Packet 4: Tossup 7
Several songs from this film’s soundtrack, like “Pounding” and “Lucky,” are by a vocal trio whose member Suzzy Roche acts in this film as the baseball fan Marilyn. A woman in this film says a story about her, four men, and a cabbage is “absolutely true;” that woman was played by Rosemary Harris after a Nobel-winning author withdrew. In this movie, an old woman who asks “‘Vood?’ Vas is ‘vood?’” while the protagonist tries on a fedora was the only film role for theatre star Reizl Bozyk. In 2025, Criterion released a 4K UHD version of this 1988 film by the director of (*) Between the Lines and Chilly Scenes of Winter. In this film of a play by Susan Sandler, a book store employee meets a pickle shop owner played by Peter Riegert via her grandmother’s Jewish marriage broker. For 10 points, Amy Irving starred in what New York romcom by Joan Micklin Silver? ■END■
ANSWER: Crossing Delancey (The Nobel-winning author was Isaac Bashevis Singer, who pulled out due to stage fright.)
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