《《A Gooney Is Born (Short 1970)》》Storyline
He revealed he was being paid $20,000 each night, and had saved up enough to retire and buy a Fiddler""s Green apartment." (A few moments earlier, a man of that description, soon introduced as ""hoodlum"" Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden in his first major starring role), ducked behind a pillar as the car passed.]This was Katharine Hepburn""sonlyscrewball comedy role - it pushed all its characters to the utter extreme, aking them into absurd, embarrassing, and destabilizing, humiliating circumstances (including sex-role reversals, such as frilly cross-dressing and the search for a lost dinosaur bone and a pet leopard named ""Baby"") hat are wildly and ruthlessly fun.Claire promised that the next day, she would take them "into he control room, show you behind the scenes and all of that.A flood of hundreds of gallons of water was unleashed hrough the giant water faucet and deposited on the Boy""s head, and his body was violently propelled downward onto the railroad tracks.