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Post by Phalon on Nov 21, 2011 5:33:03 GMT -6
Victoria Stillwater - the dog trainer on "It's Me or the Dog"
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Post by quettalee on Nov 21, 2011 11:13:14 GMT -6
Wilbur Post ~ Mr. Ed's (the talking horse) owner
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Post by stepper on Nov 21, 2011 18:31:51 GMT -6
Xena
Yoyo – the talking Hallmark card character with Hoops
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Post by Siren on Nov 21, 2011 23:41:35 GMT -6
Z's are tough, so I'm cheating a bit. It's a Z name all right, but for a real person....
Zola Budd, a record-setting South African track athlete, remembered for supposedly tripping American runner Mary Decker in the 1984 Olympics and knocking her out of competition. In fact, a jury decided that Budd was not at fault. And years later, Decker agreed.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 22, 2011 7:34:10 GMT -6
When choosing cards to give, the girls always pick Hoops and Yoyo. I admit too, they crack me up.
A is for Andy (Andrea) Sachs in "The Devil Wears Prada".
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Post by quettalee on Nov 22, 2011 10:33:41 GMT -6
Betty Crocker ~ a woman for all seasons
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Post by stepper on Nov 22, 2011 21:26:47 GMT -6
Nice double there Q.
Phil Davis - played by Danny Kaye in White Christmas
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Post by Phalon on Nov 23, 2011 6:31:23 GMT -6
Ethan Edwards - the uncle (played by John Wayne) who searches for his niece in "The Searchers".
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Post by stepper on Nov 23, 2011 17:00:12 GMT -6
Friar Tuck ~ of Robin Hood fame
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Post by Siren on Nov 23, 2011 22:06:07 GMT -6
Phil Davis - played by Danny Kaye in White ChristmasI love that movie, Step. Our local theater is screening it the week of Christmas. G is for Gogo, a singer played by Eartha Kitt in the Nat King Cole movie, "St. Louis Blues"
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Post by stepper on Nov 23, 2011 23:09:19 GMT -6
I've heard people playing those cards. Some of them are really funny and people go from card to card just to hear what they say. I like the movie too Siren - except I'm not a fan of the scene late in the movie where they are on stage and do the dance routine. That always strikes me as a good time to check out the restroom. Hodel ~ the second daugher of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof
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Post by Phalon on Nov 24, 2011 7:34:41 GMT -6
Princess Ilene from the movie "Prince Valiant"
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Post by stepper on Nov 24, 2011 17:42:19 GMT -6
"Heeeere's Johnny!" - the memorable line by Jack Nicholson in The Shining
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Post by Siren on Nov 25, 2011 9:41:43 GMT -6
Karen, best friend of Margo Channing, in "All About Eve". She becomes Eve's accomplice in treachery, much to her eternal regret.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 26, 2011 9:26:26 GMT -6
Lorelei - who was asked to live together brighter than a star forever in a Styx song
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Post by stepper on Nov 26, 2011 11:23:56 GMT -6
Charlie McCarthy - friend of Edgar Bergen who, surprisingly, enjoyed great success on the radio. A ventriloquist on the radio? Yes - and he was very popular. Charlie (since he was perceived as a child) could get away with double entendre which were otherwise impossible under broadcast standards of the time. Edgar Bergen played Grandpa Walton in the original Waltons movie, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story that aired in 1971. (That part was played by Will Geer in the rest of the TV shows.) Throughout the run of The Waltons—the voices of Bergen and Charlie McCarthy were sometimes heard on the Walton family's radio because the family regularly tuned in to that program.
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Post by Siren on Nov 26, 2011 19:22:04 GMT -6
"The Homecoming" was a wonderful tv movie. As I recall, Patricia Neal played the mom. But I had forgotten that Edgar Bergen (father of Candice "Murphy Brown" Bergen) played the grandfather. When I was a kid, we watched "The Homecoming" every year at Christmas. In one scene, the mom is admiring her Christmas cactus, which has burst into bloom while stored in the basement. I always think of that movie when my mother's gorgeous Christmas cacti bloom.
