Writers as Artists: Classic Film Photo Quiz, April 2016 Edition, Vol. X

     Without writers the world would be full of blank pages and a seriously diminished need for bookmarks. Even the world of cinema, with its highly overdeveloped need to consider the director as the author of a film, would be hard pressed were it not fot the presence of the screenwriter to take the brickbats for all of the meddlesome executive interference, directorial egomania and vapid, semi-literate actors who portray themselves as masters of spontaneous jocularity worthy of the Algonquin Round Table, all of whom make Veg-O-Matic slaw out of the poor writer’s original creative intentions. To rage against this brand of industry ignominy, we present the newest edition of America’s favorite reason to wish the Internet was never invented, the Monthly Classic Film Photo Quiz, brought to you this month by those fabulous folks who peddle SKITTLES, the world’s most addictive non-narcotic breakfast candy. In this edition, we celebrate the writer (You might have guessed this, unless you’re suffering from a SKITTLES induced sugar buzz.) as celebrated in film. (Yes Virginia, they make movies about them, they just don’t acknowledge the writers write them.)  Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to not only identify the twenty-four  films from which the images are taken, but to also identify the author being portrayed. The first three readers who correctly solve the quiz will receive the CSR Culture Shock Award, a prize so coveted, Obama e-mailed us to see if he could trade in that hokey Nobel Peace Prize for one. (No dice, bub. Do the work.) Good luck. 

01)  Henry and June/Anaïs Nin

02)  Star!/Noel Coward

03)  Il Postino (The Postman) (1994)/Pablo Neruda04)  Bride of Frankenstein/Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Lord Byron

05)  Buffalo Bill and the Indians/Ned Buntline

06)  The Hours/Virginia Woolf

07)  The Life of Emile Zola/Emile Zola

08)  Time After Time/H.G. Wells

09)  Mishima/Yukio Mishima

10)  The Last Station/Valentin Bulgakov, Leo Tolstoy

11)  Reds/Eugene O’Neill

12)  Miss Potter/Beatrix Potter

13)  The Whole Wide World/Robert E. Howard

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15)  Julia/Dashiell Hammett

16)  Beloved Infidel/F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham

17)  The Man Who Would Be King/Rudyard Kipling

18)  {riest of Love/D.H. Lawrence

19)  The Old Gringo/Ambrose Bierce

20)  Out of Africa/Isak Dineson

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22)  Tom & Viv/T.S. Eliot. Vivienn Haigh-Wood Eliot

23)  Shadowlands/C.S. Lewis

24)  Cross Creek/Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings