Glad to hear it....might be a good idea to keep an AED unit around though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
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Glad to hear it....might be a good idea to keep an AED unit around though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
So...We've established Stavros is older than dirt?
Is it Charlie from Flowers for Algernon? Back in 1968?Quote:
Originally Posted by fred41
Stavros is, indeed, the grand old man of Hung Angels and deserves respect!
Hmm but I think Hippifried is the same age, and there was (on another board) an active 75+ year old, so I still have years to go before Jericho can do nasty things with my ashes -assuming he doesnt cop it first!
no Willie,that post applies to the one I made right before it ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Willie Escalade
...but speaking of "no"..Dr.No came out during my birth year.
Only if i win the lottery, Granddad!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
No worries, son, just make sure you don't forget your eminence grise...
Ben-Hur, North by Northwest, Some Like It Hot, Rio Bravo
These five movies were playing in theaters when I was born.
"Dr. No"
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"Lawrence of Arabia"
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"Mutiny on the Bounty"
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"The Manchurian Candidate"
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"To Kill a Mockingbird"
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1959 :banana:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack59
The Odd Couple 1968
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Originally Posted by Willie Escalade
Yup. Last year of the baby boom.
Carrie, Taxi Driver,Rocky -1976
In the year of my birth, this film,about a guy who couldn't make up his mind,swept the awards in Hollywood and Venice.
The actor would later be interred beside some of the people he portrayed.
Must be Hamlet (194-eight) directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, however while it won the Grand International Prize at the Venice Film Festival in the year of its release (since 1949 the prize has been called the Golden Lion); the Oscars for best film, best actor, best b&w costume design, and best art direction in b&w were awarded at the 1949 ceremony. Olivier is interred in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.Quote:
Originally Posted by sukumvit boy
Zulu, Mary Poppins , Goldfinger , Fistful of Dollars and My Fair Lady ...... love Audrey Hepburn !
I prefer silicon, myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
The same year many people choose of the Chevrolet Impala to turn into a lowrider...1964!Quote:
Originally Posted by t1m1d1
Right on Stavros,1948 it is! " Hamlet" won Best Picture and Sir Laurence Olivier Best Actor. Yes,his ashes were interred in Poet's Corner,Westminster Abbey,along with the Royals including Henry V,who he portrayed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Hey, I like these puzzle posts,hope we can do more. But yours was much more challenging.
Ok then, here are two:Quote:
Originally Posted by sukumvit boy
1) The theme is elocution lessons and the answer is the name of two actors and the film they appeared in, one of the most admired films of the last 60 years.
The elder one was born with a thick cockney accent which he got rid of, eventually giving elocution lessons at RADA to one of the most revered actors of the 20th century, who remarked that his teacher had been an influence on him, but that he believed he had failed at acting and emigrated to America. The younger one recalls in his memoirs the elocution lessons he had at RADA where he had to learn how to say Two Ghosts Sat on Posts Drinking Toasts To Their Hosts...
2) What actor is linked with the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway, the role of Han Solo in Star Wars, and a film by Ingmar Bergman...?
Stavros-The first is Claude Rains and Peter O'Toole in:" Lawrence of Arabia" (another film that came out during my birth year)
Wow! Brilliant! I thought it was google proof, which suggests you have read some books....Rains was born in south London and tutored Sir John Gielgud at RADA who is alleged to have said of Rains : 'He was a great influence on me. I don't know what happened to him. I think he failed and went to America'. O'Toole refers to the elocution lessons he had at RADA in the first volume of his memoirs Loitering With Intent...
I'm not as well read as you might think...it stopped being google proof when you included the quote "Two Ghosts Sat on Posts Drinking Toasts To Their Hosts..."Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
after that you can just work in reverse:Lawrence of Arabia fit the the bill...and so on...
Oh and the actor in the second puzzle is Glynn Turman, who was in the broadway production of"A Raisin in the Sun"...was considered for the part of Han Solo and played a role in Ingmar Bergman's film -"The Serpent's Egg".
Hmph! I did google it first and it didn't come up, maybe it was Google UK or something. Never mind. And yes, Glynn Turman, who was also married to Aretha Frankling for a few years, and was Mayor Royce in The Wire. How did you get that one, from the Raisin in the Sun reference? I will have to think of something more obscure and google-proof in the future!
That took a while,but it shouldn't have...I'll explain:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
The Raisin in the Sun reference was easy,most people older than 30 should know that one, but the problem is that Glynn Turman, though he has a huge body of work...isn't exactly a household name...not like Sidney Poitier for instance.
With the Han Solo reference I was pretty sure it had to be someone that got turned down for the part ..or was considered, but his name didn't immediately pop up for that either...and Ingmar Bergman? Probably most Americans, myself included, think that Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann were the only two thespians in all his movies...lol.
So it was an interesting head scratcher for quite a while....but it shouldn't have been, for if you simply google - 'raisin in the sun' along with 'han solo' you will find the answer.
