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. . .so we still have three copies of Twisted Travels to give away. Here are descriptions of ten movies about the movies. (The movies are Filipino, Italian, American, and French.) Email answers to emotionalweatherreport@gmail.com. First three to get all the items right, OR the most number of correct answers by Thursday.

1. The narrator is floating face-down in a swimming pool, dead.
2. A director under pressure to deliver a new movie finds himself seriously blocked, checks into a spa, and retreats into his memories and fantasies.
3. A woman who once dreamed of movie stardom becomes a stage mother. Her son appears on a TV variety show singing Black Magic Woman, surrounded by dancers wearing hot pants and lots of fringe.
4. Everything takes place during the filming of Meet Pamela. The kitten will not cooperate.
5. A prostitute becomes an actress, but finds that she cannot take the intrigue and hypocrisy in show business.
6. A ruthless producer does everything he can to succeed, betraying his friends and trampling all who get in his way. When his father dies, he hires extras to show up at the funeral.
7. It’s the advent of the talkies, and one of the silent screen stars turns out to have a really annoying voice.
8. Two cousins debate: Ishmael Bernal or Lino Brocka?
9. During a turbulent time, a young man abroad is befriended by a brother and sister who live in a huge apartment without parental supervision and act out scenes from the movies.
10. Alfredo! Alfredo! Aiuto!