Botticelli - April 2025

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Final DQ: From a mystery?

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C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with C
  4. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. created after 1900
  6. created after 1950
  7. not a main character or part of an ensemble
  8. initially from TV or movies
  9. initially from a movie
  10. actually seen in the movie or TV show
  11. American creator(s)
  12. American character
  13. not from a science fiction, fantasy, or western movie
  14. not originally from a movie made after 1980
  15. did not also appear on TV (except in re-runs)
  16. created after 1975
  17. first name doesn’t begins A-M
  18. last name begins with Ca-Cl
  19. Caucasian
  20. not from a mystery
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A-hem.

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A-hem indeed.

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Final DQ: from a comedy?

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C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with C
  4. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. created after 1900
  6. created after 1950
  7. not a main character or part of an ensemble
  8. initially from TV or movies
  9. initially from a movie
  10. actually seen in the movie or TV show
  11. American creator(s)
  12. American character
  13. not from a science fiction, fantasy, or western movie
  14. not originally from a movie made after 1980
  15. did not also appear on TV (except in re-runs)
  16. created after 1975
  17. first name doesn’t begins A-M
  18. last name begins with Ca-Cl
  19. Caucasian
  20. not from a mystery
  21. from a comedy
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Forgot I had a DQ left. Twelve hours after the deadline, so you don’t have to answer this, but…

DQ: Adult human?

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A-pologies.

1 was Dr. Curt Connors.
2 was Clutch Cargo.
3 was G. K. Chesterton.

DQs:

  1. Oscar-winning movie?
  2. Set in a time contemporaneous with its release?
  3. From a romantic comedy?
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C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with C
  4. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. created after 1900
  6. created after 1950
  7. not a main character or part of an ensemble
  8. initially from TV or movies
  9. initially from a movie
  10. actually seen in the movie or TV show
  11. American creator(s)
  12. American character
  13. not from a science fiction, fantasy, or western movie
  14. not originally from a movie made after 1980
  15. did not also appear on TV (except in re-runs)
  16. created after 1975
  17. first name doesn’t begins A-M
  18. last name begins with Ca-Cl
  19. Caucasian
  20. not from a mystery
  21. from a comedy
  22. adult human
  23. not an Oscar-winning movie
  24. set in a time contemporaneous with its release
  25. not from a romantic comedy

That concludes our DQs. Tawk amongst yourselves, and please ask all earned DQs by noon EST tomorrow.

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Let’s see 76-80. Mel Brooks had Silent Movie and High Anxiety. Gene Wilder had 2 movies but they weren’t contemporaneous. The Zuckers had Kentucky Fried Movie and Airplane! Woody Allen had Annie Hall and probably others.

If I remember my dates correctly.

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It can’t be Annie Hall; that won an Oscar.

The movie screening on Monday programmed by yours truly (with the half-hour pre-show) went pretty well, I’d say. One of the clips was hard to hear, but it was four seconds long so I don’t think too many people noticed.

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Also Animal House (tho I think E_H already had one from there recently, Emil Faber, wasn’t it?), the Blues Brothers, Caddyshack.

Does Allen’s Manhattan qualify as a comedy? I think that was '79.

Anyone familiar with the ouevre of Neil Simon? I think he was working on some films in that period.

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Oh, yeah, I dated Madame P. and our big movie was the rom-com The Goodbye Girl. But there was also Murder By Death and, I think, The Out-of-Towners.

And a couple of lesser Inspector Clouseau/Pink Panther movies.

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All good guesses.

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When did Tootsie come out?

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Early 80’s, I think.

Steve Martin had The Jerk.
Bill Murray had Meatballs and maybe Stripes.
Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor had The Silver Streak.
George Burns had Oh, God and The Sunshine Boys.

I’m not coming up with a good guess, though.

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I think he also had one with Art Carney and another older actor, about three senior citizens who rob a bank to put some excitement into their lives, around that time. But I’ll be darned if I remember any character names.

I think Stripes was '81.

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What’s the possibility this could be an animated character?

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That was Going In Style. I saw it, but wasn’t impressed.

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That’s an idea. Wizards came out about that time. I don’t think anybody in that movie had a first and last name, though.