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Any chance this is MORGAN FREEMAN???

In 1934, the movie "It Happened One Night" appeared in theaters, and was a commercial success. However, unlike other movies that were simply a commercial success, that movie was indirectly responsible for something that entered US culture and was important for decades.... and is still recognized world-wide. What did it inspire, and what things in the movie inspired it? (No looking things up, please, that's cheating.) Some thing(s) in the content of the movie were indirectly responsible for something whose origin and first appearance in US culture (where it still remains). Much of it has to do with Clark Gable's performance, and all of it could be learned in a viewing of the movie. ("Hey, I've never noticed this before, but...") Furthermore, children all over the US- and far too many adults- have been/are operating with a factual error, because of something that was inspired. ("Wow, I always thought that [redacted], but it's not true at all.") Also, this is recognizable around the world, both by name and by appearance, so everyone on this thread is at least familiar with the answer, if not a fan- although we have fans on this thread. As an example of how much this became a part of US culture, one thing that came out of that movie and inspired what I'm talking about inspired the name of a movie from the 1970s. Most people would probably hear that movie's title and not think of "It Happened One Night"- they would think of [the answer to this round], and I would expect that's what they'd think. It's what I thought until now, myself.

A) It was a friendly reminder to play fair. (We're on the Honor System here, and there's no fun in cheating, I agree. B) It didn't have to do with the Academy Awards- it was related to some thing(s) in the content of the movie, as in, you watch the movie in the theater, then later, are inspired [redacted]. C) AFAIK, hat wearing didn't suddenly become popular. This was something whose ORIGIN dates back to after the movie was in theaters. (There were hats long before this movie.) It's something recognized world-wide to this day, if not quite as significant in the US as it once was. (So, all of you would easily recognize it by name or by image.)

The answer wasn't there. What was inspired is a LOT more famous, and you'd say so. Clark Gable WAS, however, involved in the answer.

You just inspired my next question. "In 1934, the movie "It Happened One Night" appeared in theaters, and was a commercial success. However, unlike other movies that were simply a commercial success, that movie was indirectly responsible for something that entered US culture and was important for decades.... and is still recognized world-wide. What did it inspire, and what things in the movie inspired it? (No looking things up, please, that's cheating.)"

Mason Capwell Garry Buckman Luke Brower Tobias Wolff Jim Carroll Arthur Rimbaud Brandon Darrow Amsterdam Vallon Danny Archer Roger Ferris Frank Wheeler Dominick "Dom" Cobb Edward Daniels "Jack" John Dawson Calvin J. Candle

Either the market or the year. I can recognize "Sunshine Superman" and "Mellow Yellow." I've heard OF "Hurdy Gurdy Man" and "Jennifer Juniper" and "Season of the Witch." I may have heard a few seconds of the last one in a movie. *blink blink* *checks* Apparently, a long, long time ago, in elementary school, we sang, in chorus, a piece of "Happiness Runs." I remembered the lines "Happiness runs in a circular motion" and "Why, Oh, because." (And "happiness runs, happiness runs.") I'm well aware we didn't do the whole song because most of the lyrics online are completely unfamiliar to me. It would not surprise me to find that they'd changed what few lyrics we did use.

"Now, would you like to learn to shoot?" "I can already." "Oh, I saw. Very American. Fire enough bullets and hope to hit the target." "I may have been overly rude earlier... when I called you a pirate." "And I may have been overly charitable... when I said I wasn't. But I try to live in the now... where the ghosts of old wrongs do not abide."

If we're talking Donovan, only 2 songs ever appear on my radar, ever. I don't think I've ever heard even a 3rd song of his air.

