Poets
This American poet is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He was known for his realistic depictions of rural life and used them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. His poem, "Fire and Ice" influenced the title and other aspects of George R.R. Martin's fantasy series A Song of Fire and Ice.
Robert Frost
A mash up of Don Henley's 1984 classic (famously covered by the Ataris in 2003) and Bryan Adams 1985 tribute to teenage love.
Boys of Summer of '69
This 2018 heist comedy film, the most recent in Steven Soderbergh's heist franchise stars Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, and Helena Bonham Carter and features a sophisticated heist at the annual Met Gala.
Ocean's Eight
I get this actress confused for Rachel Weisz all the time. Maybe because they both play characters who are a little crazy. She appeared in Fight Club, all of Tim Burton's movies between 2001-2012, the Harry Potter series, and plays Princess Margaret on The Crown.
Helena Bonham Carter
This Canadian national dish consists of french fries topped with a mildly spicy chicken or turkey gravy and fresh cheese curd. The dish is assembled just prior to serving to avoid soggy fries.
Poutine
This American author of Where the Sidewalk Ends was known for his cartoons, songs, poetry, and children's books. He would not allow his poems and stories to be published unless he could choose the type, size, shape, color and quality of the paper.
Shel Silverstein
A mash up of Aqua's song about a doll and Bowling for Soup's song about Nona with a nose ring who watches wrestling and listens to rap metal.
Barbie Girl all the Bad Guys Want
This 2001 heist film, directed by Frank Oz, and starring Robert DeNiro, Marlon Brando, Edward Norton, and Angela Bassett is easily the best pure heist movie in this category.
The Score
I always swear this actress is Claire Danes, but Claire Danes apparently wasn't in the Jason Bourne movies. They have both starred in modern retellings of Shakespeare's works--Claire Danes in Romeo + Juliet, and this actress playing the lead in a modernized (and renamed) The Taming of the Shrew.
Julia Stiles
This Ecuadoran national dish consists of lime juice-marinated raw fresh fish spiced with chilie. Sea bass, shrimp, and crab are popular seafood choices.
Ceviche
This female American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist has bene called "the black woman's poet laureat" and her poems have been called the "anthems of African Americans"
Maya Angelou
A mashup of Queen's tribute to Elvis Presley (and first number one hit song) and Aerosmith's song about loving it up until you hit the ground.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love in an Elevator
This 2001 heist comedy starred Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton as convicts who escape from the Oregon State Penitentiary and begin a bank robbing spree. Cate Blanchett plays Kate, who falls for the two convicts and becomes embroiled in a love triangle with them.
Bandits
Every time I see this guy's name attached to a project, I assume I'll be seeing the guy who played Lassiter on Psych. To my credit, they do have the same first name. Other than that, Lassiter and Raylan Givens, who this actor played on Justified, have almost nothing in common.
Timothy Olyphant
This Spanish national dish is rice simmered in a broth of garlic, tomatoes, freshly cooked vegetables, and shallow-fried meat/seafood.
Paella
This female American poet, novelist, and short-story writer is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry. Along with her works, The Colossus, and The Bell Jar, she is most famous for killing herself by placing her head in the oven.
Sylvia Plath
A mashup of this 1983 hit by The Police (that also holds the title for most played song in radio history) and Eddie Money's 1986 hit that inspired an absolutely dreadful 2011 movie with the same name.
Every Breath You Take Me Home Tonight
This 2011 heist comedy had an ensemble cast starring Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, and Tea Leoni, among others. In it, employees of an apartment building lose their pensions in a Ponzi scheme of a Wall Street businessman and break into his apartment to steal back their money while avoiding the FBI agents in charge of his case.
Tower Heist
She's the girl Matt Damon had to "see about" in Good Will Hunting, and but for some reason I can never remember her name. She also played John Cusack's love interest in Grosse Pointe Blank. Now I see her in cameos and have to look her up.
Minnie Driver
This Filipino national dish consists of chicken marinated in garlic and vinegar before being shallow-fried in oil, and simmered in its own leftover marinade. Traditionally served over a bed of rice.
This Welsh poet and writer is most famous for the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" -- the only poem I ever took the time to memorize (but have since forgotten).
Dylan Thomas
A mashup of Kansas's only top 10 hit and Bette Midler's 1988 ballad for the movie Beaches.
Dust in the Wind Beneath My Wings
Bruce Willis plays the titular character in this 1991 action comedy heist film. Trying to go straight, he is blackmailed by the mafia and the CIA into several daring art heists with his partner Tommy "Two Tone" Messina.
Hudson Hawk
I swear this Filipino-American actor has made a cameo on every cop show ever, often playing the angsty federal agent. I specifically remember him as the sniper guy on CBS's Numbers. He played Henry Standing Bear on Longmire from 2012-2017, and currently plays NYPD Lt. Gil Arroyo on Prodigal Son.
Lou Diamond Phillips
This Ukrainian national dish is a beetroot soup with a pork or beef broth base
Borscht