After the rainbow – stars. Movie stars.


Last Friday, we had a little trip to the movies, in a random round about way. Today, we are back there, looking for clarity, and hopefully picking up a few points along the way. I got them all right and received maximum pointage, but I’m not one to brag.

I’ll start with the bonus question, which, I suppose, would have been quite difficult to get correct…

Excellent if you correctly thought that the first movie I didn’t appear in was Green Lantern. The skin tight clothing didn’t really agree with me… if you did think this (Green Lantern, not me in tight clothing – Heavens to Murgatroyd!) you may have one point! You may have been thinking too logically about this question if you were incorrect – remember, logic and this blog don’t necessarily go hand in hand.

For some reason, most of you recognised me as that blue chap in Avatar. Although we have completely different eyes, we do seem to have a similar nose to each other. And my forehead markings took hours in make-up to get right! Again, it’s one point for the blue chap out of Avatar.

I do make a good vampire, even if I do say so myself. If you said I was being Keanu Reeves in The Lost Boys I’m afraid I’d have to deduct a point. I was Kiefer Sutherland, of course! Of course! If you said Kiefer, you can have the point.

Next up was indeed a tricky one. I wasn’t Miss Piggy out of the Muppet Show movies, so no points if you’d said that… however, there’s a whole point available for you if you’d have correctly said I was the Lion out of the Wizard of Oz. I did that through the medium of time travel, obviously. I wasn’t around in those days.

Do you remember Sam from Quantum Leap? Each week he’d leap into someone else’s body and have to alter their course of life before leaping once again. Sometimes, he’d leap into a woman’s body, and this seems to be a bit like that. I was Carrie Fisher in Star Wars here, if you couldn’t tell. She had been written in to play C3P0 but I steered her into the Princess role. I did. I did! And you may have a point if you said Carrie. Or Princess Leia! And I’ll let you have a point if you said C3P0 as well – but only a select group of people know that. Sshhh…

Last but not least, I was that well known superhero, Superman. Being a superhero isn’t new to me, but being Superman is. Was. Is still. One point if you’d said Superman, or any of the great actors who have played him over the years. I’m nothing if not a little generous!

And you can have a bonus point if you’d correctly said that it was Mae West who said the quote in Fingers’ (he’s my Inner Typist, don’t you know?) Easter Eff.

And speaking of Easter Effs, who said this:

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

If this is your first visit to this blog… hello! Don’t worry – it’s not always like this! Lately, I’ve been posting a ‘portrait’ on a Monday, and then a post which is kind-of-but-not-quite linked to it on the following Tuesday. Yesterday’s portrait was of a rainbow – and the pictures within this post are in a similar layout to the colours on a rainbow. Kind of. Maybe if you scroll up and down really fast you may see it. This post is more linked to Friday’s post, which I mentioned at the beginning.

No, sometimes it’s a little strange around here… and other times it’s like this. I’m used to it…

18 responses to “After the rainbow – stars. Movie stars.”

  1. Andra Watkins avatar

    This was fun, Tom. I like how you take your picture and juxtapose it on these different characters. A shame they didn’t pick you in the first place.

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      It was fun to do, Andra… if only I’d have done them a little better. Still, good practice I suppose.

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  2. Vanessa-Jane Chapman avatar

    I haven’t been here for a few posts, and I’m totally lost! But…erm…nice work!

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Lost is what I’m looking for, Vanessa! I’m getting there it seems! 😉

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  3. lameadventures avatar

    Back in the day, Tom, my mother said a variation of that quote to me countless times, so I guess she had a little ancient Chinese philosopher in her. Or, more likely, that quote stuck in her head.

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      The quote kind of makes sense and then suddenly seems odd, I think, LA. I mean it is rather obvious that if we keep going we’re going to end up somewhere…

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  4. prenin avatar

    Nice to know that you have kept so busy!!! 🙂

    I didn’t get the Green Lantern, but it looks like I got most of the rest! 🙂

    God Bless my friend! 🙂

    Prenin.

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      It was fun, Prenin, but a little rushed. I’m not surprised you didn’t get Green Lantern, there wasn’t really any reason why you should have!

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  5. Elaine - I used to be indecisive avatar

    I didn’t get the Green Lantern (was obviously thinking along the wrong lines there) but I think I feel quite proud that I got the rest of them right (although I said Man of Steel rather than Superman, does that still count? I went for the name of the movie, rather than the character.)

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      No problems regarding the Green Lantern, Elaine, it would have been a very accurate random guess if you had gotten it as there was nothing that made any reference to it in the post. And of course you can have the point for Man of Steel – it’s all the same!

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  6. penpusherpen avatar

    well, obviously I got ’em all, in my head… Sir Aquatom BUT I bet you’ll be just like my teachers and say it’s not ferzackerly how you do tests… Saying y’know something doesn’t hold water apparently, like that persons bucket with a hole in it.. (I can’t remember his/her name ) erm… Silence is a source of great strength.
    Lao Tzu
    so, I’m a tad weak methinks.. 🙂 xPenx

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Liza, wasn’t it, Lady Pen? The one with the hole/bucket. Did Lao Tzu say that quote as well then?

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      1. penpusherpen avatar

        Oh Yes, Sir A, I found a page full of his quotes. … ‘cos one googled… ^^’ … Hope your Easters Going Well. xx (Of course… ‘t’was Liza, many thanks for the answer… ) x

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        1. Tom Merriman avatar

          Thinking about it now, Lady P, it may be Henry’s bucket, not Liza’s… depending how the song’s sung, that is.
          Happy Easter, Lady P!

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  7. Jo Bryant avatar

    I love how you do this Tom…so clever, and so superhero like

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Thank you, Citizen Jo.
      I may do one of myself as a pirate any day soon… 😉

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  8. Gray Dawster avatar
    Gray Dawster

    Funny as per usual, I have
    come to expect this from you
    Tom 🙂 Awesome posting…

    Happy Easter and be Wicked 🙂

    Andro

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Thanks once again for saying so, Andro.
      Hope you’re having a great Easter Weekend also.

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