Although we do have power here in part of Brooklyn, I hope you'll forgive me when I say that I just plain forgot about the quiz this week, and had even been online for a good hour, reading news and trying to find out when my friends in less-fortunate parts of town would have power, before I realized that gosh, it's Friday, isn't it?
So, today's special Blackout Edition of the Quiz -- what star of television and film did I see, looking as anxious as the rest of confused Gotham, on Thursday afternoon after the lights went out?
First correct answer posted to comments wins a bottle of warm diet Snapple.
Posted by BT at August 15, 2003 02:00 PMJerry Orbach.
Posted by: KF on August 15, 2003 02:26 PMYou can bet your ass it won't be Bob Hope.
Posted by: Scott on August 15, 2003 03:49 PMJeremy Piven
Posted by: Moo on August 15, 2003 04:24 PMVal Kilmer
Posted by: teenidol on August 15, 2003 04:49 PMYou fools didn't notice, but the Blacked-out 'bat didn't ban Googling this time. So off I trotted to the oracle and can now tell you it was Robin Williams or possibly Danny Devito.
Hit me with that Snapple, Smoochy!
Posted by: Scott on August 15, 2003 04:54 PMUma Thurman.
Posted by: KF on August 15, 2003 04:55 PMDoes it strike anyone else as strange that Rick Santorum hasn't come out condemning Gothamites yet?
Posted by: Scott on August 15, 2003 04:58 PMI believe Santorum has, however, condemned the "Goth" lifestyle, as it can lead to man-on-mascara relationships.
No correct answers yet -- I'll just point out that this is a celebrity who filmographically connects to both Devo and Bruce Willis.
Posted by: BT on August 15, 2003 06:00 PMCybill Shepard seems too obvious. But hey, I'm all for the obvious. I'll go for Cybill.
Posted by: KF on August 15, 2003 08:11 PMSorry, KF, I didn't see any Moonlighting stars. (I'd be curious to hear about the Shepard/Devo intersection, though).
Posted by: BT on August 15, 2003 10:01 PMAnd, Minoru -- Jeremy Piven gets a special prize for so-out-of-left-field-it-demands-an-explanation. Was "PCU" just rerun on Comedy Central or something?
Posted by: BT on August 15, 2003 10:04 PMDanny Aiello?
Posted by: Gavin on August 16, 2003 09:36 AMNot Aiello. More people my fellow blackoutee has worked with: Hugh Grant, Johnny Depp, and Helen Hunt.
Posted by: BT on August 16, 2003 10:49 AMI saw Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday, on the lower east side---that is no bs, he was driving an Arnold-sized SUV away from a presidential fitness event---but I'll guess you saw Sarah Jessica Parker.
Posted by: bootsy on August 16, 2003 10:52 AMding ding ding ding!
Bootsy nails it...SJP was out with her neighbors in the West Village, babe in arms, as I scurried crosstown...of course the Devo connection is the episode of Square Pegs where Mark and the boys played Muffy's bat mitvah. The tune, I think, was "That's Good."
Posted by: BT on August 16, 2003 11:29 AMSay, I've got one for you:
What American bestselling novel, made into a popular movie starring Frank Sinatra, contains substantial passages clearly plagiarized from Robert Graves's I, Claudius?
From Here to Eternity?
Posted by: BT on August 19, 2003 01:42 PMhttp://www.blackbook.org/1998/06/980621.html
Posted by: Scraps on August 19, 2003 03:13 PM