Atlantic Cityalso received he Best Film of 1980 Golden Lion Award at the Venice (Italy) Film Festival (shared with John Cassavetes'Gloria (1981)).We three would make an ideal couple.Why, you've got beauty, charm, money.You have got money, haven't you? 'Cause if you haven't, we can quit right now.In this scene, he has simultaneously proposed love and marriage to both Mrs.Rittenhouse and Mrs.Whitehead.Mrs.Rittenhouse is again brutally mishandled:Mrs.Rittenhouse: I'm fascinated.Spaulding: I'm 'fascinated' too.Right on the arm.Spaulding then excuses himself for a "strange interlude" during this marriage proposal scene.He mocks the portentiousness of the theatre and parodies Eugene O'Neill'sStrange Interludewith three soliloquies, by speaking in 'interior monologues' directly to the audience." He drives his car out of the yard toward the Syndicate Cotton Gin, where a celebration is occurring.A penny for your thoughts....Get he idea, boys....Ya follow me?Inside the show, she performs "Sister Honky Tonk," moving with suggestive body motion behind a veil.