New York Competition No. 18: Easter Sunday Matinee

By , New York’s city editor who joined the magazine in 1993

Welcome back to the New York Magazine Competition. On alternate Mondays, we’ll lay out a challenge and offer a sample responses. Enter in the comments section, or on Twitter with the hashtag we’ve provided, and the editors will select a winner. Criteria are highly subjective, but heavily retweeted and favorited posts will have an advantage. The prize is a year’s subscription to New York in print or a two-year subscription to the iPad edition (winner’s choice). Full rules are here.

COMPETITION NO. 18: EASTER SUNDAY MATINEE. Please suggest a film or TV title for Easter Sunday. For example:

BONNET AND CLYDE

HERE COMES BUNNY BOO BOO

THE HUNT FOR RED EGGS

STRANGER THAN CRUCIFIXION

Enter in the comments below, or on Twitter with the hashtag #easterentertainment, by April 2. 

RESULTS OF COMPETITION NO. 17: BIOGRAPHY IN A COUPLET, in which you were asked to capture a well-known life in two rhymed lines.

HONORABLE MENTION TO:

Ewww look at that guy, he’s just so ick
Oh right, it’s only Robin Thicke
—loobs

Demonstrable talents of one Courtney Love:
Rocking out here on Earth, search and rescue above.
—@marontheweb  

Miley Cyrus’ endless twerking
Only proves her glutes are working.
— @kimstory  

Sarah Palin looks good in a frock.
Unfortunately, she’s as dumb as a rock. 
—@schimmelgoldart  

Emily Dickinson hid at home,
Tweeting to us, poem after poem.
—@HopperAtoZ  

Christie had lofty presidential goals
But we all know for whom the bridge tolls.
— @SusanRispler  

Barry Bonds could have been a legend, but instead
As his homers inflated, so did his head.
—@bobsit10  

Pastorius?
Inglorious!
—frankcoyne 

Bill de Blasio is nobody’s fool,
’Cause he didn’t go to a charter school.
—KimBarget

Scope out Vin Diesel, and what you’ll have seen is
A walking and talking, muscular penis.
—acrosticpoetrybymartin 

Pierre de Fermat was too aloof
To copy down his famous proof.
—@DanielGalef  

Lena Dunham: TV’s heroine, or one if its pests?
It really depends on what you think of her breasts.
—ndesq

AND THE WINNER IS:

Paula Deen makes amends by trying to feed us
Although she is racist and has diabetes.
—@Jap_Rap 

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