Round 4: Tossup 9
An indie filmmaker from this state cast Joshua Burge as the lead of his underground black comedies Ape, Buzzard, Relaxer, and Vulcanizadora. In a 1989 documentary set in this home state of Joel Potrykus, rich people pay unemployed people to be human statues for a Great Gatsby-themed party. The set of a 1978 film about workers in this state was plagued by fights among its three stars: Yaphet Kotto, Harvey Keitel, and Richard Pryor. This state is the setting of Blue Collar, the first film directed by its native son Paul Schrader. A 1959 film set in this state stars the (*) lawyer Joseph N. Welch as a judge and has a jazz score by Duke Ellington. An Italian-American flautist named Carmine gave his son born in this state a middle name to honor his employer. A criminal trial in this state forms the plot of Otto Preminger’s drama Anatomy of a Murder. For 10 points, Michael Moore’s film Roger & Me is about what state’s workers being laid off by General Motors in Flint? ■END■
ANSWER: Michigan [or MI] (Carmine Coppola was working for Ford when Francis Ford Coppola was born.)
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