Charades or charade ( /ʃəˈrɑːdz/ shə-RAHDZ or /ʃəˈreɪdz/ shə-RAYDZ) is a word guessing game. In the form most played today, it is an acting game in which one player acts out a word or phrase, often by miming similar-sounding words, and the other players guess the word or phrase. The idea is to use physical rather than verbal language to convey the meaning to another party. It is also sometimes called Activity, after the board game.[citation needed]
Though less commonly it was originally also used to indicate a riddle either in verse or prose, of which the listener must guess the meaning, often given syllable by syllable—see riddle. In France the word 'charade' still refers to this kind of linguistic riddle.
Charades has been made into a television show in the form of the Canadian Acting Crazy and Party Game, the British Give Us a Clue, the Australian The Celebrity Game, the American Pantomime Quiz, its revival Stump the Stars, Celebrity Charades, Showoffs, and its revival Body Language. Give Us a Clue has also been parodied in Sound Charades, played on the BBC Radio 4 panel game show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. The ISIHAC version, permits players to speak and so describe a scene (often a pun of the title word), which the opposing team has to guess.
Scarlett Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress, model and singer.
Johansson made her film debut in North (1994) and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Manny & Lo (1996). She rose to further prominence with her roles in The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Ghost World (2001). She shifted to adult roles with her performances in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003), for which she won a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Both films earned her Golden Globe Award nominations.
A role in A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) earned Johansson a third Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination. Johansson garnered another Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress with her role in Woody Allen's Match Point (2005). She went on to star in two further Allen movies: Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). Johansson has appeared in other successful films, such as Christopher Nolan's The Prestige (2006). Johansson played popular Marvel comic book character Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff in the films Iron Man 2 (2010) and The Avengers (2012).
James Thomas "Jimmy" Fallon, Jr. (born September 19, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, singer, musician and television host. He currently hosts Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a late-night talk show that airs Monday through Friday on NBC. Prior to that he appeared in several films, and was best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998–2004.
James Thomas Fallon, Jr., was born in Brooklyn, New York. Jimmy is the son of Gloria and James Fallon, Sr., who is a Vietnam War veteran. His family later settled in Saugerties, New York, while his father worked at IBM in nearby Kingston, New York. He is of Irish descent. As a child, he and his older sister, Gloria, would reenact the “clean parts” of Saturday Night Live that his parents had taped for him. Fallon was such a fan of Saturday Night Live that he made a weekly event of watching it in his dormitory during college. In his teens, he impressed his parents with different impersonations, the first being of James Cagney. He was also musically inclined, and started playing guitar at age 13. He would go on to mix comedy and music in contests and shows.
Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American film, theater, and television actor. He is known for his roles in the films The Hangover, The A-Team, Wedding Crashers, and Limitless. In 2011, People magazine named Cooper "Sexiest Man Alive".
Cooper was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (née Campano), is Italian-American, and his father, Charles J. Cooper, was Irish-American and worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch. He has one sister named Holly. Cooper was raised Catholic. While attending Germantown Academy, Cooper worked at the Philadelphia Daily News. After graduating from Germantown Academy in 1993, he attended Villanova University for his freshman year, then transferred to Georgetown University, from which he graduated with an honors BA in English in 1997. Cooper became fluent in French at Georgetown and spent six months as an exchange student in Aix-en-Provence, France. Later, in 2000, he received an MFA in acting from Actors Studio Drama School at The New School in New York City.
Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the Soundscan era. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of former baseball player Tug McGraw.
McGraw had 11 consecutive albums debut at Number One on the Billboard albums charts. Twenty-one singles hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. He has won 3 Grammys, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards, and 3 People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with Faith Hill is the highest grossing tour in country music history, and one of the top five among all genres of music.
