Round 1: Tossup 11

The protagonist conflates many people involved in these events while arguing with a playwright about a man with neurofibromatosis in a scene from A Different Man. The role of a person best-known for involvement in one of these events was Raoul Walsh’s breakthrough as an actor. A victim of this sort of crime is said to be “as dead as that crab meat” by a sweaty, sunglasses-wearing character played by John Candy. The last line of dialogue in The (*) Rock is a question (10[1])about this sort of crime discussed in another film by “Mr. X.” (10[1])It wasn’t depicted in Basic Instinct, but a Seinfeld parody of a film about this sort of crime uses the actor who plays Newman, Wayne Knight, (10[1])in the same way as that film’s demonstration involving the phrase “back and to the left.” For 10 points, (10[1])a 1991 Oliver Stone film concerns what sort of event (10[1])that was captured by the Zapruder film? ■END■

ANSWER: presidential assassinations [accept assassinations of a US president or murders of a US president; accept the assassinations of JFK or Abraham Lincoln or William McKinley; prompt on assassinations or murders by asking “of what sort of person?”] (Walsh played John Wilkes Booth in Birth of a Nation.)
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