On Cinema at the Cinema
In this 2023 film old man Paul Giamatti & young man Dominic Sessa check out the 1970 Dustin Hoffman film "Little Big Man"
What is The Holdovers?
His "The Runaway" is not even his most famous poem with a horse in falling snow
Who is Robert Frost?
The rapper Twista has an affinity for magic & also can make his puppet Tiny Twista rap as one of these voice-throwing performers
What is a Ventriloquist?
Types of these waves include Love, primary, secondary & the "did you feel that?" kind
What are Seismic Waves?
1990'S NUMBER 1 SONGS:
This title character of the top song from 1996 can't stand her boyfriend Vitorino & spurns him to be with his 2 friends
What is Macarena?
In a 2009 film Johnny Depp as this 1930s gangster watches "Manhattan Melodrama" at the Biograph before meeting his fate
What is Dillinger?
Philip Larkin's "This Be the Verse" says, "They fill you with the faults they had & add some extra, just for you"
What is Your Parents?
In 2023 this rapper & Lando Calrissian actor opened a boba tea shop in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles
Who is Donald Glover?
Radar images taken by the Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s helped determine that this planet has around 85,000 volcanoes
What is Venus?
1980's FADS:
A November 29, 1983 N.Y. Times article about these used "near-riot", "adoptable", "waiting for 8 hours" & "my life (is) in danger"
What are Cabbage Patch Kids?
In this 2019 film Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate puts her feet up as she watches herself in a movie at a theater
What is Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood?
A sick kid has "two pillows at my head" in Stevenson's "Land of Counter-Pane"; a counterpane is this word with 2 rhyming syllables
What is a Bedspread?
In a video for ESPN, Lil Wayne states his love for this sport & says he feels amped after doing a "flat ground trick off of a 50-50"
What is Skateboarding?
In 1671 naturalist John Ray discovered this acid by collecting & distilling large numbers of dead ants
What is Formic Acid?
BOOK & MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES:
The title of this 2001 book, also a 2003 film, forms a partial border between Boston, Chelsea, Medford & Everett
What is Mystic River?
In "The Shawshank Redemption", Andy DuFresne & Red watch this actress' hair flip scene in "Gilda"
Who is Rita Hayworth?
In 1920 his first poem to make a big splash mentioned Buffalo Bill & Jesus, with capital Bs & a capital J
Who is E.E. Cummings?
Will Smith trained in this pastime with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley
What is Chess?
In 1948 this vitamin C advocate found that the polypeptide chain would coil into a structure he called the alpha helix
Who is Linus Pauling?
COUNTRIES WITH SPACE PROGRAMS:
It launched its first satellite, Asterix, in 1965
What is France?
In the film "Divorce Italian Style", scandal comes to a small town when a theater shows this sweetly named 1960 Fellini film
What is La Dolce Vita?
Though it's often printed broken into short lines, his "No man is an island" is a prose passage; "Air & Angels", that's a poem
Who is John Donne?
In 2023 this former member of OutKast released the album "New Blue Sun" that contained no rap bars, but a lot of his passion: flutes
Who is Andre 3000?
It's the 5-syllable word for a counterpart such as the positron to the negatively charged electron
What is an antiparticle?
20TH CENTURY NAMES:
According to one obituary, in 1935 he owned 13 magazines, 8 radio stations, 2 movie companies & $56 million in real estate
Who is William Randolph Hearst?