WhiteKiboko said:
i only used the marriage connection after you threw a non-actor in there....
Aw, gee, I'm not that much of a meanie, Big Guy.
I just added the "film" specification as a clue for that particular challenge. Marriage, affairs (e.g., Marilyn & JFK), family ties, song duets, etc. are always acceptable.
WhiteKiboko said:
woody allen - alan alda - crimes and misdemeanors
alda - rip torn - canadian bacon
torn in MIB
Fantastic answer -- two bonus buckets of krill to WK! I never saw CANADIAN BACON except for a few short excerpts, but I probably oughta rent it because anything with Rhea Perlman and the late John Candy has gotta be my kind of flick. (Ever see the TV comedy sketch series SECOND CITY with Candy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Rick Moranis, Andrea Martin, and others too humorous to mention? A classic!)
Here was my solution to the Woody Allen one:
- -- Woody was in CASINO ROYALE (the James Bond film that all James Bond fans hate) with Peter Sellers
-- Peter Sellers was in LOLITA with James Mason
-- James Mason was in 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, etc.
BTW, interesting trivia, Woody Allen attended my alma mater Midwood High School (several years before me) when his name was still Stuart Allen Konigsberg, and when I went there they had a photo of him on a "Famous Alumni" board in the main lobby.
I often wonder if that photo is still up there, or if they took it down when it occurred to them that the coeds would probably be just about the right age for him to date....
WhiteKiboko said:
i dont know what else is out there because thats the only woody allen movie ive seen.... although 'hercules in New york' has a very wood allenish character....
Only one Woody Allen film? Boy, do I feel old! Back in the Jurassic period, I used to see his flicks all the time. Well, the early ones anyway, before he decided to be
deep. BANANAS, TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN, LOVE & DEATH, SLEEPER, ANNIE HALL, BROADWAY DANNY ROSE, THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, ZELIG, EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX, and even the animated ANTZ, are all classics. However, avoid like the plague any of the films from his "Ingmar Bergman" period -- pretentious crap-ola, IMHO.
Woody also wrote some very funny essays, collected in the books WITHOUT FEATHERS and GETTING EVEN.
At this point, I should add that I cannot stand the man as a person, though I am awed by his intellect and numerous talents (comedy writing, scriptwriting, acting, directing, clarinet playing, and familiarity with fine literature, psychology, and a host of other academic subjects). It's similar to the Peter Sellers thing (though, unlike Sellers, I would not consider Allen a Hottie in any way, shape, or form). I wouldn't let Woody Allen within a mile of my teenage daughter, if I had one. But since I don't, I can appreciate Allen's creative work independently of Allen himself.
(Pardon the rant, but he really,
really gets on my nerves as a human being.)
WhiteKiboko said:
maybe we should drop the less than 6/7 steps specifications.... part of the fun is seeing what paths people take... plus itd give other people a chance to jump in....
Sure, sounds like fun! No holds barred from now on, no matter how convoluted the connections. It might even be fun to suggest connections to which we don't know the answers ourselves, and as you say, see what variations everyone comes up with.
C'mon everyone, don't be shy -- the weirder the better.
"The Old Chick"
