# Dopers appearing in literature/art? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504 "2005-06-23T06:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/101 "2005-07-03T02:36:26Z")
How about Jack Nicholson in _ **raz** Good as it Gets_? Or that Jodie Foster flick, _The Little Girl Who Lives Down the **laina\_f** _? And a blast from the past: _ **libwen** We Were Kings_. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/102 "2005-07-03T03:03:55Z")
_Sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/103 "2005-07-03T12:12:34Z")
**sniff** ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/104 "2005-07-03T13:48:18Z")
**cough** ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/105 "2005-07-03T13:56:10Z")
All you guys with colds, go back to bed, okay? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/106 "2005-07-03T14:24:03Z")
Colds? I thought they were lining up for their prostate exams. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/107 "2005-07-03T14:35:08Z")
How about the great movie about James Whale: **Gaudere** s and **Monstre** s? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/108 "2005-07-03T17:51:50Z")
> [@Moe](#): > > **cough** I saw Damon Wayans in **Moe Money**. And Richard Chamberlain starred in the **Marlitharn Birds** ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/109 "2005-07-03T23:42:51Z")
And there’s that horrific Dune prequel: House **Atreyu** ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/110 "2005-07-04T05:22:15Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > And Richard Chamberlain starred in the **Marlitharn Birds** 😃 I may be the only person who’s never seen **Superdude, Where’s My Car?** ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/111 "2005-07-05T03:46:44Z")
While it wasn’t exactly great art, there was the recent movie “Along Came **Polycarp** ”, with Ben Stiller… ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/112 "2005-07-05T04:41:24Z")
Please, me too? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/113 "2005-07-05T05:32:51Z")
> [@Oslo Ostragoth](#): > > Please, me too? Everybody knows that Batman calls Oslo OstraGotham City home. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/114 "2005-07-06T04:29:59Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Everybody knows that Batman calls Oslo OstraGotham City home. I love it! Thanks, **Superdude**! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/115 "2005-07-06T04:50:48Z")
Wasn’t there a movie I featured in about a black teacher in a British school? Seems that I recall one young lulu of a lady promising me the stars, or to paint my name across the sky in letters that were really high or something like that. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/116 "2005-07-06T06:16:24Z")
Okay, I’ll do the honors. Hey, who could forget [To Sir (Rhosis) With Love](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062376/) (1967)? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/117 "2005-07-06T11:41:53Z")
^^^Thanks for the link. I’ve never gotten the hang of them, but will try to return the favor. Thus: **Antoni** us and Cleopatra Men In **Block** 😃 The Prisoner On Cell **block** H Best, Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/118 "2005-07-06T14:18:06Z")
James Fenimore Cooper wrote “ **ivylass** of the Mohicans” ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/119 "2005-07-06T15:37:52Z")
There’s that Tony Danza sitcom, “Who’s the **Bosda D’Chi of Tricor**?” ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/120 "2005-07-06T17:50:43Z")
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