red_tree_cultural'literacy_game red tree he was, perhaps, the most controversial painter of the eighties. his 1979 mary boone show is still running. ("i'm as close to picasso as you're going to get in this fucking life," he said) he also directed, "'basquiat" and "before night falls" (a_film_you_should_see). recently, he won the best director award at cannes for his new film, "the diving bell and the butterfly." who is he? (1000) bonus (1000) his new film is the true story of a man who suffers a massive stroke and is unable to move, with the exception of what? 071008 ... gja Julian Schnabel The patient / victim in the film (Bauby) can use only one eye! Hell? 071008 ... red tree well done, gja...+2000=5,545.00 071008 ... ????????????????????????? what is she some kind of a pirate, or does she want a different life with the wrong daddy ? where do i get these feelings from ? 071008 ... red tree if you're willing to wait three months and pay $1000 for the first hour and $200 an hour after that, you can get an "antique ornamentation and specialized typography" at saved tattoo in williamsburg, brooklyn. the artist is the man behind the camel cigarette ads... who is he? (1000) 071009 ... jane scott campbell. {finally, hanging out at e's tattoo shop pays off!} 071009 ... rtree ding! ding! ding!+1000=18,400.00 071010 ... red tree name the american painter/ photographer whose rephotography work with marlboro cigarette ads and a controversial reworking of a photo of brooke shields at ten years-old caused much debate in the art world in the late 1970's...(1000) 071010 ... gja Richard Prince 071010 ... r e d t r e e got it, gja...+1000=6,545.00 071010 ... j Exploitation and sleaze were magnified a hundredfold in Prince's work in 1983, when he debuted what is still his most controversial and disturbing work: Spiritual America, a rephotographed image of actress Brooke Shields at the age of 10, in the nude, originally taken by a commercial photographer named Garry Gross. Prince found the picture in a small booklet published by the Playboy Press, in which Gross reproduced images of Shields in various guises, as innocent girl-child on the one hand and seductive woman-child on the other. Prince first exhibited his version in a storefront gallery he had opened for the purpose, which was also caned Spiritual America.(6) Shortly after Prince discovered the Brooke Shields image he learned that the photographer was in the process of selling it to a company that manufactured posters. The company's plan was to market it in a limited edition of 1,000 posters that would sell for $1,000 apiece. Prince decided to make his appropriated Brooke Shields in an edition of 1,000 and sell it for $999. It would be considered an "original" work of art and would sell for one dollar less than the poster. When the owners of the poster company got wind of Prince's scheme, they showed up at Spiritual America with their lawyer, threatening legal action. Just what occurred after that is unclear, although Brooke Shields and her manager/mother Teri also got into the act at some point, trying to suppress Gross's pictures completely. After years in court, the Shieldses lost their case when Gross produced a model release for the photo session with Brooke that was signed by her mother, thus rendering legal his use of the pictures. Because Shields was a minor, the model release stipulated that a responsible adult had given her consent for Shields to pose for the photographs, and that the photographer could use the pictures in certain prescribed ways, which included publishing them.(7) {http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n11_v81/ai_14647054/pg_2} 071010 ... j {just thought it was interesting} 071010 ... red tree thanks jane...whoa... great research+200=18,600.00 ................................................................. name the director who won the palme d'or prize at cannes in 1993 for her film, "the piano." (1000) her newest film is based on the doomed relationship between a well loved 19th century poet and a woman named fanny brawne. (bonus500) name the poet... (doublebonus1000)name the film that is based on the first line of one of his best known love poems... 071010 ... thorn jane campion, john keats, bright star 071010 ... thorn this is the whole poem, it is nice i think. Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-- No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever--or else swoon to death. 071010 ... just another teen jack daniels drinker 1 - Jane Campion 2 - John Keats 3 - Bright Star? 071010 ... just another jack daniels drinker damnit beaten to it 071010 ... red tree well done thorn+2500=18,500.00+100 for the poem, thanks... total=18,600.00 and now a first place tie between thorn and jane! and to the jack daniels drinker...welcome to the game...+50 for almost scoring big.... 071011 ... red tree continuiing in the vein of women film directors, name the first woman director to be nominated for an academy award...