Like ghosts appear in cigarette smoke

[sovay]

After careful perusal of box-office figures for 1981, we have determined that my answer to that data-scraping meme in which the main character of the number-one film of the year in which you were born is now starring in the first movie you ever saw is Indiana Jones and the Dancing Cavalier. Since spatch informs me that Indy was canonically born in 1899, he would be in his late twenties for the events of Singin' in the Rain (1952) and since I find it funnier to interpret this meme as a crossover rather than a substitution, I am now trying to figure out what archaeological mishegos he could be perpetrating in Hollywood that would bring him into contact with Cosmo, Kathy, and Don—and whether, depending on the nature of the mishegos and the timeline of his tenure at Marshall College, he could have Marcus with him. Inevitably, some producer is going to offer him a contract to star in an adventure serial.

Comments

[movingfinger]

Maybe Indy is in Hollywood consulting on a sword-and-sandals epic? The studio is trying to get ahead of audience fatigue with sheiks, but exotic locations sell! His advice will, naturally, be ignored where inconvenient and he will, naturally, be annoyed.

The Internet says Swiss Family Robinson was the top-grossing film of my year of birth, but if the lead character is the father, Mary Poppins becomes a very different movie. However, The Apartment (1960) won Best Picture in 1961, and Mary Poppins starring Jack Lemmon would be amazing, building on his fantastic performance as Daphne in Some Like It Hot.

[sovay]

His advice will, naturally, be ignored where inconvenient and he will, naturally, be annoyed.

There will be snakes.

However, The Apartment (1960) won Best Picture in 1961, and Mary Poppins starring Jack Lemmon would be amazing, building on his fantastic performance as Daphne in Some Like It Hot.

I would without the slightest irony love to see that.

[julian]

Ditto, on Mary Poppins w/Lemmon.