[John Whitworth]

The Naked and the Dad: Gypsy Rose Lee's dilemma. Should she continue a successful career or give it all up to stop her loveable old father from being put into a home. With Shirley MacLaine and Noah Beery.

[Jerome Betts]

My Big Fat Geek Wedding : Nerds combine in memorable digi-nuptials.

Wise words, Roger, so that's my last. I'll probably bung in an expanded and tweaked selection pronto, but not your One With The Wind.

[Brian Allgar]

Originally Posted by Roger Slater

I wrote the few I posted almost immediately after this thread announced the contest, and I promptly sent them in. I hadn't even noticed your "One With The Wind" entry because I purposely avoided reading this thread carefully. It's probably not a good idea for us to have posted our entries before the deadline in this particular contest, where influence or territory-staking can come into play.

I agree, Roger. One of the great problems of posting here before the closing date is the possibility that someone will inadvertently pick up an idea. The other problem is that you may find that someone else has had a similar idea, in which case you may feel unable to use it even if you had the idea independently. I virtually never read what other people have written until I've sorted out my own entry or entries, and in general (this competition is an exception) I don't post them either.

It's a pity, because it means that a lot of good but non-winning entries (not just mine) never get seen here, and I still think (pace Jayne) that we ought to be allowed to post them after the closing date and up to the publication date.

[Nigel Mace]

I've only once sent an entry at all. Most of my fun, verses apart, is reading things and posting them here - though I suppose you've both got a point.

[Brian Allgar]

Only once? You mean the Blair the other day as "Nigel Stuart" was your first outing? Blimey, lad, get 'em in, get 'em in! The prize is actually enough to buy a whole packet of razor blades. But of course, if you happen to sport a beard ...

[Adrian Fry]

A Shot in the Ark: Antedeluvian whodunnit in which Hercule Poirot interviews the suspects in Noah's murder two by two.

Assport to Pimlico: a gay man's rectum proves a route to the famous London suburb. Homoerotic precursor to Being John Malkovich

[Brian Allgar]

Terrific, Adrian!

Especially "A shot in the ark" - two by two had me choking on my whisky. In fact, it may be the best one I've seen so far.

I'm resigned to losing to you, so it's just as well that you and your wife are me.

P.S. Damn! I've just re-read it while taking another swig of whisky.

[Marion Shore]

Harry Otter and the Chamber of Secrets – Disney animation about a boy and an aquatic mammal who find treasure in an underwater cavern.
Oy Story - documentary about Jewish comedians touring the Borscht Belt in the 1930s and '40s.
Winnie The Poo – Scatological humor abounds in this wacky animation by the creators of South Park.
Hell Dolly – Max von Sydow reprises his classic role in this tale of a priest summoned to exorcise a demon from a little girl's doll.
Last Tang in Paris (L'empereur de Paris) - an eccentric elderly man believes he is the only living descendent of an ancient Chinese dynasty, in this bittersweet comedy by French director Jean-Luc Renard.
Last Tang in Paris – offbeat indie about a disillusioned ex-pat American searching Paris for the iconic drink of his childhood.
I Remember Mam - the ups and downs of an Irish immigrant family in Boston circa 1910.
Godfellas – disguised as monks, two mobsters on the lam hide out in a monastery.
The Odd Coupé - a drunk driver killed in an automobile accident is reincarnated as a car.
Lord of the Rigs - biopic about a man with a rundown pickup truck who becomes a magnate of the tractor-trailer industry.
Da Boot - divorce, Brooklyn style.

[Nigel Mace]

Oy Story, Marion's first Last Tang in Paris and Godfellas have got to be up there with Brian - on this site if nowhere else. And yes, Brian, my Blair was my first verse entry in a comp. - but it is more than made up for by the weighty doorstop of a rejection file for the collection for which I first wrote it!

[Brian Allgar]

P.S. Adrian, in "A Shot in the Dark", shouldn't it be Inspector Clouseau rather than Hercule Poirot, or was the switch deliberate?

Nigel, commiserations, but look on the bright side - good doorstops are hard to come by these days.