Please stick with the way that you do it: the apostrophe after the "s" and no extra letter. Not only is it grammatically correct, but it saves a keystroke! (I keep all my spare keystrokes thus saved in a big jar for use when I can't find my keyboard under the mess on top of my desk.)

I officially resurrect this thread, poking it with my glowing stick of undeath.

Just to remind you:

Emma by Jane Austen features Mr Knightley
Keira Knightly appeared in Pride and Prejudice

then a further 5 jumps ending with Sir Francis Bacon.

...Emma by Jane Austen features Mr Knightley, Keira Knightly appeared in Pride and Prejudice...

Pride and Prejudice has an alliterative title, like "East of Eden". East of Eden counts, among other themes, the book of genesis story of Cain and Able.

The story of Cain and able is also a theme of the book "Abel Sánchez" by Miguel de Unamuno. Miguel de Unamuno's best known book is "Mist".

"If that her breath will mist of stain the stone, Why, then she lives". is a quote from King Lear, by a mysterious author who probably also wrote Hamlet.

Quentin Crisp played Polonius in a version of Hamlet.

And finally, Francis Bacon wrote 'In felicem memoriam Elizabethae' a eulogy for a queen.

(If the last jump isn't good enough, well, Quentin played that very queen in Orlando, 1992

K, try this one:

Emma by Jane Austen features Mr Knightley
Keira Knightly appeared in Pride and Prejudice and Pirates of the Caribbean
Orlando Bloom, also in Pirates of the Caribbean, was in Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Rings also starred Andy Serkis, who is appearing in Einstein and Eddington with
David Tennant who, as well as being the current Dr. Who, acted in Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire with
Ralph Fiennes, playing Voldemort and is the brother of
Joseph Fiennes, as well as playing the Bard in Shakespeare in Love, was in the film version of Merchant of Venice, which wasn't written by Francis Bacon.

OOOH! I like that one! Too many book references though :)

ok here goes:

Emma by Jane Austen features Mr Knightley
Keira Knightly appeared in Pride and Prejudice.....

The 1940 film version of Pride and Prejudice starred Laurence Olivier as Darcy

The previous year, David Niven played Edgar Linton to Olivier's Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights.

Niven went on to play Flt Lt Peter Carter in 'A Matter of Life and Death', in the opening sequence of which he quotes Andrew Marvell over the radio of his burning plane to Kim Hunter. "..'and at my back I always hear, time's winged chariot hurrying near', I'd rather have written that than flown through Hitler's legs"

Andrew Marvell writer, poet and politician was born in 1621,

The year in which Sir Francis Bacon, writer poet and politician was impeached for bribery.

actually I think that may be 7 jumps, but I am new to this stuff!


Next suggestion for a starting point, maintaining the Niven theme, The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope.

niven is/was an awful actor, but his biography was very funny:)

Wasn't he the talky-toaster?

In my humble opinion, Niven was an underused and actually quite good actor . He won an Oscar for 'Seperate Tables' in 1958 so it can't just be me. He died from Motor Neurone Disease in 1983. He suffered from a chronic case of poor script selection though and did indeed appear in some dross.

In a truly Aornis like co-incidence, he died on the same day as Raymond Massey, his co-star in The Prisoner of Zenda and A Matter Of Life And Death.(I just found that on Wikipedia while checking on the date of his death, I don't carry this sort of thing around in my head, really).

What on earth is a talky-toaster? Wasn't that in Red Dwarf?

Talkie Toaster is indeed from Red Dwarf and was voiced by John Lenahan in Series 1 and David Ross in Series 4.

Amatter of Life and Death is (IMNSHO) a masterpiece. OTT but all the better for that.
Has anyone matched his Sir Percy Blakeney? (The 1950 version of The Scarlet Pimpernel)
I also fondly remember him as Count Dracula and Sir James Bond.

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Perhaps its because I read so many of the books and then the film fell flat on its face (at least for me) Sorry if I stepped on toes:)

I was thinking David Ross. Well come on. They *are* both called David...

<Wanders away muttering and decides to watch video of Robin Hood>

so, is anyone taking on my Prisoner of Zenda challenge?

I'd love to, but I haven't read it- or even heard of it. <Bad kitten, BAD!>

Mmm...bit of a difficult one to do in 6 jumps. I could do it in 3 or 7 easily but 6 was hard. This one is my particularly twisted take on it!!!

1. David Niven was in the film version of The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
2. Simon Hawkes wrote a Time Wars book, The Zenda Vendetta (1985), as well as the Ivanhoe Gambit
3. Ivanhoe was written by Sir Walter Scott, who was criticised by Mark Twain for glorifying war
4. A writer who certainly didn't glorify war was Robert Graves who, as well as writing poems condemning WWI, wrote the Greek Myths
5. Zeus was No. 1 Greek god, who (among many other things), seduced Ganymede - a young boy
6. Francis Bacon was also a notorious seducer of young boys (see [en.wikipedia.org])

A bit of a stretch between 3 and 4, I admit...

Give it a try. Good old swashbuckling fun and nice and short. The sequel is good too.
Give A Matter of Life and Death a shot too - it is indeed a masterpiece.

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> Perhaps its because I read so many of the books and then the film fell flat on its face (at least for me) Sorry if I stepped on toes:)

No toes hurt here! I would not presume to insist that my view is the correct one and everyone else is wrong (even when it is patently obvious that there is no other possible conclusion).

We are all entitled to our own opinions and all of you are lucky because you are entitled to minas as well :-)

Now to get from A Matter of life and Death to FB.........

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

If only we were also entitled to Minos.

...And Mintos - they're yummy.