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 (-5[1])1973 “Battle of (*) Versailles.” One of these events (-5[1])involving skeletons and priests occurs at the Vatican in Federico Fellini’s Roma, which may have inspired a twee sequence set in a mall in David Byrne’s True Stories. Male critics were baffled (-5[1])by a six-minute Technicolor sequence of this sort of event in George Cukor’s The Women. For 10 points, actors travel to Fifth Avenue to participate in what sort of event at the Met (10[1])Gala? ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

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