Round 2: Tossup 6
19 years after being grounded for shoplifting this author’s novel The Switch, a director adapted its sequel. In an adaptation of a novel by this author, a couple flirt by discussing Faye Dunaway’s roles in Bonnie and Clyde, Network, and Three Days of the Condor while trapped in a car trunk. An adaptation of a novel by this author cuts from a shot of a man approaching an airport locker filled with cash to one of Harvey Keitel playing him on a Penny Marshall movie set. One should never use the phrases “suddenly” or “all hell broke loose” or open with weather, according to this author’s “10 (*) rules” for writing. In a novel by this author, a scream queen forms a film production team with Miami loan shark “Chili” Palmer. Michael Keaton played an FBI agent created by this author in both the first Clooney-Soderbergh film and a 1997 adaptation of his novel Rum Punch. For 10 points, name this author of the crime novels that inspired Out of Sight, Jackie Brown, and Get Shorty. ■END■
ANSWER: Elmore Leonard [or Elmore John Leonard Jr.] (The director in the first line is Quentin Tarantino; Jackie Brown is the sequel to The Switch.)
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