Less Than Zero

Finally a movie I haven't seen but want to on Hulu.

One Degree: Robert Downey Jr. and Tobey McGuire

First, the answer to last week's One Degree: Scarlett Johanssen and Rebecca Hall played the significant others of Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman, respectively in The Prestige. Now onto this week.

One of the best parts of Tropic Thunder were the fake trailers that opened the show. Tobey McGuire was perfect casting to star opposite Robert Downey Jr.'s character Kirk Lazarus in Satan's Alley, which kinda looked like In the Name of the Rose meets Brokeback Mountain. But it's not the first time Spiderman and Ironman have appeared together in a movie as lovers. What was the first movie the two actors starred in?

Leave your answers in the comments and check back next week!

One Degree: Two-Timing Robert Downey Jr.

First the answers to the last One Degree, which was all about Iron Man Robert Downey Jr.'s connections with the Batman franchise. He was movies with three Batmen: Game Six with Michael Keaton, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang with Val Kilmer, and Good Night and Good Luck with George Clooney. He never starred with Christian Bale, the fourth Batman, but he did star in Less Than Zero which was written by Bret Easton Ellis, who also wrote American Psycho, the movie that launched Bale. Finally, he also starred with a bunch of Batman's leading ladies: Uma Thurmann in Johnny Be Good, Nicole Kidman in Fur, and Katie Holmes in The Singing Detective.

To close out the month, Robert Downey Jr. has starred in two movies with each of the following stars.

Name two movies in which RDJ starred with any one of these two actors: Mel
Gibson, Woody Harrelson, Katie Holmes, Elizabeth Shue, Kevin Kline, Marissa
Tomei, Ian McKellen and Heather Graham.

Answers next week! Leave your guesses in the comments!

One Degree: Ironman and Batman

It's Robert Downey Jr. Month, so here's the answer to last week's One Degree: Robert Downey Jr. starred with Anthony Michael Hall in Weird Science, Eddie Murphy in Bowfinger, and Dan Akroyd (who he has named as his favorite SNL actor) in Chaplin. If you know of more answers, post them to last week's game.

RDJ month continues here at One Degree. Downey remarked in interviews for Iron Man that he's seen his arty peers go on to star in major summer blockbusters--specifically, Wonder Boy's co-star Tobey McGuire's turn as Spiderman--and wanted to make a similar splash. However, Downey has three times more in common with actors who have starred as Batman.

Name the three actors that portrayed Batman on the big screen then went on to costar in films with Downey, and name those three films.

As a bonus, Downey starred in a movie based on a book by an author who wrote another book that was adapted into the career-launching film for the fourth Batman star--name the author.

And for the golden snitch, there are three actresses who have portrayed either Bruce Wayne's love interest or Batman's femme fatale who have also been Downey's costar. This does not count his Gothika co-star Halle Berry, who starred in Catwoman but has never appeared in a Batman film. Name the actresses and the movies they starred in with Downey.

Answers next week! Post your answers in the comments! Have fun!

One Degree: Robert Downey Jr. and SNL

My faith in One Degree is restored. Two weeks ago I decided I would go on hiatus until I thought of topical One Degree trivia starring well-known actors who were in or about to be in the news, which would rule out actors like Romola Garai and Benedict Cumberbatch. However, two people correctly wrote that those two British actors had starred in Atonement and Amazing Grace and it wasn't even a formal question. So now I know a few people are paying attention.

If there is one actor who is in the news this week, it's Robert Downey, Jr. and for once, it's not for getting arrested. I've been overdosing on Robert Downey Jr. trivia following the release of Iron Man so now my entire left hemisphere is flooded with factoids about RDJ. In fact, my brain's so full, this may just kick off the start of Iron Month, just so I can purge before I go into shock. Here's the challenge for week one:

Robert Downey Jr. was a cast member of Saturday Night Live for one season and has starred with at least three other actors who once starred on SNL--name the cast members and the movies they appeared in together (Bonus points for identifying his favorite SNL cast member).

Answers next week! Post your answers to the comments! I made this one up, so maybe there's even a fourth cast member he's starred with--show me up! We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own...