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,” (15[1])thereby inspiring Nile Rodgers (15[1])to use that phrase in the debut single by Chic. Two Australian hobbyists run a website titled in this form whose name is inspired by a movie (15[1])that holds (15[1])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 (10[1])in the Sydney (10[1])Pollack film that popularized this phrase, (10[1])which stars Jane Fonda as a woman trying to win 1500 in silver dollars during a Great Depression-era dance marathon. For 10 points, (10[1])the title of an online aggregate list of the top 1000 films is a riff (10[1])on what five-word question about euthanization of equines? ■END■

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