Packet 7: Tossup 2

The artist Gene Pool grew grass for a scene depicting this sort of event overseen by the director’s then-wife Adelle Lutz. Nunnally Johnson used names coined by William Travilla for objects in a scene depicting one of these events in his script for How to Marry a Millionaire. A sequence depicting this sort of event is set to the song “Dream Operator.” Actresses like Kay Thompson and Liza Minnelli propped up (15[1])America’s reputation in these events at the so-called (-5[1])1973 “Battle of (*) Versailles.” (10[1])One of these (10[1]-5[1])events (-5[1])involving skeletons and priests occurs at the Vatican in Federico Fellini’s Roma, (10[1])which may have inspired a twee sequence set in a mall in David Byrne’s True Stories. (10[1])Male critics were baffled (-5[1])by a six-minute Technicolor sequence of this sort of event (10[1])in George Cukor’s The Women. (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, actors travel to Fifth Avenue to participate in what sort of event (-5[1])at the Met (10[1])Gala? ■END■ (10[7]0[2])

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