N is for Nola (Scarlett Johansson), the femme fatale of Woody Allen's very intriguing "Match Point"
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Post by katina2nd on Nov 26, 2011 21:03:30 GMT -6
O for ..... Ophelia, from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Post by stepper on Nov 26, 2011 22:34:07 GMT -6
Both my and Steppet's mothers could make their Christmas Cactus bloom at the right time, but I couldn't quite get it to work. I had the best luck leaving it/them on the front porch with a couple other plants and splashing them once in a while. Of course that's not especially good for the plant allowing that our heat is bad for trees, let alone a Christmas Cactus, but it/they had great blooms when it worked! Eventually I realized it was easier to simply purchase a new one every year.
P - Sweet Polly Purebred, the love interest of Underdog.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 27, 2011 9:47:05 GMT -6
Mrs. Quail in Bambi. Here's a bit of trivia - the part of Mrs. Quail is uncredited in the film, but the character was voiced by Thelma Boardman, who was also the voice of Minnie Mouse in the early 1940s Mickey Mouse shorts.
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Post by stepper on Nov 27, 2011 11:55:35 GMT -6
I love the trivia Gams. Somehow it always seems fun running into one of those "I never new that before" facts.
Rocky the Flying Squirrel - both Rocky and Natasha Fatale were given voice by June Foray who also provided the voices for Cindy Lou Who, Jokey Smurf, Witch Hazel, and Nell Fenwick. Both Rocky and Bullwinkle had the middle initial "J" - a reference to Jay Ward the producer.
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Post by Siren on Nov 27, 2011 22:00:17 GMT -6
Step, I think my mom's Christmas cacti tend to bloom after Christmas. It's a treat seeing that vibrant color in the dead of winter.
Your luck with Christmas cacti reminds me of my luck with poinsettias. I can keep one alive after Christmas, but have never known one to bloom that pretty red color again. As you said, it's easier to just buy one every Christmas.
S is for Sugar Kane, the gold-digging girl singer in "Some Like It Hot", one of Marilyn Monroe's best roles.
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Post by stepper on Nov 27, 2011 22:31:45 GMT -6
You did better than I did Siren. I tried only once to get a poinsettia to survive and it was a complete failure. I did better with the Christmas Cactus - I had a few that actually bloomed when they were supposed to - just before Christmas - but the plants didn't thrive, they just survived.
This isn't a name - it's a thing. A Tribble - made famous in the Star Trek TV Series in the show The Trouble With Tribbles.
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Post by quettalee on Nov 28, 2011 12:46:24 GMT -6
Mom's Thanksgiving cactus was in full bloom, right on time!
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
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Post by Siren on Nov 28, 2011 21:57:10 GMT -6
A Thanksgiving Cactus, eh? Good idea!
V is for Valene (Val) Ewing, played by Joan Van Ark on "Knots Landing"
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Post by quettalee on Nov 29, 2011 11:21:49 GMT -6
Willy Wonka
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Post by stepper on Nov 29, 2011 17:56:24 GMT -6
Yzma ~ pronounced izma - the baddy in The Emperor's New Grove (Disney) - and this may not really be a double, so you can pick you're own 'Z' if you wish
I like the pretty blue tree Q
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Post by Siren on Nov 29, 2011 22:43:28 GMT -6
Me too, Q. Very nice! I'm pondering doing a bit of holiday redecorating, too.
Shoot, yes, Step, it counts. Zs are toughies. Well done on a very tough double!
Amy, the vain, selfish sister of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"
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Post by quettalee on Nov 30, 2011 10:53:36 GMT -6
Thank you, my friends! Didn't want to go too "deck the halls" just yet.
And yes, very good, Stepper...nice double!!
Benjamin Braddock ~ Dustin Hoffman's character in "The Graduate"
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Post by stepper on Nov 30, 2011 18:35:25 GMT -6
Clarice ~ Rudolph's love interest
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