Packet 3: Tossup 7

A teacher created by this screenwriter sips orange juice while rejecting a student’s reading of Gloucester’s “as flies to wanton boys” speech. Renée Fleming’s diegetic performance in The Tales (-5[1])of Hoffmann (15[1])ends a film by this writer with a title taken from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. This writer (15[1])of You Can Count on Me (15[1])coerced an (15[1])86-year-old (15[2])Elaine May to make her Tony-winning (15[1])Broadway return for the revival of his play The Waverly Gallery. Martin Scorsese aided this writer during his 5-year legal battle (-5[1])with Searchlight over the editing of his film (*) Margaret. A character created by this (10[3])screenwriter hugs a teenager (10[1])after repeating (10[1])the phrase “I can’t beat it” and says “there’s nothing there” upon being told “you can’t just die!” by his tearful ex-wife. This screenwriter used “Adagio in G minor” to score a scene in which a man attempts suicide in a police station after learning of a tragedy in Massachusetts. For 10 points, name this writer-director of Manchester by the Sea. (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

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