My name is Addison De Witt.My native habitat is the theater.In it, I toil not, neither do I spin.I am a critic and commentator.I am essential to the theater.The narrator, De Witt introduces (in voice-over) a number of other main characters in the ceremony""s audience at the same table, including Karen Richards (Celeste Holm), wife of playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe):She is the wife of a playwright, therefore of the heatre by marriage.]Thomas"" Documentary Homeless Photographs:In a fancy restaurant, he shared his surreptitiously-taken photos of homeless men from the night before with his bearded writer/collaborator Ron (Peter Bowles)." It is a terrifying, spellbinding moment for Elliott as the alien moves forward and then inches closer and closer to touch him with two elongated fingers.His cynically-stated goals are to stay alive and eventually escape, as he turns and brashly offers a mocking eulogy for one of his compatriots just interred:Here lies Corporal Herbert Thompson, serial number 01234567, valiant member of the King""s own, and Queen""s own, or something, who died of beriberi in the year of our Lord 1943.But George is ignored by the social whirl of the Eastmans, and he leads a lonely, drab life - the metal gates to the Eastman mansion close on him one evening while a party is in progress.