Botticelli - January 2025

kitap and Dr. Winston O’Boogie are on the money.

Before there was Airplane! there was

which included


A classic parody of the then-prevalent blaxploitation movies.

Heard of it; never saw it. And never heard of her.

I both know and love the movie but where is the person? All I’m seeing is a screenshot of the credits.

The character’s name is Cleopatra Schwarz. Fictional, Female, etc. There was one segment in Kentucky Fried Movie that was a “trailer” for the fake movie.

She fought a savage battle to stay alive in the ghetto. He studied the Talmud at night… together, no one could stop them!

Good one. I should have remembered it.

Onwards to…

H!

IQs:

  1. Are you married to Lois?
  2. Are you married to Ed?
  3. Are you the father of Veronica?

IQs:

  1. Did “Weird Al” Yankovic sing a song about how you don’t fight and don’t squeal?
  2. Were you court-martialed twice by the U.S. Marines?
  3. Did you take over hosting duties on Family Feud?

IQ1: Did you star in Safety Last!?
IQ2: Did you create one of two identically titled comic that debuted on the same day?
IQ3: Were you a fictional Medal of Honor recipient who fought in Korea and in Grenada?

  1. Did you write about The People?
  2. Do you write, among other books, the series The Case Files of Henri Davenforth?
  3. Did you play Beverly Katz on the TV series Hannibal?
  1. I am not Hi Flagstone.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Hiram Lodge.

Take 2 DQs.
3. I am not Steve Harvey.

  1. I am not Harold Lloyd.
  2. I am not Hank Ketchum of the U.S. Dennis the Menace strip.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not Zenna Henderson.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. correct
  2. H.I. “Hi” McDunough
  3. correct

DQ:

Real?

DQs:

  1. Real

IQs:

  1. Did you first become a father at the ago of 49, with a daughter three years later?
  2. Were you assigned to cover the Hells Angels in California in 1965?
  3. Did you found a chain of restaurants, and later hotels?

I don’t see the second image either. (I’m using Firefox with uBlock. I had to go to Edge to see it.)

Since I’m here, I might as well throw out some…

IQs:
1. Are you the first person mentioned in “We Didn’t Start the Fire”?
2. Do you play “Your Co-Worker who is Extremely Busy Doing Seemingly Nothing” and other roles on Saturday Night Live?
3. Is this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

I just opened Safari, there she is.

Harvey the Wonder Hamster, Lee Harvey Oswald, and (correct) Steve Harvey.

Harvey x3!

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. First name begins with H?

correct
correct
Gunny Highway (Heartbreak Ridge)


DQ: Living?


IQ1: Is your wife’s niece considered to be the unattractive member of the family?
IQ2: Were you a Canadian singer known for “I’ve Been Everywhere” and “I’m Movin’ On”?
IQ3: Were you Gaunt’s son, born at Bolingbroke?