-born co-star of Mission: Impossible and The Da Vinci Code who worked with Luc Besson in La Femme Nikita and as the assassin Léon in The Professional. ANSWER: Jean Reno This director introduced movie audiences to Rod Steiger, in Teresa; Julie Harris, as a tomboy in The Member of the Wedding; Montgomery Clift, as a GI helping a Czech boy find his mother in The Search; Marlon Brando, as a paralyzed veteran in The Men; and Meryl Streep, as a society friend of Lillian Hellman in Julia. An Australian sheepdriving family is the focus of his The Sundowners, and he tracks a plot to kill Charles de Gaulle in The Day of the Jackal. His most famous films involve Robert E. Lee Prewitt’s resistance to boxing, Thomas More’s resistance to the Church of England, and Will Kane’s resistance against four gunfighters who have sworn to kill him. FTP, name this Austrian-born Oscar winner who helmed From Here to Eternity, A Man for All Seasons, and High Noon. ANSWER: Fred Zinnemann 65 This man played an RAF officer named “Blenkinsop” in the thriller Eye of the Needle and an otorhinolaryngologist in Curse of the Pink Panther. 2003 saw him give four impressive performances, including a washed-up novelist in I Capture the Castle, a sly newspaper editor in State of Play, and a breakthrough role foreshadowed by his hilarious turn in 1998’s Still Crazy as the lead vocalist of Strange Fruit. He also reached #26 on the UK singles chart that year with “Christmas Is All Around,” paralleling the struggle of his character, Billy Mack. FTP, name this Underworld and Love Actually star – and noted non-science guy – now best known as Pirates of the Caribbean’s Davy Jones. ANSWER: Bill Nighy At the climax of this movie, one of the protagonist’s friends remembers that the geographical center of the United States is located in Kansas. Before that, several characters escape from mobster A.J. Arno by throwing paint. The adventures of Dexter and his pals at Medfield College were continued in the sequels Now You See Him, Now You Don’t and The Strongest Man in the World, but this installment is the one that should hold the most appeal for people playing in this tournament. FTP, name the 1969 Disney comedy in which a freak accident during a lightning storm enables Kurt Russell to lead his school’s quiz bowl team to victory. ANSWER: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes This man directed films about real-life murderers John Christie, Albert DeSalvo, and Leopold & Loeb, and he won an Oscar for a documentary co-written by Theodore “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, Design for Death. Though responsible for bombs like Red Sonja, Che!, and Neil Diamond in The Jazz Singer, he helmed the classic noir thriller The Narrow Margin and made excellent use of split-screen in The Boston Strangler. His other movies include the antebellum interracial soap opera Mandingo and a futuristic mystery with a famous twist ending about the title foodstuff, Soylent Green. Submarines are the setting for his two best works; in one, a miniaturized medical crew enters the human body. FTP, name this Fantastic Voyage filmmaker who did 20000 Leagues Under the Sea for Walt Disney despite being the son of his chief rival, the animator that popularized Popeye and Betty Boop. ANSWER: Richard Fleischer This character fantasizes about asking a powerful man for “head” and having him comply to her demands “with a stroke.” Her benefactor wants to let someone else “have his chance with her” and commands several women to forcibly remove her clothes, and at one point she interrupts the two men she is with by saying, “How kind of you to let me come.” In another scene, she expresses a desire to “spread” part of her anatomy and do “a thousand things” that she’s “never done before.” FTP, name this woman who washes her face and hands before she comes and proclaims, “I’m a good girl, I am!”, a Cockney flower girl who gets an education in 1964’s My Fair Lady. ANSWER: Eliza Doolittle (accept first or last name) (prompt on “My Fair Lady” before giveaway) This was William Powell’s last film. Based on a Thomas Heggen novel, it was followed by a 1964 sequel starring Robert Walker, Jr. At the end, one character barges into Morton’s office and yells, “I just threw your stinkin’ palm tree overboard! Now what’s all this crud about no movie tonight?” after learning about a key figure’s death from a kamikaze attack. Mervyn LeRoy replaced John Ford as director partway through production, and the lead