Botticelli - January 2020

Thread Games
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A long shot:

Are you Mr. Rosepettle, the titular Dad in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You In The Closet And I’m Feeling So Sad?

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I am not.

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Time’s up. I am, in fact,

Abner Ravenwood

Father of Marion Ravenwood, and a noted archeologist who was mentioned but never seen in Raiders of the Lost Ark: Abner Ravenwood | Indiana Jones Wiki | Fandom

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…so what did you mean by “not from a filmed dramatic work”, and “character may have been created from 1970-1979”?

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As I noted in post 178, Wiki does not describe the movie as a drama or dramatic work: Raiders of the Lost Ark - Wikipedia.

George Lucas wrote a first draft of the movie in 1973: Raiders of the Lost Ark - Wikipedia. It is unclear at point the character Abner Ravenwood was created before the movie’s release in 1981.

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Which is why question #6 clarifies a “filmed dramatic work” as “movie, TV, etc.” (Wikipedia also describes “all forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories” as “forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent…characters”, which is the definition of “dramatic work” I intended.)

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The key word is indeed “dramatic.” There are many movies described by Wiki as dramas; *Raiders *is not one of them. Prof. P. saw my point in post 212.

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Yeah, my beef would be with Wiki, not EH. I tend to think of movies as either dramas or comedies.

And, yes, I have indeed heard of Abner, and think that was a very good choice. Play on!

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So the genre of drama, as opposed to action-adventure. Okay then. I’ll be sure to ask only about a character being from film or television in the future, so there’s no ambiguity.

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Thanks. If I was thinking of a character from, say, Duck Soup (either of them) or Dumb and Dumber, I think a “yes” answer to question 6 would be misleading.

I’ll start the next round shortly.

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Was that another Indiana Jones reference? Short Round?

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Ha! Hadn’t even thought of that. Our next letter is

S

And we’ll just have to see how short a round it is…

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IQs:

  1. Did John Rhys-Davies play you in the Indiana Jones movies?
  2. Did Kate Capshaw play you in the 2nd Indiana Jones movie?
  3. Did you seduce both Indiana Jones and his dad in the 3rd movie?
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Not Sallah, not Short Round (ha!), and dunno.

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Correct on Sallah.
The lovely Kate Capshaw (future Mrs. Spielberg) did not play the little fat Asian kid, but Willie Scott, love interest.
Elsa Schneider was an undercover Nazi who also sought the Grail.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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IQs:

  1. Was Tony Vallelonga your chauffeur?
  2. Were you a bobcat in Adventures from the Book of Virtues?
  3. Were you president of an archipelagic country for 31 years?
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Anybody seen atimnie? He hasn’t posted online for a week.

IQs?

  1. Did you play the lead in the movie Swashbuckler?
  2. Do you play the Winter Soldier in the MCU?
  3. Did G. K. Chesterton declare at one point that you looked like you’d been in a famine?
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Dunno, dunno and not Suharto (or Sukarno).

Dunno, not Sebastian Stans, and not George Bernard Shaw (who suggested that perhaps the very well-fed Chesterton had caused the famine, IIRC).

I’ll shoot **atimnie **a PM.

S.

  1. real
  2. female
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#1 was Robert Shaw.
#2 is Sebastian Stan, but no points off for spelling.
#3 is correct.

DQ: Living?

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I’m a newbie, and I’m just going to jump in. If I err please let me know.

IQs:

  1. Did you play first base for the Dodgers in the 70s and 80s?
  2. Did you marry another world-class tennis player in 2001?
  3. Are you a former governor who famously hiked the Appalachian Trail?