American cities were ablaze with pinpricks of blazing light.Perry White announced to Warfield that he had convinced the city""s bankers to secure a loan, with which he had now attained a controlling (or majority) share of the newspaper - to protect it from "predators.]Plot SynopsisThe Title Credits - Groupie Annie Savoy""s "The Church of Baseball" Monologue:A series of still black and white photos from baseball""s past (including images of Pete Rose, Babe Ruth, and others) provided he backdrop for the title credits, with accompaniment by cultured and literate baseball and sports groupie Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), a junior-college English teacher and sexually-seductive baseball groupie.).[Note: Walsh replaced director Anatole Litvak at the last minute.] This newsreel-like, semi-documentary, authentic-looking film, with both hard-hitting gangster genre action and romantic sentiment, shares a lot of similarities and is reminiscent of the greatest gangster films of the 30s, includingLittle Caesar (1930),Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932), andPublic Enemy (1931).Their response was laughter at the ludicrous amount, as Evil inappropriate quoted from the filmJerry Maguire (1996): "Show me the money....All these annoyances piling up..."Bea learned that the previous night, Scotty had been made a "principal"" performer-singer in the ""Cat"" unit""s ""prologue"" show, and was not just a chorus member.