ROyalty and “mice-presiDENTS” sphinX marks the spot; A handful of Best Picture Oscar non-winners; 7-up...loaded jpeg pics, plus 1

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (1110 + 98) SERVED

Welcome to our March 9th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Think of us as the “Uncola” of puzzle blogs. Our puzzles are served up fresh every week. You like us, and we like you.

On our menus this week are:
ONE Caption-Happy Appetizer💚;
ONE  Vice-Slice💛;
ONE  Oscar Wilder Dessert💜; and
SEVEN Land-Marky Mark Riff Offs💙💙💙💙💙💙💙.

Have fun solving!  

Appetizer Menu

Caption-Happy Appetizer:
7-up...loaded jpeg pics, plus 1


Write two-word captions for each of the eight images pictured here. 
If you have the right ones, seven captions will rhyme with the two-word name of a person who has recently been in the news...
But one of the captions will sound exactly like the two-word name of that same recently newsworthy person.
What are your eight captions?
Who is the person who has recently been in the news?

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Vice-Slice:
ROyalty and “mice-presiDENTS”

“Jerry, Chip and Dale are mice.”
That statement is not completely true. True, Jerry (of Tom and Jerry fame) is a mouse. But Chip and Dale, although they are rodents, are not mice but chipmunks.
“(U.S., 40) (U.K., 52) (U.S., 16) (U.S., 44) (U.S., 45) (U.S., 48).”
How does the partially true statement relate to the abbreviations and numbers in parentheses immediately above?
Hint: The key to solving this puzzle pertains to names of some who are second-in-command, those biding their time before they may become “top bananas,” commanders-in-chief and kings – that is to say, people like vice-presidents and princes.

Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:
sphinX marks the spot

Will Shortz’s March 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Peter Collins, reads:
Name a famous singer — first and last names. Change the last three letters of each name to an E and you’ll name a well-known landmark. What is it?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz and Collins Slices read:
ONE:
Name a signature song, in one word, made famous by a country quartet. Name a similar country quartet, in three words, that sang the song on 1990s TV as a tribute to the first group. Change the last three letters of the second group’s middle word to an E. 
Change the second and third letters of the song title to two different consonants and change the last letter of the title to an E. If you place the altered song title in front of the altered middle word in the second group’s name you’ll name the first two words of a well-known landmark. What are the landmark, the song title and the two country quartets?
TWO:
Name a somewhat famous sports executive — first and last names. Change the last three letters of each name to two different letters with alphanumeric values that are evenly divisible by a prime number greater than three and you’ll name a well-known landmark. What is it?
THREE:
Describe what you have if you are safeguarding your retirement savings in a bank vault, in a three-word phrase of 6, 4 and 3 letters. 
Change the last three letters of the first word to an H and the last four letters of the remainder of the phrase to an S. You’ll name a well-known landmark. What is it?
FOUR:
Name a well-known landmark, in two words. Remove the last two letters of the first word and change the last two letters of the second word to a C and O. You’ll name a fictional evil scientist who was a nemesis of Donnie, Mikey, Leo and Raph. Who is the scientist and what is the landmark?
FIVE: 
Name a somewhat famous singer — first and last names. Remove the last two letters of the first name. 
Spell the last name backward, then replace the first five letters of that result with a T. Reverse the order of the altered first and last names and you’ll name a well-known landmark. What is it? Who is the singer?
Hint: The name of the landmark is also the name of another singer.
SIX:
Name a somewhat famous lead singer in a past rock group — first and last names. Interchange the second and second-last letters of the last name, then remove last three letters from this result. Interchange the first and last names and remove the space to form a word that the Gateway Arch, Space Needle, Old Faithful, Golden Gate Bridge or White House is an example of. 
Who is the singer? What is the word?
SEVEN:
Name a not-at-all-well-known actress— first and last names. Remove the last letter of the first name. In her last name replace the M with an L and the A with a Y. Interchange the first and last names and you’ll name a well-known landmark. What is it? Who is the little-known actress? 

Dessert Menu

Marilyn Never Won An Oscar Either Dessert:
A handful of Best Picture Oscar non-winners

Consider the following list of cinematic titles:
“Kenner,” “New Orleans,” “Alexandria,” “Fargo”...
“Kenner” is a 1969 movie drama  starring Jim Brown in the title role.
“New Orleans” is a 1947  movie romance featuring Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong.
“Alexandria” is a 2001 Greek  movie drama.
“Fargo” is a 1996 black comedy crime thriller nominated for a best picture Oscar.
These four titles are related to the title of a movie that was very much mentioned during a television broadcast of a relatively recent Oscars awards ceremony. 
This movie title was also mentioned a few times during the most recent Oscars ceremony broadcast on Sunday, March 4th 2018. 
What is this movie title? How do the four other movie titles relate to this more recent movie title?

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)


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