Let’s just hope I stick to questions about Boston … Let’s go!
Pop Quiz Hot Shot!
1) Soul Man. It is basically named after the song. Name one of the two writers of that famous song (although they weren’t the ones who sung it and made it famous).
2) Of the many home video releases, Soul Man has been part of two Double Feature DVDs. On one it was paired with Fraternity Vacation from 1985. In the other it was paired with what body swap film starring George Burns?
3) There is a movie I have to watch. I actually HAVE to own it. It stars C. Thomas Howell, and it is called Side Out. What sport does our (also lawyer) Howell get super duper into in the movie Side Out.
4) Harvard Law is the oldest continually operating Law School in the U.S. But it isn’t the oldest full stop. What university, which (understandably) had to close up during the Civil War, has the oldest?
5) You get to see a young Julia Louis-Dreyfus in this film. Speaking of Seinfeld (we were speaking of that right?), the character of Sue Ellen Mischke was a frenemy of Elaine on that show. What candy bar fortune was she the heiress of?
Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: Oh a tricky one. This movie went up against Soul Man (on Lifetime!) on July 9, 1990:
But what film is a remake of Dangerous Liaisons in 1999?
Answers
1) It was written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. It ended up going to number 2 as sung by Sam & Dave. I would have thought there would have been more versions, but not really. The main other version was by the Blues Brothers and with they it went to an absurd 14 on the Top 100. It was the biggest hit by the Blues Brothers.
2) That would be 18 Again! And don’t worry the exclamation point is in the title, I’m not excited about it. The youth was played by Charlie Schlatter in that one. Apparently it was entirely based on the George Burns song “I Wish I Was Eighteen Again”? … that seems absurd. It hit 49 on the Top 100. That’s higher than all but one song by The Prodigy. C’mon!
3) Side Out = Beach Volleyball obviously. And yeah, the movie looks nuts. They become like beach volleyball champions in the film. First played in Hawaii in 1915, it’s been in the Olympics since 1996.
4) It means it was in the South, so the only natural choice would be William & Mary. Named after William III and Mary II, it is also the second oldest higher education institution, beaten by (you guessed it) Harvard. I think Harvard was purely theology based for a while though.
5) That would be the Oh Henry! candy bar fortune. Obviously, the funniest possible candy bar. I only thought of it because I was listening to a podcast and the hosts got that doubly wrong: they referred to the wrong character and called it the Clark bar fortune. Absurd. Oh Henry! is a much funnier candy bar.
Bonus NYTimes Listing Answer: You best believe that was Cruel Intentions. The story has been adapted a bunch. Originally a book in 1782, then a play in 1985, then a bunch of movies.
Maybe I’ll make Dangerous Liaisons 2 as a reverse adaptation of Cruel Intentions 2. That would be ridiculous.
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