Plum Crazy

Ok, I'll try this one last time before scrapping the venture. I've taken the lack of responses for a lack of interest, but maybe it's that my plots are too esoteric.

I offer up two plots this time. One that should be a give me for anyone with good short-term memory. The other tests your knowledge of movies past with the leading man from Rick's latest Name That. Your mission is to identify the two movies referenced in each plot, but remember, don't blurt, leave a subtle clue. And if you want dap for knowing them, don't tell me over the phone. Leave a comment.

#3: A washed-up playwright’s chance meeting with an aspiring boxer gives him one last shot at glory as he trains her for the role of a lifetime in his play about the child within all of us.

#4: A scheming newspaper editor, upon learning that his ex-wife is about to remarry, sends her to scoop all other newspapers by getting an exclusive interview with an escaped leopard about the dinosaur bone it has buried.