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Last week's Movie Quiz winners

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Proof that Robert Zemeckis's name on a film wasn't always a reason to stay away, I Wanna Hold Your Hand was his first feature (co-written with Bob Gale) and, I think, still his best. (I liked his follow-up, Used Cars, when it came out, but a recent re-watching left me bored.) It's an inspired comedy about a group of kids who try to see The Beatles live on the first Sullivan show, and it evokes the time very nicely, yet never at the expense of the well-developed characters. A lot of the reason the movie still remains fresh and funny is the young cast that included Nancy Allen and Teresa Saldana. While those two went on to have more major parts in later films (especially Allen, in the work of her husband, Brian DePalma), the funniest members of the cast never got the kind of career break-out role they deserved: Bobby Di Cicco as the Jersey greaser who hates the Mop-Tops, Wendy Jo Sperber as a Paul-obsessed little hothead and, best of all, Eddie Deezen as Beatles expert Ringo Klaus.

Apparently, even with three clues, this one was a bit of as toughie, and as usual when that's the case, only the quiz regulars seemed to know it. So a big "Yeah yeah yeah" to this week's winners: Wayne A. Palmer (will he ever lose?), Steven Jay Gellert, Chuck Tomlinson, E. Yarber, Hank Parmer and Kika Warner. Nice work, guys and gal.

Posted by Steve Monaco at August 25, 2003 3:17 PM

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