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1. The filming of a 1994 movie was plagued with incidents and accidents, including the electrocution of a carpenter, a stuntman breaking his ribs and a worker driving a screwdriver through his hand. Yet the worst tragedy happened eight days before filming was scheduled to wrap--the lead actor, just 28 years old, was killed when a bullet tip was inadvertently fired into his abdomen, causing hemorrhaging and, eventually, death. Yet the show went on--"The Crow" was released the next year and made $50 million. Who was this actor?
2. It often happens that a writer dies before finishing the book he's working on. This happened to a particular author in 1959--he died of pneumonial peripheral vascular shock and prerenal uremia, leaving four chapters of a new book with the working title "The Poodle Springs Story". Author Robert B. Parker (of Spenser fame) was hired to finish the book, which he did in 1989. Who was the original author, the creator of Philip Marlowe, who was credited as a collaborator on "Poodle Springs"?
3. On the morning of March 9, 1997, a popular musician was gunned down after leaving a party in Los Angeles. The unreleased album he'd been promoting had the title of "Life After Death... 'Til Death Do Us Part", but after his murder the title was shortened to "Life After Death"--the show went on. Who was the musician?
4. In 1987, the players association of a particular sport went on strike to protest the lack of a collective bargaining agreement. The league hastily put together replacement teams and played anyway--the show must go on--and after a month the strike was broken and the regular players came back. What sport, for a month, featured teams scornfully called by the fans "New Orleans Saint Elsewheres" and "Seattle Sea-Scabs"?
5. The show must go on! In 2008, on a popular television show, Kim Kardashian cut herself on a piece of broken glass, but didn't let that keep her from performing. Jeffrey Ross scratched his cornea, but put on an eyepatch and went on anyway. The next month, Susan Lucci fractured two bones, but continued to compete. What show featured all these troupers?
6. Still on television--sometimes actors quit or die during the run of a show, but the producers often just say "the show must go on" and hire replacements for their lost talent. Which of these television shows did NOT replace a featured actor with a doppelganger?
7. When a Hollywood director was dissatisfied with a finished film that he'd worked on, he was allowed (by the Director's Guild of America, if it determined that the director wasn't allowed to exercise creative control) to disavow the film by replacing his name with a pseudonym. The show must go on, of course, and no matter how lousy a movie is, it'll probably be released anyway. What was the approved pseudonym used by embarrassed directors?
8. In one of the saddest examples of "the show must go on" in film history, an actor was billed as the star of a 1959 movie even though he had died before it even started filming. Director Ed Wood used footage of this actor shot for an entirely different movie, spliced it in with scenes of his wife's chiropractor (who looked nothing like the dead actor and thus walked around holding a cape over his face for all his scenes), threw in his usual gang of horrible actors and called it a wrap. Who was the actor who 'starred' in "Plan 9 From Outer Space"?
9. In 1979, this Australian band had released their eighth album, the very successful "Highway to Hell". In 1980 their lead singer, Bon Scott, was dead from a night of heavy drinking after which he choked on his own vomit. The band decided that the show had to go on, so they hired a replacement singer (Brian Johnson, who sounded a lot like Scott) and worked on their next album, 1980's "Back in Black". It worked out okay for them--the album has gone 22XMulti Platinum and is the second-biggest selling album of all time (behind Michael Jackson's "Thriller"). What's the band called?
10. After the tragic events of 9/11/01, there was talk about pushing back the season premiere of a popular television show's 27th season, but the show went on. The premiere of the show happened as scheduled on September 29 and featured a bit with New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani--the mayor stated that, in spite of all the horror, New York and this iconic show would go on as normal. "Can we be funny?" asked the producer. "Why start now?" responded Giuliani. What is this show?
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