[Fictionary] THE BIRDS AND THE BEES results

[Hutch]

I would be quite pleased to run this round, but it will be several days to
a week before I can do anything with it. I am (astonished!) playing my
fiddle in a wedding this weekend.

No, I'm not a very good fiddle player. But she wants *me* to play, and play
my fiddle (I'm a much better guitarist and a MUCH, MUCH better singer),
regardless of how good or bad I think I am. (I *know* how good a fiddler I
am ... NOT! Soon, so will all of southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee
*sigh*)

I won't be able to even think about it until after the weekend. So, Eric,
if you have a word off the top of your head, go for it. If I haven't seen a
word by next Friday/Saturday, I'll throw one in the ring.

BB,
Hutch

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On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 12:29 PM E Cohen <eac at inbox.com> wrote:

> I think I've run a round more recently than Hutch, so I'm happy if Hutch
> takes it.
>
> Thank you, Jim, I loved this game.
>
> Also, I'd give five bucks to the Kickstarter for the movie about the
> parrot.
>
>
>
> > Hello, fellow fictioneers!
> >
> > Thank you all for indulging me in my variety round, and thank you Beth
> Bruch for making a return appearance after something like eight years!
> Thanks too to Jed, who submitted votes for the first time in a long while.
> >
> > And now for the results: Apparently we collectively need more practice
> in inventing plausible Hollywood plots. The actual synopsis of The Birds
> and the Bees, (starring George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, and David Niven;
> directed by Norman Taurog; and written by Sidney Sheldon based on an idea
> by Preston Sturges) got twice as many votes as any other entry!
> > (On the other hand, it didn’t win the Most Want To See prize, which goes
> to Ziv and the talking pet parrot.)
> >
> > Among the fake entries… we have a TIE, between Hutch and Eric at 4
> points each, so I’ll ask them to confer privately and decide who gets to
> run the next round.
> >
> >
> >
> > HUTCH:  Two friends from very different circumstances decide to trade
> places at a high-society party. Each meets the girl their parents expected
> the other to meet. Confusion and comedy follow.
> >     Eric - I think this definition and my own are both more like madcap
> >        comedies of the '30, but I don't know much about movies. Maybe
> >        they made those in the '50s as well?
> >     David - 2 points.
> >     Pierre - 2 points.
> >     Jed - If that last sentence had been “Hilarity ensues” I might have
> voted
> >        for it. :) (https://www.kith.org/words/2000/09/10/rrreviews/)  I
> think I’ll give
> >        this my “most want to watch” vote, though a lot would depend on
> the tone
> >        of the movie. I’m thinking it might have the general flavor of
> _The Reluctant
> >        Debutante_, which could be very enjoyable.
> >
> >
> > DAVID RANDALL:  A lost Japanese fisherman and his two children are
> rescued by a menagerie of animals that have become super-intelligent in the
> wake of an atomic explosion on a tropical island.
> >     Ziv - I think this wins my "want to watch" award, but only if it
> were made
> >        more recently -- I can't imagine 1950's America having Japanese
> >        protagonists at all, much less ones portrayed with any kind of
> sensitivity…
> >     Eric - I know we're supposed to only get one vote for which movie
> we’d
> >        like to see, but it's hard.  Two watching points.
> >     Jean-Joseph - 1 point, if for no other reason than that that I'm
> amused thinking
> >        about the Mr. Ed-like special effects that would have been in
> play back
> >       in 1956.
> >
> >
> > ERIC COHEN:  When an out-of-luck reporter signs on as caretaker at the
> Bird Nature Sanctuary, he hasn't bargained on all the Birds -- formidable
> great-aunts Lucy and Helena, rowdy schoolgirl Rhoda, or the lovely Diane.
> >     Ziv - 2 points -- sounds like 1950 gender politics to me…
> >     Pierre - 1 point.
> >     Jed - I like this one quite a bit (especially the idea that Bird is
> a family name),
> >        but where are the bees? 1 point.
> >
> >
> > JEAN-JOSEPH COTE:  Two rival all-female motorcycle gangs battle over
> turf in Southern California, culminating in a choreographed rumble.
> >     Ziv - Then, in the sequel, the victorious Bees meet up with the
> Sharks
> >        to find out who is US Street Rumble Champion.
> >     Eric - I know we're supposed to only get one vote for which movie
> we’d
> >        like to see, but it's hard.  One watching point.
> >     Ranjit - 1 point, and tied for most want to watch.
> >     Jed - Nice. 2 points.
> >
> >
> > BETH BRUCH:  A bee keeping widower and ornithologist widow clash while
> trying to keep their teenaged children from dating. As tempers flare, so
> does the chemistry between the parents; they resist until the teens step in
> to teach their elders a lesson about the birds and the bees.
> >     Ziv - 1 point.
> >     Pierre - I'd like to watch this one.
> >     Jed - I like this, but I feel like it might be more 1970s than
> 1950s. (Huh, but
> >        I now see that _The Parent Trap_ (which this description
> roundaboutly
> >        made me think of) was made in 1961, at least ten years before I
> thought
> >        it was, so maybe 1956 isn’t too early for this sort of thing.)
> >
> >
> > THE IMDB:  On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive
> man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with
> the man  she's just fleeced.
> >     Eric - 2 points.
> >     David - The Lady Eve [Jim adds: I confess, when I chose this movie I
> had
> >        no idea it was a remake of the more famous film David mentions!]
> >     Ranjit - 2 points, and tied for most want to watch.
> >     Jean-Joseph - 2 points for the shipboard romance.
> >     Beth - 2 points.
> >
> >
> > PIERRE ABBAT: Biologists studying pollinators in the Amazon rainforest
> are abducted by the Ye'kwana tribe. Anthropologists and missionaries in
> neighboring tribes cooperate to try to free them.
> >     Pierre adds: I was going to say the Yanomamö tribe at first, but
> Yanomamö
> >        (which I think was considered a single language at the time) is
> spoken in
> >        only a small area and not related to anything else, whereas
> Ye'kwana is
> >        Cariban, and Cariban languages are spoken in a wide area, so
> there would
> >        be more outsiders who could talk with them.
> >
> >
> > ZIV STERN:  A newly orphaned boy must learn to navigate first love with
> the help of a new authority figure: his father's talking pet parrot.
> >     Eric - I hope this isn't true, but it might be. 1 point.
> >     David - 1 point, and most want to see.
> >     Jean-Joseph - I guess this last one is the movie I'd most like to
> see.
> >     Beth - 1 point, and most want to see.
> >
> >
> > General comments:
> >
> > Eric - This was great fun.
> >
> > Pierre - This is tough! Maybe because I don't watch movies.
> >
> > Jean-Joseph - I think this worked out quite well, where all of the
> entries seem well-written and plausible to me. Kudos to all!
> >
> > Linda - This ballot makes no sense.  I have been enduring a heat wave
> plus family stuff--not so bad, as family stuff was fun and now it is
> cooler.  sorry not to help out this time.
> >
> > David - The vote for The Birds and the Bees
> > Was slow, for we lay at our ease
> > In summer siestas,
> > Or played in fiestas,
> > Far away from our Macs and PCs.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Jim
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> -- Eric   |   @GoudyBoldItalic
>
>
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