" BackgroundBeing There(1979), subtitled "a story of chance," is a provocative and elegiac black comedy -- a wonderful dramatic yet placid tale or fable that satirized politics, celebrity, media-obsession and television.The English that will keep her in the gutter till the end of her days.Well, sir, in six months, I could pass her off as a duchess at an Embassy Ball.I could even get her a job as a lady""s maid or a shop assistant, which requires better English...[To Eliza] Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf.You disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns! You incarnate insult to the English language! I could pass you off as, ah, the Queen of Sheba.He was put through a series of challenges: financial, social, and emotional.The film was quickly made by director Vincente Minnelli while he was preparing production for his next film:An American in Paris (1951)." The group also passed a fat female hippie hitchhiker (Bonnie Hellman), but didn""t pick her up.As she sat by the side of the road eating a banana (a fellatio reference), a hand forcibly grabbed her hair, and thrust a hunting knife through the back of her neck that exited from her throat(# 3 death).