To make a statement, her "John Doe" also promises to commit suicide by jumping from the roof of City Hall on Christmas Eve." He was also asked: "Do you think you have brain damage?" and he quipped: "I don""t see any." When Apollo Creed was wheeled in, the press reporters left Rocky and flocked around the champion, who wanted to speak to the "Stallion.Kesey had derived most of the novel""s secondary characters from real-life psychiatric ward patients at a VA hospital (in Menlo Park, CA) where he had once worked in a night job in the late 50s.Again, they reprise their most familiar roles - Stanley, the thin, meek simpleton, and Ollie, he fat, pompous one.