It was advertised with alternative titles:Forbidden Love, The Monster Show,andNature""s Mistakes.The morality play remains a ruly amazing masterpiece about an odd clique of sympathetically-portrayed, but grotesquely-deformed circus "freaks" in a traveling sideshow that took revenge on a beautiful, gold-digging, heartless high-wire trapeze artist that wronged one of the freaks.Rick worried: "We are in serious trouble" - and although he opened fire, his gunblasts were ineffective., he found that Biff was only an obedient auto-detailer, and his father was a successful book author.He dismisses the idea of aking a dishwasher job.Low on money, tries to subsist on coffee and crackers covered with ketchup.Talking into a mirror in an underground subway tunnel, he resolves to degrade himself: "You know what you gotta do cowboy?" Outside a movie theatre on 42nd Street showing a black-and-white science fiction film, he hires himself out to a gay student, and during their sexual encounter in the darkened theatre, he experiences bizarre images of having sex with Annie, as she tells him: "You""re the only one, Joe".