redtree_cultural'literacy_game_final_month redtree a living legend at 95, this artist is the last of the great postwar avant-garde figures. born in paris in 1911, and residing in new york since 1938, she is a first-generation feminist artist-intentionally or not. her art is at once figurative and abstract and resonates with nearly mythological expression of the primitive symbolice psychic experience. working in materials ranging from marble and bronze to rubber and fabric, she explores the archetypes and paradoxes of childhood, memory, and sexuality...who is she? (3000) this fall, her career, which is highlighted by her iconic "destruction of father," and "i do, i undo, i redo" will be celebrated at what museum in london? (2000) 071103 ... thorn louise bourgeois, the tate modern 071103 ... redtree thorn continues to shoot ahead...+5000=58,800.00 071104 ... redtree from 1969 to 1982, this german filmmaker directed over 40 productions, most written, adapted from the theatre, and books by himself. he was also art director, editor, cinematographer, and was considered the premier representative of new german cinema... he was also notorious for his intense discipline, phenomenal creative energy, and tortured relationships with the people he worked with. he was dead at 37 from an overdose of cocaine and sleeping pills. who was he? (3000) 071104 ... redtree his films detail the desperate yearning for love and freedom and the many ways in which society and the individual thwarts it. a prodigiously inventive artist, this filmmaker distilled the best elements of his various best-loved sources...theatre...hollywood melodrama, and gay sensibility... how many of his films can you name? (each one worth 500) 071104 ... zeke fassbinder. martha lola gods of the plague fear of fear the american soldier the merchant stationmaster's wife love is colder than death world on a wire beware of a holy whore satan's brew marriage of maria braun there are more, but i can't remember them all. 071105 ... jane chinese roulette querelle effi briest in a year of 13 moonsthe bitter tears of petra von kant jail bait ali whity the merchant of four seasons 071105 ... redtree z scores huge...+8500=35,700.00 and jane...+4500=45,900.00 it's going to be a wild and crazy ride to the finish line... 071105 ... redtree "i have feelings of depression," charlie brown said. "what can i do about it?" "snap out of it." lucy said. "schulz and peanuts" is a new biography of the comic strip creator charles schulz. who is it written by? (1000) what was schulz's nickname? (1000) where does the name come from? (1000) who is the character lucy modeled after? (1000) how is schulz's divorce portrayed in the comic strip? (3000) 071105 ... bonus1000 how do most of snoopy's novels start? 071106 ... thorn it was a dark and stormy night? 071106 ... jane "schulz and peanuts" is written by david michaelis. shulz's nickname was "sparky" after spark plug the horse from barney google. lucy was based on his first wife, joyce. i think lucy was less dominating after the divorce. 071106 ... redtree thorn...+1000=59,800.00 jane...+4000=49,900.00 in the comic strip, the divorce is portrayed when charlie brown kicks lucy off the baseball team... 071106 ... redtree jason schwartzman, actor and former drummer for phantom planet has a solo project now... what is it called? (1000) on the cover of the record is an image from one of the films he was recently in...which one? (1000) 071106 ... jane coconut records 071106 ... jane stab in the dark for the cover is the darjeeling limited??? 071106 ... rtree go jane! +2000=51,900.00 the image is the bedroom in the hotel de chevaliers where the short was filmed with natalie portman. 071106 ... red tree in an effort to stimulate discussions regarding ways to encourage more diverse representations of muslims in popular culture, which sitcom pilot was shown at the brookings institute, a non-profit policy studies think tank in washington, d.c. ? (2000) 071106 ... jane aliens in america? 071106 ... jane i was going to say (when we were still doing the "peanuts" quesition) that charles & i share a birthday of november 26th. 071106 ... redtree well done, jane...+2000=53,900.00 ****************************************************** a fictional autobiography of zelda fitzgerald, wife of f. scott fitzgerald, that tells a tale of wild parties in the roaring twenties, her relationship with her husband, and her decades of struggle with mental illness has won france's highest literary award, the prix goncourt. what is the title of the book? (2000) who is the author? (2000) 071107 ... z alabama song. giles leroy. 071107 ... get a life are you despirate or somthing ? admit it, admit it, confused then ? you want the legs and the beauty, may i ask you what beauty is ? is it a surface thing ? a stick figure that doesn't eat properly ? what ever turns you on. 071107 ... redtree well done z...