The Pollitt family has begun to gather to celebrate he sixty-fifth birthday of the domineering Mississippi plantation owner and patriarch, Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives)." He claimed his father didn""t just recover, but also improved.He proposed developing a more aggressive virus strain that also improved intelligence.To his surprise, Jacobs gave the go-ahead for him to start testing a revised ALZ-112 on chimps as soon as possible.She notices him standing shadowy and menacing in the doorway.In a visually distorted, point-of-view shot, Alicia""s head spins 180 degrees.Devlin""s slightly-angled image urns clockwise as he approaches until he is shown standing upside down.I go down to the kitchen and order dinner.Then there""s the ladies"" luncheon and bridge, always the same ladies.Then dinner - the same people we dined with last week.After dinner, poker for the men and women for the women.There""s talk of children and doctors and servants and the garden club...I can""t go on liking he same things forever and ever...I want all the lovely things I""ve got a right to.In Europe, a woman of my age is just getting o the point where men begin to take a serious interest in her.