Packet 5: Tossup 9

This thinker usually ate pork pies while watching movies in the front row, according to the text of Eduardo Paolozzi’s painting series As Is When depicting this thinker “admiring” Betty Hutton and Betty Grable. Ethan Coen’s senior thesis at Princeton was on (15[1])this thinker. In a 1993 film, this thinker illustrates why (15[1])he can’t “understand” lions by sketching (15[1])a “very pleasant pineapple.” (15[1])In Terry Eagleton’s (15[1])script for that film, this thinker is asked “how many toes do philosophers have?” by a green (15[1])Martian and refuses to admit that there “isn’t a (*) rhinoceros in [a] room.” (-5[1])This thinker loved Tom Mix westerns and watched a movie nearly every day, according to memoirs by Norman Malcolm. Black backdrops (10[1])are used throughout (10[1])a Derek Jarman film that fictionalizes (10[1])this queer thinker’s tryst (10[1])with the lover of his patron (10[1])John Maynard Keynes. For 10 points, name this thinker who often sprinted to the cinema after lecturing at Cambridge, where he had studied under Bertrand Russell. ■END■ (10[2])

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