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Sorry George, but you're getting way off track.  Sylvester Stallone has never won an acting Oscar and Shelly Duvall either. 

Your off with Five Easy Pieces.  Karen Black no Oscar winner.   Hint:  Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his part in one of the movies.

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On 4/12/2024 at 9:28 PM, Human without the bean said:

Hint:  Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his part in one of the movies.

My clue may have led you astray George.  Michael Douglas didn't win an Oscar for acting.  He did win it for his part (directing, production, writing; et cetera) in the movie.

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Outside of you and me George, waysider somewhat, were the only ones playing right now.  If someone else came across this trivia, I think they may see it right away.  Okay, you got two, but there are two really obvious movies that I know we use on the other threads all the time.  I'll hold out another day or two and if you or someone else doesn't get it I'll move on.

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Okay it's been more than a few days.  So lets give it up.  A couple of no-brainers I'm afraid were obvious I think,  "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) (Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher), and of course "Silence of the Lambs" (1991) (Anthony Hopkins and Jodi Foster).  George you got two others, "It Happened One Night"  and the other Jack Nicholson movie, "As Good As it Gets" (1997).  "Network" came the year after "One Flew" ,(Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway).  Last on the list is "On Golden Pond" (1981) (Henry Fonda, Katherine Hepburn) winning both the acting Oscars.

Okay now, there are only three movies in Cinematic history to win three Acting Oscars for the same movie.  Guess one?

No, not really.  One of them was "Network" with one supporting actress.  Just kidding.   Let's open it up to a FREE POST.

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Just the day before yesterday, I ran across something about how President Taft was in office in 1912 when Arizona became the 48th state.  I'm thinking that the 47th state had been closely tailored in about the same time with another state around the same location.  How about New Mexico.

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On 4/26/2024 at 8:22 PM, GeorgeStGeorge said:

Three, total?

George

They were a couple George, for 50 years.  She's still alive but has dementia and is in an institution or facility of some sort.  Sad.

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6 hours ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

I know they were together for a long time.  I just can't think of many movies with both of them in them.

George

Okay it was 16, four of them were directed by Paul Newman.

While I come up with something else, anyone can feel free to step in.

 

 

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No. Morse Code usually uses SOS.

I'll just flip the cards here.

French for "Help Me!" is "M'aidez!" pronounced "mayday" and usually spelled as such.

FREE POST (Of course, I "borrowed" Human's spot, so he should go if he has one.

George

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A little music trivia then, if you're a fan of this group it should be easy.

Which ~Eagles~ album featured the song "New Kid in Town" and in which order was the song on the album song list?

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On 5/4/2024 at 6:43 PM, Human without the bean said:

A little music trivia then, if you're a fan of this group it should be easy.

Which ~Eagles~ album featured the song "New Kid in Town" and in which order was the song on the album song list?

I'm guessing there weren't any Eagle fans (and will make a note of it) so, it was the second song on album "Hotel California".

Another one then.  It's an election year so without getting political I'm thinking were about to witness some shenanigans the like never before seen in this country, or possibly not.   Which US president lost both the popular and the electoral vote and still won the election?

 

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Back to baseball.   :biglaugh:

This is a fairly rare occurrence in baseball, although it has happened three times already this year.  Some interesting occurrences:

  • On August 27, 1977, Texas Rangers teammates Toby Harrah and Bump Wills did this back-to-back.
  • Ichiro Suzuki is the only player to have done this in an All-Star game.
  • On April 6, 2009, Emilio Bonifacio of the Florida Marlins became the first player in 41 years to do this on Opening Day,
  • On July 18, 2010, Jhonny Peralta of the Cleveland Indians took 16.74 seconds to accomplish this.
  • Only 18 players have done this twice in one game.

What is this occurrence?

George

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