actor re-created his successful Broadway role as a man eager to get off of the USS Reluctant. Featuring James Cagney as a tyrannical captain and an Oscar-winning performance as Ensign Pulver by Jack Lemmon, this is, FTP, what 1955 comedy-drama starring Henry Fonda as the title naval officer? ANSWER: Mister Roberts 70 In addition to narrating the UK version of this film, Esmond Knight can be seen in two other roles: the village idiot and a soldier from “Seven Sisters” who attends a historical slide show. Scenes shot especially for US audiences show Kim Hunter, who doesn’t otherwise appear in it, as the girlfriend of Bob Johnson. At the end, Alison discovers that her sweetheart is alive and well, Peter’s dream of playing a giant organ comes true, and Bob, an American GI portrayed by Sergeant John Sweet – a non-professional actor – gets Justice Colpeper to admit to being the “Glue Man” while making a “pilgrimage” to what is now a Starbucks (!) next to the famous cathedral in the namesake city. FTP, name this 1944 Powell and Pressburger movie with a title inspired by Chaucer. ANSWER: A Canterbury Tale (do not accept anything that begins with “The” or ends in a plural)
ANS: Huston (accept “Danny Huston,” “Tony Huston,” “John Huston,” “Walter Huston,” or “Anjelica Huston”) One character in this film asks, “Who did this room? Parker Brothers?” and an early challenge is solved by noting the presence of a bottle of Chanel No. 5. At the end, the villain replies, “I don’t have any gloves” when asked why there are puppets on his hands. Only the most eagle-eyed of viewers will spot the tell-tale clue: the crumpling up of a card that reads “Alcoholic.” Bette Midler’s “Friends” plays over the closing credits, which is ironic considering that viciously eccentric millionaire Clinton Green is murdered by one of the guests he invited for a party revolving around the hit-and-run death of his wife. Paying close attention to the title and a photo of the suspects will help you figure out “whodunit” in, FTP, what 1973 mystery scripted by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim? ANSWER: The Last of Sheila Alan Price portrayed this character in a 1975 film in which his back is cured after Claire tries to rape him and his marriage to Abby is forestalled by her death in a plane crash. In a more well-known movie, he is banned from seeing his son after Gilda marries a bus conductor, then learns that there are spots on his lungs, leading to a stay in a sanatorium during which he seduces a nurse played by Shirley Anne Field. He breaks up with Annie, played by Jane Asher, and is ultimately rejected by his married ex-flame Siddie after he finds Ruby in bed with a younger man. A one-night stand with his best friend’s wife leads to a cameo by Denholm Elliott as an abortionist. FTP, name this guy who wonders “What’s it all about?”, the Cockney playboy title figure of a 1966 Michael Caine vehicle. ANSWER: Alfie Elkins (accept first or last name) (accept “Alfie Darling”) This actress has portrayed a character who states that her pet turtle Hippo “wants to be a Lutheran” and another who cautions her friend against joining the “Ninth Street Club.” One film closes with her making reference to “the writer and the scientist,” while she is kidnapped by a schizophrenic at the end of 2004’s Keane. She said the famous line, “There’s a monster outside my room. Can I have a glass of water?” in her debut, and in her most memorable role she gets persuaded to eat ice cream, screams loudly after receiving a piece of news over the phone, and tops off the movie with an outrageous dance routine to “Superfreak.” FTP, name this young lady who appeared in Raising Helen, Nim’s Island, and Signs and received an Oscar nod as Olive Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine. ANSWER: Abigail Breslin 75 Subtitled “Research Notes on Several Eisenstein Stills,” this work begins by examining an image from Ivan the Terrible. The title concept is described as “just short of the cutting edge” and its characteristic is “to blur the limit separating expression from disguise, but also to allow that oscillation succinct demonstration.” The author claims that it “makes the filmic possible” and extends “outside culture, knowledge, information.” Also called “a signifier without a signified” and “obtuse” rather than “obvious,” it is closely related to the “punctum” described by the same thinker in Camera Lucida. FTP, name this 1970 Roland Barthes essay about a level of discourse