Sunday Morning Puzzle #102 --- A Hollywood Trend

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This puzzle consists of 16 movie titles. These titles have been broken into “doublets”, and the doublets alphabetized.

Example:

AM ER IC AN BE AU TY
AM AN AU BE ER IC TY

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Problems:

  1. Prior to being broken into doublets, the movie titles were altered to reflect a current trend in Hollywood.

  2. In addition to problem #1, each title entry contains either an extra single letter or an extra doublet. These extra letters are not part of the altered titles at all.

Mitigating Circumstances:

  1. The extra single letters and doublets can be arranged to spell out the title of an appropriate 1989 film.

  2. The Hollywood trend can be found thus: (altered title #/letter #) 2/16, 14/17, 8/3, 3/22, 6/5, 5/13, 1/3, 10/16, 9/9, 15/3, 7/17, 13/3, 4/3, 11/9, 12/11, 16/14

Can you discover the altered movie titles, the extra title, and the trend?

  1. FS HI IS LO LS MI NI OU OW TS UB VA

  2. ER ES EY FO GL RI RR SP TW

  3. AM DA EW FE GL HI IN LA MS MS SV TE UE

  4. IB IN MU

  5. EA EC HE LA LH NG ON SV VI VR

  6. DS EA ER HA IT MY ND RE RW UP 8E

  7. AS BE DW GC GO HR IN IN IS IV NE SU TM

  8. CH EP OP SI TH

  9. BA CA EB IB IN LE NX RD RO TH TO

  10. BQ GP IN KE NT OI RS TA TE TI UA

  11. BU DY EP ET EX HM IE LA NC OV TH YT

  12. GR IP LI ON PT SE ST

  13. AN BI CD DT EP HE IT SI TH UL UM

  14. AN DE ED IN NG OL OM RE SS TH XP

  15. AD ER LL OA PI RC SB ST UR YE

  16. AN AS AT CH DU ED ES HE IF IR ND OX SA TD TH

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Hmmmm…

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It’s not to o difficult ** biotop**. I just found it. Give an hour or so…

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Ok. I’ve got a few and am starting to cruise. Must be the coffee.

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Oh ho! And just what brand of coffee is bringing such enlightenment, MonkeyMensch? I’d really like to know. My current generic coffee just gets me hyper and impatient.

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Might as well post what I’ve got so far…

Hollywood Trend

Product Placement

The Extra Title

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

1.Mitsubishinival of Souls
2.Forrest Wrigleysp
3. Nothing
4.IBMU
5. Nothing
6. Nothing
7. Nothing
8.Chopepsit
9. Nothing
10.Bquakerstateing Point
11.The Playtexdy Bunch Movie
12.Stripliptonse
13.The Pit and the Bicdulum
14.The Dominoland Express
15.Pillsburyer Coaster
16.The Duchess and the Dirtdasani Fox

I’ll see if I can’t knock out the rest after work.

Patrick

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9.Bacardible in the Bronx

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MonkeyMensch: You are a champion at this brand of anagramming! I’ll bet you get those last few sooner or later. Awesome. And I thought this was going to go unsolved…

While the entry at #15 works, I actually meant to put in :

AD AP BU IL LS RY SE

The puzzle as posed was from an earlier draft.

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It looks like it’s SINGLE WHITE FEMALE with a brand of ALE at the end…

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SEAPILLSBURY

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5.Leaving Las VeChevron

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3.Single White FemSamuelAdams

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And just to round things out:

I think #7 has a typo: BA for BE

7.Suwinnebagoiving Christmas

6.My Dsuper8er with Andre

As always, Biotop, your puzzles are a real mind-bending treat. I look forward, as always, to the next challenge.

Patrick

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Grr…

Stinkin’ typos.

MonkeyMensch:

Glad you enjoyed the puzzle. Work and life keep me very busy now, so there are fewer puzzles from this poster. Maybe someone else could give them a try?

One thing drove me nuts writing this one. I wanted to find a well-known movie title with the letters “TV” together (probably with the ending of one title word with a “T” and the beginning of the next word with a “V”) for a product placement. I wracked my brain and spent many hours with VideoHound, but couldn’t come up with one. Can anyone?

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