Round 4: Tossup 5

The TV host Xuxa (“SHOO-shuh”) once gave a person with this profession five lucky New Year’s kisses. Growing up around his uncle Maurice, who had this profession, informed Jean-Louis Trintignant’s (“tran-teen-YAWN’s”) performance as a widower with this profession in Claude Lelouch’s (“luh-LOOSH’s”) film A Man and a Woman. According to a 2013 film, a person with this profession interrupted his own last rites by saying “tell the priest to fuck off, I’m still alive!” A man with this profession kisses the first Bond girl, Linda Christian, in a photo taken just before his (*) death. Two YouTube videos by Patrick Willems discuss the cinematography of films about characters with this profession directed by John Frankenheimer and Tony Scott, the latter of (10[1])which was the first movie to pair Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise. A Brazilian with this profession is the subject of an (10[1])Asif Kapadia documentary that depicts his rivalry with Alain Prost. For 10 points, name this profession depicted in Days of Thunder, Rush, Senna, and Grand Prix. ■END■

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