# Name that play/movie! A game..(if the mods will allow) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2004, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872 "2004-03-01T06:07:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/21 "2004-03-07T12:34:02Z")
> [@Katisha](#): > > “Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.” _ **Richard III** _ I think I’m gonna be a lousy wife. But don’t be angry with me. I love you very much – and I’m very sexy! ---
**Author:** ![3Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/4af34b/32.png) [@3Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3Much)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/22 "2004-03-07T15:14:33Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I think I’m gonna be a lousy wife. But don’t be angry with me. I love you very much – and I’m very sexy! **Barefoot in the Park** “You’re an accountant? Good! Then account for yourself!” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/23 "2004-03-07T17:53:02Z")
> [@3Much](#): > > **Barefoot in the Park** > > “You’re an accountant? Good! Then account for yourself!” …from **The Producers** try this one for size: “Hello Devil, welcome to hell.” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/24 "2004-03-07T18:08:14Z")
> [@quiltguy154](#): > > try this one for size: “Hello Devil, welcome to hell.” **Inherit the Wind** “It is true that at present His Majesty is a double gentleman; but as soon as the circumstances of his marriage are ascertained, he will, ipso facto, boil down to a single gentleman – thus presenting a unique example of an individual who becomes a single man and a married man by the same operation.” ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/25 "2004-03-07T20:06:05Z")
> [@](#): > > “It is true that at present His Majesty is a double gentleman; but as soon as the circumstances of his marriage are ascertained, he will, ipso facto, boil down to a single gentleman – thus presenting a unique example of an individual who becomes a single man and a married man by the same operation.” Gilbert and Sullivans’ **The Gondoliers** … a superb choice. “This stinks.” “Not ‘stinks,’ darling. If absolutely necessary, ‘smells’ – but only if absolutely necessary.” ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/26 "2004-03-08T08:12:49Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > “This stinks.” > > “Not ‘stinks,’ darling. If absolutely necessary, ‘smells’ – but only if absolutely necessary.” O.K., Dex, now I get your username. Just never put 2 and 2 together before. Fancy yourself a bit of a Cary Grant do you? Your quote of course from: **The Philadelphia Story** I just want to mention that I never knew \*\*The Lost Boys \*\*was ever a play (just like I didn’t know about **Roadhouse** , but we have seen that I was wrong there) and I never knew there was a film version of **Cats**. When my parents told me they had been offered roles in the film version of **Cats** , I said to them: “He offered you parts in Cats? I thought you hated Cats. You said it was an all time low in a lifetime of theatre going. You said, ‘Aeschylus did not invent the theatre to have it end up a bunch of chorus kids in cat suits prancing around wondering which of them will go to kitty-cat heaven.’” ---
**Author:** ![3Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/4af34b/32.png) [@3Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3Much)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/27 "2004-03-08T11:45:00Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > “He offered you parts in Cats? I thought you hated Cats. You said it was an all time low in a lifetime of theatre going. You said, ‘Aeschylus did not invent the theatre to have it end up a bunch of chorus kids in cat suits prancing around wondering which of them will go to kitty-cat heaven.’” **Six Degrees of Seperation** I, too, am unfamiliar with a stage version of **The Lost Boys** , but I won’t let it get in the way of my enjoyment of the game. “Shooting a man in the middle of his stanza? That’s just not good form!” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/28 "2004-03-08T15:53:07Z")
> [@3Much](#): > > “Shooting a man in the middle of his stanza? That’s just not good form!” **Peter Pan** (the Disney version) I thought the line was “…in the middle of his cadenza”. “Foul! No grunts.” ---
**Author:** ![RitzyRae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@RitzyRae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitzyRae)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/29 "2004-03-08T18:14:59Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > “Foul! No grunts.” **Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead** and if my memory serves me… “I could peel you like a pear and God himself would call it justice!” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/30 "2004-03-08T19:59:43Z")
> [@RitzyRae](#): > > “I could peel you like a pear and God himself would call it justice!” And we are back to _The Lion in Winter_. For a movie I didn’t like very much, it sure had some truly phenomenal lines. Lessee…okay, here’s a more obscure one. “When you free fall find if heaven waits” ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/31 "2004-03-09T08:27:42Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > “When you free fall find if heaven waits” **Kizarvexius** , if you can point me to a film version of _All in the Timing_/_Universal Language_ I would love to know more about it. I’ve been involved in a couple of productions of these short David Ives plays and they’re great! But, unless you know of a film version that my research has not revealed, I suspect that we’re missing an element of the OP: > [@DirkGntly in the OP](#): > > a play, which has also been a movie If I’m wrong please correct me, I would love to see how any filmmaker would approach this material! Here we go. . . “Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs.” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/32 "2004-03-09T12:23:03Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > “Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs.” _A Raisin in the Sun_. Mine: “Will those who wish to live…er…will those who wish to _leave_, please do so as quietly as possible.” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/33 "2004-03-09T19:57:00Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > **Kizarvexius** , if you can point me to a film version of _All in the Timing_/_Universal Language_ I would love to know more about it. I’ve been involved in a couple of productions of these short David Ives plays and they’re great! But, unless you know of a film version that my research has not revealed, I suspect that we’re missing an element of the OP: > > If I’m wrong please correct me, I would love to see how any filmmaker would approach this material! Eeeek. I was having so much fun playing the game that I forgot the “or a play WHICH HAS ALSO BEEN A MOVE” part. Only thought of it as “play or movie”. My apologies. (thwack) But yes, you are absolutely correct. _Universal Language_ from _All in the Timing_ by David Ives. A work of towering genius. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/34 "2004-03-09T20:54:09Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > “Will those who wish to live…er…will those who wish to _leave_, please do so as quietly as possible.” _Our Town_? ---
**Author:** ![3Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/4af34b/32.png) [@3Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3Much)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/35 "2004-03-10T16:31:30Z")
Sorry Buckle, but it isn’t **Our Town** > [@Rilchiam](#): > > “Will those who wish to live…er…will those who wish to _leave_, please do so as quietly as possible.” **The Dresser** “Who needs sight; we have vision!” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/36 "2004-03-10T22:46:08Z")
> [@3Much](#): > > **The Dresser** Yes! > [@](#): > > “Who needs sight; we have vision!” But unfortunately, I don’t know yours. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/37 "2004-03-10T23:21:54Z")
> [@3Much](#): > > “Who needs sight; we have vision!” **I’m Not Rappaport** \*Freddy! That little coward who couldn’t get a job boxing groceries even if he had the guts to apply for it? You’d marry **him**!" ---
**Author:** ![RitzyRae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@RitzyRae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitzyRae)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/38 "2004-03-11T14:50:25Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > \*Freddy! That little coward who couldn’t get a job boxing groceries even if he had the guts to apply for it? You’d marry **him**!" **My Fair Lady**? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/39 "2004-03-11T16:34:01Z")
> [@RitzyRae](#): > > **My Fair Lady**? Yep. Your turn. ---
**Author:** ![3Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/4af34b/32.png) [@3Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3Much)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872/40 "2004-03-13T21:55:55Z")
Well, it’s been over 48 hours with no new posts, so I will just go ahead and restart it. “Murray, lend me $20.00 or I’ll call your wife and tell her you’re in Central Park wearing a dress.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-play-movie-a-game-if-the-mods-will-allow/231872.md?page=3)