Packet 1: Tossup 5

Tom Ruddy and Peter Sellars replaced this author’s script after this author quit Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear, due to Godard’s suggestion that this (15[1])author’s daughter (15[1])play his lover. During a fight on the set of this author’s movie Maidstone, he bit off (15[1])a chunk (15[1])of Rip Torn’s ear. (15[1])D. (-5[1])A. Pennebaker’s (-5[1])documentary Town Bloody Hall depicts this author’s debates (15[2])with feminists like Germaine Greer. (-5[1])This author played Stanford White in Miloš Forman’s Ragtime and Harry Houdini (15[1])in the second film in a series by a director who depicted his reincarnation as various cars in the film River of (*) Fundament. In this author’s film (-5[1])Tough Guys Don’t Dance, the camera swivels around a beach while Ryan O’Neal repeats (10[1])“oh man” and “oh God.” Leon Gast interviewed (-5[1])George Plimpton and this author for his documentary When We Were Kings, because he had covered the film’s subject, the Rumble in the Jungle, (10[1])in his book The Fight. For 10 points, name this author (10[1])of The Executioner’s Song. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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