Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2010 September 5

= September 5 =

Which Monk and Psych episodes did not involve a single murder?
I'd like to (re)watch those episodes because I feel a little better when I watch an episode of my favorite shows when it doesn't involve a single murder. Thanks. --70.179.165.170 (talk) 02:12, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell from the plot summaries, "Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny" (season 2) and "Mr. Monk and the Kid" (season 3) qualify. Several other episodes involve natural deaths, intended (but not accomplished) killings, or self-defense: in "Mr. Monk Gets Drunk" (4), a man dies naturally of a heart attack; in "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure" (6), a robber is fatally shot by a security guard, and Monk is the target of an attempted murder; in "Mr. Monk is Someone Else" (8), Monk impersonates a hit man; "Mr. Monk and the Dog" (8) involves an accidental death. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:52, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Line from a gangster movie
"You ask a question, and Mr Roscoe answers. You try and run, and he's got six little friends who can all run faster than you." Which movie is this from? It's fairly recent (late eighties?), and I seem to remember that Harvey Keitel was in it (but that doesn't narrow it down very much, unfortunately). 87.194.239.235 (talk) 12:20, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * From Dusk till Dawn, which does star Harvey Keitel, although that particular line was spoken by George Clooney. Adam Bishop (talk) 13:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

For future reference, you can google lines from movies to find what they are. Quadrupedaldiprotodont (talk) 14:06, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

The game ain't over til............
In MLB, bottom of the ninth, two outs, two strikes on the batter, what is the largest comeback that ever happened? In other words, based on history, when is the game really over? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.180.232.12 (talk) 15:01, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The largest margin overcome in any game, I think was 11 runs, but that was over the course of several innings. I'll check the records book and get back to you. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:07, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The records book I'm looking at doesn't exactly answer your question, but here's what it does say:
 * The largest margin to overcome and win was 12 in the American League and 11 in the National. Each of these occurred on 3 occasions. The most dramatic would be Cleveland at Philadelphia on June 15, 1925, when the A's entered the last of the 8th trailing 15-4, and scored 13 runs to take the lead 17-15, and then keeping the Indians scoreless in the top of the 9th.
 * The most runs scored in the 9th inning, ever, was 14, in 1894. The modern record is 13, which has happened a couple of times. The most score in the 9th inning after 2 out, with or without runners on base, is 9.
 * So if you have a 14-run lead in the 9th, or a 10-run lead for the specific scenario you posed, it would take a record-breaking performance to turn that game around.
 * This writeup from a couple seasons ago has more info in answering the question of the largest 9th-inning comeback. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:31, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know about being down to the last strike, but here's a game in which seven runs were scored after the first two batters were retired in the bottom of the ninth to turn a 2–8 deficit into a 9–8 win. The game is mentioned in the comments section of the blog that Bugs linked to. Only two months ago, my Cardinals, leading 9–3, were defeated by a nine-run ninth-inning rally (though not with two outs) by the Rockies. Deor (talk) 15:47, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Seems to me that some team had a huge comeback against another, just in the last couple of years, but I can't pin that one down. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:50, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I can't find the game I was thinking of, but I googled [mlb "largest comeback"] and got plenty of references. That should make for some interesting reading, and hopefully the true answer is in there somewhere. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Do girlie celebrities deliberately play dumb?
In this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY7Mnrv2wBo&feature=related interview Lady Gaga comes over as being intelligent. But does she and people like Paris Hilton deliberately act dumb usually, on purpose? As in this interview for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWF3GhS_WQA&feature=related 92.24.181.69 (talk) 22:07, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * This is probably not answerable by the Reference Desk (and someone is bound to come along ranting about BLP), but consider Paris Hilton: her image is certainly of someone who may be mildly mentally challenged ("cocaine? I thought that was gum!"), but she is extremely wealthy partly because that image has been carefully crafted. Could that happen by accident? Could a truly dumb person be that successful? From what I know about Lady Gaga she may occasionally be too drugged out to be lucid, but otherwise she has also put a lot of effort into that image. Could you do that? I couldn't. Does that make them smarter than us? Adam Bishop (talk) 02:08, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that we can really say much about Ms. Hilton, as she was born into a rich, socialite family that gave her many opportunities that most people (dumb or otherwise) would not have. Jessica Simpson is often regarded as being of low intelligence (the "chicken of the sea" thing comes to mind), but there it's at least partially her putting forth the "dumb blonde" image to boost her popularity (indeed, Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica was largely popular because of her "'dumb blonde' antics", as our article puts it).  I've never heard of Lady Gaga being regarded as dumb, and I would in fact say that her image (whatever you want to call it) is one of the most cultivated there is.  Now surely some of that is her manager's doing, but you have to give her credit for what she's accomplished. Buddy431 (talk) 02:50, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The Seven Year Itch film helped establish Marilyn Monroe's dim-bulb character. In the original Broadway production, that same role was performed by actress Vanessa Brown, who had an IQ of 165. Also see Dagmar. Pepso2 (talk) 05:07, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I suppose a lot of the apparent dumbness may be due to being tired, bored, not bothered, nervous, jet lagged and so on. Edit: not forgeting drunk either. 92.15.7.161 (talk) 09:23, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Sure because you see celebrities 24/7 and know all about them. Newsflash - you only see small snippets, either what they want you to see or paparazzi stuff of them elsetime. It's not representative. Also, Gaga is mega-intelligent, she also speaks french and plays loads of instruments Quadrupedaldiprotodont (talk) 14:11, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * More re above: Don't have a reference, but Marilyn Monroe once told a friend to watch how she would become the "Marilyn Monroe" character, which she then did. On the other hand, Lady Gaga has stated that she is not acting a character, that she is what you see. I mentioned Dagmar because she was hired by Jerry Lester to portray a dumb blonde on Broadway Open House, but viewers eventually realized that she was more intelligent and sharp-witted than Lester. Pepso2 (talk) 17:20, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * MM was not her real name, she was probably playing a character all the time. 92.28.248.94 (talk) 23:30, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

