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Fri 12 Dec 2006Oscar writing that's just rightThe official poster for next February's Academy Awards features 75 quotes from former best picture or screenplay nominees and winners, from "Can't you see I have you, Chump? Get me some sviskey" (The Great Ziegfeld, 1936) to "I wish I knew how to quit you" (Brokeback Mountain, 2005).Some are very obvious - "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" - but can you identify the sources of these quotes on the poster? Answers - no peeking - are at the end of the page.