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Debs are you not thinking of Kathy Bates in Misery?

She's an American actress. Small, fat, face like the back end of a bus, raspy voice. She's in her 70s now. Oh dear, I bet she's lovely in real life. Aileen

Christine yes that her. Aileen lol is that not the same woman as me and Christine are on about?. Debs.

OMG Aileen I just googled her pic....see what you mean LOL Thank goodness it's only my married name....don't want to be related to her......she'd terrify the kids! Christine

Sorry, cross purposes. Yes Kathy Bates was in Misery. I was thinking you were getting her and Anne Ramsey mixed up. This site is so slow tonight. I can't keep up. Well I think I am off to bed. I've been drinking strawberry flavoured water this evening. Its very nice but I keep having to run to the loo. Never mind just think of the lovely rosy cheeks I'll have tomorrow. Nite all. Hope to see you tomorrow night. Aileen xxxxxxxx

Night Aileen, maybe the old chanty under the bed wasn't such a bad idea after all! LOL Christine

night night Aileen and Christine sorry but this thread is playing me up tonight . Debs xx.

Good evening film crew As its Red Nose Day........... Just a slight change to tonight's programme (if you feel up to it). While I am out being wined and dined I thought I'd give you something to wile away the hours so that boredom doesn't set in and you don't get up to any mischief. Feel free to cheat as much as you like. You can google, phone a friend, confer, watch Red Nose Day on tv at the same time, throw your popcorn over the balcony. I don't care. Just make sure that all the answers are correct. Wait for it............ Aileen (wicked witch of the North)

STAGE AND SCREEN 1. How many different centuries did Edmund Blackadder appear in 2. The folk tune Johnny Todd was the theme music to what ground-breaking British cop drama of the 1960s 3. In the climax of what film does the male lead climb down the presidential faces at Mount Rushmore 4. What was the first full length animated feature film 5. Who played Moses in the Ten Commandments 6. What is Bollywood 7. Whose undersea world was visited by Calypso 8. What pink piggy pals first hit British tv in 1957 9. Name three of the Tracey brothers from Thunderbirds 10. Who starred in a biopic of US husband and wife dance team Vernon & Irene Castle 11. What 4-legged companion went with Dorothy from Kansas to Oz 12. What two actors have refused their Oscars 13. Whose screen test reported “Can’t act, can’t sing, slightly bald. Can dance a little” 14. Who had a Brief Encounter 15. What was the birthday of George M Cohan’s Yankee Doodle Dandy 16. What cult 1980s film had Man In Motion by John Parr as its theme 17. What 1960s childrren’s Tv show featured Vienna’s Lippizaner horses 18. “As if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared” in what tv show.. 19. What town is Coronation Street in. 20. What famous family lives in Ambridge 21. What was the name of Powell and Pressburger’s film production company 22. What time travelling medieval wizard was dazzled by electrckery and the telling bone 23. What soap set in Spain failed to strike gold 24. Where could Peter the Postman, Dr Mopp, Windy Miller and PC McGarry be found in the 1960s 25. What Nobel prize winning dramatist had a Long Day’s Journey into Night 26. What two antipodean wonders spoke in a language humans could understand 27. Who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire 28. Who feuded with the Montagues in Romeo and Juliet 29. What film features Holly Golightly 30. Who declared his crew’s intention “to boldly go where no one has gone before” 31. Who do Father Dougal and Father Jack share the Craggy Island parochial house with 32. What is unusual about Commander Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation 33. What movie set in pre war Germany was based on Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin 34. What FBI duo believe The Truth is Out There 35. What grumpy pensioner had One Foot in the Grave 36. What was experienced by the inhabitants of Cicely, Alaska 37. What does ER stand for 38. What was odd about the TV detective pairing of Randall and Hopkirk 39. What Boston bar did Sam run, Diane work and Frasier drink in 40. What group of bright young things frequented New York’s Central Park coffee bar 41. What house did Charles Ryder revisit in the book and 80s tv series 42. His performance in what film won John Wayne his only Oscar 43. Whose army refruited Private Pike, Corporal Jones and Sergeant Wilson 44. What British tv first was achieved by Stingray 45. Who did King Kong fall for in the 1933 movie 46. What cult 60s show featured tv’s first inter-racial kiss 47. What ws the name of the Lone Ranger’s horse 48. What was the title of Mickey Mouse’s first celluloid outing 49. What was the name of The Godfather’s Sicilian home village 50. What is the family relationhip between Francis Ford Coppola and Nicholas Cage

