Round 6: Tossup 11

A character created by this author starts saying “movie” instead of “film” after a man tells him, “We make movies. American movies. Leave the films to the French.” It’s not John Steinbeck, but the careers of Gary Sinise and John Malkovich took off when they played two characters created by this author who fail to convince their mom that Picasso is dead. This author, who referenced the Gregory Peck movie The Gunfighter in his lyrics for Bob Dylan’s “Brownsville Girl,” is the subject of a Joni Mitchell song about his “coyote”-like womanizing. The line “I knew these people” begins a monologue written by this author, in which an (*) alcoholic uses the third person to recount his drunken abuse towards a woman performing in a peep show. Lee uses a golf club to smash his screenwriter brother (10[1])Austin’s typewriter in this author’s play True West. For 10 points, (10[1])what screenwriter of Paris, Texas played the farmer in Days of Heaven in the same year he wrote the play Buried Child? ■END■ (0[1])

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