BIG SCREEN CHARACTER MASHUPS
Truman Ventura
Jim Carrey
The Smithsonian has an odd Civil War relic: the stump of this type of mighty tree, full of bullets from a May 1864 battle
An Oak
Culturally off limits
Taboo
"It's Christmas Day!", said this character, "I haven't missed it. The spirits have done it all in one night"
Ebenezer Scrooge
A villainous type of mustache, a la Snidely Whiplash
Handlebar
That underappreciated person who does any & every thing on a movie or TV lot is a P.A., standing for this
Production Assistant
Jor-El Kowalski
Marlon Brando
No tall tale, this state's Kings Canyon National Park features the big sequoia stump of the Mark Twain Tree
California
It's orbited by Charon
Pluto
The popularity of reindeer as a symbol of Christmas probably only dates back to this 19th-century poem that also gave Santa's reindeer their names--Dasher, Dancer, etc.
"A Visit from St. Nicholas"
or
"The Night Before Christmas"
A style of singing in 4-part harmony; you know, as a "quartet"
Barbershop
Sales associates at Kate Spade have this inspiring title, even if they're not named Calliope or Terpsichore
Muse
Philip Spade
Humphrey Bogart
12 feet in diameter, the Big Stump is what remains of a large one of these colorfully named trees in Colorado
A Redwood
"Top Chef" channel
Bravo
In a Christmas story by Berkeley Breathed, Opus, this type of bird, makes "a wish for wings that work"
Penguin
An 11-letter acid derivative used in medicine as a sedative
Barbiturates
Not all that many of them around these days, but as the Old English root suggests, a wainwright makes & repairs these
Wagons
Ethan Reacher
Tom Cruise
The Old Man of the Lake is a hemlock stump that sits peacefully in this Oregon lake formed violently over 7,000 years ago
Crater Lake
Cannon fire volley
Salvo
"One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas", said this O. Henry story
"The Gift of the Magi"
A conference between the judge & lawyers out of the hearing of the jury
Sidebar
Need a men's hat, tie or handkerchief? Go see the person with this 11-letter title
Haberdasher
Bonnie Mulwray
Faye Dunaway
In the 19th century William McDonald set up a post office in the stump of a cedar on this mythic-sounding peninsula of Washington State
The Olympic Peninsula
Slow & dignified, musically
Largo
In "The Polar Express", for the first gift of Christmas, a boy asks for one of these from Santa's sleigh
A (silver sleigh) Bell
It's a verb meaning to get off a plane or ship
Disembark or Debark
There's a military officer's rank in this word for the head steward of a palace or other big fancy household
Majordomo