+4000=39,700.00 071107 ... redtree two voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, included a golden record covered with uranium that contained sounds and images to portray the diversity and life of culture on earth. although it will take at least 40,000 years to reach another star, it is intended to be a time capsule for future humans to discover more than a serious attempt to communicate with aliens. who chaired the NASA committee that was responsible for its contents? (1000) what is the name of his emmy and peabody award winning PBS series that is still considered the most watched television series in history? (1000) along with the recorded sounds of the wind, surf, thunder, bird songs, animal noises, and 55 different languages, there is 90 minutes of music... how many selections can you name? (each worth 500) 071108 ... z carl sagan cosmos? louis armstrong melancholy blues chuck berry johnny b good beethoven string quartet (13?) and his fifth symphony will johnson dark is the night? js bach brandenburg concerto, partita 3, well tempered clavier prelude in c (gould - i think) wolfgang mozart the magic flute igor stravinsky the rite of spring 071108 ... redtree nice work...z +6000=45,700.00 ******************************************* name the photographer primarily known for his early use of multiple cameras to capture motion... (3000) bonus2000: perhaps his most famous work was proving all four legs of a horse are in the air while it is galloping. what was the name of the racehorse he photographed? 071109 ... z egerton? ido not know the name of the horse. 071109 ... z edgerton? 071109 ... jane occident? 071109 ... ha ha what? its Everton you ding dong white suit pimple back. 071109 ... redtree eadweard muybridge is the correct answer. good try z...+600= 46,300.00 but jane! you're right with the racehorse...+2000=55,900.00 ********************************************* 071109 ... 12 tree mack the knife and polly peachum... identify these characters with what play and movie. (4000) 071109 ... jane the threepenny opera mack the knife? 071109 ... rtree go jane...! +4000=59,900.00 and that slides and inches you back into first place... ***************************************************** fill in the letters to complete the sentence...(4000) c-l--r-p-y, p-i----g, and -o-t-- are considered the three perfections in chinese art. 071109 ... thorn calligraphy painting and poetry. 071109 ... redtree THORN! seesawin'+4000=63,800.00 071109 ... mj tree who was the first child to ride sesame street's snuffleupagus? (3000) bonus2000: he went on to become a well known rapper and ghost writer under what name? 071109 ... jane percy carey mf grimm 071109 ... rtree and now jane swings back to first place...+5000=64,900.00 071110 ... redtree this author's writings had a profound effect on the subsequent works and lives of the beat generation. a particular book of his which influenced the writing of william burroughs' "junkie" is a sketched autobiography describing life on the road as an honorable outlaw that is also a statement of belief on the futility of prisons and the criminal justice system. who is the author? (3000) what is the name of the book? (2000) 071110 ... jane jack black (not the one from tenacious d) "outlaw" 071110 ... rtree author correct, but the book is called, "you can't win"+3000+600(attempt)=68,500.00 071110 ... redtree mel brooks, whose last broadway hit was "the producers" is at it again, turning one of his films into a musical. which one? (3000) what character does megan mullally play? (1000) she is from what former tv show? (1000) 071110 ... jane young frankenstein she plays the doctor's fiancee she was from will & grace 071110 ... rtree well done jane...+5000=73,500.00 071111 ... redtree named the best alternative comedy act at the 2005 u.s comedy arts festival and best newcomer at the melbourne comedy festival, this duo from new zealand now have an american sitcom on hbo television... who are they? (3000) 071111 ... jane is it the flight of the conchords guys? jermaine clement & brett mckenzie 071111 ... rtree +3000 and panel says +500 for the names of the hilarious kiwis =77,000.00...jane on fire! 071111 ... redtree the original manuscript of f. scott fitzgerald's "the great gatsby" is stored in the basement of what ivy league university? (5000) 071112 ... sorry that should read (library) basement... 071112 ... cocoon yale? 071112 ... thorn princeton? 071112 ... redtree cocoon +1000 for the good try=1,026.00 and thorn...you got it...+5000=68,800.00 (a side note to another item stored along with the manuscript...the only recording of his voice reading a poem...ahh...who is the poet? panel says to make it a bonus question...(6000) 071112 ... jane keats "ode to the nightengale" 071112 ... redtree well done, jane +6000 (also+1200 for the poem's title) =84,200.00 sorry cocoon...i screwed up your total...should be 1,126.00 071112 ... redtree in 1912, a ballet with an intensely rhythmic score and a primitive scenario debuted in paris. the complex music and violent, sexually infused dance steps drew catcalls and whistles from the shocked crowd. the arguements between supporters and proponents ensued. soon the unrest degenerated into a riot. police restored limited order by intermission but chaos reigned for the remainder of the performance. reportedly, the composer fled crying... what is the ballet? (2000) who was the russian composer? (2000) who was the choreographer? (2000) in 1940, disney used the music in what animated film? (2000) 071113 ... jane stravinsky's rite of spring chor: nijinsky the music was used in fantasia (i believe it was the dinosaur part) 071113 ... jane i believe it was performed in 1913 at the champs elysee (though i'm probably butchering the spelling)... 