I remember reading an article a few years back that said Paris Hilton had hacked her smartphone to run a Linux based OS, having poor judgement does not exclude someone from being intelligent and vise versa —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.167.165.2 (talk) 04:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly question
I've never seen the Italian version of this movie, but I've read that the title is "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo", reversing the last two words relative to the English version. In the English version, the characters are introduced in reverse order from the title - first Tuco as "The Ugly", then Angel Eyes as "The Bad", and then Blondie as "The Good". My question: in the Italian version, are the characters introduced in the same way, or (as I've heard someone claim) is Tuco introduced as "Il cattivo" (The Bad) and Angel Eyes as "Il brutto" (The Ugly)? --Lazar Taxon (talk) 23:03, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * (Our article The Good, the Bad and the Ugly comments on this, but the information is unsourced.--Shantavira|feed me 08:29, 6 September 2010 (UTC))

Balkan-esque brass music
So I'm a big fan of the sorts of music played by brass bands in Southeast Europe...think Fanfare Ciocarlia, Boban Marcovic, etc and I feel like I'd love to understand more about the songs, scales, and possibly even arrangement techniques these sort of bands use (not that it's a standard thing, by any means)---maybe to play it for myself! Problem is, I live in the bay area of California, not really an area known for this sort of music, to say the least. Is there any book or web resource that would show me the inner workings of this kind of music? Thanks.67.180.150.78 (talk) 23:04, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * You might start at Balkan Brass Band, and start saving for a trip to the Guča trumpet festival. -- Finlay McWalter ☻ Talk 17:31, 6 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I recommend contacting the East European Folklife Center. They're located in the Bay Area and seem to have quite a network of resources. ---Sluzzelin talk  21:43, 7 September 2010 (UTC)