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1. One of the more whimsical wishes made in modern cinema came with a young lad at a carnival, a rebuff from his faraway object of affection and finally a coin or two fed to 'Zoltan' (a machine that promised to make every whim come to fruition). 12-year old Josh gave it a try and simply asked to be "Big" in 1988. Be careful what you ask for! Very soon he was a 30-year old body surrounding the persona of a 12-year old boy. This all complicated things sweetly and comically for Josh but his best friend, who was still just a kid in stature, stuck by him through thick and thin and all the oddness in between. What was Josh's best 'little' friend's name?
2. It is safe to say that one of the most significant 'dreams' to show up on any screen (in this case the TV screen) was the emergence of Bobby Ewing from the shower in the 1986 season of "Dallas". Seeing as how the character had been killed a season before resulting in the season following being all about the family and friends' recovery after his unexpected demise, one wasn't expecting to see him lathering up. Ever again. This element of shock applied equally to his wife Pam (played by Victoria Principal). Cloaked in total secrecy in terms of suspicious resurrections, the 'officially distributed' script had called for Mrs. Ewing to open that shower door and find what?
3. Sleep is, for most of us, a rather flimsy but somewhat reliable fortress against life's little complications; we go there to escape, regroup, refresh and prepare ourselves to start all over again the next day. As we all likely know, in the movies that wasn't exactly the case on Elm Street. In 1984's "A Nightmare on Elm Street" we met Freddy Krueger who made the Land of Nod anything but an island of sanctuary for a pack of unsuspecting teenagers ~ in fact, what might have looked like a gruesome nightmare, complete with razor-like fingers, a demonic leer, a stained striped shirt and a generally unfriendly disposition could turn one into 'road kill' in no time flat. Krueger had, at one time some 15 years prior to the first film, been an actual human (suffice it to say not a very nice one, of course) and had been burned to death by a gang of outraged neighbors who had gotten, naturally, quite fed up with his nefarious doings. For some odd reason his ashes were not left to blow away or just become Elm Street compost. No, his remains were taken somewhere and stored in something. Where and what?
4. Joanne Woodward and Sylvia Sidney made a lovely little film in 1973 called "Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams". Both classy actresses, the film let them shine together and told the story of a neurotic New York housewife who goes to pieces upon the death of her Mother. As it goes, her relationship ultimately builds with her husband when she accompanies him on a trip to WWII battlefields (a trip she clearly would not have made were her Mother still alive). It was all about the shifting importance(s) of affection and need. Joanne Woodward is an icon still but Miss Sidney never quite achieved that label, despite a fine career that lasted seven decades. She was generally considered fragile early on (she wasn't) and then, later in life, dubbed wise, frisky and even cantankerous (closer to the truth in terms of the real-life woman). In all those years in film Sylvia Sidney was only nominated for an Oscar once, strangely enough. For which of these films?
5. One would just have to surmise that Al Bundy (of TV's "Married With Children..." [1987-1997]) had run out of dreams a long time ago but one would have to hope, at least, that he still held onto some wishes. Think about poor Al and his life: he earns app. $30 a day selling shoes, he hates women who pester him at his job, he hates his wife - but, gent that he is, would never cheat on her - he hates his wife's family and, while he's at it, he hates the French, too. I think he just threw that last one in for effect. He likes some things, though, including beer, putting his right hand in his pants, more beer, and sports on television. Mr. Bundy is the hilarious version of "Father Doesn't Know Best" and his ultimate charm is that he's not remotely shy about it. When Al wants to get out of his less-than-typical house he might, on some level, wish he could just be at work. Do you remember where Al Bundy peddled footwear?
6. A quiz such as this would not be complete without including "Dreamgirls", the dazzling musical which opened on Broadway in December 1981. Clearly the show was inspired by the career of "The Supremes" (three naive black girls make good and find themselves being pushed deeper and deeper into the grinder of the music industry) but the director and the actors put their very own timeless spin to the tale of loyalty, then betrayal, then back to redemption - and the tunes were nothing short of fantastic and appealed to ages across the spectrum. In all hit Broadway musicals there is the unforgettable 'showstopper' ~ that one song that somehow illuminates, defines and burns the show into the memory. "Dreamgirls" had a breathtaking one of those. All of the score was special but what song emerged as the definite showstopper out of these four, all of which were numbers from the production? Note: Lest this be considered a question based on opinion let's say, too, that it was the song done on the Tony Awards in 1982 when "Dreamgirls" was named Best Musical. Only one song was offered that night.
