The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
1. Robert De Niro portrayed real-life boxer Jake LaMotta in which film? 2. Which blonde actress's film credits include The Wedding Singer, Fever Pitch and Charlie's Angels? 3. Which late actor's film credits include Grumpy Old Men, The Apartment and Glengarry Glen Ross? 4. Which of the following 1990s movies did NOT win the Oscar for Best Picture: Forrest Gump, The English Patient, Unforgiven or L.A. Confidential? 5. Two of late director George Roy Hill's comedy classics include The Sting and Slap ____, both featuring Paul Newman. 6. The Wolf Man was portrayed by _________ in the 1941. 7. Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy were Trading ______ in their wildly popular 1983 comedy. 8. In which classic comedy are John "Bluto" Blutarsky and Dean Vernon Wormer characters? 9. Which veteran actor portrayed Lex Luthor in three of the four Superman films from the 1970s and '80s? 10. Janet _____ is perhaps best known for her role as Marion Crane in the Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho. 11. Seven men have won the Best Actor Oscar twice. Which of the following is NOT among them: Marlon Brando, Tom Hanks, Cary Grant or Dustin Hoffman? 12. Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow all lent their voice talents to which 2001 animated blockbuster? 13. Who directed and starred as William Wallace in Braveheart? 14. Who portrayed Birdman of Alcatraz and Elmer Gantry? 15. Which actresses portrayed Thelma and Louise? 16. Black Hawk ___ depicted an infamous U.S. military mission in Somalia. 17. After winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Tootsie, Jessica _____ took the Best Actress Oscar a dozen years later for Blue Sky. 18. True or false: Casablanca won the Oscar for Best Picture. 19. ______ Bergman, one of the stars of Casablanca, also appeared in Anastasia and Murder on the Orient Express. 20. Dick Tracy, Insomnia and The Devil's Advocate are among which veteran actor's film credits? 21. Carrie ______'s post-Star Wars credits include Hannah and her Sisters and When Harry Met Sally. 22. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan headline which trio of hit films? 23. Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum and Randy Quaid helped lead the cast of one of the most successful films of the 1990s. What was it called? 24. Who famously portrayed Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! and Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire? 25. Kate Winslet has either won, or been nominated for, the Oscar for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress five times. Name one of the films. 26. Was Charlie Chaplin born in Canada or England? 27. Which of the following is NOT a character featured in The Muppet Movie: Miss Piggy, Swedish Chef, Oscar the Grouch or Fozzie Bear? 28. Gene _____ appeared in the Mel Brooks comedies Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Young Frankenstein. 29. Who played John Travolta's love interest in 1978's Grease? 30. Which veteran actor's film credits include Mystic River, The Player and The Shawshank Redemption? 31. True or false: Arnold Schwarzenegger has never appeared in a film nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture. 32. Stanley _______ directed Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. (Answers on pg. 20)
