Packet 10: Tossup 2

This author once left a viral voicemail berating an A/V company who “scrambled” the wiring “maze” of his home theater system. This author’s “Great Red Shark,” a Chevy Caprice convertible, appears in a scene in which a policeman who pulls over the protagonist for speeding (15[1])asks him for a kiss. An adaptation of a book by this author (15[1])opens with a garbled version of “My Favorite Things” over a shot of a helicopter. In a shot from a film based on a book by this author, TV static reflects on the protagonist sitting on a levitating sofa, after he avoids dunking a (*) radio playing “White Rabbit” into his (10[1])friend’s (10[1])bathtub. (10[2])The posters for Withnail (10[1])and I and Where the Buffalo Roam (10[1])were designed (10[1])by this author’s regular illustrator Ralph Steadman. In a (10[1])1998 film, a fictionalization of this author sees an orgy of lizard people while checking into (10[1])a hotel with his supposedly-Samoan lawyer. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author played by Johnny Depp in Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. ■END■ (10[1])

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