Round 1: Tossup 5

Tom Ruddy and Peter Sellars replaced this author’s script after this author quit Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear, due to Godard’s suggestion that this author’s daughter play his lover. During a fight on the set of this author’s movie Maidstone, he bit off a chunk of Rip Torn’s ear. D. A. Pennebaker’s documentary Town Bloody Hall depicts this author’s debates with feminists like Germaine Greer. This author played Stanford White in Miloš Forman’s Ragtime and Harry Houdini in the second film in a series by a director who depicted his reincarnation as various cars in the film River of (*) Fundament. In this author’s film Tough Guys Don’t Dance, the camera swivels around a beach while Ryan O’Neal repeats “oh man” and “oh God.” Leon Gast interviewed George Plimpton and this author for his documentary When We Were Kings, because he had covered the film’s subject, the Rumble in the Jungle, in his book The Fight. For 10 points, name this author of The Executioner’s Song. ■END■ (10[1])

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