Packet 10: Tossup 3

This writer declares Vertigo to be the “most overrated movie ever” in one of the “late conversations” included in Finale, a 2022 book on this writer by D. T. Max. At the time of his death, this writer was working with David Ives on (-5[1])Here We Are, a work based on two (15[1])Luis (15[1])Buñuel (15[1])(“boon-yoo-EL”) films. Anthony Perkins and this writer co-wrote the whodunit movie The Last of Sheila. (15[1])John Mulaney (15[1])parodied this (15[1])writer in the Documentary Now! episode “Co-Op,” which spoofs D. A. Pennebaker’s film about one of his works, (*) Original Cast Album. He’s not a basketball player, but this writer cameoed on a Zoom call with Benoit Blanc (“BEN-wah blonk”) and Angela Lansbury in Glass Onion. This writer won an Oscar for composing Madonna’s song “Sooner or Later” (10[1])from Dick Tracy. For 10 points, what lyricist of West Side Story wrote “Send in the Clowns” (10[1])for the Bergman-inspired musical A Little Night Music? ■END■

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