200420 April 20, 2020

Last Week's Name That Tune Group

Songs for Social Distancing

Jeffrey Fussell, LHS '66, "More good choices, but I couldn’t place all of them. Number 1 was familiar, but the artist escaped me. Number 5 uses a very familiar chord progression in the intro that’s used on many songs. Hope you and your readers are all doing well. Here’s what I came up with:

“Stay” - ?

“Worried Man” – Kingston Trio

“Yesterday” – Beatles

“Turn Around (Look at Me)” – Vogues

Bb  Dm/A  G  F

Linda Collinsworth Provost, LHS  '66, got three of the five correct, and beat out Jeffrey on song #5 which was "The End of the World" by Skeeter Davis.

Tom Davidson, LHS '69, 

Name the Artists

Tommy Towery

LHS '64

        This week we are going to offer a different challenge for you music lovers, one which I know Linda Collinsworth Provost will hate. Instead of offering several different songs to identify, you can try your skill in identifying the different artists all singing the same song. Linda wrote several weeks ago she knew the songs but had trouble with identifying who was singing the featured songs. Knowing the name of this song will not help - I'll even give it to you up front. It is "Unchained Melody" from the movie "Unchained." It was such a hit it has been recorded by many great singers. So, I offer you a challenge to identify the artists in my "Unchained Melody Medley."

Last Week's Movie of the Week Submitted by Don Wynn

Scene: A housekeeper calls a man at his office to tell him “a mad dog is in the street and coming this way.”  The man leaves work quickly and heads home. Shortly, he arrives at home and the housekeeper points out the dog who is still down the street.  The dog is jumping around and is clearly ‘mad.’

The man takes a rifle out of the car, takes careful aim and kills the dog with a single shot of 75 yards or more.

His two kids who witnessed the shot were stunned because they had never seen their Dad hold a gun, much less make such a difficult shot.

Questions:

• 1. What is the name of the movie?

  2. What actor played the lead role in the movie?

  3. What actor played the mystery man behind the door?

  4. Who wrote the book this movie was based upon”

  5. Where were you when you saw this movie?

  6. Who were you with when you saw it?

Spencer Thompson

LHS '64

To Kill a Mockingbird 

Lead Gregory Peck 

Actor behind the door Robert Duvall

Book written by Harper Lee

Saw it by myself 

Lyric Theater 

John Drummond, LHS '65, answered all the questions and added: "Harper Lee wrote the book, which was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.  Maycomb was a fictional version of her own home town of Monroeville, Alabama.  The character of Dill was based on her childhood close friend and next-door neighbor Truman Capote.  Though the book and movie were both sensations, Lee was averse to any invasions of her privacy by the media, and refused all requests for interviews after 1964.  Many fans wondered why she never produced another novel. However, a sequel to TKAM, "Go Set a Watchman",  was posthumously published in 2015.

    I have no clue where I saw the film, but almost certainly it was at either The Lyric or The Grand. No recall with whom I saw it, but in 1962 it was probably not with a date.

This Week's Movie Submitted by John Drummond

    Scene: The movie opens with a drunk being arrested and sentenced to two years in a Florida chain gang.  He does not question his physical incarceration, and initially has no thought of escape. But his spirit is not, imprisoned like those of his fellow inmates,. This free thinking is, from the outset, noticed by the institution, its functionaries (the guards), and especially its leaders. His struggle for supremacy peaks when he leads a work crew in a seemingly impossible but successful effort to complete a road-paving job in less than one day. 

1. What is the title of the movie?

2. Who played the movie's title character?

3. What crime was committed that sent him to prison?   

4. What is the most famous film quotation delivered in the film and who spoke it (name or role)?

5. What did the main character claim he could do which set off a betting frenzy?

From Our Mailbox 

Subject:    Psyco

Barb Biggs Knott

LHS  ‘66

I’ll never forget the first time I saw that movie! My father (unbelievable a parent would take a young child to see that movie) took me to see it. I definitely wasn’t likely to forget the incident!

Subject:    Stuff

Mary Burns Cattadoris

LHS '65

Tommy I really enjoyed last week's issue of "The Traveller." Thank you for allowing me into your private memories. Now that I've reached the twilight of my life you have inspired me to "clean house." After all, why would I want to leave all of my sacred "things" for my  children to get rid of? It probably won't be too hard to get rid of most things but my "Silver Sabre" will remain. 

Subject:    To Kill a Mockingbird

Max Kull

LHS '67

    Robert Duvall's appearance as Boo Radley was his first movie role.  He was recommended for the part by Lillian Foote, wife of "Mockingbird" screenwriter Horton Foote who won the Oscar for "best adapted screenplay".  Frank Overton who played Sheriff Heck Tate could also thank the Footes for his part.  In 1953, he played the Sheriff in the original TV production of Horton Foote's 'Trip to Bountiful' (starring Lillian Gish).  Foote found him very believable which made him a natural fit for the part in "Mockingbird".

    I had the great pleasure of meeting Horton Foote in New York back in 2007.  My daughter was in his play, 'Divinding the Estate', so we got to chat a bit in the lobby after the show.

My other "Mockingbird" story...My daughter got to play the dubious rape victim, Mayella Ewell, at Hartford Stage in 2009.  Matthew Modine played Atticus Finch.