Round 7: Tossup 12

A work by this author includes the parenthetical remark “I cannot bring myself to prefer Johnny Weissmuller to Lex Barker, I cannot!” A reader of Life magazine accused this author of “necrophilia” for writing a series of eulogies for James Dean. This author proclaimed “Motion Picture Industry, / it’s you I love!” in a work titled “To the Film Industry in Crisis.” (15[1])A work by this author that opens by asking the “mothers of America” to “let your kids go to the movies!” has the tongue-in-cheek title “Ave Maria.” A newspaper this author read on a (*) ferry to Staten Island inspired him to write a work declaring that “there is no snow in Hollywood.” This author’s manifesto “Personism” asserts that “only Whitman and Crane and Williams … are better than the movies.” This author mocked tabloid headlines in a poem that tells the title sex symbol, “we love you get up.” For 10 points, “Lana Turner has collapsed!” appears in what author’s collection Lunch Poems? ■END■ (0[2])

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