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I'm GOING to GET the PAPERS, GET the PAPERS 1. Frank I’M GOING TO GET THE PAPERS, GET THE PAPERS 1. Frank Langella and Laurence Fishburne have both played the editor of which fictional newspaper on screen? (The Daily Planet; in Superman Returns and man of Steel) 2. Kirk Douglas lives by his motto "Bad news sells best. 'Cause good news is no news" in which Billy Wilder film? (Ace in the Hole) 3. The 1931 film The Front Page was remade nine years later as which screwball classic? (His Girl Friday) 4. Which Oscar-winning film chronicled the Boston Globe’s campaign to unocover sexual abuse in the local Catholic church. (Spotlight) 5. Which real-life newspaper magnate was the inspiration for Orson Welles in Citizen Kane? (William Randolph Hearst) CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 6. Arthur Fleck (Joker) 7. Axel Foley (Beverly Hills Cop) 8. Max Rockatansky (Mad Max) 9. Graf von Orlok (Nosferatu) 10. Navin R. Johnson (The Jerk) WLTM Example Alvy meets Annie through mutual friends during a game of tennis doubles. Romance ensues… (Annie Hall) 11. After bookshop owner Will Thacker spills orange juice on movie star Anna Scott, he invites her to get changed at his home nearby. Romance ensues… (Notting Hill) 12. While trying to escape a crowd of adoring fans, movie star Don Lockwood hops into a passing car driven by Kelly Selden. Romance ensues… (Singin' in the Rain) 13. Career bank robber Jack Foley and a federal marshal Karen Sisco are forced to share the boot of a car during Foley's escape from a Florida prison. Romance ensues… (Out of Sight) 14. A pampered heiress on the run is forced to share a bus seat with a recently-fired journalist. Upon recognising her, the journalist blackmails the heiress into giving him the exclusive on her story. Romance ensues... (It Happened One Night) 15. An argumentative German couple prompts Celine to move seats on the train to Vienna. Across the aisle she strikes up conversation with American traveller Jessie. Romance ensues… (Before Sunrise) APROPOS OF NOTHING 16. Little Girl Lost (Drew Barrymore: “I had my first drink at age nine, began smoking marijuana at 10, and at 12 took up cocaine.”) 17. Lulu in Hollywood (Louise Brooks) 18. Pyror Convictions (Richard Pryorl) 19. Make 'Em Laugh (Debbie Reynolds) 20. What’s It All About? (Michael Caine) WISH YOU WERE HERE? 21. The Shining 22. Grand Hotel 23. Lost in Translation 24. The Grand Budapest Hotel 25. Psycho GET MY AGENT ON THE PHONE! 26. Which renowned Oscar winning director seriously considered retiring after the critical failure of his big-budget 2003 production of ‘Hulk’ - described by the New York Post as “the toughest flick with a green protagonist to sit through since The Grinch” (Ang Lee) 27. Who’s the legendary Hollywood director responsible for 1981 WWII-cum-Football pic, Escape to Victory? (John Huston) 28. Which Oscar winning actor played the monster in Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein? (Robert De Niro) 29. Which Oscar-winning actor/director began their career playing a dead body in the film The Big Chill – only to have said scene cut from the finished picture? (Kevin Costner) 30. Who’s bright idea was it to attempt to lift Lockdown spirits by involving numerous showbiz pals for a universally derided sing-a-long of John Lennon’s Imagine? (Gal Gadot) GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1. Which Hollywood star is currently living in lockdown with his family in the Dublin seaside resort of Dalkey after production on his latest film was shut down? (Matt Damon) 2. In the 1994 Beatle’s biopic, Backbeat, who played the photographer Astrid Kirchherr opposite Stephen Dorff’s Stuart Sutcliff? (Sheryl Lee) 3. Which actor has been perfectly cast to play Tiger King Joe Exotic in a forthcoming TV mini-series? (Nicholas Cage) 4. Who has recently announced plans to be the first actor to make a film in space? (Tom ​ ​ Cruise) 5. Whose new film A Rainy Day in New York is currently top of the global box office charts on account that it’s doing very well in South Korea, one of the few countries with cinemas currently open? (Woody Allen) 6. Which director recently reflected on life during lockdown: “I can live with it. Everybody has to live with it and I’m no exception. I do the most aggression against the virus by hunkering down. Which sounds like a paradox, because hunkering down is defensive. But we have to starve the fucker.” (Werner Herzog) ​ 7. Who held up the filming of a pivotal scene in Back to the Future until he received payment of $50,000? (Whether the payment was made by check or via his usual M.O. of cash in a brown paper bag we have been unable to confirm…) (Chuck Berry) 8. What role links Crispin Glover, Guy Pearce & David Bowie? (Andy Warhol) 9. Which Star Wars character gives its name to the nightclub at the start of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? (Obi-Wan Kenobi) 10. Which film-making partnership are writing the screenplay to the forthcoming remake of Scarface? (The Coen brothers) 11. Which 81-year-old Oscar winner posted a video prayer on his Twitter account in March declaring “My fellow Americans, we will rid this virus. We will be strong because we are ​ the greatest gift to mankind… And may God protect our president and his family.” (Jon Voight) 12. Which Oscar winning actor recently played Dr Fauci on Saturday Night Live? (Brad Pitt) 13. Instead of being released in cinemas in October 2021, the film of which hit theatrical musical will now be available to stream on Disney Plus from 3 July this year? (Hamilton) 14. Which actor released a “comeback” album last year entitled Still Singing? (Joe Pesci) 15. Which husband-and-wife stars of A Quiet Place are now broadcasting a charming YouTube show from their house called Some Good News? (Emily Blunt and John Krasinski) .
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