Round 7: Tossup 8

A song by this musician plays as Freddie Heflin confesses his love for Liz by telling her “all the best girls were taken” in Cop Land. This (15[1])musician thanked Paul Schrader in the liner notes for an album whose title track was renamed after one of his scripts. A long take of a cop crying in front of his mother’s hearse while dancing to a song by this musician opens a 2018 short-turned-feature film by Jim Cummings. Rob listens to his daughter’s cover of a song by this musician at the end of (*) Pig. This musician wrote and performed the title tracks of Dead Man Walking and The Wrestler. An Oscar-winning song by this musician plays over a montage depicting the Ben Franklin Bridge and Liberty Place skyscrapers that opens Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia. In a video (10[1])by Brian De Palma, this musician dances on stage with a fan played by a then-unknown Courtney Cox. For 10 points, (10[1])the poster of a Robert Mitchum movie inspired what musician to write “Thunder Road”? ■END■

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