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This director quit a science history Ph.D. at Princeton after having a glass ashtray yeeted at him by his advisor, Thomas Kuhn. Death threats led this director to omit mentioning an insurance fraud scheme via amputation that is ubiquitous in the title “Nub City” of one of his films. In a film by this director, a man in his eighties dwells on 11 lessons like “get the data” and “rationality alone will not save us.” While working on a film that ends with close-ups on a tape recorder, this director of Vernon, Florida told (*) Philip Glass that his music wasn’t repetitive enough. That film by this director features several extreme close-ups on a hypnotist’s clock, the schedule of a TV channel showing The Carol Burnett Show, and a spilt milkshake. This director of The Fog of War invented (10[1])the “Interrotron” (10[1])while working on a film that uses actors to restage testimony in Randall Dale Adams’s trial for allegedly killing a Dallas policeman. For 10 points, name this director of The Thin Blue Line. ■END■

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