MOVIE FACTS
It was Brian de Palma who suggested that this director add the now-iconic opening crawl to "Star Wars" to give the film's context
George Lucas
Take the L out of a beer league sport (in an alley) & you get an act of showing respect
bowing & bowling
With a pillow & mattress made from this "spring-back" foam; perhaps you recall that engineer Charles Yost invented it
memory foam
This traditional 4-letter dog name is from Latin for "trust"
Fido
Virtuoso Narciso Yepes played a guitar of his own design with this many strings, four more than the norm
10
The animators counted:
In this film Carl Fredricksen's house floats thanks to 10,297 balloons
Up
Take the L out of a beer league sport (on ice) & you get an act of healing a disease
curling & curing
The pineal gland in my brain is secreting the right amount of this hormone that's also an antioxidant, so just fine
melatonin
The name of a famous space dog, Laika is "barker" in this language
Russian
Sorbetto is one type of this solo song in an opera; the audience would get sorbets as a supporting character sang
an aria
To portray the "spice" on Arrakis, the sound designers on this 2021 sci-fi film sprinkled sand with Rice Krispies
Dune
The sticker identifying the contents of a bottle drops an L to be a doomed man in the Bible
label & Abel
Better now that I've got these window coverings that sound like they simulate a power outage to stop all light from coming in
blackout curtains
This 5-letter word meaning "wanderer" was popularized as a dog name by a 1905 silent film
a rover
"In the beginning" are the first words of this Haydn oratorio about this act by God; here's a later tune
The Creation
This movie starring Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz was inspired by Jane Austen's "Emma"
Clueless
Another term for a merry-go-round loses an L to go party & get its drink on in a big way
carousel & carouse
Really well after a hot bath infused with the essential oil of this fragrant purple flower, a noted natural sleep aid
lavender
President Garfield gave his dog this 4-letter name to honor what Rutherford B. Hayes had done to a bill
Veto
Ms. Rice knows con dolcezza or "with sweetness" is in his 6th symphony, which he conducted in St. Petersburg 9 days before his death
Tchaikovsky
John McCain had a cameo as an invited guest in this Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson comedy
Wedding Crashers
A word describing mild weather mildly drops an L to become a major part of concrete
clement & cement
Like millions of other Americans with the mask known by this 4-letter name to combat my sleep apnea
a CPAP
During World War I a corporal named 2 German Shepherds for French folk dolls: Nanette & this; the latter dog became a movie star
Piano students often begin with the scale of C major, the key of the first prelude & fugue in this Bach work with an instrumental name
The Well-Tempered Clavier