IQ1: Midge Ure of Ultravox, who co-wrote Do They Know It’s Christmas? with Bob Geldof.
IQ3: Kid-lit favorite Captain Underpants.
DQ1: Involved in film or television? (If you consider that a form of visual art that’s already been excluded by DQ9, then ignore this one)
DQs:
To my mind visual arts mean paintings, illustrations, sculptures, architecture rather than being allied with the performing arts.
I loved The Gods Must Be Crazy but I don’t know the filmmaker’s name. Take a DQ.
Correct on the film. It was made by South African filmmaker Jamie Uys.
DQ: Australian?
DQs:
New Zealand? Shot in the dark…
IQ: Any chance you played a character who interacted with a certain Warrior Princess?
Wow. Yes, indeedy do, I am Karl Urban, who played Julius Caesar on the Xena series (and Hercules). Well done, Spoons!
And if that isn’t enough credibility for the actor, he also played:
the young agent who got the respect of the senior agents in Red,
Judge Dredd in the latest (and truly dreadful) Dredd,
Eomer in the Lord of the Rings franchise,
Dr. Leonard McCoy in the last two Star Trek films,
and currently stars in the Asimovesque TV series Almost Human.
Congratulations again to Spoons!
“Won major awards, but as part of a group”?
An Oscar for the LOTR cast, I assume?
We have, in previous rounds, treated the movies as a visual art, I thought. It is an art form that is looked at. With answer #9, I presumed this was not an actor.
Woo hoo! I liked the Xena show.
I’ll have another letter tomorrow, and probably a new February thread too.
Well, he won a BSFC award as part of the ensemble cast for Star Trek, and it was the Critics Choice Award for an ensemble cast for LOTR.
EH, I can see your point about film being a visual artform, but I’d class the filmmakers (directors, cinematographers, makeup, set designers, costumers) as visual rather than actors myself. However, in the interests of the common good, I’ll treat film/TV as visual art in the future.
Just to throw my five cents worth in (Canada doesn’t have pennies anymore, so it’s a nickel for my thoughts.), if you’d said “yes” to visual arts, I would have been frustrated once painter, sculptor and mosaicist had been ruled out. I reckon film/TV/theatre ought to be a division of its own.
I think of it as part of the performing arts.
The February thread: Botticelli, February 2014 - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board