(1000) bonus(500) what was the film? doublebonus(1000) she was known for unusually long title for her films. fill in the blanks to identify her 1974 film starring giancarlo giannini about romance and class warfare. ----- ---- -- -- ------- ------- -- --- ---- --- -- ------- 071011 ... jane lina wertmuller for seven beauties (1976) travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto {swept away by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of august} 071011 ... r e d t r e e nice work, jane...back in first place+2500=21,100.00 .................................................................................. currently on exhibit at the musee du luxembourg in paris is the work of giuseppe arcimboldo, the 16th century italian gimmick painter. what makes his paintings unique? (2000) 071011 ... gja The images, mainly portaits, were made up of vegetables and organic matter. 071011 ... red tree got it gja! +2000=8,545.00 a feast for the eyes... ........................................................................ fill in the blanks(each correct artist worth 1000) while we're in france, french prosecutors requested a fine and a civics course for a woman who planted a lipstick-red kiss on an all white painting by the american artist -- -------, that was on exhibit in avignon. this trial comes only days after intruders broke into the musee d'orsay in paris and punched a hole in a painting by ------ -----. 071012 ... gja Cy Twombley Claude Monet If there is a connection I dont know. 071012 ... r e d t r e e awesome...gja...+2000=10,545.00 you are quickly closing in on third place....the woman who got busted said, "the artist will understand why i did it." 071012 ... red tree fill in the blanks (each complete blank worth 500) adrian tomine's first comic book, ----- -----. at age 21, was an immediate hit landing him along side "love and rockets" creators, --- --------- -------- and his mentor, "ghost world's, ------ ------. tomine's newest book is called, ------------. the main character, ben tanaka, moves from berkeley to -------. 071012 ... thorn optic nerve the hernandez brothers (jaime and gilbert) daniel clowes shortcomings new york 071012 ... rt excellent thorn! +2500=21,000.00 071012 ... rt brother and sister gwyneth and jake paltrow are working on a film together...what's it called?(1000) bonus(1000) also stars martin freeman, star of what british version of a popular american tv comedy? 071012 ... tessa Martin Freeman is from The Office i'd also like to clarify the ordering of the two shows - the british was the original, and the US was the later version. i will never understand the need to 'translate' shows from english to american 071013 ... r e d t r e e thanks for the clarification tessa+1000=3,485.00 thorn, i incorrectly added up your total. it should be 21,100...which puts you back into a tie for first. 2000 now available for the name of gwyneth and jake paltrow's film... 071013 ... just another teen jack daniels drinker 'The Good Night' 071013 ... r e d t r e e score! +2000 for jatjdd!!!! that's a total of 2050.00 071013 ... rt mailman mike jambi hammy mr. and mrs. jelly donut where are these characters from? (1000) list the five other prominent cast members...each one worth 300... 071014 ... thorn the peewee herman show 071014 ... .. urrrrrrrrr 071014 ... contestant numbah 2 Kap'n Karl Miss Yvonne Joan Hermit Hattie Salvador Sanchez 071014 ... r e d t r e e well done cn2...+1500=5011.00 071014 ... . and thorn+1000=22,100.00 & back in first place... 071014 ... redhead name the band who has made their new record, "in rainbows" available on their website for downloading at a suggested price from the customer...(1000) 071014 ... bonus1000 name the artist who gave away his album 3121 in the uk through the daily mail and subsequently sold out 21 shows in london... 071014 ... thorn radiohead and prince 071015 ... redtree got 'em thorn! +2000=24,100.00 .................................................... hosted by a long time philadelphia radio personality and passionate music enthusiast, this npr show and podcast takes listeners on a unique journey with live performances and intimate interviews... (upcoming artists include bat for lashes and iron&wine) what is the show called? (1000) bonus1000: who is the host? 071015 ... z world cafe. david dye. 071015 ... z (whyy is my npr station) 071015 ... redtree easy for you, z...+2000=14,200.00 071015 ... redtree what is the only beatles song that has women singing background vocals? (1000) bonus1000: who are the women? 071015 ... native persimmon I didn't know there was only one - "Birthday" on The White Album has Yoko Ono and Patty Harrison doing some backup. . . 