Screen test: Test your Dann Gire knowledge

1. He is a former fencer.

2. He tried to get a job as an undercover drug agent.

3. He and John Records Landecker hosted a movie review show, "John and Dann Go to the Movies."

4. He was tear-gassed by the Rolling Meadows S.W.A.T. team.

5. He and John Malkovich met in college and became good friends.

6. He wrote and directed an award-winning film, "The Student Cops."

7. He only wears running shoes.

8. He met his wife Peggy on the set of their junior-high school production of "Oliver Twist."

9. He has an official James Bond shirt named in his honor.

10. He has won the Chicago Headline Club's Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in Arts Criticism more times than any other film critic.

11. Gene Kelly yelled at him.

12. He challenged the Buffalo Grove Police Department to a handgun shooting match and came in second.

13. He auditioned to be the new Captain Kangaroo.

Answers

1. T, on Eastern Illinois University's fencing team.

2. T, before he got into journalism.

3. T, for two years on WJMK 104.5 FM.

4. T, while playing a terrorist during training maneuvers in 1976.

5. F, although they studied together in Eastern Illinois University's theater department, they did not become good friends.

6. T, while he was in college.

7. T, and only New Balance.

8. T, he was the undertaker and she was an orphanage employee.

9. T, you can see it at ohmss.com.

10. T, six times.

11. T, for asking about the use of his song "Singing in the Rain" during the rape scene in "A Clockwork Orange."

12. T, in 1976.

13. T, in the 1990s.