WordWolf

Well, that's all I've got. I never watched it. In fact, I remember seeing the animated donkey as a sign to change the channel.

"Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won."

"I lost... One dollar."

Ok, NOW I would have gotten it.  Both of those sections would ring a bell, and together they give me the artist and, more or less, a song (and the title.)

11 hours ago, Raf said:

Was it the head clue? 

Not the first time I logged in, but when I logged in later, it clicked.

Ron Howard                  American Graffiti                Harrison Ford

"If your local Leaders criticizes a local "believer" because they don't give a lot in abundant sharing by saying "I'm glad I don't have to try and live off what they give!" and you don't take the opportunity to tell them what an .... they really are...
You just might be brainwashed.  "

Well, maybe if their believing was in shape, that would be MORE than they needed. It's only a failure of their OWN believing that made it necessary to try to make a living off someone's giving.  How about making saddles for a living?    I know it's still a current job on the market.

There's a number of prolific actors in Hollywood. (Not only that, but some have been in a lot of movies.) One of them retired within the last decade, and this question is about him.

One actor has spoken of how he got his stage name. He had the first name, but the last name he wanted was taken. He went for a walk, and saw a movie markee with a current movie's title displayed. He used part of that title for his last name.  He's said it was a good thing he walked in that direction. If he'd walked in the other direction, his stage last name would have been '101 Dalmatians.'

In either event, he definitely changed his first name, since his legal first name is "Maurice". As of the time of this question (I won't update if this changes), he was currently alive. 

Oh!

How about "SOAP DISH", then?

"Sunset Blvd."

1 minute ago, WordWolf said:

I don't have a reference handy, but the last time the phrase came up in the comics (within the last few years, so, the current of the many continuities), he said he fought for truth and justice, but some other phrase replaced "the American Way" as the third point,  something global or world or something.

OK, found it this time.

"Truth, justice and a better tomorrow."

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/16/entertainment/superman-new-motto-dc-fandome-cec/index.html

"Truth, justice and a better world" was said by Clark and Lois' son, a different Superman (the bisexual one.)

Of the "better tomorrow" motto, Jim Lee said the following:

"To better reflect the storylines that we are telling across DC and to honor Superman’s incredible legacy of over 80 years of building a better world, Superman’s motto is evolving.”

Apparently, that's not all they're changing. 

On 2/21/2024 at 3:54 PM, Raf said:

Add that the cold open refers to the Daily Planet as a great metropolitan newspaper and Perry White later refers to Clark as a mild-mannered reporter.

Well done. Superman was my guess, but I couldn't fit all the "tagline" references together (and, for the record, Superman himself says he's here to fight for Truth, Justice and the American Way, something Dean Cain's incarnation NEVER SAID).

I don't have a reference handy, but the last time the phrase came up in the comics (within the last few years, so, the current of the many continuities), he said he fought for truth and justice, but some other phrase replaced "the American Way" as the third point,  something global or world or something.

On 2/21/2024 at 10:53 PM, Human without the bean said:

My first thought WordWolf was that you would know it.

I MIGHT recognize it by the melody (a la "Beat Shazam")  but I don't really know the lyrics.

12 hours ago, WordWolf said:

This movie featured a return of the title character to the big screen (but was not a sequel.)   The title character appears 48 minutes into the film. The title is first heard 1 hour, 33 minutes into the film.  The title character's tagline (an alternate version) is illustrated, in parts, across the movie.   The actor who portrayed the title character the previous time he was in cinema had a cameo in this movie.  An actress who had played one role previously now played her mother.

There had been Superman reels in the cinema before, but this was a full-length movie.  In this one, we got 48 minutes of origin and backstory before we saw the costume, and it was even later when he was called "Superman" (named that by his interviewer when she wrote up her story.)   We saw him faster than a speeding bullet (he caught one), more powerful than a locomotive (he outran one train and held up another), and he cleared the Daily Planet building in one move (he was also "able to fly higher than any plane" when he sent the missile into space.)     Kirk Allyn returned for a cameo, and Noel Neill (who played Lois Lane on TV) played Lois' mother (Lois was the girl that saw a young Clark outrun a train.)

4 hours ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

Superman?  (1st Chris Reeve film)

George

Yes.

Some ridiculous comedy.

Possibly "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (but were afraid to ask)."

*checks* Sorry. I've heard this song before, but I'd never recognize it, even if you posted the whole thing, unless I had to name it from an audio clip.  I'm not sure why I'm so clueless on it.

One actor has spoken of how he got his stage name. He had the first name, but the last name he wanted was taken. He went for a walk, and saw a movie markee with a current movie's title displayed. He used part of that title for his last name.  He's said it was a good thing he walked in that direction. If he'd walked in the other direction, his stage last name would have been '101 Dalmatians.'

Is this "Twisting"?????

16 hours ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

It is, indeed.  First appeared in Detective Comics 20, a half year before Batman.

His early costume was like the Green Hornet's, only red.  He used guns, drove a cool car, and had a Chinese sidekick.

George

I forget that.

The early success of "the Green Hornet" prompted copycats.  One, apparently, was the Crimson Avenger's original outfit.   The Sandman (Wesley Dodds)  probably qualifies too- with his gas gun and hat trench coat.  I saw something on TV where someone said he was told to make the first version of "the Blue Beetle" as an attempt to cash in on this.  Green Hornet... Blue Beetle.... in hindsight it's more obvious.  Except they didn't give him the trench coat and hat.

Both the Sandman and Crimson Avenger, IIRC, both ended up with more standard spandex after that. That's the costume I remember for the CA, the one Wing's yellow costume resembled.

This movie featured a return of the title character to the big screen (but was not a sequel.)   The title character appears 48 minutes into the film. The title is first heard 1 hour, 33 minutes into the film.  The title character's tagline (an alternate version) is illustrated, in parts, across the movie.   The actor who portrayed the title character the previous time he was in cinema had a cameo in this movie.  An actress who had played one role previously now played her mother.

He's not human. He's like a piece of iron.

It ain't Zed.

Ok, let's see.....

6 hours ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

Actually not red, but a synonym.

George

I was partway there, because I was remembering "Wing" and trying to remember who made up the Seven Soldiers of Victory.  Wing was the sidekick, but who was the hero?   If you remember Wing's costume (yellow with the red sunburst), you can remember whose costume was reversed.

This is The Crimson Avenger.

*thinks*

Maybe he was in Law's Legionaires, or the Seven Soldiers of Victory.  The problem with some of that is retconning over the decades, so characters who once were in one group were remembered as never having been there, and others replaced them.  

Let's try this one.    I remember Seven Soldiers of Victory including "the Spider/alias the Spider" to retcon out Green Arrow being one of the Seven Soldiers.

Was this THE GREEN ARROW?