After its sneak-preview premiere showing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 22, 1967, the film was initially rumored to be shelved (due to its disastrous opening and other negative test screenings), but its strong word of mouth in the intervening months propelled it to be opened in more cities.]When first unwrapped, revived, and slowly defrosted and awakened from a long deep-freeze sleep after a botched surgery, Miles struggled to learn to walk.Then at the window after rubbing it clear with a splash of his coffee drink and his white scarf, Max spotted a chauffeured white Rolls Royce parking outside Kippys Restaurant across the street, and gleefully yelled in admiration and jealousy: "That""s it baby, when you got it, flaunt it, flaunt it.You haven""t got anything to worry about.I""m not gonna let you down because I can""t afford to." During a soliloquy, he obsessed, tyrannical director looks out the office window toward an unseen street, counting on the success of his last show to take care of him through retirement with a respectable income.