Round 7: Tossup 8
A song by this musician plays as Freddie Heflin confesses his love for Liz by telling her “all the best girls were taken” in Cop Land. This musician thanked Paul Schrader in the liner notes for an album whose title track was renamed after one of his scripts. A long take of a cop crying in front of his mother’s hearse while dancing to a song by this musician opens a 2018 short-turned-feature film by Jim Cummings. Rob listens to his daughter’s cover of a song by this musician at the end of (*) Pig. This musician wrote and performed the title tracks of Dead Man Walking and The Wrestler. An Oscar-winning song by this musician plays over a montage depicting the Ben Franklin Bridge and Liberty Place skyscrapers that opens Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia. In a video by Brian De Palma, this musician dances on stage with a fan played by a then-unknown Courtney Cox. For 10 points, the poster of a Robert Mitchum movie inspired what musician to write “Thunder Road”? ■END■
ANSWER: Bruce Springsteen [or Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen] (“Born in the U.S.A.” was renamed such after the working title of Schrader’s film Light and Day.)
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