Round 9: Tossup 5

One of Mike Nichols’s few stage roles was in a play by this former brother-in-law of Jamaica Kincaid about Jack, an embattled (15[2])English professor. One (15[1])of (15[1])the bits from the Blank Check podcast is this author’s stilted delivery of the line “come in!” from Jonathan Demme’s (“DEM-ee’s”) film of Ibsen’s The Master Builder. This playwright of Aunt Dan and Lemon and The Designated Mourner is the son of a man who had a litany of phobias like elevators and was editor of The (*) New Yorker for over 30 years. This writer’s best-known acting role is a man who derides Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates as “morons,” remarks that “never get involved in a land war in (10[1])Asia” is the most famous “classic blunder,” and repeatedly exclaims “inconceivable!” For 10 points, a 1981 Louis Malle (“mal”) film chronicles André Gregory’s dinner with what writer, who played Vizzini in The Princess Bride? ■END■

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