..the expensive kind" with the unbeatable acknowledged master "Minnesota Fats" (Jackie Gleason), advises Charlie (derisively labeling him as Eddie""s "manager, his friend, his stooge") to forget about winning: "Take your boy and go home."The restaurant-lunch scene, the second scene in the film, is one of the film""s funniest.During the meal, Walter deliberately sits between Bruce and Hildy.He congratulates the bridegroom on his choice of a star reporter: "...You""re getting a great little girl for yourself...You""re getting something else too, Bruce, you""re getting a great newspaperman...One of the best I ever knew.Sorry o see her go.Darn sorry, Hildy." Bruce wonders if Hildy has any doubts about leaving the newspaper business and then realizes his is her first chance "to have a home and to be like you said - a human being, and I""m gonna make you take that chance.One of the film""s posters declared: "We are not alone."The transcendent film followed the odyssey of various characters, including an obsessed, middle-class power lineman named Roy Neary (Dreyfuss, who had earlier appeared in Spielberg""sJaws, but was offered the part only after tough-actor Steve McQueen declined) and a distraught mother named Gillian (Dillon), and her young son Barry (Guffey), as they are inexplicably lured to a volcano-like mountain in Wyoming, to experience a spectacular, extra-terrestrial encounter.Under the credits, a conflicted, 19 year-old, vulgar-mouthed, eenaged, self-centered, working-class Italian-American anti-hero from the neighborhood of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, swaggering Anthony "Tony" Manero (a star-making role for John Travolta), strutted eastward down he sidewalk on Brooklyn""s 86th Street." When Connors refused, just as Dr.Parker had 15 years earlier, Ratha threatened: "The formula is ours now anyway.Say goodbye to that arm you have dreamed of.I""m shutting you down." In desperation, Dr.Connors injected himself with the revolutionary, reptile-based regeneration serum to help re-grow human tissue and his missing limb.