Not Linda, dunno, and not Lewis Armistead.
L.
- fictional
- male
- first name begins with L
- a main character
- not originally from movies and/or TV
- created after 1950
- American creator
IQs:
- Did you author a book of gothic horror as well as books for young adults and children?
- Did your character enter into a gentleman’s agreement that became one of the greatest episodes in the history of television comedy?
- Did you win an Oscar in 1975 for playing one of the greatest villains in cinematic history?
Liz, Leona Lewis, and correct.
DQs:
From prose fiction?
American character?
IQs:
1. Did you voice Hermes Conrad?
2. Does your ghost appear in the Venture Bros. episode “Guess Who’s Coming to State Dinner?”
3. Did William Shatner play you on Star Trek (the original series)?
Lazlo Toth is correct. The fat girl was Little Lotta, who I see was phased out of the Harvey line shortly after my own childhood for obvious reasons. #3 was Timothy Leary.
DQs:
- Is the fiction the character appears in realistic (i.e. no supernatural or fantastic elements)?
- Does the character appear in only one major work (as opposed to a series)?
IQs:
- Did Thomas Haden Church play you in George of the Jungle?
- Did you play Ursula in that same film?
- Did you play Mary Hartman?
Not L. Frank Baum, Larry David or Frank Langella.
Dunno, not Abraham Lincoln and not Ljames T. Kirk.
Not Lothar, not Laura Linney and not Louise Lasser.
L.
- fictional
- male
- first name begins with L
- a main character
- not originally from movies and/or TV
- created after 1950
- American creator
- from prose fiction
- unclear, but apparently not an American character
- the fiction the character appears in is somewhat realistic (no supernatural but several fantastic elements)
- character appears in more than one major work
Lyle, Leslie Mann, correct.
DQs:
- Caucasian.
- Setting contemporary to its writing?
Respectively:
1 was Phil LaMarr; 2 is correct; 3 was Janice Lester, in “Turnabout Intruder”.
DQs:
1. adapted into film and/or TV?
2. created before 1987?
IQs:
- Are you a Robert Heinlein character with an unusually long lifespan?
- Were you Shirley’s roommate and co-worker?
- Were you Shirley’s neighbor?
IQs:
1. On a Nickelodeon show are you the middle child in a large family, with ten siblings?
2. Are you one of those siblings?
3. Was your son a clone of JFK?
IQs:
- Did you play the explosives expert on Hogan’s Heroes?
- Did you maintain that your most successful TV role ruined your movie career?
- Did you play a brainwashed assassin in The Manchurian Candidate?
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld; The Contest)
- Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
3 DQs reserved
Good one about Janice Lester, DLR.
Not Lazarus Long, not Laverne, and not Lenny.
Not Luanne, not Lester, and not Louis Kellogg.
Not Lawrence Cleary, not Lawrence, and not Lawrence Harvey (whose British accent went unremarked-upon, as I recall).
L.
- fictional
- male
- first name begins with L
- a main character
- not originally from movies and/or TV
- created after 1950
- American creator
- from prose fiction
- unclear, but apparently not an American character
- the fiction the character appears in is somewhat realistic (no supernatural but several fantastic elements)
- character appears in more than one major work
- not Caucasian
- setting contemporary to its writing
- adapted into film and/or TV
- created before 1987
We now have, I believe, five reserved DQs, so no more IQs, please.
Please ask all earned DQs by noon EST Saturday.
Correct on Lawrence Harvey (though I was actually thinking of Liev Schrieber, of the 2004 remake).
#1 was Larry Hovis.
#2 was Tina Louise.
DQ1: Title character?
DQ2: Created before 1969?
L.
- fictional
- male
- first name begins with L
- a main character
- not originally from movies and/or TV
- created after 1950
- American creator
- from prose fiction
- unclear, but apparently not an American character
- the fiction the character appears in is somewhat realistic (no supernatural but several fantastic elements)
- character appears in more than one major work
- not Caucasian
- setting contemporary to its writing
- adapted into film and/or TV
- created before 1987
- was the title character of at least one work
- created before 1969
DQs:
- Created after 1959?
- From comedies?
Respectively:
1 was Lincoln Loud, on The Loud House; 2 was (among others) Leni, Lori, Lynn, Lucy, Lisa, or Lily Loud; 3 was Lynn Kellogg. Yes, I’ve been reading Joshua Son of None, having heard about it in these very threads and spotted it in a used bookstore. Finished it late Wednesday night. I like how Nancy Freedman thought the future of television was the “TV globe”.
DQ: movie and/or TV versions better known than prose version?
2 DQs reserved.
DQs:
- Last name begins A-M?
- Appeared in animation or cartoon?
1 DQ reserved
Joshua Son of None is a very strange but engrossing book, especially for someone interested in JFK, as I am. I first read it as a teenager and it really grabbed me.
L.
- fictional
- male
- first name begins with L
- a main character
- not originally from movies and/or TV
- created after 1950
- American creator
- from prose fiction
- unclear, but apparently not an American character
- the fiction the character appears in is somewhat realistic (no supernatural but several fantastic elements)
- character appears in more than one major work
- not Caucasian
- setting contemporary to its writing
- adapted into film and/or TV
- created before 1987
- was the title character of at least one work
- created before 1969
- created after 1959
- not from comedies, although there are certainly humorous elements to the work
- movie and/or TV versions not better known than prose version, I’d say, but YMMV
- last name doesn’t begin A-M
- appeared in animation or cartoon