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  1. I'm just going to go ahead and give the answer, as either no one is interested or has a clue. All of the baseball players mentioned began and ended their careers in the same city. Lou Gehrig is the "odd man," because he played his entire career with one team (the Yankees). Babe Ruth started with the Boston Red Sox, went to the New York Yankees, but finished with the Boston Braves. Hank Aaron began his career with the Milwaukee Braves, moved to Atlanta (with the Braves), and finished with the Milwaukee Brewers. Willie Mays started with the New York Giants, moved to San Francisco (with the Giants), and finished with the New York Mets. Jimmy Foxx started with the Philadelphia Athletics, moved to Kansas City (with the Athletics), and finished with the Philadelphia Phillies. Something to share at your next party. :) George
  2. "The Man from La Mancha" "If I Only Had a Brain" George
  3. Yes. And the parodies did as well as the original. Not quite. George
  4. Interesting guess, though I don't think President Tom Whitmore was in either The Walking Dead or Dead Rising: Endgame. Let me add a word: After thwarting an attempted alien takeover of Earth, President Tom Whitmore helps free a Colorado town from flesh-hungry zombies. George
  5. After thwarting an attempted takeover of Earth, President Tom Whitmore helps free a Colorado town from flesh-hungry zombies. George
  6. "Caddyshack" I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad. George
  7. These two short-lived TV shows featured movie stars in perhaps their only starring TV (series) roles. Both involved intrigues in Washington, DC. Name either one. George C. Scott stars as President Samuel Tresch, whose wife mysteriously leaves him. From the late 1980's. I've already essentially given the title. Sharon Stone as Vice President Natalie Maccabee, guardian of a special copy of the Constitution. Ran last year. This special, "original" version of the Constitution includes a section in Article 2 empowering a secret operative to carry out covert operations, under the direction of the VP. The show's title refers to the operative, not the VP. George
  8. As far as I know, only two people portrayed Danny Partridge (and one was in a made-for-TV movie portraying the other), so... Danny Bonaduce? George
  9. Sorry. When production costs spiraled over budget, Universal Chairman Lew Wasserman told producer Ross Hunter to shut it down. Hunter persisted, and finished the film. Universal execs predicted the film would be a flop and premiered it in many markets, hoping to recoup their loss before word of mouth killed it at the box office. The film turned out to be a hit, and brought in huge profits. Hunter publicly boasted that the film paid the salaries at Universal for several years, thus earning Wasserman's eternal enmity and resulting in Hunter's contract not being picked up for renewal. Patty Poulsen, who portrayed Joan, one of the stewardesses aboard the "Golden Argosy" in her first and only film role, was an actual stewardess for American Airlines. She was the winner of a stewardess beauty contest in which one of the prizes was a role in this film. She was also used heavily in American Airlines' advertising of its new uniforms during the mid to late 1960s, photos that have, more recently, appeared in several different coffee table books celebrating the history of the airline hostess. Ever since the introduction of the MPAA two years prior, this movie was one of the few G rated films to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. The others are Oliver! (1968) which won it, Funny Girl (1968), Fiddler on a Roof (1971), Sounder (1972), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Babe (1995), and Toy Story 3 (2010). This movie had three sequels (arguably, not as bad as "The Exorcist II"). It was the final film of actors Van Heflin, Virginia Grey, Thomas Browne Henry, and Jessie Royce Landis, as well as composer Alfred Newman. The movie was double-billed in some markets with "The Andromeda Strain," with the tag line "Together On One Great Family Program". The film featured five Academy Award winners (not for this film). The two main stars each received 10% of the gross, or about $7,000,000 (a lot of money at the time). One of them, however, called this film "the worst piece of junk ever made." George
  10. Sarah Jessica Parker Ed Wood Martin Landau George
  11. Teri Hatcher Soapdish Sally Field George
  12. I'm completely caught up on all of the shows. (I usually am, within a week of their airing.) Maybe it's part of the charm of SHIELD, but I'm getting a little tired of "who's the traitor, this week?" No major complaints about the show, though; but I'd put it at the bottom of my super-hero TV list. Since you asked :lol: here's my ranking. YMMD. Legends of Tomorrow Supergirl Flash Gotham Arrow SHIELD George
  13. Don't know. They're probably from another immensely popular film which I haven't seen... George
  14. It WAS hard to suppress a strong feeling of deja vu, while watching. I was just waiting for the line, "Behold, a FULLY-FUNCTIONAL death planet!" George
  15. Ian McKellen The DaVinci Code Tom Hanks George
  16. I suppose one could find similar oddities for each of the others. Let me try to narrow it down. It has to do with their careers. They all have one thing in common, but the "odd man" is slightly different. George PS I realize that the "Jimmy Duggan" character in "A League of Their Own" was based on Foxx.
  17. I don't know if anyone will see this. (It's the first post on the thread in five years!) But I heard a brain teaser on the radio program "Says You" which baseball aficionados should enjoy. Which of the following Hall-of-Famers is different from the others, and how is he different? Be specific. Babe Ruth Hank Aaron Lou Gehrig Willie Mays Jimmie Foxx (Note: it's not about statistics. You could say that Aaron is the only one who hit over 750 HR; but you could just as easily say that Gehrig was the only one to hit fewer than 500.) George
  18. I can't speak for WW, but I know I chuckled. It's fun when the "whole" title actually makes some sense. New one soon. George
  19. Batman: The Brave and the Bold and the Beautiful (?) George
  20. I stand corrected. I saw posters with all the Jaws movies together and conflated Jaws 2 with Jaws the Revenge. An easy one: A group of young super-heroes stop an ancient Egyptian god from conquering Vietnam. George
  21. I've seen posters for the movie with and without the II New one soon. George
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