Altman""s cast included four actresses (Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black and Kathy Bates) who were also directed by Altman in the Broadway production.Even though he mildly protests, she assents to living in her ancestral childhood home at 9 Thornton Square, while ironically telling him that she hasn""t been "afraid" since she""s known him:That house comes into my dreams sometimes - a house of horror.The lonely, self-destructive and pathetic Rink mumbled, sobbed and ultimately collapsed in the empty banquet room, after rambling about his unrequited, covetous love for Leslie.It came during the 70s decade when many other conspiracy or corruption-related films were made with misgivings, paranoia or questioning of various societal institutions or subject areas, such as the media (i.They eluded the gorillas and found themselves next to a tiled wall with dripping water -- and he saw a corroded TELEPHONE booth inside a New York subway station, identified as QUEENSBORO PLAZA.