Answers: November 16th, 2003
Here are the answers I've emailed out to some of the questions you have asked. As you'll see, I don't always know the correct answer but hope to at least provide a hint to steer the person asking in the right direction. If you can clarify, or want to dispute, any of the answers- be sure to contact me and I'll follow up. Every so often I'll add a new page of answers so check back often!
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In "Back to the Future Part II" when Marty Mcfly had the future sports book what year did the Chicago Cubs go to the World Series?
-Cynthia
CMT Answer:
This 'urban legend' rumor has resurfaced again recently thanks to the Cubbies and the Marlins both being in the heat of playoff baseball battle. In the 1989 sequel, Marty McFly time-travelled forward to the year 2015. It was in 2015 that Marty saw a holographic announcement stating that the Cubs had finally won the World Series by beating Miami.

Part of the urban legend I referred to was that when Miami won in 1997, rumors flew that Back to the Future had predicted not only Miami winning, but the correct year, and to cap it off there was no Miami team in existence at the time the movie was made. This rumor was incorrect, as the 'news' of the movie took place in 2015, and they did not win the 2015 series. Miami did not have a baseball team at the time the movie was released, but predicting they would get one wasn't too much of a stretch.

Now, if the Cubs actually DO defeat the Marlins in the 2015 World Series race, now that would be somethin'...
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I cannot remember the name of an 80's movie. Please Help. It had a little boy who was kidnapped at some point in the movie by and elderly couple. There is also a man that keeps helping him throughtout the movie until he gets murdered. The kid's dad is a pilot and I believe at the end of the movie they escape using a plane. It also had something to do with a video game.
-Becky Tews

CMT Answer:
Sounds alot like "Cloak & Dagger", a great early 80's spy-action film that featured both Elliott from "E.T" and Atari! It was like the dream team matchup if you were 11 at the time. Anyhow, it revolved around Elliott (Henry Thomas), whose mom was dead and dad was busy with his army job. Elliott lived in a fantasy world of video games and comic books, but when he witnessed a murder and gets a video game cartridge with secret data on it, hijinks and action ensued!
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Hi! I was wondering if you could give me the movie names to these quotes:
"I'm serious, and don't call me Shirley"
"Snap out of it"
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"I think were going to need a bigger boat".
-Shell
CMT Answer:
Well the first one is "Airplane!" and the last one is "Jaws". The middle one could be lots of movies, but I can't think of one off the top of my head.
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What movie had the saying, "My cat's breath smells like cat food?".
-Cathy Williams
CMT Answer:
That's actually not a movie- it's Chief Wiggum's son, Ralph, from "The Simpsons".

Here's the quote online, along with a bunch of other Ralph classics, if you want to take a listen:
http://www.unrealisticexpectations.com/soundboards/ralph.as
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What movie horror movie was Joe Pantoliano in?
-Daddillee
CMT Answer:
It's a fairly new movie that also featured Eddie Murphy - "The Adventures of Pluto Nash". tee hee. Seriously though, did you ever see that one? I've seen parts of it on TV, and man does it blow.

I did a look through Joe's movies, and he's been in lots of suspense flicks or 'thrillers' that SOUND like they could be horrors, like "Natural Enemy" or "Through the Eyes of a Killer". But, the only one that I found that would be classified as a straight horror would be 1983's "The Final Terror" (aka "Campsite Massacre", "Bump in the Night", or "The Forest Primeval"). It's plot featured a hill-billlyeque mama who killed campers. For a crappy sounding early 80's slasher, it at least had a couple of names in the cast; aside from Pantoliano it featured Darryl Hannah and straight-to-video-king Adrian Zmed.
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Can you think of any movies other than "The Wizard of Oz" that have a hot air balloon in the movie?
-Laura Butters

CMT Answer:
A few off the top of my head:
-"Around the World in 80 Days"
-"Rat Race"
-"The Count of Monte Cristo"
-Not really a movie, but the "V" TV mini-series

This list at IMDB for the keyword 'hot-air-balloon' has 31 movies listed:
http://www.imdb.com/List?tv=on&&keywords=hot-air-balloon&&heading=19;hot-air-balloon
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What movie in the 70's or 80's was made at the Palm Aire Country Club in Pompano Beach Florida? Someone told me it was "Caddyshack" but I don't see this course listed in the film credits.
-Adrienne

CMT Answer:
That zany comedy classic, "Caddyshack", lists as filming at two clubs in Florida: the Boca Raton Hotel and Country Club, and the Rolling Hills Golf and Tennis Club. I did some searching on the Palm Aire Country Club, but nothing on Google came up for the name of the club with either "filming location" or filming, except references to one of the two above country
clubs used for filming Caddyshack.

