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Prize Giveaway

Simply e-mail the answers to the following questions under the subject heading "Wider Screenings Quiz" along with a mention of your favourite film, and a brief description of why it is your favourite, to: cettlr@yahoo.com.au

Please include the name and address where the prize should be sent out to in the event of a win. The winning entries will be selected both for providing the correct answers and for the account of a favourite film. Hurry: only four copies left to be won.

Winners will be notified by email.

Prize for each winning entry is a copy of the first issue of No Limits Magazine, on sale in newsagents Australia wide over Christmas and beginning in 2009 as a free e-zine worldwide. read sample

NOTE: The Wider Screenings Quiz is ongoing. Individuals may enter as often as they like, but if they have already won a prize are ineligible to receive the same prize twice: once the questions and prize change, anyone is again free to enter and win with the same provision.

THE QUESTIONS

1) Video Question (contained in the embedded YouTube preview): What is the one simple question Victor bases his life on? (playing at cinemas now - read review)

2) The French Connection, starring Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, was a huge hit.  Hackman went on to the official sequel.  Scheider, however, starred for the original film’s producer in a lesser known cop-movie spinoff – also in New York City and with a reportedly spectacular car chase.  Name the “unofficial” sequel to The French Connection.

3) A bit of Hollywood gossip: this actress was attending a Washington DC inaugural celebration for Bill Clinton in 1992.  At her hotel, she asked if the room reserved for her was the biggest.  She was told that it wasn’t but that the slightly larger suite was occupied by the parents of now First Lady elect Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Apparently the actress said she didn’t care and demanded that they be removed or the actress would go to another hotel.  She had to have the biggest room! Name the actress. (CLUE: name contained in this No Limits column)

4) When Joel Schumacher took over the Batman franchise, he wanted the Bat-costume to have a more anatomically-correct look and so insisted on what slight, but somewhat controversial, addition to the original costume?

5) This actor was picked for a role in this film partially because his father was in prison, serving a double-life sentence for the murder of a federal judge and had been apparently rumoured to have been one of the three people briefly arrested on the grassy knoll in Dallas now so infamously linked to the Kennedy assassination.  The director insisted a genetic connection existed in the actor’s eyes.  Name the actor.

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Previous Winners: Melissa Barker (SA); Debbie Thompson (NSW); Rebecca Carney (VIC); Vivienne Benson (NSW); Sally McInnes (QLD); Prue West (VIC); Josanne Stephens (WA);

Previous Winners' Favourite Films:

Melissa Barker: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - "I like it because Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are brilliant actors and do a wonderful job portraying their characters. Although it has put me off eating pies I watch it every week."
Debbie Thompson: (1) The Greatest Show on Earth - "The story of life in a circus, it has the right mix of suspense and romance. Spectacular circus performances, aerials, trapeze, elephants, many other animals too, and a clown, who no-one has seen without his make-up as he is using it to hide from his past. A train crash where people are hurt and the animals escape had me wondering how the film would end. A movie I have found I can watch over again many times."
Vivienne Benson: (1) Natural Born Killers - "Not only is it by Tarantino, but I love the soundtrack from the movie so much I have 2 copies of it. I don't see why any Tarantino fan would not like NBK, even if (Oliver) Stone did have a hand in it. I am trying to gather a collection of all Tarantino DVD movies-wish me luck."
Sally McInnes: The Dark Knight - "It keeps you captivated and is constant non stop action, and the brilliant remake of the Joker,where Heath Ledger plays such a convincingly believable part, leaves a lasting impression in your head long after you have left the cinema. Brilliant film."
Debbie Thompson: (2) Anastasia - "My favourite animated movie is Anastasia about a Russian Princess whose family was murdered but she escaped with the help of a young boy. Years later they meet as he is one of two con-artists trying to locate the granddaughter of a lady, unbeknownst to them she really is the lady's granddaughter and the younger con-artist is the boy who helped her to freedom all those years ago. Also features another scary train ride."
Prue West: Pretty Woman - "One of my favourite movies is Pretty Woman. You tend to forget the fact that Julia Roberts is playing a dirty hooker, and instead fall in love with her character. Its a great romantic film, and what woman doesn't dream of being rescued by a handsome Richard Gere..."
Vivienne Benson: (2) Slingblade - "Another film I quite like is Slingblade. Billy Bob Thornton really deserved to win the Academy with this movie. It is one of those films which lingers in my mind, Uhhuh!"
Josanne Stephens: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - "My favourite film is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, an old one but still thought provoking to watch as well as funny."

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