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ragingfluff 
"Currently lost in Canada"
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 Posted - 08/24/2007 : 19:46:19
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Name the writer whose works have inspired over 140 film and TV adaptations, not including the numerous biopics about his own life. (hint that could be a red herring: you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone)...
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 08/25/2007 : 08:51:32
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My first instinct is to say Stephen King, but I'm thinking that William Shakespeare is probably more correct.
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ragingfluff
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 08/25/2007 : 15:04:09
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
My first instinct is to say Stephen King, but I'm thinking that William Shakespeare is probably more correct.
Sorry, wrong on both counts
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bife
"Winners never quit ... fwfr ... "
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Posted - 08/25/2007 : 15:57:03
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| charles dickens? |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 08/25/2007 : 16:02:15
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Alan Smithee?
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ragingfluff
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 08/25/2007 : 16:10:54
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Not Charles Dickens, and no, not Alan Smithee  The 140-plus adaptations of this writer's works come from novels, short stories, poetry and plays....but the biopics are probably more well-known than any of the 140 others ....I think because in many ways the writer's personal and professional life was more interesting than the work itself...not that the work isn't any good..the work is brilliant |
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rockfsh 
"Laugh, Love, Cheer"
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Posted - 08/25/2007 : 17:06:21
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bife
"Winners never quit ... fwfr ... "
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Posted - 08/25/2007 : 17:16:24
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| Oscar Wilde? |
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ragingfluff
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 08/25/2007 : 17:19:34
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I posted my answer before right around the time Bife posted. Sorry. OSCAR WILDE IS CORRECT... Bife wins. The clue from NETWORK is that's the line that Ned Beatty yells at Peter Finch. Finch famously played Oscar Wilde in one of the better film versions of Wilde's life (and trial)
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bife
"Winners never quit ... fwfr ... "
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 16:12:10
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Cool 
Struggling for a follow up though.
Okay, here goes, should be easy enough.
Which Razzie-award winning ( ) Hollywood director studied at the University of Leiden? |
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ragingfluff
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 16:50:19
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Originally posted by bife
Cool
Struggling for a follow up though.
Okay, here goes, should be easy enough.
Which Razzie-award winning () Hollywood director studied at the University of Leiden?
I'm guessing Paul Verhoven??? Leiden sounds like it's in Holland
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bife
"Winners never quit ... fwfr ... "
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 16:52:06
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Yeah, well I figured it'd be easy enough 
Paul Verhoeven it is |
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ragingfluff
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 17:24:11
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Who was originally cast as the voice of Shrek?
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 18:03:35
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
Who was originally cast as the voice of Shrek?
SNL Chris Farley ... whose death got in the way. 
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ragingfluff
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 18:38:52
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
Who was originally cast as the voice of Shrek?
SNL Chris Farley ... whose death got in the way.
Yes!! |
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Brain-Burner Film Trivia