So while of course it is very possible a smaller movie was filmed there in the 70's or 80's, it doesn't look like it was a major one anyways. Pretty much when searching all of these types of questions, if a movie was filmed at some location, an Internet search will turn up at least one page that references it.
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Can you tell me which movie does the line "take the gimp out of the closet" come from?
-Glen

CMT Answer:
That would be the quintessential Tarantino flick "Pulp Fiction". The actual quote was: "Bring out the gimp", and was spoken by the character Zed when Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames were tied up and ball-gagged in a very unwelcome predicament.
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In the wake of the Matrix, Kill Bill, and Lord of the Rings films, I'm wondering what the earliest case of a sequel being filmed before the original has been released?

I was thinking it was the Three Musketeers/Four Musketeers movies from the seventies which were filmed at the same time (without the cast knowing it was going to be two movies as I recall) and the Three Musketeers ending with a preview of the sequel.
-Brett
CMT Answer:
I think you are right- I did some searching and could not come up with an earlier sequel being filmed before the original's release than the Musketeers movies. 1974's "The Four Musketeers" was indeed filmed concurrently with the 1973 original, and as you mention identical to the "Kill Bill" moviesin that it was really two halves of the same movie, with the decision made to release them separately not completely decided upon until later in the production process. I bet there are a few out there, I'll see if any CMT readers are aware of any. (If you know of any, let me know!)

Other sequels filmed before the original was released was parts of 1980's "Superman II" (originally to be fully filmed before the first movie's release, but because of time constraints and problems with the producers, was not). Also, the terrible "King Solomon's Mines" (not a gem to begin with) sequel "Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold" was filmed before the original's 1985 release. And of course one of the first well known back-to-back filmings were the two "Back to the Future" sequels.

One concurrently filmed movie (but not a sequel) I found that was much earlier than the Musketeers movies was Bela Lugosi's "Dracula". During the filming of the 1931 classic, a Spanish version using the same sets, a translated script, and Spanish actors was also shot. It is considered by many to be a superior version, as it runs about a half an hour longer and doesn't suffer some of the same editing problems as its more well-known Hollywood cousin..
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The movie "Spy Games" with Robert Redford shows at the end that it is dedicated to Elizabeth Jean Scott... Who is she?
-Daphne Barth

CMT Answer:
If you notice the director of the Redford-Pitt thriller, you'll get a hint it's probably a family connection. The movies' director was Tony Scott (director of "Top Gun", "Crimson Tide", "Enemy of the State"). His mother, Elizabeth, died in October 2001.
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What was the movie (and the actor) who siphoned money from his company then bought a sports car and did donuts in the parking lot while company executives watched?
-Mike Oliphant
CMT Answer:
Man we get a lot of "Superman III" questions. I don't remember the parking-lot donuts, but Richard Pryor played a computer geek in the 1983 clunker who discovered a way to get all the half-cents from payroll that the company was not paying out to its employees for himself. A very clever scheme, but unfortunately showing up the next day with the sports car got him nabbed by his evil boss Robert Vaughan- who then enlisted him to create an evil supercomputer to defeat Superman. Unfortunately, it didn't work and we ended up getting "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace"..
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What was the name of the dog in "As Good as it Gets?"
-Violette Hellyer
CMT Answer:
The name of the well-loved pooch in the Jack Nicholson flick was 'Verdell'. It was a Brussels Griffon and the name of the real dog was 'Jill', who beat out five other dogs after first being narrowed down from a search that spanned Texas to England.
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What was the name of Barbarella's enemy in "Barbarella"?
-Taylor
CMT Answer:
This question is often phrased with the flip-side "What movie did the band Duran Duran get their name from?". The answer is Barbarella- her nemesis in the 1968 camp classic was called 'Durand Durand'.
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Between 1931 and 1969 this man and his studio collected thirty-five Oscars. Who is he?
-Connie
CMT Answer:
That would be none other than the man who, by freak coincidence, shares the same name as the most famous amusement park in the world. Yep, none other than Walt Disney. Most of the Awards were for best short-subject (cartoons), but also include best short-subject and feature documentaries, and best picture in 1965 for "Mary Poppins".
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I am looking for the actor's name who played the chubby, red-headed kid in "The Sandlot". I've seen him in a number of other movies and commercials but can't figure out his name. Thanks!
-Cheryl

CMT Answer:
I believe the actor you are after is Patrick Renna, who made his big-screen debut as 'Ham' in the 1993 flick. He has since gone on to a variety of roles, most recently in the comedy "National Lampoon's Dorm Daze". You can find more info on the actor at IMDB here:
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0719606/.
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