The Summer Domination continues! How long HAS it been since anyone other than Donna, Millar74, Jason or Joe Allen won a Threes quiz? June 10th! That's a full month!
It's official, you guys are becoming the Yankees.
Donna continued her Threes roll this time, followed by ejb in second and, of course, Millar74 in third place. (Naturally Jason was in fourth. Maybe Joe Allen is on vacation.) I think that's your fourth Threes medal, right, Donna? One of these days I'll get around to updating the Threes Winners spreadsheet and then we can start a running winners' tally board. I think Joe might still be ahead overall with five wins, but I'd need to double check.
Meanwhile, it was a fun quiz this time around--the kick of these Threes trivia questions is to get you guys to say "OMG! I forgot that actor was in that film!" or "No way! He/she was in that one?"
So what actor was in Class, Speed, and Star Trek Generations? Just heybattaheybattaheybatta suhwiiiingbatta at the Inviso-Text!
Yes of course it was Alan Ruck, aka Cameron Frye--you didn't really think I'd give you Ferris Beuller's Day Off as a clue, did you? Ruck appears this weekend as a parent--yep, Cameron's now a goofy parent himself!--in I Love You, Beth Cooper. (And who wouldn't LOVE to see a Ferris Beuller sequel in which grown up Ferris and Cameron have to deal with their own rebellious teens?)
1983's Class is one of those small, forgotten coming-of-age films that I watched over and over on pay cable movie channels during high school and college--it starred Andrew McCarthy and Rob Lowe as prep-school roomies. Ruck was in the background as one of their classmates. (Cusack and Virginia Madsen also have small parts.)
Then came Ferris, but despite everyone's love of Cameron, Ruck's film career has always sort of sputtered along. In fact, other than playing Cameron, he'll probably always be best remembered as a regular on the TV show Spin City.
But after Ferris and before Spin City, there was Young Guns II, and then of course Speed, where he played one of the bus hostages. In Star Trek Generations, Ruck had a brief appearance at the start as Capt. John Harriman, captain of the newly christened U.S.S. Enterprise-B--going down in Starfleet history as the captain who "lost" James T. Kirk.
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