Round 4: Tossup 14

This author got angry at a director after receiving a script call while taking a shower, but nevertheless came up with a scene on the spot that ended up in a 1993 film. This author, who adapted Nabokov’s Despair for Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first English film, added a character called “Panama Hat” to the script of a 1989 film. At the end of a screenplay by this author, Viola de Lesseps suggests to the protagonist that their romance could inspire a play. Two Monty Python members and this author alluded to the flat where George (*) Orwell wrote 1984 by creating the enigmatic “Form 27B/6” (“27-B-stroke-6”). This non-American author wrote “almost every dialogue” of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the entire screenplay of Empire of the Sun. This co-writer of Brazil (10[1])adapted his own play into a film in which Tim Roth and Gary Oldman play a tennis game of questions. For 10 points, name this screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. ■END■ (10[1])

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