She was obsessing and fussing over the guest list, in particular, finding an "extra-man" partner for her single guest Carlotta: "I""m simply out of my mind....Europe about o blow up and all I can get out of my foreign staff is a daily guessing game.I want some facts, Mr.Bradley!...Any kind of facts.There must be something going on in Europe beside a nervous breakdown." When Bradley offered to be sent to Europe, Powers rejected him because Bradley was an intellectual economist and not a hard-nosed reporter:I don""t want any more economists, sages, or oracles bombinating over our cables.A second made-for-TV production was co-produced by pay-cable station Showtime and PBS""s American Playhouse in 1984, starred Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Lange, Rip Torn, and Kim Stanley.Her mother""s gentleman date was revealed to be Freddy - he yanked Mrs.Parker from the doorway, demanding: "Where""s the f--king bourbon?", hen decapitated Kristen""s mother with one jab of his razored hand(# 3 death).