Joe""s treatment of the screenplay is criticized by clean-cut, Paramount script reader Betty Schaefer (Nancy Olson) - she denounces it in "a two page synopsis" as being written "from hunger," "a rehash of something that wasn""t very good to begin with," and "flat and trite.Reportedly, an exasperated Weiss slammed an omelette (not a grapefruit) into the face of his girlfriend.[Republic Pictures restored its copyright claim to the film in 1993, with exclusive video rights to it.They will destroy you.They will take from you your innocence, your pride, and eventually your soul.These eyes do not see what you and I see.Behind these eyes one finds only blackness, the absence of light.These are the eyes of a psychopath.Michael was created by a perfect alignment of interior and exterior factors gone violently wrong - a perfect storm, if you will.