Monday, March 11, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

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instaget final jeopardy for me...one of the few playwrights i can name and knew dude died last year
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floridagator wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:57 pm Give me a break. Playwright died in 2018 at age 91? All those awards?

Eugene O'Neill WTF??? He died in 1953.

Arthur Miller HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD???

It pays to read the obituaries.

I had a feeling they would make sure Norman Lear got all his screen time in.
miller did only die in 2005...thought he had died a long while before that
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morbeedo wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2019 10:37 am
floridagator wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:57 pm Give me a break. Playwright died in 2018 at age 91? All those awards?

Eugene O'Neill WTF??? He died in 1953.

Arthur Miller HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD???

It pays to read the obituaries.

I had a feeling they would make sure Norman Lear got all his screen time in.
HAHA I shook my head as well, but karma'll bite back if I ever get The Call again. Just watch - they'll throw me a SPORTS FJ and you will mock me

Moulin Rouge (x2) was more of a head scratcher, though Conor had the right pronunciation

would love for that to happen...then i can say instaget final on this board
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My then-six-year-old sister once insisted upon getting a VHS copy of Midnight Cowboy for our father for his birthday because he "likes cowboys."

He doesn't, and it was a pretty awkward scene when he explained that no, she couldn't watch it with him.
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Euphonium wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:33 pm My then-six-year-old sister once insisted upon getting a VHS copy of Midnight Cowboy for our father for his birthday because he "likes cowboys."

He doesn't, and it was a pretty awkward scene when he explained that no, she couldn't watch it with him.
Reminds me of the time a friend of mine got a DVD of Robin Williams stand-up. I urged them not to let the younguns watch.
(They were only familiar with Aladdin / Mrs Doubtfire / Jumanji Williams)
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"I thought Blue Velvet was the sequel to National Velvet."
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Volante wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2019 8:23 pm
Euphonium wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:33 pm My then-six-year-old sister once insisted upon getting a VHS copy of Midnight Cowboy for our father for his birthday because he "likes cowboys."

He doesn't, and it was a pretty awkward scene when he explained that no, she couldn't watch it with him.
Reminds me of the time a friend of mine got a DVD of Robin Williams stand-up. I urged them not to let the younguns watch.
(They were only familiar with Aladdin / Mrs Doubtfire / Jumanji Williams)
I remember the first time I saw Bob Saget's stand-up act after only knowing him via his bland-dad Full House character.
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I'm not sure I knew he died recently, but Simon came to me immediately and I never looked back. He matched up especially well with the four Oscar nominations, as I can't think of another contemporary playwright who is as connected to film.

I was disappointed by no words with multiple Y's in Y Is The Only Vowel. No pygmy? No syzygy? Boo hiss.
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BigDaddyMatty wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:37 pm Coryat: 38,600
49 R/2 W
DD: 3/3
FJ: :mrgreen:
LT: Book Club, Underwood, Pluto (DD), Luther Burbank, lymph, The Count of Monte Cristo, El Greco (DD), Maude

I'm not sure I knew he died recently, but Simon came to me immediately and I never looked back. He matched up especially well with the four Oscar nominations, as I can't think of another contemporary playwright who is as connected to film....
I imagine film is the reason people thought of Sam Shepard...though he didn't write any that were nominated for Oscars...
Also, he was only 73 when he died...and though he got 2 Tony nominations he was not really a Broadway playwright - his hits there were for revivals of plays many years after their first success off-Broadway.
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I had just typed up this post graciously, I felt, conceding what a very good guess Neil Simon was before discovering at the last minute that he was in fact the right answer. I was so sure about Albee I hadn't bothered to click the spoiler box, and have carried myself with a false smugness for two entire days.

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Lefty wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:02 am I had just typed up this post graciously, I felt, conceding what a very good guess Neil Simon was before discovering at the last minute that he was in fact the right answer. I was so sure about Albee I hadn't bothered to click the spoiler box, and have carried myself with a false smugness for two entire days...
Albee is a better guess than Shepard. The problem is he didn't write for movies. He doesn't even get a screenplay credit on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?! Ernest Lehman won that Oscar for rearranging Albee's words...I believe only one other of his plays was made into a movie - A Delicate Balance.
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"Underwood" brings back memories - it was the FJ on my first game ever in 1991, though it didn't include "ham" in the clue, just a reference to a picture of a devil. I got it right, others guessed "Hormel" and "Armour" (with Alex saying "close, but no cigar" to both responses).
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