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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 02/05/2013 : 10:51:55
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TA:MOU = Themed Anniversary: Moving On Up
The Rules
Each Tuesday a theme will be decided based on the Anniversary of some significant event. All you have to do is trawl your reviews for any that relate to that event and post them here with a link.
You can post as many as you wish, so long as either the film or your review clearly relates to the theme. You can only post during the week of the current TA:MOU.
You don't have to say you voted unless you really want to - but you are expected to visit all the links posted.
ON THIS DAY: 5 February
TA:MOU time-travels to two testing challenges. One leads to riches, the other to quiet fun at the movies. The choice is yours.
> in 1869 The Welcome Stranger was unearthed in Victoria, Australia. It was the largest alluvial gold nugget in history. So mine your reviews for films which feature gold in any form: nuggets, ingots, whatever, but gold must be the focus of the film or provide its inciting incident.
OR
> in 1919 "the inmates took over the asylum" - or so claimed Metro Pictures head Richard Rowland. On that day DW Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and his wife Mary Pickford founded United Artists, with the help of media lawyer WG McAdoo [conveniently the son-in-law of President Wilson.] The original company had promised to produce five feature-length movies a year, but by 1924 it ran into big trouble.
Your TA:MOU task is to find fwfrs for feature films produced by UA during those early years.
Go'wan, strike it rich or run a reel.
Birthday Alternatives - the Wiki list
1906 � John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
1919 � Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
1946 � Charlotte Rampling, British actress
1948 � Christopher Guest, American actor and director
1948 � Barbara Hershey, American actress
1962 � Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
1964 � Laura Linney, American actress
969 � Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
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This week's TA:MOU - 5 February 2013
