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_.SHOWBIZ QUIZ
by Jack VorsiDuring the past year or so, we have
received a number of comments from
readers who find SHOWBIZ educational.
While the bulk of this sort of response
has come from such diverse locales as
prisons, sanitariums, agricultural
schools, and drug rehabilitation hospi-
tals, we do agree that the overriding
responsibility of this column is to in-
form, elucidate, and generally to take
up a couple of pages of space even
when there is nothing going on. Since
movies are probably the most univer-
sally accepted form of passive enter-
tainment, we decided to extend the
length of SHOWBIZ this week, with a
four-page movie quiz designed to sep-
arate the devoted fans from the hard-
core obsessives. Granted, not all gays
are movie freaks; in fact, in 1964 1 met
a man who had never seen Gone With
the Wind. (I was very sympathetic. I
bought a pencil from him and offered
to feed his dog.) Anyway, whether
SHOWBIZ is educational or not, we do
feel that the answers to the following
questions-none of which do we
regard as "trivia"-could someday be
very important to you. After all, maybe
somebody will start a gay branch of
Mensa (the international organization
made up of persons who can prove
they have a genius I.Q.). For conve-
nience sake, the questions have been
arranged in appropriate categories.
THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUN-
TRY - That is, almost everyone has
something in their past that they
would prefer to forget about. With that
in mind, see if you can answer the
following.
1. In what film did Robert Redford play
a homosexual?
2. In what film did Cary Grant play a
turtle?
3. In what film did Clint Eastwood ap-
pear as Carol Channing's romanticinterest?
4. The female lead of The Mummy's
Curse (1944) appeared in scores of
other A and B films of the forties, fif-
ties, and sixties, but she has never
been well known by her name, which,
incidentally, is Virginia Christine. In
the seventies and eighties she has
been extremely visible on TV in a con-
tinuing character role, and she is still
only well known by that character's
name which is
5. What actress played the female lead
in The Next Voice You Hear (1950),
Night Into Morning (1951), Shadow In
The Sky (1952), and Donovan's Brain
(1954), and what significance does she
have for the times we presently live in?
EARLY GLIMMERS - Some stars
have rather obscure beginnings, but
they aren't necessarily ashamed of
them. Do you remember these?
6. Dustin Hoffman's movie debut was
in
7. Liza Minnelli first appeared on the
screen in
8. Carol Burnett was a star on TV first,
but her 1963 movie debut was in
9. Sandy Dennis and Phyllis Diller
made their movie debuts in the same
movie, but they appeared in separate
scenes. The movie was .
10. Tom Selleck had a close encounter
with one of the screen's most notor-
ious legendary ladies in a 1970 disaster
named
BLONDES HAVE MORE BLEACH -
Almost from the beginning of moving
pictures, blondes have seemed to radi-
ate a special kind of magic from the
silver screen, even though many of
them, including Marilyn Monroe, were
not actual blondes. We really had to
risk credibility to come up with the
following esoteric questions.PM(3~ 4~ TWT AUGUST 27 - SEPTEMBER 2,1982
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