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This is not the prize, I just wanted to show you this book. Butch passed me his copy of Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson. He bought it new, a first edition, from Powerbooks about a month ago, and it literally fell apart while he was reading it. (Correction on previous post on Tree of Smoke: Johnson was not a consultant on Apocalypse Now, but he’s spent time in the Philippines. By the way, does anyone know if William Boyd actually came here to research The Blue Afternoon?) Maybe the good people of Farrar Straus Giroux need to check their binding. I don’t mind having the book in pieces, though—this way I don’t have to lug the entire doorstop-sized volume around, just the chunks I’m reading.

Now the contest. The prize is. . .a copy of Stars and Bars by William Boyd, which was adapted for film in the 90s. Mediocre, but it stars Daniel Day-Lewis. The book goes to the first person who answers all these questions correctly. Thanks to Chus and Ricky for thinking up the items.

1. In which movie does Rita Gomez tell her daughter in her distinct Rita Gomez enunciation: “Why don’t you traahvel? Go to Yooh-rope.”
2. Name the movie in which Ricky has one line: “O, tapos?”
3. Noel and I suspect we are the only people who have seen all the movies by this American writer-director whose first movie contains an extended argument about Mansfield Park.
4. What movie contains this bit of dialogue:
– Mag-ko-confrontation scene ba tayo?
– Wag na, nakakapagod.
5. Stefania Sandrelli and Dominique Sanda do the tango in which movie?

10.52am. Ha! No entries yet, and in this instance googling will not help you! Okay, item 2 is too specialized, as in only Ricky’s friends would know, so here’s a clue: Sharon Cuneta stars in it.

21.21. Ha! Only one entry posted, with a score of 2/5. The answers:  1) Ina, Kasusuklaman Ba Kita? 2) Crying Ladies by Mark Meilly 3) Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan; his other movies are Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco 4) Salawahan by Ishmael Bernal, a treasure trove of great lines, and 5) The Conformist by Bernardo Bertolucci.

No one wins Contest #3. The prize will be given out in Contest #4.