7. A person would have to be heartless not to love a kid like Trevor McKinney! Not yet a teenager (and with a challenging past, to put it mildly) he had a genuinely kind sensibility that, in this case literally, can stretch for many a mile and touch many a life. As played by Haley Joel Osment, Trevor was given an assignment by his Social Studies teacher and it was somewhat different than his class was used to. The task? Come up with an idea that you could implement that could change the world. The film was 2000's "Pay It Forward" and Trevor's wish was basically spelled out in the title. Instead of paying things 'back' pay forward, this meaning to do three kindnesses to three people with the only expectation being that they each do the same for three others. Naturally, if the notion worked the numbers of people doing sensible things to each other would grow to a large, perhaps countless, population. Young McKinney started at home with his mother (a recovering alcoholic) and his teacher (a physically and emotionally scarred man). The "movement" grew, landing on the likes of drug addicts, potential suicides, convicts, even to Trevor's own grandmother who was a wretched and brittle homeless drunk. While I'm addressing her - who played that wayward Grandma in "Pay It Forward"?
8. Let us imagine that we are aloft and soaring nicely on a magic rug with the luscious landscape of Arabia sprawling just beneath us. Naturally, we expect to say the hopeful "Open sesame" at which time a benevolent genie will be made available and, without further ado, all of our wishes will be granted. OK, put the brakes on that whimsical carpet there, Sinbad! It's really September of 1965, you're actually an astronaut named Anthony Nelson and your space capsule has fallen onto a most remote and entirely mysterious island. While looking around you discover an ornate bottle, open it, and out pops a beautiful blonde surrounded by pastel colored smoke. While you may not have been 'dreaming of Jeannie' it seems she found you anyway. Anybody who watched TV's "I Dream of Jeannie" in hopes of learning Persian lore was barking up the wrong palm tree, that's for sure. All we really came to know (and love) is that Jeannie was taken home by Major Nelson and for five years she brought magic, both undesired and usually completely impractical, to life in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Never mind that a very Anglo-Saxon looking blonde probably wasn't Persian or born in 64 BC and certainly there was something a little peculiar about a vital young woman constantly referring to her beloved as 'Master' - but we're talking 60's TV here, after all. The show seemed to just disappear but has been a standard, showing repeats for decades. Too bad it never got to do that grand finale 'final episode' wrap-up. To be honest, the series' final chapter was mostly nondescript! Which of these was the final episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" on May 26, 1970? I'll give a hint since this one is a toughie: the program in question had something to do with cash, which should whittle down the choices.
9. Unapologetically I shall confess to being one of Jessica Lange's most fervant fans. I can't help it - I idolize the woman. When the movie is pretty bad I still like her in it. When the movie is exceptional she leaves me entirely speechless. That said (and since wishes and dreams are why we're here), Miss Lange had me hypnotized when she played country singing legend Patsy Cline in 1985's "Sweet Dreams". I was, without a doubt, in seventh heaven indulging in two of my biases at once since I'm a lifelong member of the late Miss Cline's cheering section, too. Lange, in a role that could have been laughable if done wrong, excelled and the film was quite good (and earned Jessica an Oscar nomination) and the music was choice (all original recordings by Patsy that Lange flawlessly lip-synced). It was only 22 years prior to the movie that Patsy Cline was tragically killed in a plane wreck; she was but 30 years old at the time. Aside from regrettably being robbed of the opportunity to share her voice with the world she also left behind a small family - her second husband Charles Dick (her first husband was a businessman named Gerald Cline, whose last name she kept for the stage) and two small children. My question this time is: what were the names of Patsy Cline's children?
10. For a quiz with a nice little breezy theme, in reviewing it these questions seem a little more difficult than intended. Let's make this last one a little more to the point (no reason to wrack the gray cells to distraction or fiddle with search engines). The lilting little ditty "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" was first heard in a delightful 1950 film, a movie rich in both wishes and dreams. And it certainly had an ending that was happy beyond measure. Your veins would have to run with ink and not human blood if it didn't make you feel better having watched it then or now. Ilene Woods sang it first (although it was only her voice and never her real face that serenaded us). What classic piece of unforgettable cinema gave us the tune in question?
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