Spectator competition winners: Hollywood ‘Jabberwocky’ (‘Twas Downey, and the Harrelsons/ Did Cruise and Walken in the Pitt…’)

For the latest challenge, inspired by the American parodist Frank Jacobs’s 1975 version of ‘Jabberwocky’, ‘As If Lewis Carroll Were a Hollywood Press Agent in the Thirties’, you were asked to come up with a Holly-wood-themed ‘Jabberwocky’ for our times. Jacobs begins: ”Twas Bogart and the Franchot Tones/ Did Greer and Garson in the Wayne;/ All Muni were the Lewis Stones,/And Rooneyed with Fontaine…’. Most (though not all) of you closely followed that tem-plate – to dazzling effect. Except Clive Norris, who veered off-piste with his Brexit-inspired ‘Junckerwocky’ (‘Twas Brexit, and the fishy Goves/ Did twist and tumble ‘neath the waves…’), which I enjoyed but disqualified on the grounds that it wasn’t what I asked for. Honourable mentions go to Rob Johnston and Joe Houlihan. Those printed below pocket £25 each.

Basil Ransome-Davies ‘Twas Downey, and the Harrelsons       Did Cruise and Walken in the Pitt. All Spacey were the Sarandons,       And Nicholsons half-lit.

‘Beware the Streepymeryl thing,       The wanxome Caine, the gribbled Crowe.