Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 10/31 - Boo!

On Halloween our thoughts turn to Hollywood horror. Here’s a haunting quiz on cinema dialogue. Guess which tale of terror each line is from. Anyone who fails to score 50% will be visited by the ghosts of the deceased directors at the stroke of midnight. Degree of difficulty will be in parentheses. Answers follow. No peeking -- you’re being watched.

1. “What’s the boogie man?” (1)
2. “It’s alive! It’s alive!” (1)
3. “Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night can become….” (2)
4. “You are very wise, Professor Van Helsing - too wise to live.” (1)
5. “Dimi, why you do this to me, Dimi?” (8)
6. “I’m the monster’s mother!” (9)
7. “I see dead people.” (1)
8. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” (2)
9. “Watch the skies!” (8)
10. “They’re here already! You’re next! You’re next!” (3)
11. “The Eighth Wonder of the World.” (2)
12. “This is the freshest body we could come across save from killing one ourselves…We can bring him back to life.” (9)

A couple of years ago I said David Ortiz appeared through. Shows what I know. All he did in the World Series was bat a phenomenal .688 and win the MVP. Kudos. And thank you Sox for stickin' it to Yankees fans.

Politicians bore me to tears, but once in a while one comes up with a good line. One of the stipulations of ObamaCare is that even single males must have maternity coverage. During yesterday's testimony before Congress, the program's designer, Kathleen Sebelius, was asked by Representative Renee Ellmers (R-NC): "To the best of your knowledge, has a man ever given birth to a baby?" Atta girl.




I can't really say that luck finally ran out for the floating book shop because I earned a few dollars despite the session being shortened by rain. My thanks to the people who bought, especially those who approached while I was packing up.

1. Halloween (1978) directed by John Carpenter
2. Frankenstein (1931) James Whale
3. The Wolfman (1942) George Waggner
4. Dracula (1931) Tod Browning
5. The Exorcist (1973) William Freidkin
6. Alien Resurrection (1997) Jean-Pierre Jeunet
7. The Sixth Sense (1999) M. Night Shyamalan
8. The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick
9. The Thing (from Another World) (1951) Christian Nyby
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Don Siegel
11. King Kong (1933) Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
12. Re-Animator (1985) Stewart Gordon
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