Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2008 October 14

= October 14 =

Game
There is a game that ends with "Realis" what game is that?24.65.69.8 (talk) 02:16, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Stan Laurel and Fred Astaire
I've been watching Fred Astaire movies and it strikes me that he looks more than a little bit like Stan Laurel. (Perhaps I should say, Astaire looks like caricatures of Laurel.) Did either of them ever play on the resemblance, e.g., does any picture with Astaire include a sight gag involving a fat man with a moustache, or did Laurel and Hardy ever do a parody of an Astaire dance number? —Tamfang (talk) 04:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, what do you know. According to TCM, New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther thought he resembled a happy Stan Laurel. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:51, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

DISORDER
this TV doctor made this sleeping disorder famous...Which actor is this and which disorder is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.220.125.190 (talk) 05:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Can you give us a hint as to which country this television show may have come from? Dismas |(talk) 07:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It's very tenuous, but in an episode of Frasier entitled 'Room Service' Dr Niles Crane develops Narcolepsy. I wouldn't say he made the disorder famous by any means though. Nanonic (talk) 16:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Ben Casey always looked like he only ever got one hour's sleep a night, and had a demeanour to match. The pic in the article shows him in one of his sunnier moments.  But I can't recall any sleep disorder being part of the story line.  --  JackofOz (talk) 20:49, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Film title
Hi All

I have been trying to find out the name of a film that I watched over 15 years ago. It is a action film, has fighting in it between I think bask fighters in france. They bounce about in the mountains and make a very high pitched noise to communicate with each other. Also they use a banana shaped weapon with stones in to kill people. Hope some one can help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alanbelcher (talk • contribs) 12:16, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

tv show
im trying to remember the name of a tv show i saw when i was a kid it was shown on bbc 2 in the afternoon all that i remember of the plot was that it was about two kids i think they were bro and sis and they had these stones that gave them psychic powers the boys stone would glow blue and the girls would glow pink when they used them im sure it was set in a small village can anybody help? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.248.225.148 (talk) 14:20, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Rough idea of the decade 70s, 80s, 90s? - X201 (talk) 12:04, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

it was mid 90s, i think there might of been aliens involved in connection with the stones — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.248.225.148 (talk)
 * I believe Under the Mountain is the program you're looking for. --Onorem♠Dil 12:56, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

i just went on the under the mountain page and it sounds right but there was no mention of the glowing stones did i just imagine this or were they part of the story? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.248.225.148 (talk) 13:06, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * One of the episodes is titled "Red Force, Blue Force" The article for The Third Eye, which Under the Mountain was apparently related to, says that, "Their main power, though, is a psychic bond with two stones from another world which are used as weapons, and (it is strongly implied) may be sentient life forms." If it's not this show, I'd guess it's one based on the same story. --Onorem♠Dil 13:13, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

yeah your right thanks for the help mate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.248.225.148 (talk) 13:17, 15 October 2008 (UTC) i think it was going bananasVikram79 (talk) 16:24, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Height of field handball players
Does field handball favour tall players, like basketball, or are people of average height able to play the sport on even terms? Greg Grahame (talk) 15:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. According to our article, the sport has largely gone defunct, as the last world championships were held 42 years ago.  There may be some pockets of popularity, but Team handball seems to have largely supplanted it as an international sport.  You may find more information there... --Jayron32. talk . contribs  16:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that's the one I meant. The one that is normally referred to as handball. Greg Grahame (talk) 20:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

janet leigh bio
I dot know how to Miss Leigh's filmography which shows her first movie to be Romance of Rosy Ridge when in fact it was preceded in 1946 by IF WINTER COMES starring Walter Pigeon and Deborah Kerr with Janet Leigh fifth billed---and yes, its the same Janet Leigh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.146.161 (talk) 19:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * If you have a reliable source which shows this to be true, please feel free to fix the article yourself. We are, after all, the encyclopedia anyone can edit.  --Jayron32. talk . contribs  19:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * IMDb shows Rosy Ridge being released in August 1947, while If Winter Comes came out several months later, in December (appropriately enough). Also, both TCM and AllMovie explicitly state that Rosy Ridge was Leigh's film debut. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Leonard Maltin's 2006 Movie Guide (NAL, 2005 edition), p.1096, dates "If Winter Comes" 1947, & calls "Romance of Rosy Ridge" her debut.  TREKphiler   hit me ♠  03:04, 15 October 2008 (UTC)