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5.[Fever pitch] almost ignited, cloth thrown over(5,5)

vehicle - fever pitch
player - colin firth
wordplay - anag of cloth around "on fir[e]"

And brain blessed.

AIN(U). First thing I thought of long ago but it DIDN'T MAKE SENSE.

Correct Aristo...

1.[Tarzan] kicking off, blatant racism...”short Japanese people inferior in the sack”(5,7)

Tarzan/Brian Blessed

B-R-ain-BlessED

It's obvious in retrospect that I should have given more away in the intro, but I really expected that any one clue and LINK would reveal it quite quickly.

The player in 6 must be Tatum O'Neal, with the vehicle Little Darlings, but I can't see how the rest works yet. The Letter count for Tatum O'Neal doesn't match the answer.

I thought it was Tatum O'Neal but the letter count is wrong. So the letter count is for the final answer?

In 7 was toying with River Phoenix (legal in most states) - would it be Liver Phoenix now?

The answer is based around O'Neal peterm and does have a different letter count(probably another thing I should have mentioned in the intro) slightly obscure cluing hence the "?".

Letter count is for the final answer Aristo, not always the same as count for the player.

Correct with Liver Phoenix AB.