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This screenwriter first asked to be assigned to Mickey Mouse cartoons, not realizing that his employer, MGM, didn’t make them. This writer met longtime romantic interest Meta Carpenter after writing the script for Today We Live. This writer worked with Leigh Brackett on a script that includes the exchange, “What’s (15[1])wrong with you?” — “Nothing you can’t fix.” An alcoholic parody of this writer vomits in a studio bathroom in (*) Barton Fink. This (10[1])author’s (-5[1])greatest film successes were adaptations of other writers’ novels for his drinking buddy Howard Hawks, including To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep. For 10 points, name this writer who moved to Hollywood after failing to make money off of his novel about Joe Christmas, Light in August. ■END■ (10[1])

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