Round 10: Tossup 7

A book by this author explores the circumstances of Barry Brown’s suicide in a discussion of Brown’s performance as Frederick Winterbourne in Peter Bogdanovich’s adaptation of Daisy Miller. This author championed a 1972 performance by Ali MacGraw in a book positing that Kevin Thomas was the only L.A. Times critic (15[1])who ever seemed to enjoy his job. That book by this author recounts anecdotes about watching action movies like Black Gunn (15[1])and Rolling Thunder. This author (15[1])wondered how Brian De Palma would have directed (*) Taxi Driver (-5[1])in a book whose orange cover depicts Sam Peckinpah (10[2])and Steve McQueen. (10[1])The writings of Pauline Kael inspired this author’s nonfiction book Cinema Speculation. Real-life (10[1])actors like Aldo Ray and the stars of Lancer are characters in this author’s debut novel, which explicitly states that Cliff Booth murdered his wife. For 10 points, name this author who wrote the novelization of his own film Once (10[1])Upon a Time In Hollywood. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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