Round 1: Tossup 16

An adaptation of this book featured Hollywood movies’ first use of the word “bullshit.” For an adaptation of this book, the cinematographer Conrad L. Hall improvised a shot in which rain on a window reflects on a man’s face, giving the impression that he’s crying. The author of this book was told, “fuck you, he’s doing the music” by that film’s director when he asked why Quincy Jones was chosen as its composer. At the end (-5[1])of that adaptation of this book, a man chews gum while saying “I’d like to apologize. But who to?” and asks a priest, “is God in this place, too?” just before being (*) hung. As depicted in Bennett Miller’s debut feature, this book’s author regaled Alvin (10[1])Dewey’s family with stories about Hollywood. Richard Brooks’s adaptation of this book starring Scott Wilson and Robert Blake was partially shot at its primary setting, a house in Holcomb. For 10 points, a 2005 biopic stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as the author of what true crime book by Truman Capote? ■END■ (10[1])

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