Who wrote the 1996 musical "Rent" but died the night before its first off-Broadway preview?

In which 1996 film does a nurse care for a man badly burned in a plane crash in the Sahara? The 1967 Oscar-winning film "Closely Watched Trains" came from which country? Which 1996 Republican presidential nominee had a last name that also means a handout to the needy? Who ran for president in 1996 as the candidate of the Reform Party? Ross Perot founded which political party, whose presidential nominee he was in 1996? In which 1996 film does Sean Connery lead Navy SEALs into Alcatraz to stop a madman? Which 1996 film includes the line "Shut up, just shut up. You had me at hello"? In which 1996 film does a sports agent have a moral epiphany and lose almost all his clients?