Q 01/05
A) Paul Newman
B) Robert Redford
C) Burt Reynolds
D) Al Pacino
Answer · why
He called it the most fun he ever had making a movie, and said his language never recovered from the locker room.
Q 02/05
A) The Johnstown Jets
B) The Charlestown Chiefs
C) The Syracuse Bulldogs
D) The Broome County Blades
Answer · why
The fictional Chiefs were closely modelled on a real Johnstown club, whose players filled out the cast.
Q 03/05
A) Robert Altman
B) Hal Ashby
C) George Roy Hill
D) Sidney Lumet
Answer · why
He had already directed Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting.
Q 04/05
A) Nora Ephron
B) Elaine May
C) Joan Tewkesbury
D) Nancy Dowd
Answer · why
She was paid $50,000 for a script that took four months, built from her brother's locker-room tape recordings.
Q 05/05
A) Paul Newman's nephew
B) The director's son
C) A Boston Bruins scout
D) The screenwriter's brother
Answer · why
Ned Dowd phoned his sister from Utica and Syracuse to describe being beaten up and having his teeth knocked out.
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