]Huston""s work was honored with four Academy Award nominations but no Oscars: Best Supporting Actor (Sam Jaffe), Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best B/W Cinematography (Harold Rosson, who lost toThe Third Man (1949)).Fisher joked about it with a sexy wisecrack:A dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.The dame fled with $40,000 of Sterling""s money.Taking Jeff into his diabolical web, Sterling hired Jeff to catch up with Kathie, agreeing on a deal and then explaining his motive for wanting her back - even after being shot by her:Whit: I just want her back.Like a prototypical film noirfemme fatale, she reacts coldly and unemotionally to the suicide.She notices his confession note in an envelope addressed to the District Attorney at the Hall of Justice in the pseudonymous town of Kenport...Pride is what got your ass out of here.Losing is what brung you back.But people like you, they need to be tested.Need a challenge...There""s always somebody out there.Always.And when that time comes, and you find something standing in front of you that ain""t running, that ain""t backing up, hitting on you, and you""re too damn tired to breathe.Evil character, and Danny DeVito as cigar-smoking Mini-Me.They were on a movie-set for the biopic of Austin Powers"" (Mike Myers) life directed by Steven Spielberg (as Himself).