Round 6: Tossup 11

A character created by this author starts saying “movie” instead of “film” after a man tells him, “We make movies. American movies. Leave the films to the French.” It’s not John Steinbeck, (-5[1])but the careers of Gary Sinise and John Malkovich took off when they played two characters created by this author (15[1])who (-5[1])fail to convince their mom that Picasso is dead. This author, who referenced the Gregory Peck movie The Gunfighter in his lyrics for Bob (15[1])Dylan’s “Brownsville Girl,” is the subject of a Joni Mitchell song about his “coyote”-like womanizing. (15[1])The line “I knew these people” begins a monologue written by this author, in which an (*) alcoholic uses the third person to recount his drunken abuse towards a woman performing in a peep show. Lee uses a golf club to smash his screenwriter (10[1])brother Austin’s (10[1])typewriter in this author’s play True West. For 10 points, (10[1])what screenwriter (10[1])of Paris, Texas played the farmer in Days of Heaven in the same year he wrote the play Buried Child? ■END■ (10[3])

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