Botticelli May 2025

Thread Games
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Trying to think of classic Westerns from the 1963-75 period. I’m coming up with For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and “Once Upon a Time in the West”. But all I know about those movies is that they exist, I couldn’t tell you who was in them. Some of them were probably made by Italian Sergio Leone. I’m thinking it may not be a well known film, because despite my minimal knowledge of the era, I think a major Western with a female protagonist would be well known just for being unique.

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Wasn’t there some movie where John Wayne was escorting a cute little girl across the desert or something?

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Didn’t John Wayne have a few in there? True Grit, I think was one of them?

That one has a female protagonist. Hmmm… now I’m trying to remember what name Hailee Steinfeld was called in the remake.

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True Grit? Her name was Maddie.

A Big Hand for the Little Lady, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, Cat Ballou, The Cheyenne Social Club… none have female leads whose name begins with H.

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OK, my official guess is:

Helena Buckett, the spunky schoolmarm who shows Clint Eastwood which toads to suck in Really, Really High Plains Drifter.

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That’s a truly lovely guess.

All I’ve come up with is Hallie from The Electric Horseman, which has the problem of having come out around 1978-1980, and so isn’t the answer.

This might be a little girl character. I don’t know.

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Oh. Maybe Hannie Caulder from the movie of the same name? With Raquel Welch in the title role.

I didn’t pay a lot of attention to westerns back in the day, but I did pay attention to Raquel.

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To be official, DQ: Are you Hannie Caulder?

149

Yes! I am indeed vengeful gunslinger (so to speak) Hannie Caulder.


I had it, you got it!

150

Thank you!

On to

D!

151

Congratulations, Prof!

IQs:

  1. Did you write the hit “Lonely People” for the group America?
  2. Did you write “Sometimes When We Touch”?
  3. Did you division hold two key gaps at the Battle of South Mountain?
152

Good job, Prof! I should’ve remembered that movie, I saw it on a double bill with Kansas City Bomber. And great game, SCA!

IQs:

  1. Were you distantly related to your royal husband?
  2. Were you a popular singer who was born in Ohio but didn’t speak English until your fifth year?
  3. Were you part of a female trio of pop music legends?
153

SunUp

  1. I am not Neil Diamond(?)
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Princess Diana.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Diana Ross.
154

#1 was Dan Peek, then Dan Hill, and Daniel Harvey Hill, Major General, Confederate States of America.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?
  3. First name starts with D?
155

Great job, Prof! Your memory is impressive.

IQs:

  1. Did you die shortly after drinking at the White Horse Tavern in 1951?
  2. Were you the leader of a movement that combined left-wing anarchist politics with strict Roman Catholic theology?
  3. Did you experience significant childhood trauma at the Overlook Hotel?
156
  1. Correct
  2. Dean Martin
  3. Dolly Parton (part of Trio, with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris); Diana Ross was part of a trio of female singers but were the other two considered legends?

1 DQ reserved, 1 DQ pending

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IQs:

  1. Did you hijack a plane for cash, and get away with it?
  2. Was your biggest hit a song based on a 1977 movie of the same title?
  3. Do you consider yourself a “scream queen” and “the world’s best mom” because of your early movie roles?
158

Congrats, Prof.!

IQs:
1. Were you eventually revealed to have been W. Mark Felt?
2. As readers of your humor column know well, are you not making this up?
3. Did you play Mattie in True Grit?

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Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not D.B. Cooper.
  2. I am not David Gates (who had a hit with Goodbye Girl about then).
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not Deep Throat.
  2. I am not Dave Barry.
  3. I am not Kim Darby.
160

knoodler, you’re right. Mary Wilson may or may not have been a legend, but Florence Blanchard was not. Take that DQ.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with D