071113 ... Q what is the time? 071113 ... A whatever you want it to be, the earth is round like a clock isn't it you ding dong business stress out i'm loosing my hair man. 071113 ... rtree JANE_JANE tearing up the game! +8000=92,200.00 i called thorn today, i was like, "thorn, are you going to let jane win?!" 071113 ... ? what is her handicap ? 071113 ... i know. exactly. 071113 ... thorn no! but my internet was broken for the past few days. i couldn't help it! :] 071113 ... redtree this haunting and provocative photographer's previous works, "wonder" and "override" are based on a loose re-interpretation of lewis carroll's, "alice in wonderland." she treats her medium as a kind of stage set onto which she projects her child-centered concerns and enigmatic dramatic action. who is she? (5000) 071114 ... wax winged titmouse Anna Gaskell 071114 ... redtree correct...+5000, but i'm not sure who to give the points to...(wax winged titmouse[nice name, actually] is surely someone else? are you part of the contestant numbah 2 co-op?) 071114 ... redtree "to be a good writer you must encompass all kinds of experience. don't ever narrow down the horizons of what you want to write about. learn more all the time." ~norman mailer as you've heard, norman mailer recently passed away at the age of 84. he was a veteran and an anti-war protester, a pot smoker and a drinker, and a notorious literary badboy, yet perhaps one of the most eloquent speakers of his generation. one of those rare, energetically intelligent writers whose visionary and comic non fiction was arguably better than his fiction. nevertheless this impish question deals with an event that happened just before the two-fisted intellectual appeared on stage(not sure where) to speak about his book, "the armies of the night," which subsequently made it difficult for him to ever be asked to speak on stage again... what happened? (5000) 071114 ... jane i think i heard something about him drinking on stage & ranting about the president, and eventually telling someone to fuck off? 071115 ... rtree you're definately on the right track jane, and so the panel awards you +3500, but what actually kept him from being invited at some subsequent events was the fact he was seen pissing backstage (and not in a urinal) right before he gave the speech... 95,700.00 071115 ... redtree producers ed zwick and marshall herskovitz have evoked the anxieties of practically every stage of life: in "my so called life," adolescence; "thirtysomething," marriage and childbearing; "once and again," 40s-50's divorce...now they are venturing into web tv... what is the name of their webisodial (8 minute episodes thursday and sunday) show on myspacetv? (5000) 071115 ... thorn quarterlife 071115 ... redtree go thorn...+5000=73,800.00 ************************************ brian depalma has a new film opening today that as usual, has stirred up some controversey... it has to do with what he shows at the end credits... name the film. (3000) what is it about? (3000) and what's this about the end credits? (3000) 071116 ... jane redacted it's a documentary-style film about the war in iraq. 071116 ... jane at the end he showed pictures of real soldiers in iraq. the faces were obscured (against de palma's will) 071116 ... jane specifically pictures of soldiers and their injuries 071116 ... rtree excellent work as usual jane_jane. i love you! however, the panel has nudged me, as they usually do, and suggested two small discrepancies...i haven't seen the film yet, but i heard an interview with depalma on fresh air and he said during the end credits there were photos of dead iraqis (citizens and soldiers, that he had lifted, with permission) from the internet. also...the film itself is concerned with a specific instance of the war in iraq, i.e. (spookily reminiscent of deplama's vietnam war film, "casualties of war") the incident when a 14 year-old iraqi girl was raped by american soldiers and then murdered along with her family... and so, +7000=102,700.00 CONGRATULATIONS JANE! first to break...100k! kiss on both cheeks darling! 071116 ... jane kisses back, i am hoping i get to see this wonderful gift you are working on. 071116 ... redtree thurston moore put out his first solo recording since 1995... name the record. (3000) what band is he from? (3000) 071117 ... thorn trees outside the academy he's from sonic youth 071117 ... thorn "It features the track "Thurston @ 13" which is "some weird cassette tape that Thurston found at his mom's of him at 13 years old in the early '70s making some kind of sound-theatre"." from wikipedia 071117 ... red tree gogogogogogo...thorn! +6000 and +1200 for the added info...thanks. =81,000.00 071117 ... red tree picture this comic...che guevara wearing a bart simpson t-shirt...what magazine would you find it in? (8000) 071117 ... thorn the new yorker also the cartoonist is matthew diffee 071117 ... redtree nice work thorn...