THE PRODUCER
THE WRITER
THE CAMERA MAN
THE PERFORMER
"ACTION"!
200
'"Ho, ho, ho!" This jolly guy has appeared in ads for vegetables since 1928; the company was named for him in 1950'
the Jolly Green Giant
200
'In 2010 he hit the shelves with his legal thriller "The Confession"'
(John) Grisham
200
'Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this'
V-J Day
200
'Patton Oswalt cooked up the voice of Remy the Rodent in this 2007 Pixar film'
Ratatouille
200
'I try, & I try, but I can't get no this word meaning an act of gratification'
satisfaction
400
'Robert Chesebrough produced a clear petroleum jelly & started selling it under this brand name in 1870'
Vaseline
400
'In 1936 this Jazz Age author detailed his physical & spiritual collapse in "The Crack-Up"'
Fitzgerald
400
'Certain Robert Mapplethorpe photos caused Congress to enact restrictions on grants given by this body'
the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts)
400
'From 1960 to 2010 Don Hastings played Bob Hughes on this "global" CBS soap opera'
As the World Turns
400
'A decrease in economic activity; I couldn't bear it! I can't! I won't! I shan't!'
a contraction
600
'"Choosy moms choose" this brand of peanut butter'
Jif
600
'Peru's version of "Super Mario", he won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature'
Mario Vargas Llosa
600
'John Filo, an undergrad at this Ohio school, won a 1971 Pulitzer after getting an iconic photo of a slain classmate'
Kent State
600
'Esai Morales lawyered up as Edward James Olmos' dad, Joseph Adama, in this "Battlestar Galactica" prequel'
Caprica
600
'2-word "atomic" term for a series of events in which each event is the result of the one preceding & the cause of the next'
a chain reaction
800
'This brand's Wienermobile dates back to 1936'
Oscar Mayer
800
'Muriel Spark's 1961 novel about an eccentric Edinburgh teacher detailed "The Prime of Miss" this'
Miss Jean Brodie
800
'Steve McCurry took a photo of an Afghan girl for this venerated magazine in 1984, then reunited with her 17 years later'
National Geographic
800
'J.K. Simmons, seriously evil in "Oz", brought it down to "not so nice" as publisher J. Jonah Jameson in this 2002 film'
Spider-Man
800
'Rotting, or the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria'
putrefaction
1000
'This superpremium ice cream brand produces a line called Five--with only (you guessed it) 5 ingredients'
Häagen-Dazs
1000
'This man who penned "A la recherche du temps perdu" suffered from asthma'
Marcel Proust
1000
'He told the Warren Commission of a nightmare in which his film plays out until its violent end & he snaps awake'
Abraham Zapruder
1000
'This "Some Like It Hot" co-star who died in 2010 turned to Matisse-influenced art in later years'
Tony Curtis
1000
'For federal contracts, this 2-word employment term was first used in an order issued by JFK in 1961'
affirmative action
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