Round 11: Tossup 16

A character with this profession cracks a meta joke by saying “in the movies it’s always like this” before using bed sheets to cover the breasts of a woman who cares for his rowdy brother Fido. A man with this profession witnesses a murder while feigning blindness in the 2018 Hindi film Andhadhun (15[1])(“un-dah-DOON”). This profession titles a film in which karaoke-style captions display the lyrics of a Boby Lapointe song about a voluptuous woman called “Raspberry.” In that 1960 film, voiceovers reveal the struggles of a man with this profession to woo the hardy waitress Léna, who knows his identity as (*) “Charlie Koller” is fake. Two bumbling gangsters pursue the criminal brothers of Edouard Saroyan, who conceals his expertise in this profession, in a film that was its director’s follow-up to The 400 Blows. For 10 points, pop singer Charles Aznavour starred in a François Truffaut (“frawn-swah troo-FOH”) noir film about a man with what profession whom people try to “shoot?” ■END■ (0[4])

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