+8000 and +1600(for identifying the cartoonist) =90,600.00 diffee has volume 2 of his "rejection collections" (cartoons from 38 cartoonists which were not allowed to be published by the new yorker) one of my favorites is an elephant with indigestion standing in its cage with a sign that reads, "do not feed the animals chile." 071117 ... redtree name the chinese expatriate, born in 1955, who has spent two decades exploring words, langauge, and the way they relate to human perceptions of our surroundings. (4000) his art was criticized by government officials for being elitist and incomprehensible. what is his art called? (4000) 071118 ... sorry that should read language 071118 ... thorn is it xu bing? 071118 ... redtree it is! go thorn...+4000=96,400.00 clue for the remainder: ------ ---- calligraphy 071118 ... thorn square word calligraphy? 071118 ... redtree got it...100,400.00 071118 ... whoops panel says addtion was wrong...sorry... +8000=98,600.00 071118 ... and spelling "addition" 071118 ... redtree there are 64 cue cards in the clip for bob dylan's song, "subterranean homesick blues." what is on the first one? (5000) 071119 ... zeke basement? 071119 ... margaux in what clip? 071119 ... rtree excellent z...+5000=51,300.00 hello...margaux...good question. i suppose "clip" is incorrect. perhaps, i should have said, "music video." my apologies for the misunderstanding...say hello to jane for me... 071119 ... margaux jane_says hi back 071119 ... redtree it takes a half-dozen actors to play bob dylan in todd haynes' new movie, "i'm not there," the story of an artist whose continual reinvention of himself also transformed the world around him... list the six actors who play him...(each one worth1500) 071120 ... jane cate blanchett christian bale heath ledger richard gere marcus carl franklin ben wishaw 071120 ... rtree nailed it jane_jane! +9000=111,700.00 comfy lead? thorn says... __? 071120 ... thorn says damn. 071120 ... r e d t r e e name the city where robert de niro's father's paintings were taken to from a new york gallery, supossedly to settle a debt. (3000) de niro sr. was what type of painter? (3000) name two of his friends...(clue: one was an expressionist painter. the other an author...) each worth: [2000] ...say "the other an author" 5x really fast..." 071121 ... thorn rome, abstract expressionist 071121 ... thorn his friends included henry miller and anais nin, and robert duncan was his lover. i don't know which ones you want. 071121 ... thorn also tennessee williams, and willem de kooning 071121 ... jane the other an author 5x really fast ;) 071121 ... r e d t r e e wow thorn***...thanks for the detailed answer. i learned some new things from it. +8000 & bonus 1000 for the gravy...(=107,600.00, hot on jane's trail, you are...) no wonder bobby de niro is so awesome... 071121 ... r e d t r e e in love i just heard today that the new film based on the best - selling book, "the kite runner," is stirring up quite a stir with the afghans... "we just thought it was about fyling kites," the afghan actor said. nobody told him he had to drop his pants for a male rape scene. whoa...pull the plug.... who wrote the book? (9000) 071121 ... whoops that should read "flying" ...fucking wine... 071121 ... TheJunketeer Kite Runner was written by Khaled Hosseini in 2005. His second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns was recently (May 2007) published and has received almost as much recognition and prompted many who had not previously done so, to read Kite Runner. 071121 ... TheJunketeer Correction: it was written in 2004, but it was deemed one of the top ten bestselling novels of 2005. =) 071121 ... thorn it was actually published in 2003, not 2004. also, the kid actors and their families are being taken out of afghanistan because of safety concerns. 071121 ... r e d t r e e hello to TheJunketeer...welcome to the game...you are correct about the author...+9000&another 1000 for the additional info=10,000.00 and thorn...i heard about the young afghan actors are being hassled for their involvement in the film...thanks for mentioning that...+1000=108,600.00 071122 ... thankful man rclg ...THANKSGIVING DAY...s u r p r i s e... these answers exist within the archived vaults of red_blather history...enjoy digging up these treasures... 1. in his blathe, routine, what three things does norm do at least once a day? (2000) 2. in her blathe, parts, what does bijou expect someone to love? (2000) 3. in her blathe, grizzly_discovery, what does mon tell us that the little cub is doing to the windfall pears? (2000) 4. in karasu's beautiful pictures_of_the_floating_world, how many days were there without rain? (2000) 5. in kerry's blathe roof, what do all the homeless guys look like? (2000) 071122 ... it is interesting that mon's post didn't link up...makes it a bit harder to answer...now worth (3000) 071122 ... thorn 1. "fuck, smoke pot, and daydream." 