Take me to the Nicknameolodeon! Barnyard creatures barnstorming; A “cinenym” of an antonym of “remove...ie” How to tweak a talkie; “Oh I’d love to be an Oscar (Why her!) winner”

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“Schbuzzle” of the Week:

“Oh I’d love to be an Oscar (Why her!) winner...”

“... that is what I’d truly like to be,

’cause if I were an Oscar (Why her!) winner

everyone would be in love with me!”

Take the last word in a buzz phrase from a popular movie that won multiple Oscars. 

Replace its last letter with the two letters that flank
it in the alphabet to name a popular entertainer who has won many Grammys but no Oscars. 

Who is this entertainer?

What is the buzz phrase?

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Note: We are proud to unveil this week the debut of “GB’s Bafflers” on Puzzleria! The new feature is the brainchild of our friend GB. 

His inaugural puzzle, serendipitously and cinematipitously, dovetails beautifully with this week’s Oscar theme. 

Cinematic Sci-Fi Appetizer:

A “cinenym” of an antonym of “remove...ie”

🎥Take the title of a classic Science Fiction film in two words, fifteen letters. That film is
universally considered to be groundbreaking; a pioneer; and culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. 

The title includes a repeated vowel and a repeated consonant. Remove the second instance of each of those. 

Then remove from the beginning and end of the result four letters in order that spell a noun
that is a synonym of an antonym of “remove”.  

The remaining letters, in order, form a nine-letter two-word term for what we all are now experiencing.  

What is the film title?  

What are we now experiencing? 

Hint: The film’s visual effects team was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards.  

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“Nick Is Just A Four-Letter Word” Slice:

Take me to the Nicknameolodeon

Two main characters in movie nominated for a best-picture Oscar each had a nickname that included a four-letter word. 

Switch the positions of two letters in one four-letter word to spell the other four-letter word. 

Who are these characters?

Riffing Off Shortz And Regan Slices:

Barnyard creatures barnstorming

Will Shortz’s April 18th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Theodore Regan of Scituate, Massachusetts, reads:

Name a famous actor — 4 letters in the first name, 7 letters in the last. You can change the first letter of the actor’s first name to name a bird. And you can change the first letter of the actor’s last name to name a mammal. Who’s
the actor?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Regan Slices read:

ENTREE #1 (ROAD HOG ENTREE... for those eating Greecy Turkey off of fine China)

Name a puzzle-maker — 8 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. You can rearrange these 13 letters to spell three words:

1. a nymph, beginning with a vowel, one might have found on on the forested hills of the Areopagus in Greece,

2. the dwelling place of a dryad (a nymph related to the Areopagus nymph), and

3. a commercial establishment or house of foreign trade in China.

Who’s the puzzle-maker?

What are the nymph, dwelling place and commercial establishment?

ENTREE #2

Oscar Hammerstein II is the only person named Oscar who has won an Oscar. He did it twice, for Best Original Song.

Name a playwright named Oscar who never won an Oscar. 

Add an “r” to the end of his surname to spell a new 6-letter surname shared by two male members of the Academy who between them have either won or been nominated for more than 20 Oscars. 

The first names of those two men sound like the two names in the title of a 1980’s Grammy-winning song (but that are spelled differently).

Who is the playwright named Oscar?

Who are the two men who between them either won or were nominated for more than 20 Oscars?

What is the Grammy-winning song?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous singer — 5 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. 

You can remove the first letter of the singer’s
first name to name a university town in the Midwest. 

And you can change the first letter of the singer’s last name to name a university that has lately been in the news. 

Who’s the singer?

ENTREE #4

Name a famous past entertainer and actress — 7 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. 

The second syllable of the entertainer’s first name sounds like the name of a trained mammal. 

And the entertainer’s last name is an object often associated with such a mammal. 

Who’s the entertainer?

ENTREE #5

Name an actress — 4 letters in the first name, 8 letters in the last. The actress’s first name is a bird. And you can rearrange the eight letters of the actress’s last name to name a five-letter mammal and a three-letter prefix associated with birds. 

But you can also rearrange the eight letters of her last name to name a Eastern
U.S. state postal abbreviation and something the mammal has four of.

Who’s the actress?

What are the prefix and the mammal?

What are the postal abbreviation and what that certain mammal has four of?

Hint: The last name of a character the the actress portrayed on TV is a reptile.

ENTREE #6

Name a stately and plump literary character — 4 letters in the first name, 8 letters in the last. You can change the first letter of the character’s first name to name a bird. 

And you can change the first of the first four letters of the literary character’s last name to name a second bird. You can rearrange the remaining four letters in the last name to spell (no, not a third bird, but rather) the name of a character played by Teri Garr (who was also an Oscar nominee for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in the movie “Tootsie”... it was a “Tootsie role”).

Who’s the literary character?

What are the pair of birds and the character played by Teri Garr?

ENTREE #7

Name a famous author — 7 letters in the first name, 7 letters in the last. 

Remove six consecutive letters, the first five of which are the name of a French city. 

The result is certain birds.

Who’s the author?

What are the birds?

ENTREE #8

Name a famous past radio personality — 4 letters in the first name, 8 letters in the last. 

Add two letters to the beginning of the first name to spell a bird. 

Remove four letters from the end of the last name to spell where this bird may perch. 

Who’s the personality? 

What are the bird and the perch.

ENTREE #9

Name a famous author — in 7 letters and with a bit of punctuation in the name. 

Duplicate the first three letters and place these trios of letters side-by-side to name a type of insect. 

Replace the last letter of the remaining four letters with an “n” to spell a mammal.

Who is the author?

What are the insect and the mammal?

ENTREE #10

Name an American cultural icon associated with “dropping balls” and “pyramids,” 4 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. 

You can replace the first letter of the icon’s first name with two letters to name a young bird. 

Or, you can change the second letter of the icon’s first name with one letter to name a different bird. 

And you can remove the first letter of the actor’s last name to name a third bird. 

Who’s the icon?

What are the three birds?

ENTREE #11

Name a late European author, first and last names, and a living three-time Oscar nominated actress, first and last names. 

Two of those four names are “George” and “Laurie.” 

The other two names can be put next to each
other to spell a bird. 

Change one letter in the name of the bird to form something abrasive. 

Who are the author and actress?

What is the bird?

What is the abrasive thing?

ENTREE #12

Name a trusted journalist — 6 letters in the first name, 8 letters in the last. The journalist, while a student at the University of Texas at Austin, appeared in a play with fellow student Eli Wallach (who at the age of 94 received an Honorary Oscar  for his contribution to the film industry from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).

Remove the first letter from the journalist’s first name, leaving a synonym of “change.” Put that first letter in place the fourth letter of his last name, thereby “changing” the last name so that it spells a pair of four-letter birds. 

Who’s the journalist?

What are the pair of birds?

ENTREE #13

Name an actor, screenwriter and director who was nominated for two Oscars — 4 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. 

The Oscar nomination he received for a screenplay involved a movie which climaxed
at a church wedding. 

You can change the first letter of this person’s first name to name a bird. 

The first three letters of this person’s surname spell a second bird. 

Place the 4-letter site of a well-known wedding in front of the remaining two letters in the surname to name a third bird.

Who’s this actor/screenwriter/director?

What are the three birds?

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Working To Perk Up A Screenplay Dessert:

How to tweak a talkie

Take a memorable ten-word quote from the script of a classic Oscar-winning film. Insert a “t” somewhere in the last word. 

The result arguably improves the quote by adding more information. 

What are the original last word and the word it becomes?

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