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Last week's Movie Quiz winners

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Last week's video clue was for people who believed, in one correspondent's words, that "[Robert] Blake should have been hanged for killing his annoying girlfriend." The clip came from the end of the great 1967 film In Cold Blood, directed and written (from Truman Capote's novel) by Richard Brooks, and starring Blake and Scott Wilson as real-life killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. Wilson was excellent, but Blake was the standout, and now, perhaps, we know why.

Since the verdict, there's been very little news anywhere about Blake, which isn't surprising considering that no one under the age of 40 knows who he is. Still, there are a couple of stories that are as silly as you'd imagine them to be, including Blake's first post-trial interview where he thanked Baba Wawa for saving his life. My favorite, though, is the story about the juror who's written half-a-dozen songs about Blake and the trial and is now looking for a record deal, even though he's restricted by law from earning more than $50 from his jury experience. (My prediction: No problem.) Blake's own prospects for money aren't good, according to this story, which quotes a showbiz lawyer opining, "If you kill somebody or knife somebody, it's probably not as easy to get work in this town."

And for those who remember Blake's whacked-out appearences on Tom Snyder's shows and have wondered what his old interviewing friend thinks, Tom says Bob did it.

Congratulations to the following quiz winners who identfied the movie from the clip: Wayne A. Palmer, Mark Gisleson, Chris Hesler, Joe Rosenberg, Corey Anderson, Hank Parmer, and Kevin Musolino.

Posted by Steve Monaco at March 29, 2005 12:38 AM

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