Hucklebug, Episode 148: Podcastathon 2009 Announced, shout-outs, movies (Stennie: Libeled Lady, Enchanted, Bet: Up), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs & you-rules, Mr. Middlebrow’s Movie Quote Quiz: Law & Order Edition!
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by (respectively): Lee Rocker, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Frank Sinatra.
Haven’t listened to the show yet, so I can’t properly comment. BUT I should have done this before last week’s episode. Here are the answers to the Showtunes Lyrics Quiz (though Stennie pretty much got them all anyway!)
1 Somewhere That’s Green – Little Shop of Horrors
2 Funny Honey – Chicago
3 Aquarius – Hair
4 A Marriage Proposal – March of the Falsettos
5 Ya Got Trouble – The Music Man
6 Agony – Into the Woods
7 Easy Street – Annie
8 Heaven On Their Minds – Jesus Christ Superstar
9 I Can’t Say No – Oklahoma
10 Fugue for the Tinhorns – Guys and Dolls
11 America – West Side Story
12 I Hope I Get It – A Chorus Line
13 Memory – Cats
14 Music of the Night – Phantom of the Opera
15 I Could Have Danced All Night – My Fair Lady
16 You Can Always Count on Me – City of Angels
17 Bring Him Home – Les Miserables
18 Sweet Transvestite – The Rocky Horror Show
19 You’re the One I Want – Grease (The Movie)
20 My Favorite Things – The Sound of Music
Thank you to all who played!!!
By the way, today a friend and I overheard a girl describing the plot of My Fair Lady to her friend, “well it’s about this girl who lives in London, only she talks all ghetto, you know?…”
For the podcastathon, you want a few short lyrical quizzes, like around 5 songs each?
And falling short of ideas, you could always entertain yourselves by doing impressions of each other during the whole five minutes.
You two acquitted yourselves admirably. I started you off with a few gentle lobs (it seems the more recent ones are less imprinted on the pop-culture collective consciousness). Unfortunately, I have to grade on a curve, which means Stennie, with 10 points, gets an A, and Bet, with 8, gets a C+. However, like one of my favorite professors, I’m going to say screw the system and bump Bet up to an A-.
1. The Caine Mutiny, 1954
Stennie: 1
Bet: 0
2. Twelve Angry Men, 1957
Stennie: 1
Bet: 1
3. Inherit the Wind, 1960
Stennie: 1
Bet: 1
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962
I tried (in vain, clearly) to find what I thought was the most obscure, unrecognizable-out-of-context quote here, but in my heart I knew there would be no stumping Bet on this one.
Stennie: 1
Bet: 1
5. The Paper Chase, 1973
Stennie: 1
Bet: 1
6. And Justice For All, 1979
The beginning of the Al Pacino scene-chewing era?
Stennie: 1
Bet: 1
7. Breaker Morant, 1980
Stennie gets partial credit for knowing it was an Australian court-martial drama and for encouraging people to see an awesome (and often overlooked and forgotten) film. Edward Woodward was The Equalizer, a former government-operative/badass-turned-vigilante-for-hire that helped people get justice when the system had failed them.
Stennie: .5
Bet: .25
8. The Verdict, 1982
Not Silkwood, and not set in the South (though I loved Bet’s Scarlet O’Hara reading). Actually, it’s set in Boston and stars Paul Newman as a down-and-out alcoholic plaintiff’s attorney who’s got one last chance at redemption.
Stennie: 0
Bet: 0
9. A Fish Called Wanda, 1988
This was Stennie’s gimme; no real chance of stumping you on this one.
Stennie: 1
Bet: 0
10. Defending your Life, 1991
Stennie: 1
Bet: 0
11. A Few Good Men, 1992
Another one where pretty much every line is recognizable, very hard to camouflage.
Stennie: 1
Bet: 1
12. My Cousin Vinny, 1992
I’m surprised you missed this one. Maybe by this point I was getting better at choosing less-recognizable quotes. It helps, I think, to stay away from anything said by Joe Pesci or Marisa Tomei.
Stennie: 0
Bet: 0
13. Philadelphia, 1993
Stennie: 0
Bet: 1
14. Erin Brockovich, 2000
I must say, Bet, Julia Roberts has nothin’ on you, especially in the sass dept.
Stennie: .5
Bet: 1
15. Two Weeks Notice, 2002
Definitely not Michael Clayton, thank god. Real-estate magnate George Wade was played by Hugh Grant, opposite Sandra Bullock as Lucy Kelson, his long-suffering corporate counsel. One of those movies that wins you over with its charm and clever bon-mots, despite being outwardly just another formula rom-com. There are some genuinely (and surprisingly) funny bits, and, while they’re no Powell and Loy, or Powell and Lombard, the chemistry between the leads is serviceable. Don’t bother renting it; just leave your TV tuned to Oxygen long enough and it’ll come on.
Stennie: 0
Bet: 0
16. Intolerable Cruelty, 2003
Not the greatest movie, certainly one of the the Coen Bros. lesser efforts—and for me a little Catherine Zeta-Jones goes a long way—but it has some fun moments. See it just for the exchanges between George Clooney and Richard Jenkins (“Have you forgotten Kirshner?”), both Hucklebug-recommended actors, I believe.
Stennie: 0
Bet: 0
17. The Ice Harvest, 2005
Funny how some John Cusack roles sort of run together, isn’t it? Not that I have a problem with that. Also stars the indispensable Oliver Platt.
Stennie: 0
Bet: 0
18. Michael Clayton, 2007
I really thought Stennie would get this one. Of all the movies here, this is probably the one most likely to scare me off from the profession.
