Altman""s cast included four actresses (Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black and Kathy Bates) who were also directed by Altman in the Broadway production.I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.The orchids are an excuse for the heat.Do you like orchids?Marlowe: Not particularly.Sternwood: Nasty things! Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.He said it was a gift from his mother, to serve as a token reminder to keep a promise: "That I would come back to her.The UFO""s fly through the toll booth, setting off alarms, closely followed by the police cars and Roy""s truck.