Round 6: Tossup 6

The title song of the Avalanches’ album Wildflower samples a film by a director with this surname in which a man says, “no shit?!” upon learning about the pectin in “Ethereal Cereal.” In a film by a director with this surname, a man incessantly asks “how many syllables, Mario?” after a CEO dies during a board meeting. A director with this surname is the “princely” dedicatee of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza. That white director with this surname used his own voice to dub a 1969 film’s Black lead, who could never remember his lines. A Black woman forms the middle finger in a flip-the-bird gesture on the poster of a film by a director with this surname that satirizes the 60s Madison Avenue (*) ad scene. The director of Putney Swope shares this surname (10[1])with his actor son, who recreated the final speech from The Great Dictator in the film Chaplin. For 10 points, an actor (10[1])with what surname made the documentary Sr. as a tribute to his father, also named Robert? ■END■

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