McGraw has ventured into acting, with supporting roles in The Blind Side (with Sandra Bullock), Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, and Four Christmases (with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon), and lead roles in Flicka (2006) and Country Strong (2010). He was a minority owner of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats. Taylor Swift's debut single, "Tim McGraw", refers to him and his song, "Can't Tell Me Nothin'".
I do believe - You were strong in forming violence!
We were strong performing silence...
I do believe - You were strong in forming violence!
We were strong performing silence...
We are deceived,all the toys of our convenience,
Opening our hearts to the brilliance
We are deceived,all the toys of our convenience,
Opening our hearts to the brilliance
Love is strong, hearing as loud as gunfire away,
Never wrong, constantly dreaming of another way.
If love is wrong, go ahead and end the world with your charades.
Never wrong, constantly dreaming of another way.
I do believe - You were strong in forming violence!
We were strong performing silence...
I do believe - You were strong in forming violence!
We were strong performing silence...
We are deceived,all the toys of our convenience,
Opening our hearts to the brilliance
We are deceived,all the toys of our convenience,
Opening our hearts to the brilliance
Love is strong, hearing as loud as gunfire away,
Never wrong, constantly dreaming of another way
If love is wrong, go ahead and end the world with your chrades.
Never wrong,
constantly dreaming of another,
another day day day day day day day day day!
Find me a red bag
one without a tag.
Hope that you are near
valliantly appear
Find me a red... bag!
Na na na na na...
Love is strong, hearing as loud as gunfire away,
Never wrong, constantly dreaming of another way.
If love is wrong
go ahead and end the world with it's charades
Never wrong
constantly dreaming of another
another day day day day day day day day day!
Find me a red bag
one without a tag
Hope that you are near
valliantly appear
I’ve been thinking that lately you’ve been being far too honest; you waste my time away
And you know it; you always show it, nagging me for hours to drive me out
And I’ve been thinking for months just dreaming that for once you’ll get it;
we’ll set the record straight
But this time, it seems to be another flaw in my mind; I’ll get it done in time
Running on empty one too many times, I haven’t had a decent sleep in nights
Is it in my head?
Nothing was ever said to give it all away
Playing your game of charades
The secret to your mind means I’ll come back in time playing your game of charades
I’m getting tired, lacking motivation, I deny frustration; I can’t get out
Always reminding me of dedication, procrastination is how I pout
Constant aggression is a killer lifestyle; my mind just runs wild when you’re around
Take it or leave it, I am out the door now and taking my vow; I’m homeward bound
Running on empty for the very last time, I haven’t had a decent sleep in nights
It appeared to be, she blamed me
Can’t you take the blame about your game of charades?
Inside lies a chance to stay, you pushed away
And I find you’re waiting, dying
I tried to get her everything she can handle
I like a girl to wear boy shorts for pajamas
Maybe it's me!
I'm so cold, I think I can melt candles
And while you're sitting on the beach
Trying to get a tan, I just pulled a tendon
Boy, you're so sexy, you think you got it made
You smile when you like it away from me
You're talking not two sides of your face
But I'm supposed to go, well I'm not OK!
I'm so guarded, I've been hurt, see
I'm so cold now, someone burned me
Yeah, I like you, yeah you like me
But I can see
Your charades
I can see, I can see, I can see
Your charades
I can see, I can see, I can see
Oh, you got me guarded like an army grenade
Don't hurt me, I don't have what it takes
If you wonder why I'm throwing you shade
Your charades!
I like models I like... I like rappers
I like different kind of shapes, different swaggers
Oh, oh, but I can see beyond the face of a kiss
Oh, if something's deeper I'm so ...
I'm so guarded, I've been hurt, see
I'm so cold now, someone burned me
Yeah, I like you, yeah you like me
But I can see
Your charades
I can see, I can see, I can see
Your charades
I can see, I can see, I can see
Oh, you got me guarded like an army grenade
Don't hurt me, I don't have what it takes
If you wonder why I'm throwing you shade
Your charades!
