Packet 1: Tossup 12

The author of a biography of this actress titled Shadowland wrote a note to return a musician’s several calls about this actress on the same (-5[1])day that that musician died. This actress inspired the stage surname of a musician whose signature song is “Désenchantée” (“dayz-on-shawn-TAY”) and who dueted (15[1])with Sting on “Stolen Car.” It’s often thought that two musicians who thought their daughter’s sonogram resembled a kidney bean named her (15[1])after this actress, though her true (15[1])namesake is the guitarist of the (*) Vaselines. (10[3])A song about this actress alludes to a volcano (10[1])near her birthplace in declaring that she will “leave a blanket of ash on the ground” after “coming back as fire.” (10[1])“I miss the comfort in being sad” (10[1])is the chorus of a song about this actress’s psychiatric mistreatment on the album (10[1])In Utero. (10[2])For 10 points, what actress is the subject (10[1])of a Nirvana song about “her revenge on Seattle”? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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