that exists beyond the “informational” and the “symbolic.” ANSWER: “The Third Meaning” Richard Eyre directed this man’s screenplay in which an older woman played by Rosemary Harris seduces a young journalist played by Jonathan Pryce. Another film he wrote centers on Chen and Lily, an immigrant couple from Hong Kong who struggle to raise their young son in England before Chen gets drawn into the world of organized crime. Roger Ebert called a 1993 movie he is credited with scripting “a creepy, unpleasant experience” with a climax that is “unconvincing, contrived, meretricious, and manipulative,” adding that the filmmakers “apparently think there is a market for glib one-liners by child sadists.” He disavowed that work, in which young Mark Evans comes to realize that his cousin is evil. FTP, name this screenwriter of Sour Sweet, The Ploughman’s Lunch, and the Macaulay Culkin vehicle The Good Son who is better known for novels like Enduring Love and Atonement. ANSWER: Ian McEwan This man offers a woman two stolen dresses for $5 and then fools around with her. He says, “You never know, you might have to cook for 20 guys someday” while teaching another character how to make spaghetti and meatballs. His guns are bought by a guy whose flute-playing son would grow up to be the father of an Oscar-winning director, and he hires a kid named “Johnny Lips” to fix a truck; that kid later becomes “bigger than U.S. Steel,” as Hyman Roth. He shoots Stracci in an elevator and orders Rocco Lampone to whack Paulie Gatto, after which he delivers the famous line, “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.” Portrayed by Bruno Kirby as a young adult and Richard S. Castellano in middle age, this is, FTP, what capo who, unlike Sal Tessio, is fully loyal to the Corleone family? ANSWER: Peter Clemenza The phrase “There’s always something more you can do” does appear in this movie, but, unlike in the source novel, it is not emphasized. Ann Sears is the only actress with a speaking role. For many years, its screenplay was officially credited to a man who did not know English. Inspired by real-life figure Philip Toosey, it begins with a hawk circling overhead and ends with a character saying, “What have I done?”, after which Major Clipton shouts, “It’s madness! Madness!” Featuring Kenneth Alford’s “Colonel Bogey March” and a spectacular train crash, this is, FTP, what 1957 WW2 drama starring Jack Hawkins, William Holden, and Alec Guinness, and directed by David Lean? ANSWER: The Bridge on the River Kwai This woman said, “I am no sex goddess, but I haven’t spent my life up on a tree” in a role as a dentist’s nurse who falls in love with him while pretending to be his wife. She cheated on her college-professor husband with Anthony Quinn in A Walk in the Spring Rain and was an English “foot inspector” who saves a hundred Chinese children in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, in addition to making two versions of Intermezzo. Lady Henrietta Flusky in Under Capricorn was one of many parts she essayed for Alfred Hitchcock, and while she worked with her husband on Voyage to Italy and Stromboli, she was NOT related to the director of her last film, Autumn Sonata. Winner of Academy Awards as a murder suspect, a pretender to the Russian throne, and an opera singer whose husband is trying to drive her crazy, this is, FTP, what Swedish star of Cactus Flower, Anastasia, Gaslight, and Casablanca? ANSWER: Ingrid Bergman 80 STOP Shots of a waterfall in Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor. Two Frankie Avalon musical numbers in Operation Bikini. A sequence in which a mute woman in scared to death in William Castle’s The Tingler. The death of the effeminate Vladimir in Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible, Part Two. The Basil Hallward-painted title portrait in Albert Lewin’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. A young girl in a red jacket who runs through the Jewish ghetto in Schindler’s List. FTP, what technique is used to highlight all of these things in films that are otherwise shot in black-and-white? ANSWER: they are all in color (accept clear knowledge equivalents)