I've been watching "Voyager" for the first time. Now I've seen her playing a Q. I always thought it was interesting that Dr Selar was on the Enterprise-D for its whole mission (AFAIK), but we only SAW her once, in "the Schizoid Man", working on the away mission to Dr Ira Graves. ("You don't remember anything? 'To know him is to love him is to know him?????' ") Officially, there were 3 doctors on duty on the ship, and we never seem to have met the third. (Pulaski did not serve at the same time as Crusher.) We saw Dr. Hill mentioned in "Remember Me", and Dr. Hacopian mentioned in "Genesis", but neither was ever seen. But she was mentioned in dialogue from time to time. That's a reliable method for television- you don't have to pay an actor, just mention the character from time to time, and we know they're still around. We had the same thing in "I Love Lucy" with Mrs. Trumbull. We saw her quite a bit for a few seasons once Little Ricky was born. She first appeared to complain about the noise and that the lease specified 'no children', and by the end of the episode morphed into his babysitter. She appeared in different capacities here and there after that- like when the Hollywood talent scout showed up, and she was one of the people who wandered into the apartment trying to audition, dressed like a Spanish señorita. Whenever the Mertzes left the building to travel with the Ricardos, we heard a line of dialogue that Mrs. Trumbull was watching the building. On the cross-country drive, she was the one who packed their picnic basket. On the European trip, Fred spoke to her on the phone once, but we only saw his side of the conversations. And when they all moved to Connecticut in the last season, she had agreed to collect the rent, and her nephew had moved in to act as the building's super. But they didn't have to pay the actress. For that matter, Carol Ann Susi never appeared on camera on "The Big Bang Theory," but we heard her yell a lot (We saw her arm once, but that was it.) When the actress passed away, the show bought some time by having her leave town and speak to Howard on the phone, while they figured out what they wanted to do with the character. *checks* If you ever saw the episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" where we met Robert Barrone's ex-wife Joanne (aka "Cinnamon"), Suzie Plakson played her, too. She had a bunch of other roles, also.

That's how I still think about it. I read otherwise the other day, and it's going to take a while for that to sink in, and some practice.

I kinda saw the first one, and I don't remember seeing Bloodsport there, so, QED, the second one. Explains why I had so much trouble recognizing the lines.

No, no.... it was"SUICIDE SQUAD"!

Rhymes with "south", that is correct! With the movie "Scott Pilgrim (etc)", we can go from DC to Marvel or vice versa, with one evil ex played by Chris Evans and another played by Brandon Routh. To say nothing of Envy Adams (Scott's evil ex), who was played by Bree Daniels.

Hm. How about "Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn"? Or something close to that? I'm working from memory, here.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World Superman Returns 400 Days Anastasia It's not like this actor's an unknown- he's a Legend!

I know ISAAC and Mentor (Alars). I don't know this one. (BTW, geeky note. In the comic books, Marvel decided to retroactively rewrite the entire history of the Eternals. Instead of the last history- which made sense- they rewrote it completely, and now the whole "how do eternals get born" thing has changed from "the usual way" to "it involves the will of a supercomputer". I know I'm not the only one ignoring this. It's like when DC changed Nightwing's costume from black and blue to black and red. The fans completely ignored them, and kept photoshopping the images back to blue. Eventually, someone in DC read the writing on the wall and stopped with the red. I understand their intention was to standardize the Bat family to red and black. However, this is not a pack of cookies or a line of coffee. This is a character whose had fans longer than the DC staff have been alive, and whose fans have traditionally felt cr@pped on by DC since he usually didn't get his due. What he got was fans who got more and more stubborn. I remember Dan Didio was in charge of DC, and showed up at a HUGE panel at a HUGE convention. He said, offhand, that his first thought concerning Nightwing was to kill him off, since he wasn't Batman and wasn't Robin. The HUGE room went deathly silent. I think Didio saw someone in the front row tying a rope end into a noose, because the next words out of his mouth were a LOT of backpedaling. DG has a very big, very loyal fandom. )

That last one sounds so freaking familiar....

"MARY POPPINS."

No. Try again. There are almost no older folks in the entire Scott Pilgrim movie.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World Superman Returns 400 Days

I believe I have a DVD of that movie up on a shelf. Made the name a lot easier to remember.

Just so I can say I tried it, was this "THE HEBREW HAMMER"?

"Drunken Master" sounds like a JACKIE CHAN flick, and he was in the Cannonball Run.

A) Do you have the official names of the organizations by which twi are currently known in each of those countries? B) If the official census in twi is 600 per country, the actual number of people is possibly 300. Many of us are aware how easy it is to get on that list, and how slow it is to get off that list. I am sure my entire family was on that list for many years, but a maximum of 3 of us were in at all, and I am sure at least 5 were listed with them, more if splinter groups are counted because of when we showed up. I am aware that when twi consolidated their mailing address, the oldest person was the one mail was sent to, despite being one who almost never attended. (I am confident we all used the same mailing address, and that is why twi saved stamps that way.) Hey, twi claimed 100,000 people for membership when the largest membership they ever had was around 24,000. The higher number was based on how many people signed up for pfal.