Round 2: Tossup 11

A 2011 film reveals that this job has been taken up by a failed Parisian writer who is the subject of La vie de bohème (“la vee duh boh-EM”). The male lead of Walter Salles’s (“SAH-less’s”) film Central Station had been working in this job when cast. The first winner of the Oscar for Best International Feature was a film titled for this job whose two protagonists rob a fortune teller to afford to buy a horse. (15[1])Marcel Marx, who has this job, shelters a Gabonese refugee boy in Aki Kaurismäki’s (“cow-riss-MACK-ee’s”) Le Havre (“luh AHV-ruh”). This job titles an early (*) neorealist film by Vittorio (10[1])de Sica. A man who used to work in this job screams “you bought your fucking button” and “you motherfucking mutt!” in a scene in which he murders a made man played by Frank Vincent. For 10 points, the protagonists of Goodfellas (-5[1])kill Billy Batts (-5[1])after he mocks Joe Pesci’s character for doing what job using a “shinebox?” (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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