071015 ... r to the t oh well... i guess that teaches me not to trust everything my local public radio dj says is true. he said it was "the continuing story of bungalow bill "with yoko ono and ringo's wife! +2000&+500 for the clarification... well done...native_persimmon=3588.00 *************************************************** intermixing live music, dance, and film, adelheid roosen transforms hundreds of personal conversations to take her audience inside the islamic culture of women and men living in holland... what is the name of this production that just finished its showing at st. anne's warehouse in dumbo, brooklyn? (2500) 071016 ... hjane the veiled monologues & is.man 071016 ... rtree excellent jane...+2500=23,600.00 isman is her newest production...good mention +200=23,800.00 071016 ... redtree mira nair, who directed "the namesake" is presently working on a documentary about the beatles during their spiritual odyssey in india. i heard her in an interview on the podcast "studio360" mention that the beatles wrote 48 songs while there. one of them was "dear prudence." who wrote the song? (500) who was it written for? (1000) why was it written? (1000) 071016 ... thorn john lennon wrote it for mia farrow's sister prudence. when they were in india, she spent most of her time meditating in her room, and john was worried that she was depressed. 071017 ... redtree go thorn! +2500=26,600.00 ****************************************** noted as the best selling jazz album of all time, this record features cannonball adderly, john coltrane, wynton kelly and bill evans in the band... what is the name of the record? (1000) who plays trumpet? (1000) what is peculiar about the addition of bill evans to the band? (500) 071017 ... z kind of blue. miles davis. (recorded in manhattan) 071017 ... jane didn't evans write "blue in green"? i thought i heard something about that a few years ago, about them switching the writing credits? either way, i do know that evans' style had a pretty apparent influence on the music. 071017 ... (z) (was evans almost out of the combo by that time? i can't remember) 071017 ... rtree +2000=16,200.00 (panel says to award 300 more for recording place =16,500.00 & jane...+200 for your bill evans insight =24,000.00 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 071017 ... i dont know anything about miles davis except for what i heard...that he beat his wife and pimped for drugs. which raises the whole question/conflict... can the art be separated from the artist? "kind of blue" definately deserves all the praise it has received. it's a defining piece of music... 071017 ... little red tree the earliest known edition of the familiar folktale "little red riding hood" was published in the 17th century in a collection of stories by ...what frenchman? (1000) bonus500*****(blank it, baby) in 1857, it was revised and the story altered to add another wolf and other changes by --- ------- -----. double++bonus1000/ in 1989, an illustrated version of "little red riding hood" was banned in two california school districts... why? 071017 ... wow 20% now added to the total score of the red riding hood answers... 071018 ... jane charles perrault the brothers grimm? in the illustrations she was carrying wine to her grandmother's house and god forbid a child be seen carrying things. :) 071018 ... z hans christen anderson? 071018 ... rtree jane...you scored huge...+2500 for all the correct answers +wow20%=(500) and your new first place total is:27,000.00 z...+100 for the guess=16,600.00 071018 ... red tree match up these shakespeare quotes to their source...(500 each) 1. "good night, sweet prince." 2. "death lies on her, like an untimely fruit upon the sweetest flower of all the field." 3. "what wound did ever heal but by degrees." 4. i like your silence; it the more shows off your wonder." 5. "peace puts forth her olive everywhere." a. henry iv b. hamlet c. romeo and juliet d. winter's tale e. othello 071018 ... whoops that should read "frost" not fruit in #2 071018 ... thorn 1. hamlet 2. romeo and juliet 3. othello 4. winter's tale 5. henry iv 071019 ... r e d t r e e thorn seesaws into first...+2500=29,100.00 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ the last surviving member of the rat pack has died... who was he? (2500) 071019 ... jane joey bishop 071019 ... rtree and now jane seesaws into first...+2500=29,500.00 071019 ... red man first name the same...(each worth 1500) ___ _______ actor/comedian who won the 1957 academy award for best supporting actor for his role as admiral kelly in "sayonara." --- ------ comedian who had an american tv show in the 50's...created the characters clem kadiddlehopper and freddy the freeloader. 071019 ... contestant numbah 2 Red Buttons Red Skelton 071020 ... red tree got 'em cn2+3000=8011.00 071021 ... red lion LIONS! LIONS! LIONS! true or false: bert lahr's cowardly lion costume in the wizard of oz was made from real lion pelts...(1000) what film studio uses the roaring lion as their trademark?...(1000) how does nietzsche use the lion in "thus spoke zarathustra?" (1000) who is c.s. lewis' lion in the narnia series? (1000) lafcadio: the lion who shot back is a 1963 children's book by who? (1000) 071021 ... thorn the roaring lion studio is mgm i think, and c.s. lewis' lion is aslan. 