ANSWER: Grace Kelly As a boy, this actor had a very close relationship with Benjamin Britten and created the role of Miles in the opera The Turn of the Screw. In one film, he plays a jazz musician who uses a pickax to break down a wall and doesn’t see his friend Carlo’s mother at a crime scene. He spent much of the ‘80s directing TV shows like Airwolf – on which he appeared as Dr. Moffett – and The A-Team, but he experienced a resurgence in the 2000s with parts like Gladiator’s freakishly-eyebrowed Colosseum announcer. His most famous performance sees him interrupted at a tense moment by two girls who want to have sex; later, he merges into a crowd outside a Yardbirds concert, and at the end he plays tennis with some mimes before vanishing entirely. FTP, name this British star of Deep Red and Blowup. ANSWER: David Hemmings A tribute to this composer at the Academy Awards featured Celine Dion singing “I Knew I Loved You,” based on one of his themes. Other pieces by him include “Chi Mai” from Le Professionnel, “Abolicao” from Burn!, “Unexpected Violence” from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and “Vita Nostra” from The Mission. Oscar-nominated 5 times for such films as Days of Heaven and Bugsy, he scored 6 movies for a former schoolmate, including Duck, You Sucker! Solo soprano Edda Dell’Orso and the singers of the Cantori Moderni are featured in much of his most famous work, including the Metallica-covered “The Ecstasy of Gold.” FTP, name this composer with almost 500 IMDb credits who is best known for collaborations with fellow Italian Sergio Leone. ANSWER: Ennio Morricone This actress debuted in the John Ford silent Cameo Kirby and played Calamity Jane in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Plainsman. Her last two film appearances were as a congresswoman in Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair and a rancher’s wife in George Stevens’ Shane; Stevens also directed her to her only Oscar nod, in The More the Merrier. She performs “The Peanut Vendor” and many other songs in Howard Hawks’ Only Angels Have Wings, but her most memorable roles were all for another filmmaker. In one, she is the most “normal” member of an eccentric millionaire’s family; in another, she is a reporter who says, “If that man’s crazy, Your Honor, the rest of us belong in straitjackets!”; in the third, she inspires the hero with a moving speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. FTP, name this Frank Capra favorite who starred in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. ANSWER: Jean Arthur 85 Based on Marcel Achard’s play L’idiote, this film opens with the Henry Mancini song “Shadows of Paris.” The main character is arrested three times for not having a license. When questioned about why he knows something, he invariably replies, “It is my business to know that.” Director Bryan Forbes, billed as “Turk Thrust,” appears as a nudist in the most memorable scene, while Graham Stark, André Maranne, Burt Kwouk, and Herbert Lom all make their debuts in roles they would later reprise. Maria Gambrelli, played by Elke Sommer, appears to be guilty of murder, but the lovestruck protagonist sets out to clear her in, FTP, what 1964 farce that saw Peter Sellers’ second appearance as Inspector Jacques Clouseau, after The Pink Panther? ANSWER: A Shot in the Dark One of this director’s movies, in which Eugene Fullstack falls in love with the “Bat Girl,” is the acknowledged inspiration for Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating. In addition to making the aforementioned Artists and Models, he sent lawnmowers and vacuum cleaners after the lead actor in two other films. Quoted as saying, “There’s nothing in the world to me that’s funnier than big breasts,” he proved it by casting Jane Russell as a well-endowed outlaw in a comedy Western that famously stuck Bob Hope and Trigger in bed together, Son of Paleface, and by giving Jayne Mansfield her two most memorable roles. FTP, name this former animator and mentor of Jerry Lewis who is remembered today for The Girl Can’t Help It and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? ANSWER: Frank Directory: archive archive -> Tr-41. 4-03-05-024 Telecommunications archive -> Gary C. Kessler archive -> Tossups center of the known universe open 1998 Combined packet of Tennessee I and utc blue archive -> PriceWaterhouseCoopers Archive 148 linear feet in 98 record cartons and 4 flat boxes. Biography/History archive -> In this issue archive -> United states archive -> - archive -> The Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP) Technique. Part 1: Description and Examples Abstract archive -> United states archive -> Prediction from Weeks to Decades Download 236.42 Kb. Share with your friends:
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