Round 3: Tossup 9

At a party hosted by the Selznicks, this author asked John Wayne, “what do you do for a living?” This author once reenacted the opening of The Killers over a drink with his biographer Alfred Appel Jr., whose son Richard is the showrunner (15[1])of Family (15[1])Guy. In an adaptation of a novel by this author, a drunk man wearing a bedsheet like a toga is shot after playing “Roman table tennis.” (15[1])Questions like “do they teach you how to feel, (15[1])finger to finger?” precede phrases written by this author like “interlinked” and (15[1])“a tall white fountain played” (15[1])in the (*) replicant baseline tests in Blade (-5[1])Runner 2049. This author wrote a 400-page screenplay for a 1962 film version of his best-known novel, which a director who shared his passion for chess heavily edited (10[1])to conform to the (10[1])Hays Code. The poster of that film depicts heart-shaped (10[1])sunglasses under the text “how did (10[1])they ever make a film of [his best-known novel]?”. For 10 points, Stanley Kubrick adapted what author’s novel Lolita? ■END■

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