Movies

Usually, the movie round at the Old Pequliar produces a list of nine movies and asks what actor or actress appeared in all of them. This week, I reversed the polarity — the first nine questions are clues about actors or actresses, and the final question is what film they all have in common.

It was a grand experiment, but I’ll be going back to the regular way of doing things for the foreseeable future.

1) Rod Steiger, Dennis Hopper, Robert Mitchum, and Burt Reynolds are all closer to the center of the Hollywood universe than what famously well-connected actor?
2) What Canadian actor, who died in Mexico, appeared in seven movies directed by John Hughes, more than any other performer?
3) Who played a mail carrier on a popular sitcom and also got to sweat through an appearance with Sharon Stone during cinema’s most famous upskirt video?
4) Who played a famously crusty producer for WJM-TV and editor for the Los Angeles Tribune, and also the guy who enslaved Kunta Kinte in the miniseries Roots?
5) What actor, currently featured on a police drama series, made his film debut as perhaps the second most famous Gomer Pyle in pop culture history?
6) What actor, one of Kevin Spacey’s key influences, starred in seven films for Billy Wilder?
7) Who was Uma Thurman’s first husband, who in 1986 played a legendary rock musician who died an untimely death?
8) Born Mary Elizabeth but better known by her nickname, who won a Best Actress Oscar for playing Crystal Gale’s older sister?
9) What major Hollywood star, who now owns most of a casino in Deadwood, South Dakota, drank his own urine in a film sometimes ridiculed as Fishtar?
10) What film features all these actors and actresses?

Average score (21 teams): 5.24

1) Kevin Bacon
2) John Candy
3) Wayne Knight
4) Ed Asner
5) Vincent D’Onofrio
6) Jack Lemmon
7) Gary Oldman
8) Sissy Spacek
9) Kevin Costner
10) JFK

Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on October 16, 2007.