Round 1: Tossup 5

Tom Ruddy and Peter Sellars replaced this author’s script after this author quit Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear, due to Godard’s suggestion that this author’s daughter play his lover. During a fight on the set of this author’s movie Maidstone, he bit off a chunk of Rip Torn’s ear. D. A. Pennebaker’s documentary Town Bloody Hall depicts this author’s debates (15[1])with feminists like Germaine Greer. This author played Stanford White in Miloš Forman’s Ragtime and Harry Houdini in the second film in a series by a director who depicted his reincarnation as various cars in the film River of (*) Fundament. In this author’s film Tough Guys Don’t Dance, the camera swivels around a beach while Ryan O’Neal repeats “oh man” and “oh God.” Leon Gast interviewed (-5[1])George Plimpton and this author for his documentary When We Were Kings, because he had covered the film’s subject, the Rumble in the Jungle, (10[1])in his book The Fight. For 10 points, name this author of The Executioner’s Song. ■END■ (10[1])

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