Having starred in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham's "The Hours", she offered to narrate his 2023 book "Day"
Who is Julianne Moore?
Writer of many a Christmas film, Anna White got down to business in 2021 with "Christmas" this 3-letter top job at a company
What is CEO?
Term for the organism that provides nutrition to a parasite, not always willingly or knowingly
What is a Host?
A countertenor is an adult male voice that mostly lies within this female register
What is Alto?
On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada
Who is Winston Churchill?
Going on a long trip to Ithaca? Then spend 9+ hours with Derek Jacobi reading this epic poem, & say hi to Telemachus for us
What is the Odyssey?
Danica McKellar is a big-city event planner who goes home to Tenn. to work a "Christmas at" this theme park... & maybe find love
What is Dollywood?
This class of animals whose name indicates 2 habitats is extra menaced by climate change as warming of either home means trouble
What is an Amphibian?
As a symbol, it means the next note should be lowered by a semitone; as a disparaging word, it's applied to out-of-tune singers
What is Flat?
AMERICANA:
After "Black Monday" in 1987, sculptor Arturo Di Modica put a statue of one of these in Manhattan to symbolize strength & power
What is a Bull?
Almost 40 years after starring in "Heartburn", she read the Nora Ephron novel on audiobook, down to the recipes
Who is Meryl Streep?
A woman falls for the son of the man out to close her toy store in the alliteratively titled this Mass. island "Noel"
What is Nantucket?
It's the collective word for all the DNA, RNA, whateverna in an organism
What is Genome?
Haydn's "The Creation" is a famed one of these large-scale compositions for solo singers, chorus & orchestra
What is an Oratorio?
FAMOUS NAMES:
In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary
Pele?
Patrick Stewart had a Dickens of a time performing this classic as a one-man show & as an audio book
What is A Christmas Carol?
A bit after going on a bender in "The Breakfast Club", this actor met Santa Jr. in 2002; don't you forget about him
Who is Judd Nelson?
This adjective for the organ that gives nutrients to the fetus describes all mammals except marsupials & a few even weirder ones
What is Placental?
You can use the black notes on a keyboard to play this common 5-note scale
What is the Pentatonic Scale?
LANDMARKS:
During Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to Los Angeles, pranksters covered up this letter in a local landmark
What is L?
This funny guy narrates the afterword of the very serious "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" by his late wife Michelle McNamara
Who is Patton Oswalt?
It's not the Magi--nor Selleck, Danson & Guttenberg--but a trio of brothers who find themselves caring for a tot in this 2022 film
What is Three Wise Men and a Baby?
As a pairing in biology class, A&P is amoeba, which moves using pseudopods, & this protist that moves with hairlike cilia
What is a Paramecium?
Italian for "going", it means to play at a walking pace--not too fast, not too slow
What is Andante?
BOOK CHARACTERSS:
Early on in a 1966 novel, this title character beats the protagonist in maze races; later on he bites him
Who is Algernon?