Round 7: Tossup 2

The artist Gene Pool grew grass for a scene depicting this sort of event overseen by the director’s then-wife Adelle Lutz. Nunnally Johnson used names coined by William Travilla for objects in a scene depicting one of these events in his script for How to Marry a Millionaire. A sequence depicting this sort of event is set to the song “Dream Operator.” Actresses like Kay Thompson and Liza Minnelli propped up America’s reputation in these events at the so-called 1973 “Battle of (*) Versailles.” One of these (-5[1])events involving skeletons and priests occurs at the Vatican in Federico Fellini’s Roma, (10[1])which may have inspired a twee sequence set in a mall in David Byrne’s True Stories. Male critics were baffled by a six-minute Technicolor sequence of this sort of event (10[1])in George Cukor’s The Women. For 10 points, actors travel to Fifth Avenue to participate in what sort of event at the Met Gala? ■END■ (10[1])

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