071021 ... thorn the book is by shel silverstein 071021 ... thorn the cowardly lion costume is made from real lion pelts, and i think in thus spake zarathustra a lion shows up at the end and zarathustra decides it's a sign he should go back to the people. 071021 ... jane for the narnia series, are you referring to the film? the lion was voiced by liam neeson. 071021 ... red lion the panel, after much consideration rewards thorn with correct answers for the wizard of oz, lafcadio, mgm, and aslan...however, the answer for the lion in "thus spoke zarathustra" was used to establish independance...although it is at the point where he is ready to return to the people... so +200+4200=33,300.00 jane...+1000 for the dual possibility of the narnia lion =30,500.00 071022 ... red tree created in 1603 and known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up of its performers, this type of theatre, translated from the japanese can be interpreted to mean avant-garde... what is it? (2000) bonus1000: name the major theatre in operation from kyoto... 071022 ... thorn kabuki theater, and the theatre is the minamiza in kyoto. 071022 ... rt well done, thorn! +3000=36,300.00 071023 ... red bones "when all is said and done, killing my mother came easily." this is the opening line of a new book by the author of a hugely successful break-out novel and a memoir on the experience of rape. who is the author? (1000) name the new book (1000) name the best seller (1000) name the memoir (1000) 071023 ... tessa The Lovely Bones was Alice Sebold's big one, but I'm not sure what the others were called 071023 ... jane the almost moon the memoir is called lucky. 071023 ... red moon well done...tessa. welcome back to the game. you've been missed...+2000=4485.00 and jane...you're correct on both +2000=32,500.00 i recently heard a killer interview with her. she's very dry-witted but super smart and humble. she said her mother treated "almost moon" for the fiction it is and called it, "a good read." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ nirvana formed when kurt cobain and kris novelsic needed a new drummer and dave grohl came out from springfield, virginia to audition in a space no bigger than a nyc kitchen. they lived together in one house of a triplex near tacoma, washington. the place was a mess of cigarettes stubbed out in the carpet and a litter of corndog sticks. grohl slept his 6' frame on a 4' couch next to a broken window in forty degree weather. kurt cobain raised a certain kind of animal in a terrarium he made from old storm windows, which always tried to get out and made noise that roused grohl from his hung over sleep. what animal were they? 071023 ... whoops forgot to give it a point total...(3000) 071024 ... contestant numbah 2 Turtles? 071024 ... redtree excellent cn2...dude!+3000=11,011.00 071024 ... red tree his goal, he once said, was "the greatest possible austerity without loss of emotion." he is the painter with the strange solitude in his scenes of coastal new england and the odd corners of manhattan. even filmaker hitchcock put it to use in "psycho." his work can also bring to mind robert frost, for it possesses a sophisticated aesthetic camouflaged by the apparent simplicity and straightforwardness of his art. man of mysteries with art easy to recognize but hard to pin down. (second story sunlight,1960;room in new york,1932) who is he? (3000) 071024 ... z edward hopper? 071024 ... jane i didn't know that about hitchcock, & i went to see which painting he used in psycho (the bates' house was taken from house by the railroad). but in searching for this i found this website, an artist who picked up somewhere where escher left off. thought i might share it with you guys. http://www.sonnyradio.com/worldswithinworlds.html 071024 ... rtree got it z...+3000=19,200.00 jane +500(for the added interesting info and art link) =33,000.00 071024 ... redtree an unlikely musical pair has created an unexpected gem...guess the "he and she." (2000) perhaps it all started way back when he chose sandy denny to sing on "the battle of evermore." and she has been known to like 70's rock bands like bad company and foreigner. bonus1000; name their t-bone burnett produced record on rounder... 071024 ... jane robert plant/allison krauss the album is called 'raising sand' t-bone plays guitar on 10 of the 13 tracks. 071024 ... thorn robert plant & alison krauss the album is 'raising sand' 071024 ... thorn dammit jane, beat me by a minute. :] 071024 ... rtree jane sneakin'...+3000=36,000.00 poor thorn... 071024 ... redtreecrOwl&mythical others took a photo of sting in the desert, covered in mud to blend in with the scenery... also one of john lennon, naked, hugging a clothed yoko ono on the day he was murdered... who is the photographer? (500) when did she become interested in photography? (2000) bonus500: who was her lover? 