Packet 11: Tossup 11

Ken Kelsch and Nicholas St. John were this director’s usual DOP and screenwriting partner. This (15[1])director tried to run away from NBC Studios before an infamously abrasive Late Night interview with Conan O’Brien. (15[1])A baseball radio show (15[1])plays over the opening credits of a film by this director, presaging a scene (15[1])in which the tag out of Darryl Strawberry leads (-5[1])the protagonist (-5[1])to shoot his car’s radio. This director and Zoë Tamerlis Lund, the star of his film Ms. 45, (15[1])co-wrote a film (15[1])whose (15[1])protagonist (15[1])moans “forgive (15[1])me!” and screams “you (*) ratfuck” at a vision of Christ after failing to persuade a nun to let him avenge her rape. One of the Notorious B.I.G.’s aliases was the title character of a film by this director that features the volatile gangster “Jimmy Jump.” This director depicted the drug trade in two 1990s films about boss Frank White, played by Christopher Walken, and a cop played by Harvey Keitel. (10[1])For 10 points, name this director of King of New York and Bad Lieutenant. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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