Crossing the line is something that I wouldn't do
Me and your brother, we've been cool since back in middle school
And now I'm thinking pitiful, two crosses on the spiritual
I am counting dead presidents off in the living room
Feeling you masseuse, yeah they call me Deuce
That's short for seducing, duce you to my coop
Coop, this is baby! Baby, this is Coop
Those acting shady, I put them in the caboose
The end to the end, I'm talking me and you
Who? Ain't no I, I hit it for like an hour
Hit it like... she won't need a towel
And she like I!
But I can see
Your charades
I can see, I can see, I can see
Your charades
I can see, I can see, I can see
Oh, you got me guarded like an army grenade
Don't hurt me, I don't have what it takes
If you wonder why I'm throwing you shade
It's Your charades!
I can see your charades
Roping the beast as we're crushed underfoot
As we're tied to our backs, as our oxygen's cut
What the hell were we thinking when we went from the gut?
Mix up the signals, confuse the transmission
We're licking our wounds and arousing suspicion
But I'll paste on a smooth face - what the hell's a clean break?
Bring out your hooks again
It's some bitter pill to swallow
Where's the sidewalk end?
You'd better start talking...
You threw a fit when they ransacked your fortress
Well what can I do when I'm locked in your hope chest?
You take the guess work out of making a new mess
I cocked an ear to the traffic outside
I wondered what it would be like to fly
But I'll paste on a smooth face - what the fuck is a clean break?
Bring out your hooks again
It's some bitter pill to swallow
Where's the sidewalk end?
You'd better start talking...
Be a dear, fetch the razor. It's time to cut me loose again.
You think I'm so easy
And you think I'm so naïve
Well you better think a little harder
Because you're not the first I've ever seen
And what you think ain't so bad
If you use it for what you want to see
And what I want ain't so bad
It's a part of what we are and what we need
And you think I, I didn't notice
What surrounds you and swallows you so whole
Not for a second or a minute did realize there's a reason
that I ever have stopped it from taking you
Let it all swallow you
Don't be afraid
Because I'm only here to share with you my world
We could swim in the ocean or we could sit up on the sands
And dream of the way that we could be
So, so what should we do now?
Lyrics: Michael Gibson
Vocal: Maxwell Caulfield
I'm all dressed up in my finest attitude
Pretending I don't care.
Guess I really messed up by trying to be two,
When only one heart can be there.
Why can't I be just what I am,
And speak my love without any shame?
Why can't she see what I am,
Is a costumed fool trapped in a tragic game?
Charades and pretty lies
They hide what's deep inside me.
Charades do disguise
All the love I keep inside me.
Charades! Can't see me,
But can you feel the real me,
The real me behind my charades?
Oh, please don't mind me,
Performing at my hardest
As I paint upon the air.
You won't find me
Cause it's a portrait of the artist
As a man who isn't there.
(Chorus)
Can't you feel the real me,
Behind my charades?
Have I lost the real me,
Behind my charades?
There has just got to be a way out of here
Got a little motivation. charades
Got a little hesitation. charades
Got all the trains at stations, it not what you say.
Taking covert trips down to Adelaide.
Adelaide.
Making homemade glasses of lemonade.
Lemonade.
Taking covert trips down to Adelaide. adelaide
She thought I wasn't. Charades
Got' a little motivation, charades
Got a little hesitation. Charades
Got all the trains at stations, charades
It's not what you say. Charades X2
The pressure around me,
I'm starting to lose control.(Our hearts will be there x2)
This game we are playing,
Pretending that we don't know. (Our hearts will be there x2)
Confusion surrounds me,
I know that I must let go. (Our hearts will be there x7)
(Our hearts)
(Our hearts will be there x8)
Taking covert trips down to Adelaide.
Adelaide.
Making homemade glasses of lemonade.
Lemonade.
She thought I wasn't. Charades
Got' a little motivation, charades
Got a little hesitation. Charades
Got all the trains at stations, charades
It's not what you say. Charades