Season 30, Day 9 - "Earthly Delights"
It's Man week, and today's quiz is inspired by "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
The Man Who Fell to Earth
“Just being me was perfectly adequate for the role. I wasn’t of this earth at that particular time.”
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 science fiction movie. David Bowie plays the title character, an alien named Thomas Jerome Newton who travels to Earth on a mission to take water back to his home planet. The movie also featured Rip Torn (Emmy-winner for The Larry Sanders Show) and Buck Henry (co-writer of The Graduate) in supporting roles, while Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell had a cameo as himself. The Man Who Fell to Earth was based on the novel of the same name by Walter Tevis. Other novels by Tevis include The Hustler and The Color of Money — both adapted into films starring Paul Newman as pool hustler “Fast Eddie” Felson — and The Queen’s Gambit, which was made into a popular Netflix miniseries starring Anya Taylor-Joy. The film’s director Nicolas Roeg (The Witches) apparently liked casting rock musicians: Mick Jagger and Art Garfunkel respectively starred in Roeg’s Performance and Bad Timing. The Man Who Fell to Earth inspired Lazarus, a jukebox musical featuring the music of David Bowie, which premiered Off-Broadway just a few months before Bowie’s death in 2016. The heavy metal band Iron Maiden appears to have borrowed the font for its distinctive logo from the poster for The Man Who Fell to Earth.