071025 ... z annie leibowitz? 071025 ... thorn she became interested in photography when she took pictures while visiting family in the philippines. her lover was susan sontag. 071025 ... redtree got it z...+500=19,700.00 and well done, thorn+2500=38,800.00 071025 ... redtree one of south africa's best-known musicians was shot to death last week in an apparent car hijacking attempt. fans, fellow musicians like peter gabriel and sipho hotstix mabuse, along with heads of state from gambia and senegal paid their final respects at the funeral in johannesburg.... who was the slain reggae star? (1000) 071025 ... z lucky dube 071025 ... rt go z...+1000=20,700.00 071025 ... redtree a mother a daughter three possible dads 22 of abba's greatest hits name this broadway smash...(2000) 071025 ... thorn mamma mia 071026 ... redtree go thorn! +2000=40,800.00 071026 ... redtree "o generation of the thoroughly smug and thoroughly uncomfortable, i have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun, i have seen them with untidy families, i have seen their smiles full of teeth and heard ungainly laughter. and i am happier than you are and they were happier than i am; and the fish swim in the lake and do not even own clothing." who is the poet? (3000) 071026 ... zeke ezra pound. 071026 ... z i do not remember the name of the work. 071026 ... jane salutation? 071026 ... r t r e e go z! +3000=23,700.00 and jane...thanks for the poem identification... +600=36,600.00 071026 ... redtree georges melies is sometimes credited with the first horror film... what is it's name?(1000) what year was it done? (1000) 071027 ... thorn le manoir du diable (the devil's castle) 1896 071027 ... redtree thorn!+2000=42,800.00 071027 ... the headless horseman fill in the blanks...(the legend of sleepy hollow) (blanks worth300each) written by, ---------- ------ in 1820, the short story which appeared in his collection, "the sketchbook of geoffery crayon," is about a priggish schoolmaster named ------- ----- who competes with ---- ----- for the hand of ------ --- -------, daughter of a wealthy farmer. ...and then we al know what happens next... tell us about it...(1000) bonus1000...in 1999, "sleepy hollow" was a film directed by who? 071028 ... thorn washington irving ichabod crane brom bones katrina van tassel 071028 ... thorn ichabod leaves a party, is chased by the headless horseman, supposedly the ghost of a soldier who lost his head, and is freaked out and disappears, so katrina marries the other dude. and the movie is by tim burton starring johnny depp. 071028 ... redtree +4000 (all correct blanks and 300 for the johhny depp acknowledgement) =46,800.00 071028 ... red blood marks on the neck name this author...(3000) -born in ireland -married a girl that oscar wilde once dated -a spider was named after him and one of his characters -an award for superior achievement in horror writing exists in his name bonus 1000: what is his best known book? double bonus2000: who played the main character in francis ford coppola's 1992 film of the novel? 071028 ... thorn bram stoker, dracula, don't know the last one 071028 ... draculoides bramstokeri thorn...sailing way out ahead...50,800.00 071028 ... jonathon harker and so we still need the dracula in coppola's film...(2000) and how about mina?(500) lucy was jude law's wife...?(500) 071028 ... z gary old man. winona ryder. 071029 ... red blood drops go z...! +2500 =26,200.00 and sadie frost was lucy... 071029 ... bela lugosi who is the creator of the gore obsessed firefly family? (1000) where did he attend art school? (1000) he was a technician for what children's television show? (1000) 071029 ... thorn rob zombie 071029 ... red blood oozing go z...!+1000=27,200.00 071030 ... ..................... also...along with the two unanswered questions that increase in value overnight (now worth 2000)...name his two cult horror films and his former band that thurston moore and kurt cobain were fans of...(3000) 071030 ... thought i missed you thorn+1000=51,800.00 071030 ... thorn his movies are house of 1ooo corpses and the devil's rejects 071030 ... redtrees ghost is born thorn...ups her lead even more...+2000=53,800.00 many unanswered questions...jane?gja?cocoon?tessa? native persimmon?bird?z?mcdougall?tilt?misstree?flux? contestant numbah 2? sonya?bijou?unhinged?kaya? peyton?silentbob?norm?raze?ever dumbening? amy? bellyfire? fuffle? distorted tendancies? spoons? bethany? green t-shirt? luck is green? guitar freak? anna began? fido? auburn? db? Q? pilgrim? u24? no reason? janet? 071030 ... oh my go i forgot sabbie! 071030 ... what does oh my go mean? 071030 ... dr. judy you know, your forward progress...sometimes you forget things...especially as you get older. 071030 ... jane he attended pratt institute in new york. he worked at pee-wee's playhouse. & i believe the former band you're looking for is white zombie? 071030 ... rtree jane+5000=41,400.00 071030 what's it to you? who go blather from