Round 9: Tossup 21

Give the common phrase using “X” as a placeholder, such as “The Portrait of the Artist as a Young X”; naming any of the things described is also acceptable. Anecdotes about the eccentric woodsman Rancid Crabtree comprise a 1981 collection titled in this form by outdoors humorist Patrick McManus. A film titled in this form revived Ben Bernie’s trademark phrase “yowsah, yowsah, yowsah,” thereby inspiring Nile Rodgers to use that phrase in the debut single by Chic. Two Australian hobbyists run a website titled in this form whose name (15[1])is inspired by a movie that holds the record for most Oscar nominations without one for Best Picture. (15[1])Robert says a sentence in this form to a cop questioning him about Gloria’s death in the last line of a (*) 1935 novel by Horace McCoy. Gig Young won an Oscar for playing an emcee in the Sydney Pollack film that popularized this phrase, which stars Jane Fonda as a woman trying to win 1500 in silver dollars during a Great Depression-era dance marathon. For 10 points, the title of an online aggregate list of the top 1000 films is a riff on what five-word question about euthanization of equines? ■END■

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