Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND V

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AuthorTopic: Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND V
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The Establishment
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 written Tuesday, November 29 2005 19:45 Profile #0
The game is played as follows: two actors are given and must be connected through appearances in television shows or movies. The object is to connect the two actors with the fewest connections possible. Please READ THE RULES BEFORE POSTING, KEY RULES HAVE BEEN PUT IN BOLD!

ROUND V

Jerry Orbach to Jack Webb

Set point value = 6

Some rules:

1) You may only post a connection of an actor to a movie/TV show already established in the list. For instance, you may say "Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump" only if either Tom Hanks or Forrest Gump have been previously mentioned.

2) Posts should be in the form of: "actor" in "movie/television show" format. Do NOT do "actor X to actor Y in movie A". This keeps the game so others can participate.

3) You may only post ONE connection every three hours. After posting your connection, you must wait for three hours unless the connection has been established.

4) Once the actors are connected, you may post a list of all the connections regardless of any previous rules. The next round will begin in ~24 hours (at the discretion of the administrator) after the original connection is established.

5) During the ~24 hour period after the original chain, a shorter connection may try to be established. Should one be established, the one who establishes it (and any others who may help) will receive full points for each link they provided. All those who participated in the original chain will receive half-points.

6) You may only use movie appearances or TV show appearances. The exception are TV shows which regularly have guest appearances as part of the show (Saturday Night Live, Jay Leno, etc.). However, a guest appearance on, say, M*A*S*H* would be acceptable.

7) You may NOT use cartoon voices, directing/production roles. The actor must have actually appeared in the movie to be valid.

8) You may NOT use IMDB or any other refererence/database to assist you. There is no way to enforce this, but let's keep the game honest.

Points are awarded for each person having a piece of the shortest connection. The number of points awarded are given in each round.

The winner and possibly runners up will be granted a custom title. Even if you do not know a lot of movies, feel free to post what you know.

For reference:

Round I
Round II
Round III
Round IV

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Lt. Sullust
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 written Tuesday, November 29 2005 20:08 Profile #1
I wish I knew who Jack Webb was. :P

Jerry Orbach in Dirty Dancing

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Lt. Sullust
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Polaris
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Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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 written Tuesday, November 29 2005 20:37 Profile #2
Jerry Orbach in Law & Order.
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The Immortal
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 written Tuesday, November 29 2005 21:46 Profile Homepage #3
Prejudice in Law and Order.

EDIT: Someone please connect Law and Order to Triumph of the Will.

[ Tuesday, November 29, 2005 21:47: Message edited by: Kasumetoru Sai ]

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Lt. Sullust
Shaper
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 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 05:04 Profile #4
Sam Waterston in Law & Order

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Lt. Sullust
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Lt. Sullust
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 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 08:31 Profile #5
Sam Waterston in The Glass Menagerie

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Lt. Sullust
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Or else o'erleap.
Law Bringer
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 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 09:22 Profile Homepage #6
John Malkovitch in The Glass Menagerie. A different Glass Menagerie?

—Alorael, who doesn't remember any Sam Waterston, but since he doesn't know who Sam Waterston is, that's not particularly helpful.
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Lt. Sullust
Shaper
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 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 10:05 Profile #7
Those are two different movies, the one I'm thinking of is definitely too old to have John Malkovich. Who knows though, the link may prove useful...

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Lt. Sullust
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 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 12:25 Profile #8
Katherine Hepburn in The Glass Menagerie

I wonder if this is really getting me anywhere...

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The Establishment
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 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 16:55 Profile #9
All right, a hint:

Jack Webb in the television series Dragnet

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Sir David
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 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 18:41 Profile #10
John Malkovitch in Death of a Salesman.

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Lt. Sullust
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 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 19:11 Profile #11
Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond

EDIT: For clarification, can we connect actors from different versions of the same film? (i.e. the case for The Glass Menagerie that we have here)

[ Wednesday, November 30, 2005 19:13: Message edited by: Lt. Sullust ]

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The Establishment
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 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 19:21 Profile #12
quote:
Originally written by Lt. Sullust:

Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond

EDIT: For clarification, can we connect actors from different versions of the same film? (i.e. the case for The Glass Menagerie that we have here)
No, unless we cannot find another way. However, there is definitely a way to do this. I would like to see a little work on the Jack Webb end before I allow indirect connections. This photograph may help:

IMAGE(http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue23/screens.tvi.jpeg)

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Lt. Sullust
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 written Thursday, December 1 2005 03:34 Profile #13
Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond

Hopefully I'll eventually get some old actor that I can figure out how to connect.

