Did he really say that?

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = GEORGE CARLIN...Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R.L.SWIHART

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Easy, Not So Easy & The Ultimate


AN EASY QUESTION
Which of these 1940 McKinley Junior High students would be nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award?

Hint: He is the only person to have a school report card featured on this blogsite.

He also knows how to serve up some tasty bossa nova.


A NOT SO EASY QUESTION
Which other 1940 McKinley Junior High student would be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award?
(And would subsequently be portrayed by an Academy Award-winning actress).
The answer may be found here and elsewhere.

Both of these students also attended Jefferson High School.


THE ULTIMATE QUESTION
Other than Dexter Gordon and Dorothy Dandridge, has it ever happened that junior high school classmates both became Best Actor nominees?

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