Botticelli, January 2012

Thread Games
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J.

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Born after 1900
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not best known as a performer on stage, screen or television
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IQ1: Did you prank call an NBC anchorman, posing as Newsweek reporter Christopher Dickey, and tell him on the air that Princess Diana’s fatal car crash was due to her racing at high speeds to a video store to rent Howard Stern’s movie Private Parts?

IQ2: Did you co-create Gerald McBoingBoing with Dr. Seuss, and direct the classic TV animated version of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”?

IQ3: Did Marcia Gay Harden win an Oscar playing your spouse?

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I’m not Stuttering John, Chuck Jones, or Jackson Pollack.

64

Chuck Jones and Jackson Pollock are right.

The prank phone caller was “Captain Janks.”

DQ1: Did your last name start with J?

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And who was “Captain Janks”? Does anyone know?

J.

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Born after 1900
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not best known as a performer on stage, screen or television
  7. Last name started with J
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Glad you asked…

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Heh. Has he ever been identified?

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IQ: Was Nora Barnicle your main squeeze?
IQ2: Are you a frequet guest of David Letterman, and former director of the Columbus Zoo?
IQ3: Did you win back-to-back Oscars as Best Supporting Actor In the 1970s?

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IQ1: Are you a singer/songwriter from Fort McLeod, Alberta?

IQ2: Are you a jazz trombonist who recorded with Miles Davis in the 50s?

IQ3: Are you one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s more famous sons?

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Dunno about the first. As for the second, no, I’m not Jack Hanna, and as for the third, no, I’m not Jon Voight.

Dunno about the first two. As for the third, no, I’m not Johann Christian Bach.

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Absolutely right about J. C. Bach. As to the others, Joni Mitchell is originally from Fort McLeod, Alberta, and the jazz trombonist is Jay Jay Johnson, who recorded with Miles on the Blue Note sessions, and who played on “Walkin’”. Miles said that those Blue Note sessions with J. J. were among his favourite things he’d ever recorded.
So, then -

DQ1: Are you a political figure?

I’ll reserve my second DQ until I get an answer to the first, if I may.

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Jack Hanna is right.

But James Joyce was Nora Barnicle’s love.

And Jason Robards won the back to back Oscars, for Julia and All the President’s Men.
DQ1: Are you known as a writer of any kind?

DQ2: Did you die before 1950?

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J.

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Born after 1900
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not best known as a performer on stage, screen or television
  7. Last name started with J
  8. Not a political figure
  9. Did some writing, but not best known for that
  10. Did not die before 1950
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IQ1: Did you win the Tony as Best Actor for your performance in a musical based on a Eugene O’Neill play (even though 99% of the public knows you solely as a sitcom star)?
IQ2: After your execution, were your children raised by a popular songwriter?
IQ3: Were you the last National Leaguer to win the Triple Crown?

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DQ2: Are you known for athletic achievements?

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IQ: Have you been portrayed by such luminaries as Spencer Tracy, Frederic March, John Barrymore, and David Hasselhoff?

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Dunno the first and third. As to the second, no, I’m not Julius Rosenberg?

No, I’m not… Dr. John H. Watson?

J.

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Born after 1900
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not best known as a performer on stage, screen or television
  7. Last name started with J
  8. Not a political figure
  9. Did some writing, but not best known for that
  10. Did not die before 1950
  11. Not known for athletic achievements
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Very good on Julius Rosenberg!

Jackie Gleason won the Tony for a musical version of Ah, Wilderness!

And the last NL player to win the Triple Crown was Joe (Ducky) Medwick of the Cardinals.
DQ1: Were you born East of the Mississippi River?
DQ2: Are you involved in painting, sculpting, photography or any of the other fine arts?

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It was a wildass guess. Who was the songwriter who raised the Rosenbergs’ kids?

J.

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Born after 1900
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not best known as a performer on stage, screen or television
  7. Last name started with J
  8. Not a political figure
  9. Did some writing, but not best known for that
  10. Did not die before 1950
  11. Not known for athletic achievements
  12. Born east of the Mississippi River
  13. Not involved in painting, sculpting, photography or any of the other fine arts
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Abel Meeropol (professionally known as Lewis Allan), composer of Billie Holliday’s “Strange Fruit” and Frank Sinatra’s “The HOuse I Live In.”