Caligula

Updated: Now with answers at the bottom of the post
The following quiz is a random assortment of questions inspired by onscreen romances of the Best Actress nominees this year. Though not all of the questions are romantic in nature (murder, abuse and general movie questions also appear) we tried to start there. How many can you answer? The first person to answer each person gets credit when we update with the answers on Monday.
Bullock
Sandra Bullock plays adoptive mother and football fan Leanne Tuohy in The Blind Side. She's happily married to country star Tim McGraw in the film. In her other big hit this year, The Proposal her marriage with employee Ryan Reynolds is a business transaction.
Which of Sandra's former co-stars is actually married to a country star. And which movie did they star in together?Which two-time co-star of Sandra's was romantically involved with the »
- NATHANIEL R

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A funny thing happened on the way to the Vatican IMAX theater: Italy's ministry of health confiscated 7000 pairs of 3D glasses from cinemas. And they pledge to snatch away more, claiming the glasses could easily pass around "hygiene risks" if not disinfected between screenings, and that they lacked tags proving they don't cause vision problems.
That this sweeping health initiative should come so soon after the announcement of a 3D remake of Caligula by veteran Italian softcore auteur Tinto Brass is indeed suspicious -- it's perhaps the type of action taken by a nervous government after a presentation from public health officials on mass forehead-herpes outbreaks. But according to a new study from the University of California Berkeley, the Italians might well be onto something when it comes to those vision issues. And that's something Hollywood would love to sweep under the carpet. »

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It has dodgy sets (and wigs) but what makes I, Claudius great is the seminal acting and writing
• Next week, TV Club will be watching Alan Bleasdale's GBH, guided by John Crace. Join us for discussion on Wednesday March 3 - only a week away, but that's because you can watch the series easily on 4oD or, if you have digital channels, on Yesterday, where it is being reshown from March 1. See you next Wednesday!
Rewatching I, Claudius – some of which I remember, if not from its first airing on the BBC in 1976, then from repeats in the 1980s – one can't help but be struck by how much television drama has changed over the past 30 years. The drama has a claustrophobic, interior atmosphere not just because our subject is palace intrigue but, you suspect, because Mediterranean locations and fancy exterior shots were beyond the budget. (The programme was shot at »
- Charlotte Higgins

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