Round 5: Tossup 16
A story by this author inspired a film in which a mother and daughter dance to James Taylor’s song “Handy Man” in separate rooms. A book by this author about five female gang members in this author’s frequent setting of Hammond, New York inspired the early Angelina Jolie movie Foxfire. Joyce Chopra cast Treat Williams and a teenaged Laura Dern in her adaptation of a story by this author, the 1985 film Smooth Talk. A 2000 novel by this author uses the initials “R. F.” for a man who orders a hit on the protagonist and refers to the protagonist’s (*) ex-husbands as the “Ex-Athlete” and “Playwright.” In a film adaptation of that novel by this author, the pregnant protagonist’s fetus talks to her near a rose bush. This author, who wrote “Norma Jean is me” in a journal while working on a novel adapted by Andrew Dominik, also wrote over a dozen tweets lambasting The Fabelmans. For 10 points, Ana de Armas played Marilyn Monroe in the film of what author’s novel Blonde? ■END■
ANSWER: Joyce Carol Oates (Smooth Talk is based on “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”.)
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