Round 3: Tossup 9

At a party hosted by the Selznicks, this author asked John Wayne, “what do you do for a living?” This author once reenacted the opening of The Killers over a drink with his biographer Alfred Appel Jr., whose son Richard is the showrunner of Family Guy. In an adaptation of a novel by this author, a drunk man wearing a bedsheet like a toga is shot after playing “Roman table tennis.” Questions like “do they teach you how to feel, finger to finger?” precede phrases written by this author like “interlinked” and “a tall white fountain played” (15[1])in the (*) replicant baseline tests in Blade Runner 2049. This (10[1])author wrote a 400-page screenplay for a 1962 film version of his best-known novel, which a director who shared his passion for chess heavily edited to conform to the Hays Code. The poster of that film depicts heart-shaped sunglasses under the text “how did they ever (-5[1])make a film of [his best-known novel]?”. For 10 points, Stanley Kubrick adapted what author’s novel Lolita? ■END■ (10[1])

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