] Ardeth also interpreted Rick's tattoo: "That mark means you're a protector of man, a warrior for God, a Medjai," but Rick denied any connection.The meal was interrupted by the two openly-homosexual neighbors two doors down, Jim Olmeyer (Scott Bakula) and Jim Berkley or "JB" (Sam Robards), who delivered a gift basket of flowers and other gifts as a "Welcome o the neighborhood" good-will gesture.One of the 6 year-old neighborhood kids named Alfred (Donald Gooden) reported that a guy posing as a gas meter-reader was seen at the property earlier in the day.It also spawned further attempts to chronicle the social problem and theme of alcoholism, including this list of representative films:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)A Star is Born (1954)(also 1937, 1976)Country Girl (1954)I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)Days of Wine and Roses (1962)Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)Only When I Laugh (1981)The Verdict (1982)Under the Volcano (1984)Barfly (1987)Ironweed (1987)Clean and Sober (1988)When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)Leaving Las Vegas (1995)Affliction (1997)28 Days (2000)Plot SynopsisThursday Afternoon:After the credits,The Lost Weekendopens with a panning, left-to-right cityscape view of New York City.