Botticelli, July 2025

There’s spy/thriller and young adult.

Historical fiction, horror…

Anything from Lovecraft?

Also war and (the admittedly vague genre of) drama.

Can’t be Lovecraft, there weren’t any movies based on his works a hundred years apart.

I have a valid guess as to the movie but I’ll withhold revealing it because I had to google it.

Six hours.

No guesses yet? Not even a “Pass”?

Ho-kay, Pass.

Yeah, me too. I’m stumped.

I’ve got nothing. Either it’s a silent movie I haven’t heard of or I’ll be kicking myself for not getting it.

Well. I half expected Prof P to be all over this after kitap mentioned Westerns.


I am Trampas, a "bad guy* in Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian (1902) and six movies/tv-movies based on it (1914, 1923, 1929, 1946, 2000, and 2014), but a “good guy” in the NBC TV series (1962-1971) .

I’ve heard of The Virginian but not him.

“Smile when you say that.”

I didn’t watch many westerns growing up. Sky King, Roy Rogers, Zorro, The Lone Ranger, Death Valley Days, Wild Wild West, but The Virginian was popular for a long time, and I have heard of Trampas.

Never heard of him.

(I have heard of The Virginian, but only from the “When you call me that, smile!” line.)

Likewise.

That makes three of us.

Sorry about the delay – fell asleep early for a change.


I am Q.

Q it is!

  1. Do you have a significant meaning to a fictional TV investigator?
  2. Are you the third person to assume this title from both a movie and television series?
  3. Did you hold a job that your namesake father held before you?

IQs:

  1. Are you secretly El Kabong?
  2. Did you play the daughter in The Goodbye Girl?
  3. Did you direct Pulp Fiction?

Let’s start with three DQs.

(BTW, had you heard of Trampas or The Virginian before yesterday?)

I don’t recall. It’s been many years since I last watched the show.