Wordplay Wednesday 3/14

[bwouns]

Wordplay Wednesday! Not so tough this week. Take the last name of a legendary star with a curvy figure. Divide the last name in half, and put the two halves in reverse order, as two separate words. Now you have something that can give you a curvy figure. Who’s the star?

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This one took me a while because I've never thought of the person in question to be particularly curvy. In the spirit of previous puzzles on this board, where people never give the actual answers to the question, I will only provide a hint (in white):

-Think of the first person that should come to everyone's mind when prompted with "legendary star with a curvy figure". She has the same consonants in the same order in her first name as the answer to the puzzle.-


*See what I did there.

[rockgolf]

That's rich!

[Paucle]

Got this without the hints, swear on a Gutenberg bible.

ETA: oops- got my Steve's confused. I wanted Landesberg. (But there was no Landesberg bible!)

[skullturfq]

I'm feeling dumb and could probably use more hints.

When you say "legendary star with a curvy figure", I think either of somebody like Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Mae West, Jane Russell, Raquel Welch, Dolly Parton, Christina Hendricks,... or else somebody like Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, Jackie Gleason, Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Farley,...

[marpocky]

I'm feeling dumb and could probably use more hints.

When you say "legendary star with a curvy figure", I think either of somebody like Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Mae West, Jane Russell, Raquel Welch, Dolly Parton, Christina Hendricks,... or else somebody like Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, Jackie Gleason, Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Farley,...

Your first instinct is relevant to bwouns's hint.

[skullturfq]

Ohhhhh. Ok, got it.

Yes, I didn't realize the person in question had a particularly curvy figure. A little before my time.

It turns out Marlon Brando, who satisfies the consonant hint given by bwouns, was a complete distraction.

[Ken Jennings]

When writing the question, I found several pieces talking about Blaue Engel-era Marlene as "voluptuous" etc., but I guess for the bulk of her career, she had a more androgynous kind of appeal, so maybe "curvy" was misleading.

[skullturfq]

Somewhat relevant:

One of my former roommates used to have a coffee mug with a kind of jokey cartoony picture on it, that said "World's Greatest Dieter". It had a picture of someone who had chained and locked their refrigerator. Obviously, "dieter" was meant to pronounced with three syllables, as in "one who goes on a diet."

But I liked to jokingly call it "World's Greatest Dieter", pronouncing "Dieter" like the two-syllable German man's name. As though the mug is for the person who does the best impression of Mike Myers' SNL character from "Schprockets."

[naurae29]

i definitely checked with google to find out if there was come brand of chocolate called a "dot bar."

[skullturfq]

And I spent some time wondering if there was a kind of bra called an "N.D.O. bra", that perhaps enhanced or exaggerated in some way.