Countdown to
12/17/04
11 days (and counting to Hot Target, in stores on December 28th)
Note from Suz: It's time for our weekly TRIVIA QUIZ!
Trivia Quiz # 3: JULES CASSIDY
There is one Grand Prize for Trivia Quiz # 3 -- a sterling silver PFLAG pin (from Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) -- a triangle overlapped by a heart -- Both Jules' mom and I have one just like it. <g> -- plus a signed copy of Taylor's Temptation!
We'll be using the same rules that we used for the past trivia quizzes:
1) Participants must email their numbered answers to my special trivia quiz email address: SuzBrockmann@aol.com (NOTE: This is different than my regular email address!!!) Entries must BE RECEIVED by noon ET, Monday, December 20th, 2004 at this email address only. (NOTE: Go, go, go! <g> The clock is running!) We are not responsible for entries that were not received due to cyberspace SNAFUs or delays, or entries sent to a different email address.
2) The final "trivia" question is "Pick a number from 1 to 100." This question will be used if more than one entry gets all the real trivia questions correct. (And I expect that to be the case, cuz you guys are smart! See, there's only one Grand Prize, and if 300 people answer all of the questions correctly... well, you see why we have to do this!) If no one picks the exact number for the final question, the winner will be the person who has chosen the closest number. If two people surround the winning number, the winner will be the next highest number. (Example: Say I've picked 89 as the winning number, and none of the entrants select 89, but someone chooses 88 and some one chooses 90. 90 wins. Okay?) (I just want to make this clear from the start so there are no hurt feelings and no cries of "No fair!") If six people all choose the winning number, then we will have a drawing for the Grand Prize -- I'll put all six names into a hat, close my eyes and pick one. The other five will get an honorable mention listing here on my website!
3) The Grand Prize Winner of Trivia Quiz # 3 will be announced on the countdown page for December 21st!
4) Winner must provide their snail mail address to receive the Grand Prize via snail mail!
5) Only one entry per person/email address, please!
Ready?
Trivia Quiz # 3: JULES CASSIDY
1. What was the first line of dialog that Jules ever spoke in a Troubleshooters novel?
2. What question did Jules ask Mary Lou when he was ordering lunch from her at McDonald’s?
3. What was one of Jules' nicknames for Sam?
4. When Gina asked Jules to marry her, Jules was driving her someplace in his car. Where were they going?
5. Where did Jules’ mother get married to his step-father, Phil?
6. In what city did Jules get injured during a raid against a terrorist cell? And where, on his body, were his injuries located?
7. What term of endearment did Jules use when talking to Max, which Max loathes?
8. Jules tells Gina that his “elephant is different” than hers, how is it different?
9. Name one of the two things on Jules’ desk that “out” him?
10. Who does Jules say Gina is to the nurse, after the nurse calls Gina "Max’s daughter?
11. When Jules talks to Alyssa about Max being straight, Jules says Max is not a part of what club?
12. Pick a number from 1 to 100.
Gay 101: Tolerance is a Fabulous Value!
Recommended Read: This wonderful play is on my keeper shelf. A deeply moving read -- I imagine it would be even more poignant performed. (And I just found out that there was a version made for HBO films, starring Janeane Garafalo, Steve Buscemi, Camryn Manhein, Christina Ricci, Laura Linney & Jeremy Davis. Note to self: Gotta go rent that ASAP...)
The Laramie Project
A Play by Moises Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project.
ISBN: 0-375-72719-1
www.vintagebooks.com
From the back cover: "On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it is their voices we hear in this stunningly effective theater piece.
Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and conducted more than 200 interviews with people of the town. From these interviews as well as their own experiences, (they) have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience. The Laramie Project chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder, using eight actors to embody more than sixty different people in their own words -- from rural ranchers to university professors. The result is a complex portrayal that dispels the simplistic media stereotypes and explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable."
"Deeply moving.... This play is Our Town with a question mark, as in 'Could this be our town?'" -- The New York Times
Excerpt # 1:
Jedadiah Schultz (a young drama student at the University): My parents were like, "So what plays are you doing this year at school?" And I was like, "Angels in America," and I told them the whole list of plays. And they're like, "Angels in America? Is that...that play you did in high school? That scene you did in high school?" And I was like, "Yeah." And she goes: "Huh. So are you gonna audition for it?" And I was like, "Yeah." And we got into this huge argument...and my best, the best thing that I knew I had on them is it was just after they had seen me in a performance of Macbeth, and onstage like I murdered like a little kid, and Lady Macduff and these two other guys and like and she goes, "Well, you know homosexuality is a sin"--she kept saying that--and I go, "Mom, I just played a murderer tonight. And you didn't seem to have a problem with that..."
Excerpt # 2:
Dennis Shepard (Matthew's father. His statement to the Court, at the murder trial): I would like nothing better than to see you die, Mr. McKinney. However, this is the time to begin the healing process. To show mercy to someone who refused to show any mercy. Mr. McKinney, I am going to grant you life, as hard as it is for me to do so, because of Matthew. Every time you celebrate Christmas, a birthday, the Fourth of July, remember that Matt isn't. Every time you wake up in your prison cell, remember that you had the opportunity and the ability to stop your actions that night. You robbed me of something very precious, and I will never forgive you for that. Mr. McKinney, I give you life in the memory of one who no longer lives. May you have a long life, and may you thank Matthew every day for it.
Wow, powerful stuff, huh?
That's all for now! Be sure to come back for tomorrow's installment in the Countdown to HOT TARGET.
See you tomorrow.