# Play Nia Vardalos' "Victor/Victoria Likes It Hot" Game! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948 "2004-04-14T12:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/241 "2004-04-15T16:17:14Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > **Funny Girl, Interrupted** > Follies star Fanny Brice is commited to a mental institute when her marriage to Nicky Arnstein disintegrates. _Insulin shock therapy Insulin shock therapy what a beautiful phrase…_ More from Barbra: **Robin Hood: Prince of Tides** = the pivotal breakthrough is when Robin’s counsellor, Maid Miriam, makes him confront what else happened to him in that Arab prison. **The Mirror Has Three Faces of Eve** - Barbra has split into three personalities, one of them a crossover pop-star, another a temperamental but unquestionably supertalented director and actress, and the third a half-Cambodian cab-driver named Sinohakong. None of them are believable as Lauren Hutton’s daughter.\*\* **The Main Event Horizon** - The first Brooklyn native on Saturn is terrorized by cheesy 3-D Ryan O’Neals, their waistline threatening to expand to the bursting point. **Yentl Victoria** - arriving in 1910s America with no money and no skills, Yentl must pretend to be a man again in order to get a job teaching at a Brooklyn Rabbinical College for Women but must pretend she’s a woman in order to enroll at the same college. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/242 "2004-04-15T16:23:57Z")
**Saving Private Benjamin** - Goldie Hawn’s brothers have all been killed in WW2, and Tom Hanks must lead a team to get her out of France. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/243 "2004-04-15T16:32:28Z")
**Orphans of the Perfect Storm** Two sisters (played by Lillian and Dorothy Gish) try to flee revolutionary Paris in a boat, only to be caught in an unusually intense storm pattern. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/244 "2004-04-15T16:34:08Z")
\*\*Indiana Jones and the Close Encounters of the Third Reich \*\* - The Nazis have used ancient artifacts to make contact with powerful aliens. Can Indy steal their ancient transmitter and keep the aliens from entering the war on the German side? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/245 "2004-04-15T16:38:39Z")
**The Littlest Rebel Without a Cause** Shirley Temple leads a band of disaffected teens. “Please don’t shoot Plato, or I’ll be _ever_ so cross with you!” ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/246 "2004-04-15T16:39:38Z")
**Dracula : The Vampire Strikes Back** - "Luuuke… I am your vadder… " ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/247 "2004-04-15T16:44:13Z")
**Office Spaceballs** - “You’ve missed the princess!” “Well, I wouldn’t say I’ve _missed_ her, Bob.” I could set the ship on fire, you know. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/248 "2004-04-15T16:52:20Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > **Office Spaceballs** - “You’ve missed the princess!” “Well, I wouldn’t say I’ve _missed_ her, Bob.” > I could set the ship on fire, you know. Spaceballs : The Stapler! The kids’ll love it. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/249 "2004-04-15T16:53:36Z")
**The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Prefer Blondes** In an alternate Victorian world, a group of famous fantasy and sci-fi characters team up with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell on a secret mission. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/250 "2004-04-15T16:55:13Z")
**Good Willard Hunting** – an introverted young man befriends an army of rats that are really good at Group Theory. He uses them to revenge himself upon those who taunt him. Look for the sequel, **Affleck** **Gigotli** – Deaf-mute Jackie Gleason gets together with lesbian hitwoman Jennifer Lopez in this action/adventure/melodrama/heartwarming comedy. Directed by Gene Kelly **My Big Fat Zorba the Greek** – Anthony Quinn puts on weight **Never Say Never on Sunday** – James Bond has to deal with streetwalker Melina Mercouri ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/251 "2004-04-15T17:03:50Z")
The Talented Ms. Ripley - Ellen Ripley was sent to recover a wayward scientist … but she decides the scientist’s life appeals to her. Until she finds the egg… ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/252 "2004-04-15T17:04:42Z")
**Man on the Moon and Sixpence** Eccentric comedian Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey) fakes his own death to become a painter (George Sanders) loosely based on Paul Gaugin (Anthony Quinn). ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/253 "2004-04-15T17:07:41Z")
**Ghandi With the Wind** - The doctrine of passive resistance is tested, when a visionary pacifist attempts it in the Reconstruction-era South. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/254 "2004-04-15T17:12:39Z")
(We’re starting to repeat . . . either we’ve _done_ everything, or the thread’s too long to go back and check before posting a title . . .) ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/255 "2004-04-15T17:13:56Z")
**The Miracle Worker on 34th Street** - Santa Claus teaches a blind and deaf child to communicate. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/256 "2004-04-15T17:16:02Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > (We’re starting to repeat . . . either we’ve _done_ everything, or the thread’s too long to go back and check before posting a title . . .) Definitely the latter. I still have a few dozen I’m mulling over that I don’t think have been done yet. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/257 "2004-04-15T17:21:00Z")
**Bullitt Time** - Steve McQueen enters the Matrix. **Star Trek III : The Searchers for Spock** - To steal the Enterprise and find his friend, William Shatner (as Capt. James T. Kirk) enlists the help of the one man who could beat him in a fistfight, John Wayne. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/258 "2004-04-15T17:35:27Z")
**Beyond the Valley of Gwangi** – animated dinosaur learns that life in Hollywood isn’t all glamour and turns to drugs. Written by Roger Ebert. **Snow White and the Seven Samurai** – “Ohhh, don’t tell me. You must be Heihachi!” Look for the secene where Kikuchiyo refuses to wash before dinner, and has to eat his fish in a loincloth. (You can never have enough Seven Samurai references) **The Seven Year Ishtar** – Realllllly long bad movie. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/259 "2004-04-15T17:47:19Z")
**A Cry in the Darkman** : “Dingoes ate my fake skin!” **Throw Momma From The Training Day** : Denzel Washington and Danny DeVito trade training assignments with tragicomic results. **Two Mules for Twister Sara** : Clint Eastwood and Helen Hunt as very pious storm chasers. And since we’re bendng the rules a bit and doing TV… **Monty Python’s Fireflying Circus** : “Burn the land, boil the sea, we are the Knights Who Say ‘Ni’.” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/260 "2004-04-15T17:54:56Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > . . . And since we’re bending the rules a bit and doing TV . . . Hey—if _that_ were kosher, I’d have done **How Green Were My Acres** long ago! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948.md?page=14)