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18 Correctly Guess Film Festival Guest
Port Townsend–Cheryl Brass of Seattle offered the first among 18 correct entries in the annual Port Townsend Film Festival "Guess-the-Guest" contest. Just 13 days into the contest, Brass correctly identified Debra Winger and Arliss Howard as the husband-and-wife special guests
Weekly clues were issued during the month of July.
Brass will be invited to a private reception to meet and have her photograph taken Winger and Howard during the festival.
The 17 other correct guessers include: Greg Blackmer, Neptune Beach, FL: Linda Bovee, Bothell; Esko and Megan Cate, Port Townsend; Ed Francis, Oakland, OR; Sherri Howard, Port Townsend; Jill Kinyon, Seattle; Connie Kinyon, Sequim; Melanie Krouse, Oak Harbor; Sharon Miller, Pensacola, FL; Elena Mullin, Seattle; Mary D. Rizzardi, Port Townsend; Leslie Schroeder and Lee Wolodkewitsch, Port Townsend; Erin Shield, Port Angeles; Trish Stornetta, Port Townsend; Diane Thrasher, Escondido, CA; Richard Whittier, Sequim, and Sharon Doe (last name and residence not given).
Connie Kinyon was randomly selected from the above list to also meet the actors.
Each winner will receive a poster for the 2005 festival. (Name) will receive an invitation to a private reception for Winger and Howard and will have their picture taken together. Thirty other contest participants correctly guessed the names of one of the guests, but not both.
"We were admittedly tricky in our clues," Peter Simpson, festival director, said. "Some years the clues have been so obvious that we had several correct guesses the first week."
Those who correctly guessed at least one of the guests included:
- For Arliss Howard - Joyce Blankenship, John Danks, Gloria Hays, Denise M Hubbard, Nina S Jones, Connie Kenyon, Gina Lanza, Julie Lanza, Teresa Marks, John McMillen, Jennifer Nielsen, Lynn Nowak, April Owen, Ashly Pearson, Marsha Pearson, Darlene Quayle, Andrew Shogren, Maureen Wachsmith, and Travis Wilson,
- For Debra Winger: John C.Brewer, Jean Chapin, Barbara Fee, Julia Fuentes, Marty Gay, Diane Holmes, Moira Macdonald, Sue Raley, Bobbie Ryan, JES Schumacher, and Steve Shively,
No other actresses were proposed by contestants, but 10 actors were: Sir Richard Attenborough, William Baldwin, James Franciscus, Jeff Goldblum (the most frequently mentioned after Howard), Jake Gyllenhaal. George Hamilton. Dustin Hoffman. Anthony Hopkins. Samuel L Jackson. and Seattle-based actor, Tom Skerritt.
The clues centered around the guests' careers rather than their private life.
The first week identified roles they had played: superhero sibling, and western army man. Winger played Wonder Woman's sister in the 1976 television series, while Howard played the role of Private Cowboy in "Full Metal Jacket."
The second clue looked at the dilemmas faced by their characters: "Half tourist, half traveller, and dinosaur exploiter. Winger's character in "The Sheltering Sky" described herself as "half tourist, half traveller." Howard's character in "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" was bent on the exploitation of the ancient creatures.
Characters' surnames had a local ring in the third week's clues: Winger played a character named "Dawn Anna Townsend" in the recent television film, "Dawn Anna," while Howard's character in "The Lost world: Jurassic Park" was named Peter Ludlow.
Finally, two lines of dialogue were offered the last week: "You know something? You ain't nothing special," a line of Winger's character in "An Officer and a Gentleman," and "Some dreams ruin being awake, if you know the difference. Best not to know," spoken by Howard's character in "Big Bad Love."
Each year, the film festival honors actors of special note during the weekend event. Previous honorees have included Tony Curtis (200), Eva Marie Saint (2001), Patricia Neal (2002), Shirley Knight (2003), and Jane Powell (2004), All but Powell were Oscar® contenders or winners. Winger received three Oscar® nominations as best actress, the first being for "An Office and a Gentleman," the 1982 film shot mostly in Port Townsend.