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 English professor. One of 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 (15[1])of Aunt Dan and Lemon (-5[1])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 Asia” (10[1])is the most famous (10[1])“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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