Oct.03
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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Julius Caesar Was a Prodigy

Last week, we gave two pretty juicy hints. The first was "[W]e'll say that if you can't figure it out, you may never be able to forgive yourself. Yep, you'll be Unforgiven." And just in case anyone thought that was a reference to Metallica, we gave this additional hint: "we very much wanted to write a headline that included the phrase 'The Dark Knight,' but there was no plausible way to do it, except to cheat and write something like "The Dark Night.'"

And here is the solution, courtesy of reader S.K. in Ardmore, PA:

Each headline contains the name of a movie that Morgan Freeman appeared in.

And, of course, Freeman was also in Unforgiven, from your hint.

I was thrown off the trail a bit at first, because for the third headline, I was thinking of the film Crimes and Misdemeanors, which did not have Freeman in it.

Yep. Of course, Freeman was also in the Christian Bale Batman trilogy, and he appeared in one of the film versions of Julius Caesar, from this headline.

Here are the first 50 readers to get it right:

  1. E.W. in Skaneateles, NY
  2. S.K. in Greensboro, NC
  3. M.L. in Tahoe City, CA
  4. I.H. in Occupied DC
  5. M.M. in Dunellen, NJ
  6. M.W. in Altea, Spain
  7. J.N. in Zionsville, IN
  8. R.S. in Pittsgrove, NJ
  9. W.V. in San Jacinto, CA
  10. J.R. in Austin, TX
  11. M.B. in Albany, NY
  12. T.K. in Half Moon Bay, St. Kitts
  13. A.G. in Plano, TX
  14. A.H. in Gainesville, VA
  15. K.R. in Austin, TX
  16. S.K. in Ardmore
  17. M.F. in Norwood, MA
  18. J.L. in Sterling, MA
  19. M.H. in Ottawa, ON, Canada
  20. W.M. in Livonia, MI
  21. H.K. in Berlin, Germany
  22. D.S. in Layton, UT
  23. N.H. in London, England, UK
  24. B.K. in Mystic, CT
  25. R.S. in Landing, NJ
  1. M.K. in Long Branch, NJ
  2. M.J. in Oakdale, MN
  3. J.A.W. in Queens, NY
  4. N.C. in Columbus, MS
  5. B.K.J. in San Diego, CA
  6. A.D. in Gaithersburg, MD
  7. M.S. in Poplar Bluff, MO
  8. R.D.D. in Nantucket, MA
  9. S.W. in Winter Garden, FL
  10. S.D.S. in Las Vegas, NV
  11. M.Z. in Sharon, MA
  12. E.S. in Providence, RI
  13. B.R. in Berwyn, PA
  14. P.R. in Kirksville, MO
  15. J.F. in Fayetteville, NC
  16. S.G. in Durham, NC
  17. K.F. in Berea, KY
  18. D.R. in Petoskey, MI
  19. H.S. in Lake Forest, CA
  20. N.S. in Fayetteville, NY
  21. P.L. in Skövde, Sweden
  22. C.S. in Haddonfield, NJ
  23. C.A. in West Palm Beach, FL
  24. D.H. in Portland, OR
  25. J.P. in Rowland Heights, CA

The 50th correct response was received at 6:49 a.m. PT on Friday.

For this week's theme, it relies on one/two words per headline, and it's in the category Music. A hint: There is one headline that actually has two correct answers, one obvious, one not.

If you have a guess, send it to comments@electoral-vote.com with subject line October 3 Headlines. (Z)


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