Stennie: 0
Bet: 0
Damn, I was hoping one of those quotes would be from All Of Me.
Regarding the meta of movies, I figure the purpose of feelm is to recreate life and humanity in ways not at all possible in real life. That includes singing and dancing of the gayest kind, little hobbits running around, freaks flying through the air, etc. I’m also not one to get riled up over excessive violence in the movies, since I’d much rather have it in there than in daily life.
I was bad—I only got two of those, and even then I wasn’t sure about one of them. (The Few Good Men one was a gimme). I would have to go away and shoot myself if I didn’t get the Cousin Vinny one, but that wasn’t one of the lines I particularly remembered. I got it because I knew there had to be a Vinny line in there somewhere, and that line just sounded like the movie.
Some Podcastathon ideas—Top five (three?) tables in hell. Best TV character couples, or TV characters who should date each other (don’t have to be/shouldn’t be from the same show). TV characters who should not date each other. How about people coming up with the worlds easiest movie quiz? (Like “Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a damn”). That should work at about 3 am. I’m sure I’ll think of more later.
Aargh! I can’t believe I forgot about All of Me! “Later today, I’m going to buy a _vest_.”
Podcast-a-thon idea: If you could live in another time/place, what would it be, and what would you do? Me, I’d like to have flown P-51 Mustangs or F4U Corsairs in WWII.
Okay, just listening to you gals talk about musicals allows me to make a very profound decision:
I will have your babies. ThePete will have to deal, and hopefully he understands my decision.
Jay & Kay are actually cousins, but we only know this in a mysterious manner – their relationship and family will be discovered soon…
PLUG TIME for Jay & Kay! They have a new website! http://www.thepal.us ! Plus @kaythepal @jaythepal on Twitter, and 12seconds.tv/channel/jaythepal and facebook.com/jaythepal
We made an mst3k-like cartoon short with Jay & Kay, I think you ladies would appreciate it. We also have a number of short videos to make, and we can definitely attribute part of our enthusiasm to Bet for her shorts – keep it going, Bet! We’ll keep each other enthused!
-Siskita
Can’t you just read spam from your spam folder Stennie? I have over 3000 spams in my gmail spam folder.
🙁
Yeah, sorry guys—Jay and Kay are cousins, as Siskita mentioned—the details are fuzzy, but they’re not an item. I wanted to keep their options open.
I made bread when I was a kid. It’s really fun.
Yay for lowlights that aren’t so low lately!! I’m still confused as to how to deal with the straight and blatant positiveness of the conference we went to Tuesday and Wednesday. I’m just not used to things quite so enjoyable, productive *and* educational happening to me (and for free, too!)
Enjoyed the movie quiz a lot—have not seen a lot of courtroom dramas and now have a few good ones to add to the queue thanks!
OK, that’s it from me! YAY! I’m caught up!
YEAH!
re: Amazon’s deranking/and erasure of items
Amazon should have safeguards in place to protect children. They’re called parents. I would never allow my 10 year old niece to use Amazon’s website unsupervised. Not just because of what she might see, but also because she might purchase something.
I don’t understand why my ability to search and find a book (in my case, a book I wanted on seventeenth century British feminists was hidden and deranked)should be limited because parents can’t control their children. Why children today should be scared of and protected from 17th century writer Margaret Cavendish is amusing to me, but that’s another issue. The book I wanted was a scholarly book that many people have used and continue to use for research.
Also, they weren’t removing and deranking all adult material. Straight Porn star biographies, straight porn pictoral books (such as XXX as seen on HBO), straight erotica, the Kama Sutra, and Robert Bly’s works(for example) were never removed or deranked. Violent books such as anime and graphic novels were never removed or deranked. The lone Frenchman theory does not work because this had been going on for months, and Amazon was aware of the problem. They only admitted there was a mistake/gtlich when the mainstream media took up the story. They then came up with numerous excuses landing upon that poor, confused lone Frenchman. They never have given the supposed French word that caused the “glitch” that took down many different types of books nor have they explained why this glitch only happened on the American site.
Something that really bothered me was how the feminists books being delisted and deranked was ignored by the press.
Topics for the podcastathon:
1.)Which five famous men would you most want to have sex with and why?
2.)IF you were going through an Anne Heche phase, which five women would you choose?
3.)What are the five most annoying things a boyfriend/lover/husband can do?
4.)What would be your perfect menu for one day? Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, drinks, etc.
5.)What are five things you regret saying to someone?
6.)What are five things you regret not saying?
7.)If you could relive five days of your life, which five days would they be?
8.)Which five people would you save from being murdered?
9.)What are five things you would say to the President?
10.)Were you bullied in high school/junior high school?
11.)What are five things you are thankful for?
12.)What five holidays would you create?
13.)When do you know that someone is a close friend? When do you know a close friend is no longer a close friend?
14.)NAme five ways you are like your mother.
15.)Name five things you do that you wish you didn’t do.
16.)What five things would you like to accomplish by 55?
17.)What are your top five Hucklebug episodes? Why?
18.)What would be your dream 24 hours of television programming?
19.)What are five things you most like about your body?
20.)If you could go back in history and prevent a disaster, murder, genocide, etc., which event would you prevent?
21.)Are there circumstances where you could commit murder?
22.)What five small kindnesses could someone perform to make your day better?
I wouldn’t mind a sympathy kiss right about now.
I’m pretty sure Sara Palin’s other daughters are named Anchorage and Skagway.
A topic: Who’s the better shrink, Dr. Phil or Judge Judy?