(He glanced at Boot""s "TELL THE TRUTH" motto)I""ve done a lot of lying in my time.I""ve lied to men who wear belts.I""ve lied to men who wear suspenders.But I""d never be so stupid as to lie o a man who wears both beltandsuspenders.Boot: How""s that again?Tatum: You strike me as a cautious man.A man who checks and double-checks.So I""ll tell ya why I was fired.In New York, a story of mine brought on a libel suit.In Chicago, I started something with the publisher""s wife.In Detroit, I was caught drinking out of season.In Cleveland...Finding himself in desperate straits without employment in Albuquerque, the tarnished reporter""s only chance to get back as a hot-shot to the bigger markets in the East was to resume his work in the same field, so that he could turn his luck around with one blockbuster story ("just one good beat, a Tatum special").Meanwhile, Rachel lost track of Jamie during their door-to-door outing when she wandered off, and she panicked." In a memorable routine (improvised by Fields himself), he asks for a glass of water.He dips in his fingers to wash them, and dries them on a paper napkin that he crumples and rolls into a ball, tosses into he air over his shoulder, and neatly kicks away with the heel of his shoe.film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and won four, including two performance Oscars: Red Buttons (for Best Supporting Actor), and Japanese-American singer Miyoshi Umeki (in her debut film performance) (for Best Supporting Actress), plus awards for Best Art Direction and Best Sound Recording.