Looking at a list of people celebrating birthdays on July 17th two names caught my eye. On the surface these two people don’t seem to have anything in common besides both being entertainers in their 90’s. My first reaction was “Cool!” I thought I could finally beat the whole Six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon-thing by coming up with the names of two people who could not possibly be linked by six movies. Right?? Wrong!! It turns out that this couple who rack up 187 years between the two of them appeared in the same movie in 2000. Now I am not saying this was a big movie, I am not even sure it came out in the theaters, but in all fairness how many documentaries about venerable private clubs for comedians that have gone on to become summer blockbusters can you name?
So with the precious few clues I have dribbled before you, can you name the seemingly incongruous duo with only one degree of separation between them? If you can let me know. And while you are at it throw in the name of the movie because it actually looks pretty interesting.
Last week’s question revolved around a famous French author who did wonders for marketing a real cemetery in Paris by including it as the location for the burial of some of his fictional characters. The author? None other than Honoré de Balzac. The cemetery? None other than Père Lachaise Cemetery which now boasts such famous ‘residents’ as Isadora Duncan, Édith Piaf and Jim Morrison. I really appreciate the people who took the extra time to research this question when all you really had to do was to watch this funny video for the answer. The French history scholars and Cher fans on campus this week are –
Marianne Hageman
Matthew Koenen
Peter Erickson
Thanks to everyone who played!