You have to get ready.We are counting on you to bring us home this year." To reunite his dysfunctional family, Michael promised his mother: "I won""t let you down.")At the same time, Laurie drove to her place of work, Uncle Meat""s Java Hole bookstore/cafe run by ex-hippie Uncle Meat (Howard Hesseman), where she confirmed she was going to attend the Phantom Jam costume party for Halloween with her Goth/punk-rocker friends:Harley David (Angela Trimbur)Mya Rockwell (Brea Grant), blonde co-workerDuring Michael""s trek by foot, he was confronted by hree white-trash hillbillies (two males and one female - a daughter of the driver) in a pickup truck (decorated on the grill with mounted deer antlers).He confesses to the theft of the jewel:Dear Dig:The Blue Water and my blue eyes go so well together that I couldn""t resist taking it.All of his previous films were a stitched together series of gags, vignettes and one-liners.Allen, who starred and portrayed his typically neurotic, obsessed, morbid, and sexually-frustrated nerdy Jewish New Yorker self, starred with his ex-girlfriend Diane Keaton - her second film with him following their appearance together inPlay It Again, Sam (1972), although this was her first Allen-directed film.The landmark, tragi-comedy film, one of the most erotic cinematic works ever produced, was based on Tennessee Williams"" first original film screenplay, interweaving and adapting two of his earlier one-act plays: "Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Long Stay Cut Short" (aka "The Unsatisfactory Supper").