What literary work is called to mind by listing these entertainers, some obscure and some legendary, some alive and some dead, of various nationalities, in this particular order?
- Rebekah Brandes
- Roddy McDowall
- Max Von Sydow
- Courtney Love
- Glenn Shadix
- Mel Blanc
- Pietro Tordi
- Glenn Shadix
- Roy Purcell
- Peter Firth
- Gérard Depardieu
- Jamie Glover
Gravity’s Rainbow, in that I can make sense of neither.
The Bible. A partial reconstruction:
1. Rebekah (appears in Genesis)
2. Jeremiah (his middle name)
3. ???
4. Courtney Michelle Love (archangel Michael, mentioned in Daniel)
5. ???
I’m not sure. Probably I’m way, way off here.
Interesting guess! But not what I was thinking of at all. Try again, please.
Glenn Shadix twice? And do you have any idea how many different projects Roddy McDowall has been involved in?
This is really a tough one, I think.
Yes, Glenn Shadix twice. That was not an error. And yes, this one feels diabolically
obscurecleverinspireddifficult.Roddy McDowell — Planet of the Apes — Apeman —
Is Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround your second-favorite Kinks album?
Handful of vampires on there. Handful of vampire slayers.
Here’s your Tuesday hint: the work of literature in question falls within the genres of both history and biography.
“The Twelve Caesars” is the answer, though I’m ashamed to admit that I’d never heard of the book before today. Google and IMDb combine into a powerful trivia-solving device.
Alan Scott is exactly correct. For future reference, is this a level of challenge people enjoy?
It was certainly quite challenging. However, it doesn’t seem out of keeping with some other tough ones of yours.
Very nicely done.
Am I correct that in some case (e.g. Otho), the character played is a different person of the same name as the Caesar? (I see that Peter Corrigan played the hobbit Otho Sacksville-Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring.)
Yes, that was also the case for the Otho played by Glenn Shadix, who was one of the many memorable characters in Beetlejuice.
You may also notice the absence of actors who performed in I, Claudius.
No Julius Caesar or Rome either. Very nice puzzle. I look forward to next week’s.
Well, I never would have gotten that, even with Internet help.
I’m assuming Courtney Love is Caligula?
Yes, Courtney Love was cast as Caligula in a short film called Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula, co-starring (among others) Helen Mirren, Justine Bateman, Benecio del Toro, and Milla Jovovich.
Type-casting at its most obvious.