Love this stuff though...the internet is a wonderful tool...and so are your brain teasers. Please keep them up when you have the time Stavros.
Ok, two more. For the first one I am prepared if there is no progress, to offer a clue.
1) Before you start with the number, think of another, say 30 -but 'on the square' rather than 'squared'; then move to a mysterious woman called Myra, before discovering that he was at one time -in a sense, still is- Mae West's neighbour.
-Who is he?
2) An Hungarian Jew, and Hans from Belfast (who learned some of his trade with John Ford) failed to make a film that, when made by the son of Quakers from Croydon, became one of the highest rated films in history.
-What is the film?
a real puzzle...should be fun.
The second one can be found with a couple of minutes of research - I'll P.M.you the answer so as not to ruin it.
There has to be a degree of difficulty without making a teaser impossible, but I thought I had gone through enough hoops to make no 2 harder than you are making out -or you just know more about films than most people! Or I should stop making them so damn easy!
It has nothing to do with hard or easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
If you got my P.M...you'll know that along with the right answer...I originally was on a slightly wrong track...... but had to get it right, eventually. Search engines,given enough information can often provide the answer to most anything . I didn't post the answer here because I figured someone who studied films as a hobby or as an educational course....or who just happened to know the answer from personal experiences in their lives might enjoy giving the answer by simply knowing it.
Since that hasn't happened yet - I will simply state:
Google: son of Quakers from Croydon...director
..and work from there.
Number one is another beast altogether...I have guesses...but guesses are just that.
Ah..I was not sure how much info to throw in about that son of Quakers, it was always the weak link anyway -did not get a PM by the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by fred41
In the last 3 days Fred41 has correctly identified No 2) as Lawrence of Arabia:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Sir Alexander Korda (by origin an Hungarian Jew) planned to make a film about Lawrence around 1937, and commissioned Brian Hurst (christened Hans in his native Belfast; who learned some of his craft from John Ford in Hollywood) to direct it. The British Government objected on various grounds, mostly ones of security in the areas in which the filming was to take place -Palestine and southern TransJordan. There is a file on this in the National Archive in Kew in London, either Foreign Office or Colonial Office, I can't recall although I have seen it and did make notes on it at the time.
David Lean, who did make the famous film, was the son of Quakers, born in Croydon, a lesson to me not to make these things so easy!
You are on the right track, so before wrapping this up I am prepared to offer a clue that ought to clinch it: think of one of the best selling albums of all time and you ought to see your way through to the answer...Quote:
Originally Posted by fred41
Once upaon a time in America, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, Indiana Jones and the temple of doom!
I am proud.. :)
The individual was born in 30 Clarendon "Square"...he was a neighbor of Mae West on the "Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album..and perhaps in death. ( I originally thought you might mean that the person we are speaking of is buried in the same cemetery, but that didn't pan out because I couldn't find anyone that matched the clues to her burial here in Brooklyn.)I had latched on to this before you gave the "album" clue...but I ignored the individual because he didn't fit the rest of the clues..to me at the time anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
The red herring for me was the clue: 'a mysterious woman called Myra', which any logical connection to the following name of Mae West would lead one to conclude was referring to the movie "Myra Breckenridge"...this caused much searching in the wrong direction (much, much) and ...I almost gave up.. It turns out you were referring to a silent film series called "The Mysteries of Myra".
Your best clue, within a clue, was this... :
After I mentioned that "number one was anotherbeast altogether...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Finally it all came together after I looked at this question again a few minutes ago with a fresh mind...I was just about to give up and - there it was.
The person in question is The Great Beast 666...
The person in question is Aleister Crowley.
good puzzle..
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley - YouTube
Excellent thread. Thanks Stavros and Fred41!
Fred, have you thought of working for the intelligence services? A brilliant piece of deduction, BUT you missed one clue, otherwise I wasn't expecting you to get it!Quote:
Originally Posted by fred41
Here is the clue again:
Before you start with the number, think of another, say 30 -but 'on the square' rather than 'squared'; then move to a mysterious woman called Myra, before discovering that he was at one time -in a sense, still is- Mae West's neighbour.
-Who is he?
Before you start with the number: ie 'the number' = 'le chiffre' in French, and the character in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale based on Crowley. Yes, the 'Mysteries of Myra' was a series of film in the silent era based on Crowley and a useful and pointless diversion to Myra Breckenridge.
The Mysteries of Myra (1916) - IMDb
And yes, Crowley is 'neighbour' to Mae West on the cover of Sgt Pepper's, WC Fields on the other side.
I guess that is 9/10 but still gets you into Langley or GCHQ.
So here then is the new one, probably the easiest of the puzzles so far.
The answer to this puzzle is a transexual model who has featured on HungAngels.
To find the name of this person, you need to exit this underground railway station close to the street named after one of the most famous musicians who once lived in Vienna, and then link it to the popular name for a luxurious train service that used to run in Italy.