[Fictionary] THE BIRDS AND THE BEES results
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Sat Jul 10 15:26:00 UTC 2021
Fiddle away. If I may suggest, pick something short, sweet, sentimental, and easy. LInda As in Tennessee Waltz or Carry Me Back to Old Virginny...
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From: E Cohen <eac at inbox.com>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] THE BIRDS AND THE BEES results
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 09:24:38 -0400
On 10-Jul-21 01:07, Hutch wrote:
> 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.
I have plenty of words, but it's your turn. Also, have fun with the
fiddling!
> BB,
> Hutch
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> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 12:29 PM E Cohen <eac at inbox.com
> <mailto: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:Â 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.
> >Â Â Â Eric - I think this definition and my own are both more like
> madcap
> >Â Â Â Â comedies of the '30, but I don't know much about movies. Maybe
> >Â Â Â Â they made those in the '50s as well?
> >Â Â Â David - 2 points.
> >Â Â Â Pierre - 2 points.
> >   Jed - If that last sentence had been “Hilarity ensues†I
> might have voted
> >Â Â Â Â for it. :)
> (https://www.kith.org/words/2000/09/10/rrreviews/
> <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
> >Â Â Â Â Debutante_, which could be very enjoyable.
> >
> >
> > DAVID RANDALL:Â 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.
> >Â Â Â Ziv - I think this wins my "want to watch" award, but only if
> it were made
> >Â Â Â Â more recently -- I can't imagine 1950's America having
> Japanese
> >Â Â Â Â protagonists at all, much less ones portrayed with any
> kind of sensitivity…
> >Â Â Â 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.
> >Â Â Â Jean-Joseph - 1 point, if for no other reason than that that
> I'm amused thinking
> >Â Â Â Â about the Mr. Ed-like special effects that would have been
> in play back
> >Â Â Â Â in 1956.
> >
> >
> > ERIC COHEN:Â 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…
> >Â Â Â Pierre - 1 point.
> >Â Â Â Jed - I like this one quite a bit (especially the idea that
> Bird is a family name),
> >Â Â Â Â but where are the bees? 1 point.
> >
> >
> > JEAN-JOSEPH COTE:Â Two rival all-female motorcycle gangs battle
> over turf in Southern California, culminating in a choreographed rumble.
> >Â Â Â Ziv - Then, in the sequel, the victorious Bees meet up with
> the Sharks
> >Â Â Â Â to find out who is US Street Rumble Champion.
> >Â Â Â 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.
> >Â Â Â Ranjit - 1 point, and tied for most want to watch.
> >Â Â Â Jed - Nice. 2 points.
> >
> >
> > BETH BRUCH:Â 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.
> >Â Â Â Ziv - 1 point.
> >Â Â Â Pierre - I'd like to watch this one.
> >Â Â Â Jed - I like this, but I feel like it might be more 1970s
> than 1950s. (Huh, but
> >Â Â Â Â I now see that _The Parent Trap_ (which this description
> roundaboutly
> >Â Â Â Â 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:Â 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.
> >Â Â Â Eric - 2 points.
> >Â Â Â David - The Lady Eve [Jim adds: I confess, when I chose this
> movie I had
> >Â Â Â Â no idea it was a remake of the more famous film David
> mentions!]
> >Â Â Â Ranjit - 2 points, and tied for most want to watch.
> >Â Â Â Jean-Joseph - 2 points for the shipboard romance.
> >Â Â Â 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
> >Â Â Â Â (which I think was considered a single language at the
> time) is spoken in
> >Â Â Â Â only a small area and not related to anything else,
> whereas Ye'kwana is
> >Â Â Â Â Cariban, and Cariban languages are spoken in a wide area,
> so there would
> >Â Â Â Â be more outsiders who could talk with them.
> >
> >
> > ZIV STERN:Â A newly orphaned boy must learn to navigate first
> love with the help of a new authority figure: his father's talking
> pet parrot.
> >Â Â Â Eric - I hope this isn't true, but it might be. 1 point.
> >Â Â Â David - 1 point, and most want to see.
> >Â Â Â Jean-Joseph - I guess this last one is the movie I'd most
> like to see.
> >Â Â Â 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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-- Eric | @GoudyBoldItalic
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