2. "all the parts of me, my scars and my flesh and muscles, bones and bumps." 3. "vacuuming up pears" 4. 126 days 5. "like little mountains of wool and flannel" mon's didn't link because it's actually grizzly_discovering 071122 ... red-feathered turkey thorn scores big and moves back into first place!+11,000=119,600.00 happy thanksgiving! 071122 ... red tree name the american production company known for its seasonal television specials using "animagic" a stop animation process...(5000) 071124 ... TheJunketeer for jane first off, this is on behalf of jane who can't get to a computer right now, so any points go to her. I'm just a messenger today. ;) The company is Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc., (originally called Videocraft International, Ltd.) founded by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass in the early-1960s. they're perhaps mst famous for their stop motion animation production of Rudolph (the red-nosed reindeer!) Though most of their work was using "animagic", they did do a traditional cel-style animated film in 1961 called Tales of the Wizard of Oz. Hope everyone had a good tukey day! 071124 ... TheJunketeer for jane (those were just the first of many notable films. the company produced over 60 feature films, tv spcials and animated series; everything from a special on the Jackson Five to animated versions of the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings.) 071124 ... bare tree +5000 and also +1000 for the added info about rankin/bass...=117,700.00 just curious...how do you know jane? 071124 ... *** i just got home from seeing the film, "my kid could paint that," a documentary about a 4 year-old girl (now 6) whose stunningly beautiful abstract art sells for $25,000 per painting...however, the film presents the possibility that her dad "helps" her. a_film_you_should_see and determine for yourself. what's the girl's name? (5000) bonus (4000) what's her little brother's name? (it was so cool how she said that he actually did one of the paintings she got credit for.) 071124 ... thorn marla olmstead & zane personally i think that is bullshit, but whatever. 071124 ... bare tree thorn re-establishing a cozy first place lead...+9000=128,600.00 it seemed to me that the whole issue was that people were concerned there was never any film footage of marla actually doing a painting by herself from start to finish...so supposedly they made a dvd of her doing "ocean." however, even then you have to trust that the editing process wasn't tweaked. when the documentarian attempts to film her doing one all by herself, marla goes, "dad, are you going to help me? tell me what to do..." 071125 ... *** in the back pages of vanity fair magazine each month readers find a questionnaire posed to famous subjects about their lives, thoughts, values, and experience... what person is it named after? (5000) bonus5000/ his greatest work began in 1909, spanning seven volumes, 3200 pages, more than 2000 literary characters, and is called by some as the greatest fiction ever...what is it titled? 071125 ... TheJunketeer It's called the Proust questionaire, after Macel Proust. The idea came from an activity that Proust himself underwent: filling out questionaires about his life thus far at ages 13 and 20. Though Proust was not unique in his answering the questionaire (it was a fairly common parlour game), it was rather his answers, their analysis and later fame that linked him to them. Hs great work is titled In Search of Lost time. Proust died before its completion and the work was published and edited by his brother, Robert. **jane is my housemate. ;) 071125 ... TheJunketeer and it was W. Somerset Maugham, British author and playwright, that called Proust grand work "greatest fiction to date" ;) 071125 ... ... are these points for you or jane? 071125 ... TheJunketeer please give them to jane. From now on though, I'll be playing for me. ;) 071125 ... bare tree (jane)+10,000=127,700.00 071125 ... *** actually, the panel after consideration, decides to award +2000 for the added proustian info... TheJunketeer=12,000.00 071125 ... bare tree created in minneapolis in 1995 by highschooler, ryan schreiber, this online music review site has become one of the world's best gauges for rating indie music. what is it called? (5000) bonus (6000) the name comes from a tattoo worn by a character in a 1983 film...name the character and film... 071125 ... thorn pitchfork media scarface pitchfork also has music festivals in the summer and stuff, also many people think pitchfork pretty much embodies indie pretentiousness. 071125 ... TheJunketeer Scarface... AKA Antonio "Tony" Montana AKA Al Pacino 071125 ... bare tree go thorn! +11,000=139,600.00 and TheJunketeer for identifying scarface ... +2200=14,200.00 071125 ... panel says also 20% for thorn's pitchfork extra...141,800.00 071125 ... Q Just so you all know, the "Q" who blathed under this term on 071113 is an impostor, as I presume the "A," who blathed immediately after said "Q," also is. This is by the Q who has been here since '01. 071125 ... jane {november_26} {happy birthday to me} 071126 what's it to you? who go blather from