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The Establishment
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 written Thursday, December 1 2005 04:04 Profile #14
Older actors probably will not be that useful to you. I suggest trying to connect the other actor in the original photo which was from Dragnet, by the way.

Another photographical hint to help identify the actor:

IMAGE(http://imagesource.allposters.com:80/images/MMPH/233004.jpg)

Although going through the show above is probably not the most efficient way.

[ Thursday, December 01, 2005 04:06: Message edited by: *i ]

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Lt. Sullust
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 written Thursday, December 1 2005 12:19 Profile #15
Harry Morgan in Dragnet. Didn't quite recognize him until you put the second picture up.

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Law Bringer
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 written Thursday, December 1 2005 12:29 Profile Homepage #16
Harry Morgan in M*A*S*H.

—Alorael, who approves of Sullust's extreme chain. If this can be stuck on the end of that...
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The Establishment
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 written Thursday, December 1 2005 16:54 Profile #17
Harry Morgan in the movie Dragnet.

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Lt. Sullust
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 written Thursday, December 1 2005 20:12 Profile #18
Dabney Coleman in the movie Dragnet

[ Thursday, December 01, 2005 20:13: Message edited by: Lt. Sullust ]

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Law Bringer
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 written Thursday, December 1 2005 20:44 Profile Homepage #19
Alan Alda in M*A*S*H.

—Alorael, who actually thinks he knows where he's going now!
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Lt. Sullust
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 written Friday, December 2 2005 03:31 Profile #20
Dabney Colemen in On Golden Pond. I believe the connection has been established. Now let's see one of those shorter ones...

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Law Bringer
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 written Friday, December 2 2005 12:00 Profile Homepage #21
That's a rather long connection. It's slightly shorter with Alan Alda in Crimes and Misdemeanors to Sam Waterston in the same.

[Edit: I can't really take credit for this, but someone else pointed out to me that Jerry Orbach is himself in Crimes and Misdemeanors.]

—Alorael, who doesn't like that connection [Edit: the first] very much either. He is deficient in older movie knowledge.

[ Friday, December 02, 2005 16:06: Message edited by: Bean Man 7 ]
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 written Saturday, December 3 2005 08:00 Profile #22
Good work, the "shortest" connection was:

Jerry Orbach --> Law & Order (Belisarius)
Law & Order --> Sam Waterston (Lt. Sullust)
Sam Waterston --> Crimes and Misdemeanors (Alorael)
Crimes and Misdemeanors --> Alan Alda (Alorael)
Alan Alda --> M*A*S*H (Alorael)
M*A*S*H --> Harry Morgan (Alorael)
Harry Morgan --> Dragnet (Lt. Sullust)
Dragnet --> Jack Webb (*i)

The original connection was:

Jerry Orbach --> Law & Order (Belisarius)
Law & Order --> Sam Waterston (Lt. Sullust)
Sam Waterston --> Glass Menagerie (Lt. Sullust)
Glass Menagerie --> Katherine Hepburn (Lt. Sullust)
Katherine Hepburn --> On Golden Pond (Lt. Sullust)
On Golden Pond --> Dabney Coleman (Lt. Sullust)
Dabney Coleman --> Dragnet (movie) (Lt. Sullust)
Dragnet (movie) --> Harry Morgan (*i)
Harry Morgan --> Dragnet (television show) (Lt. Sullust)
Dragnet (television show) --> Jack Webb (*i)

A more modern connection can be done with Dan Akroyd in the movie Dragnet, but it is not shorter than ours. Points are awarded as follows:

Belisarius: 6
Lt. Sullust: 27 (12+15)
Alorael: 24
*i: 9 (6+3)

To bring ths standings to:

Alorael: 48
Lt. Sullust: 41
Belisarius: 12
*i : 9
Terrors Martyr: 6
David: 6
Drakefyre: 3
Salmon: 3
Aranea Hirsuta: 3
Error -13: 3
Kelandon: 2

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