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In a long tracking shot from the 1993 film Dear Diary, the protagonist drives his scooter to the location where this event occurred, as the soundtrack plays a song from Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert. The second of a series of novels published under the collective title Literal Madness concerns this event, which the title character discusses with Romeo, Juliet, and the Brontë sisters. Kathy Acker wrote a surreal novel about this event. Due to its similarity to an event involving a researcher for a Palme d’Or-winning film, some theorize that this event was related to a plane crash that killed an oil magnate 13 years prior. This event occurred the day after a meeting in Stockholm with (*) Ingmar Bergman, as depicted in a 2014 biopic by Abel Ferrara starring Willem Dafoe. This event, which took place at a beach in Ostia, was likely motivated by its (10[1])homosexual subject’s Marxist activism. For 10 points, name this unsolved 1975 event that ended the life of the director of Salò. ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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