Round 11: Tossup 1

For an adaptation of a novel by this non-Irish author, the director Frank Perry employed Roy Lichtenstein as a visual consultant. An essay by this author describes “[waiting] to hear” a line from a John Wayne movie “deep in that part of my heart where the artificial rain forever falls.” While working as a carpenter, Harrison Ford attended this author’s Easter parties, as discussed in a documentary by a relative of this author titled The Center Will Not Hold. (15[1])This author analyzed the influence (15[1])of Roger Corman’s The Wild Angels and other (*) biker pictures in a collection in which this author recounts buying Linda Kasabian a dress to wear to her trial. This author co-wrote the screenplays of Al Pacino’s breakthrough film, The Panic in Needle Park, and 1976’s A Star is Born. A 1970 novel by this aunt of Griffin Dunne follows the institutionalized actress Maria. For 10 points, name this author who critiqued Hollywood in the novel Play It As It Lays and the essay collection The White Album. ■END■

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