Nowhere Land
The name of this desert city that can hit 130° is used to mean anywhere remote
Timbuktu
2014:
Michael Keaton,
Emma Stone
Birdman
He wasn't inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but into the Arm
Elvis Presley
Books to help with these persistent fears include a workbook about overcoming the commitment type
phobias
George's movie scores include "Shall We Dance", which starred his friends, this dancing pair
Fred Estaire and Ginger Rogers
This remote "-land" is from the German for "land behind"
hinterland
2017:
Daniel Kaluuya,
Allison William
Get Out
The Great Leap Forward program launched in this country led to a famine & millions of deaths
China
The cover of "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" by Dr. Richard Carlson reveals this great truth
its all small stuff
Despite pressure to use white singers in blackface, George Gershwin insisted on a black cast for this work set on Catfish Ro
Porgy and Bess
This remote "-water" is an uncultured place out of the mainstream
a backwater
2009:
Gabourey Sidibe,
Mo'nique
Precious
Dedicated in June, this bridge linked Michigan's upper & lower peninsulas
Mackinac
This motivational speaker urged us, in book form, to "Awaken the Giant Within" (easy for him to say--he's 6'7"!)
Tony Robbins
In "I Got Rhythm" it's the line that follows "I got daisies in green pastures, I got my man.
Who Could Ask For Anything More
Sent to work for an obscure movie co., Clark Gable asked employees, "Why ain't you wearing parkas in" this region?
Siberia
2016:
Kristen Wiig,
Kate McKinnon
Ghostbusters
After he was publicly vilified, this "Doctor Zhivago" author declined to accept his Nobel Prize
Boris Pastemak
"The Power of Positive Thinking", by this Protestant minister, made positive thinking a household term in the 1950s
Norman Vincent Peale
Similar to a player piano, a reproducing piano uses a roll to recreate a performance by a human pianist, which is how we're able to hear & see how George Gershwin played this famous piece of his
Rhapsody in Blue
In 1846 a Buffalo, N.Y. newspaper spoofed life in small, out-of-the-way towns in "Letters from" here
Podunk
1991:
Bill Murray,
Richard Dreyfuss
What about Bob
Later vice president, he was elected to the first of 4 terms as governor of New York
Nelson Rockefeller
A book shows how "Predictably Irrational" we are--a pain pill worked better if subjects were told its this was higher
price
George's song "'S Wonderful" was featured in this Oscar-winning 1951 film starring Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron
An American In Paris