Sunday Morning Puzzle # 17

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This week’s puzzle may tick off fans of independent film. Unfortunately, however, motion pictures today must nearly always deal with “big name” celebrities. Famous celebrities just about guarantee that a movie will ultimately make it into the financial black. “No-name” stars, on the other hand, often equal no-made profits.

Below are eleven films that featured no-name or unknown stars. This has been rectified.

The new film titles have been broken into “doublets”, and these doublets have been alphabetized. So if the retitled film was “Sir Lawrence Biotop’s Sunday Morning Puzzle Number Seventeen” then it would be broken into the impossibly long string: SI RL AW RE NC EB IO TO PS SU ND AY MO RN IN GP UZ ZL EN UM BE RS EV EN TE EN. The alphabetized version would be thus: AW AY BE EB EN EN EN EV GP IN IO MO NC ND PS RE RL RN RS SI SU TE TO UM UZ ZL. Ugh!

One minor problem and one mitigating circumstance:

Minor Problem: An extra letter has been inserted into each reworked title. These extra letters must be removed when spelling out the new titles.

Mitigating Circumstance: The eleven extra letters, in order, will spell out a famous hang-out of the stars.

  1. AL BA DE HI NS OT PE PT RA RO RS

  2. BE BR DA EN EH ER LG TE US

  3. AC AL AR EN ES IW PH TA UR

  4. ER FT HE ID LO MK RA RI SI SO US

  5. BT DE HE IC IO IT KT MO NE NP RE RE TU

  6. AR ER IS NG OL OV PL TI

  7. ER EV KA ND NS OC OR PE PR RI SF ST YO

  8. AP LU OL RN SB XI YO

  9. AM BE CH EG ER TH UL US WR

  10. AD AO EM ES IC RI SP TM US

  11. AR EN ES EY GA HO HT IG IN NT OF OT SS TH TH
    What are the original film titles? What are the re-worked film titles? What is the famous place?

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Okay, here’s a couple of hints before I let this puzzle disappear into the black hole of unanswered scribblings…

This is probably the most difficult anagramming puzzle I’ve posted. However, most of the film titles are very familiar, and the one foreign title was quite well received in this country (4 bones out of 4 in the Videohound Guide)—though maybe that’s not the most appropriate rating system.

Some of the actors and actresses in the original films include Harrison Ford, Brooke Shields, Barbara Streisand, Woody Allen, and Burt Reynolds.

Good luck.

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You’re just too impatient, Bio - you really expected us to get this in less than a day?

I finally got them all (without the hints, thank you very much - and since when is Clifton Webb not a star?) and I think I deserve AG DR EL IG OL

And the answer to no. 4 made me groan out loud. Well done!

(P.S. I’ll be out of town next week, so I may not be able to get the next puzzle - but I’ll be sure to work on it as soon as I get back!)

4

Wow – this was kicking my butt until I finally figured out the catch…

Not done yet, but I have 2, 4, 6, and 8, and working on the others. I won’t post any yet in case others are still struggling. :slight_smile:

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I’ve got all of them but one now – still working on # 7… between real work, that is… :slight_smile:

Good puzzle!

6

I haven’t worked out any of the films, but I have an answer. I won’t post it, lest I either humiliate myself, or spoil it (unlikely ;))

7

Aargh… I’ve been staring at this for five minutes and still no answers, so I’m going to go and hang my head in shame.

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Okay, finished 'em off! Took longer on #7 because I was thinking of the wrong star. It wasn’t Nicolas Cage in Face/Off after all. :wink:

Spoiler Alert! I won’t spoil it here in the actual post, but if anybody is in danger of ripping their hair out and strangling themselves with it…
Here’s my solution

After this puzzle… AS EE GC IA IN MS RS TO

:smiley: