ROUND 2 META: THE PERFORMING ARTS
by Greg Brume
Starring as your demons: Francis Heaney and Jennifer Braun
Final activity: Make a bad sequel to Wordplay
Each puzzle in round 2 produces the name of a movie star. The video has hosts of an Entertainment Tonight rip-off; in each segment, one movie star is discussed while a picture of a different movie star appears. The stars from the puzzle answers can be inserted into the pairs from the video to complete a string of connections in the style of the "Kevin Bacon game."
| Mentioned star | Film link | Puzzle answer | Film link | Pictured star |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon Lovitz | Mom and Dad Save the World | JEFFREY JONES | Easy Money | Rodney Dangerfield |
| Christopher Lloyd | Angels in the Outfield | DANNY GLOVER | Lethal Weapon 4 | Chris Rock |
| Jack Black | King Kong | NAOMI WATTS | Tank Girl | Ice-T |
| Udo Kier | End of Days | KEVIN POLLAK | Outside Ozona | Meat Loaf |
| Will Smith | Ali | MYKELTI WILLIAMSON | Waiting to Exhale | Gregory Hines |
| Stephen Baldwin | Bio-Dome | WILLIAM ATHERTON | Oscar | Sylvester Stallone |
| Kevin Bacon | Animal House | KAREN ALLEN | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Harrison Ford |
| Jeff Daniels | Dumb & Dumber | LAUREN HOLLY | Down Periscope | Kelsey Grammer |
| Martin Landau | Sliver | POLLY WALKER | Patriot Games | Samuel L. Jackson |
| Wayne Knight | Everybody's All-American | JESSICA LANGE | Losing Isaiah | Cuba Gooding Jr. |
| Hank Azaria | Quiz Show | RALPH FIENNES | (The) Avengers | Sean Connery |
| Kathleen Turner | Undercover Blues | DENNIS QUAID | Yours Mine & Ours | Rene Russo |
Naming the movies in those connections allows you read down the acrostics (first of the named stars' movies, then of the pictured stars' movies), to produce MAKE A BAD SEQUEL TO WORDPLAY. Filming or staging a bad sequel to the crossword documentary Wordplay gets you the certificate.