My Life in Ruins (2009)
Correct Answers: 1 Points: 4
Once Upon a Timepiece in the Vest (Captain Video)
Something Tick-ed This Way Comes (Captain Video)
This Love of Hours (Captain Video)
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Correct Answers: 4 Points: 1
Copy Land (Gopan Menon)
Fantastic Mr. Xerox (Gopan Menon)
Reproduction Man (Captain Video)
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Correct Answers: 3 Points: 2
You Can Countdown On Me (Captain Video)
Our Man Clint (Agrajag)
What? Abort Bob? (Captain Video)
Deliverance (1972)
Correct Answers: 2 Points: 3
Birth of a Citation (Captain Video)
Diastema Hard: With a Vengeance (Gopan Menon)
Dickey Blue Eyes (Agrajag)
Great job, filmbuffs! I was hoping to fool you all with a couple of diabolical diastemas, but some folks still got the right answers.
The theme for the quiz was cameos. Each of the faces belonged to someone doing a small part that they wouldn’t have got in the usual way. We have a movie’s producer,
a musician buddy, a hilarious inside joke, and the author of the book.
A: My Life In Ruins (2009) – That’s Rita Wilson (known to some as Mrs. Tom Hanks) in the watch. She is an actress, of course, but also produces, including My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and Nia Vardalos’s follow-up to that movie, My Life In Ruins. Lovely Rita plays the dead wife of Richard Dreyfuss, and those are his hands holding the watch.
B: Jerry Maguire (1996) – That’s Jerry Cantrell of the Seattle band Alice in Chains. He appeared with the band in a previous Cameron Crowe film, Singles, and is credited in this flick as Jesus of CopyMat. The brief scene is where Jerry Maguire makes copies of his momentous memo, er, mission statement. Thanks to Jesus of Copymat, it wasn’t a Mission Statement: Impossible. In fact, Cantrell’s one line serves as the mission statement for the whole film: “That's how you become great, man. Hang your balls out there.”
C: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) – That’s Clint Howard (known to some as Ron Howard’s brother) reprising is his role as a NASA flight controller from Apollo 13 in the Smithsonian’s Air & Space Museum. For me, this was the biggest laugh in the whole film. As I’d hoped, at least one person guessed Apollo 13 for this shot. In NATM2 he’s credited as Flight Commander Johnson, but the real-life NASA hero he played in the earlier movie was EECOM controller Sy Liebergot. For those who are curious, that’s Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager. The easiest way to tell that it’s the later film is that Clint’s modern eyeglasses don’t match the 1970 version.
D: Deliverance (1972) – James Dickey was a WWII fighter pilot, professor, novelist, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. He wrote the screenplay (based on his book) for Deliverance and appeared as the local sheriff, who tells the boys, “Don't ever do nothin' like this again. Don't come back up here.” I was hoping some quizzers might think it was Randy Quaid in the shot, and spend hours searching his films in vain. For any of you who have never seen John Boorman’s 1972 masterpiece, be sure not to watch an edited TV version. Watch the whole widescreen edition alone, late at night, with the lights down.
This week there were 9 participants with 5 getting at least one answer right.
Thanks to all for playing, and congratulations to all who guessed correctly!
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