Is 3 a Hitchcock one? I remember seeing it but can't remember the darn title..grrr :-)

13. Fred Astaire??? That's all I could think of lol :-)

Hello Lucia I'm not giving you any answers until my return later this evening. You can confer with your fellow film crew or anyone else who is daft enough to attempt to do this.l I expect this homework to be neat and tidy and not handed in like a dog's breakfast. Please list your answers 1-50 to make marking your work easier. Anyone who does not complete their homework will be reported to GR and banned from the site for the remainder of the weekend. Yours as always Mrs A Humph Headmistress

2 Z cars 8 pinky and Perky 9 Virgel scott and Alan 11 the Dog 19 Weatherfield 23 Eldorado 28Capulets spelling 29 breakfast at Tiffanies 30 Star trek 31 Father Ted 32 ata is an android 34 Fox and Mulder 37 Emergency Room 38 One was a ghost 39 Cheers 40 Pals 41 Brideshead 43 Dads Army 45 the blond woman ?? 46 I Spy 47 Silver 50 Godfather?

Oh alright Lucia No. 3 is correct No. 13 is a Hitchcock film.. ask Pat or Christine they will know the answer. If not they should be hung up on the washing line by the ears. Aileen

Is it North by Northwest? :-)

Aileen 1. Seven 2. Z Cars 3. North By Northwest 4. Snow white and the seven dwarfs 5. Charlton Heston 6. Indian films, Bollywood a take on Hollywood/Bombay 7. Jacques Coisteau (spelling) 8. Pinky & Perky 9. Paul, Scott, John Virgil and Alan hang on one missing Gerry or Gordon can’t remember? 10. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 11. Toto the dog 12. Marlon Brando and George Segail spelling for Patten 13. Fred Astaire 14. Leslie Howard and Cecilia Howard 15. 4th July 16. ? Don’t know 17. Black Beauty ? 18. Mr Benn 19. Manchester ? is that a Town no it’s a City 20. The Archers 21. don’t know 22. don’t know 23. don’t know 24. is it Trumpton or Camberwick Green 25. Eugene O’Neill 26. don’t know 27. Tennesse Williams 28. Capulats 29. don’t know 30. Captain Kirk Star Trek or maybe Captain Picard “Next Generation”as the wording is more from that series. No One instead of No Man? 31. Father Ted & Mrs Doyle the housekeeper 32. Andrenoid 33. don’t know 34. The Untouchables 35. Richard Mildrew 36. don’t know 37. Emergency room 38. Hopkirk was deseased 39. Cheers 40. don’t know 41. don’t know 42. True Grit 43. Dad’s Army 44. puppets (?) 45. Fay Wray 46. Star Trek Captain Kirk & Uhuru 47. don’t know 48. steamboat willy 49. don’t know 50. don’t know Aileen I am gonna bar you from being brought out Pat X

ooooh you're clever lol :-) Lucia

Humph I didn't see your post about answering 1-50 LOL So if most of mine are wrong can I have extra points for being so good obeying teacher LOL Pat x

Ok headmistress, I'll give it a go, no doubt i'll end up with detention! LOL Have a great night out! 1 4 2 Was gonna say Z Cars but is that not Ally Bally? 3 North by Northwest 4 Snow white? 5 Charlton Heston 6 Indian Films 7 Jacques Cousteau 8 Pinky and Perky 9 Scott, Virgil and Dan (guess at the last name) 10 ? 11 Her dog Toto 12 Marlon Brando and ?? 13 Fred Astaire 14 Celia Johnston and ? 15 $th of July 16 ? 17White Horses 18 Mr Benn 19 Salford 20 21 ? 22 Catweazle 23 Eldorado 24 Trumpton 25 ? 26 Skippy and Flipper 27 Tennessee Williams 28 Capulets 29 can't remember!! 30 Captain Kirk 31 Father Ted and Mrs Doyle 32 He's an alien? 33? 34 Scully and Mulder 35 Victor Meldrew 36? 37 Emergency Room 38 The one in the white suit was a ghost 39 Cheers 40 Friends 41 Brideshead Revisited 42 TRue Grit ? 43 Dad's Army 44 First puppet show? 45 Faye Wray 46? 47 Silver 48 Steamboat Willy 49 ? 50 Nephew / uncle Done my best, and NO CHEATING!!! Christine 41

Very good Pat The wrong ones are 1, 12, 14,17,19,26,34,35,38,44 Look at the names again on some of your answers you have the correct surnames but wrong christian names in some cases. Check the don't knows again most of those you do know. Humph