[Note: Their coupling immortalized them as a fantastic screen duo, joining others in the annals of cinematic history, such as Bogie and Bacall, Tracy and Hepburn, Garland and Rooney, Lewis and Martin, Astaire and Rogers, Day and Hudson, Hope and Crosby, and Newman and Redford.Refusing to be intimidated, Rick doesn""t explain the reason for refusing to do business with him - just a cryptic conversation to deflate him and dispose of him:Rick: Yourcashis good at the bar.Lynnton (Leslie told her mother: "You should see the greedy look on your face!").A Whirlwind Romance - Bick and Leslie:Alone that evening on he Lynnton front porch, the towering, land-owning bachelor Bick became more personally acquainted with the curious and romantically-interested Leslie, and invited her to see "his country" (of Reata) in Texas.He announced his plan ("the Alan Parsons Project") to the US President, and then went further - detailing how he would destroy more major US cities every hour on the hour, unless paid a ransom of $100 billion dollars.