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. (15[1])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 with his actor son, who recreated the final speech from The Great Dictator in the film Chaplin. For 10 points, an actor with what surname made the documentary Sr. as a tribute to his father, also named Robert? ■END■

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