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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. (15[1])In that film by this director, the same man repeatedly laughs over his childhood friend’s attempt at reciting Kaddish over (15[1])his own mother’s gravestone. This filmmaker directed (*) Sanford Meisner in his final film role and wrote the screenplays for Primary Colors and The Birdcage. A 1976 film by this director (10[1])follows two dysfunctional gangsters wandering in evasion of a hitman. (-5[1])For 10 points, A New Leaf, Ishtar, and Mikey and Nicky were directed by what comedy partner of Mike Nichols? ■END■ (10[1])

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