"]Houston""s NASA Control Center was monitoring astronauts on the Moon, flown there in theArtemis II(it was a joint US-USSR "detente" mission).Harold moves to the side and continues shaving.But after finding her lipstick, she closes the cabinet door, uses the mirror, and applies her lipstick." [This is the first of many displacements Uncle Charlie makes upon the family, as young Charlie had hoped.In the present, Batman discovered that two "dummy corporations," O""Neil Funding Corporation and Adam""s Tool and Die, were directed by two dead crime figures ten years earlier - partners Sol and Bronski.[Note: Hiller had passed up the opportunity to work onThe Godfather (1972)to make this film.] The melodramatic and ragic soap-opera, tremendously popular and a financial success (the top-earning film of the year at $106 million) but panned by critics for its sappy content, was based upon Erich Segal""s # 1 best-selling short novel of the same name, released appropriately on Valentine""s Day in 1970.