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This director reprimanded a cameraman who had stopped filming a take because the two leads had left the set, reasoning that although that was true, “they might come back.” In a shot by this director, a man reads the Beginner’s Guide to Toxicology while in the background, his botanist wife teeters off the edge of a cliff trying to reach a fern. In a film by this director, a man grins while asking “do you have the time?” after smashing an heirloom wristwatch on the ground. In that film by this director, the same man repeatedly laughs over his childhood friend’s attempt at reciting Kaddish over his own mother’s gravestone. This filmmaker directed (*) Sanford Meisner in his final film role and wrote the screenplays for Primary Colors and The (-5[1])Birdcage. A 1976 film (10[1])by this director follows two dysfunctional gangsters wandering in evasion of a hitman. For 10 points, A New Leaf, (10[1])Ishtar, and Mikey and Nicky were directed by what comedy partner of Mike Nichols? ■END■

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