ANSWERS

1. Marlene does something of a strip out of a gorilla costume as she
tantalizes Cary Grant in this Joseph Von Sternberg film

Bonus Question: Marlene shocks the troops when she appears in
white tie and tails on stage, then sings a French song (this is French
Morocco), and kisses on the mouth a beautiful, shy (but charmed)
woman in the audience

2. Brando replaced Montgomery Clift in this role. Taylor had
committed her large salary as insurance for Clift’s appearance in the
movie, but Clift died of a heart attack before filming began and
Brando took over the role.

Bonus Question: Forster appeared in “Medium Cool” (1969) in which
he plays a television camera man.

Bonus Bonus Question: Haskel Wexler, cinematographer for “Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf”, “In the Heat of the Night", and many more.

3. He is looking for a “Cornelius” action figure, the character
McDowell played in the original “Planet of the Apes” (1968)

4. “Can’t Stop the Music” is the name of this cult classic bomb, even
with some location filming done in San Francisco

Bonus Question: Nancy Walker, who played Rhoda Morgentern’s
mother on both the “Mary Tyler Moore” show and the spin off
“Rhoda”

5. Arye Gross played Adam Green in Ellen DeGeneres’ mid-90’s
sitcom “Ellen”

Bonus Question: In “Big Eden” the striped plate ware used in the
kitchen scenes is called Vernonware

6. The character Matthew recites “Funeral Blues”, by W.H. Auden

7. The relationship of David Bowie and Iggy Pop is the basis of the
characters played by Jonathan Rhys Myers and Ewan McGregor

8. In “Queens” (2004), three of the mothers of sons getting married
in Spain’s first Gay marriage ceremony, are played by Marisa
Paredes, Veronica Forque and Carmen Maura, who have all had
leading roles in many of the films of the acclaimed Gay Spanish
director Pedro Almodovar.

Bonus Question: Jorge Perugorria made a splash as Diego, a Gay
man living under the Castro regime who falls in love with a straight
man in “Strawberry & Chocolate”, a Cuban-Mexican-Spanish co-
production

9. Sandra Oh, "Grey's Anatomy" cast member, and an Indie film
stalwart, plays a pregnant Lesbian friend, in “Tuscan Sun”, very
loosely based on a non-fiction book by a San Francisco State
professor.

In "Further Tales of the City" she plays an Asian-American
TV news anchor suggested by a real - life San Francisco TV
personality of the 1970's.

By the way, “All Over the Guy” star and script writer Dan Bucatinsky,
plays a Gay man who asks for help in composing a post card to his
Mom in “Tuscan Sun”.

10. Ramon Navarro was the murder victim, apparently apocryphally
killed with a metal representation of Rudolph Valentino’s junk

Maximum total Points 230

Scoring:

180 – 230 : And how long have you been a choreographer?

130 – 170: You know the name of the nail polish featured in
“The Women” (1939)

120 – 80: You have either sung songs from Hollywood musicals in
the shower or have noticed Gene Kelly's thighs in "The Pirate"
or backside in "An American In Paris"

70 – 40: You think video games are movies

30 - 0: You have every John Wayne movie ever made, both on VHS
and DVD

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