Round 2: Tossup 11

This actor inspired the stage name of a hiphop producer who released Rap Album Two. The musical Words and Music was the only film to credit this actor via his birth surname. This actor’s granddaughter is the guitarist of the band Runaway June. The Discord ping sound ends a song titled for this actor that JPEGMAFIA produced for Denzel Curry. On a bus ride to Phoenix, the protagonists of Smoke Signals sing about this actor’s teeth. “Living like he’s [this actor]” is part of the chorus on a song titled for this actor from the self-titled debut album by (*) Cigarettes After Sex. Jonas Åkerlund (“OCK-er-lund”) directed a Thriller-like dance in the video for a Lady Gaga song titled for this actor. The phrase (10[1])“when I die” (10[1])follows a catchphrase delivered by this actor on the title track of a 1958 album that was the last to be released by its singer before his death on the “Day the Music Died.” For 10 points, Buddy Holly wrote (-5[1])“That’ll be the Day” after watching what leading man in The Searchers? ■END■

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