Round 4: Tossup 18

The first sex scene between the two leads of a film about this activity is set to Maxwell’s cover of “This Woman’s Work” by Kate Bush. A wide shot in a film about this activity depicts hundreds of empty chairs in a hall where one of the protagonists’ mothers celebrates her graduation as a nursing assistant. In a Sight and Sound essay that recounts watching a film about this activity in a theatre filled with white folk, bell hooks criticizes its portrayal of Black fathers as “losers.” A Gina Prince-Bythewood film about this activity, at whose climax (*) Q tells Monica “double or nothing,” (10[1])is often described as a “Black When Harry Met Sally….” Orchestral works by Aaron Copland form the score of (10[1])a 1998 film about a felon whose son is skilled at this activity. A 1994 PBS special-turned-documentary about this activity follows Westchester, Illinois high schoolers William Gates and Arthur Agee. For 10 points, name this activity central to He Got Game and Hoop Dreams. ■END■

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