Round 3: Tossup 7

A teacher created by this screenwriter sips orange juice while rejecting a student’s reading of Gloucester’s “as flies to wanton boys” speech. Renée Fleming’s diegetic performance in The Tales of Hoffmann ends a film by this writer with a title taken from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. This writer of You Can Count on Me (15[1])coerced an 86-year-old Elaine May to make her Tony-winning Broadway return for the revival of his play The Waverly Gallery. Martin Scorsese aided this writer during his 5-year legal battle with Searchlight over the editing of his film (*) Margaret. A character created by this (10[1])screenwriter hugs a teenager after repeating the phrase “I can’t beat it” and says “there’s nothing there” upon being told “you can’t just die!” by his tearful ex-wife. This screenwriter used “Adagio in G minor” to score a scene in which a man attempts suicide in a police station after learning of a tragedy in Massachusetts. For 10 points, name this writer-director of Manchester by the Sea. ■END■

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