One early incident included preparing he weekly financial budget (with Mama""s familiar relief: "Is good - we do not have to go to the bank").A bribed doctor opens a medicine cabinet and pushes aside medicines, revealing a hidden compartment behind holding several bottles of Hennessey cognac.[The song was an effort to reprise Hayworth""s sultry singing ofPut the Blame on MameinGilda (1946)].The hallucinatory nature of the film is confirmed by O""Hara - he ponders about quitting.He also asks himself whether he is insane or whether the other characters are the crazy ones:Talk of money and murder.It goes with the turf.Games are fun.Nick: What about boxing? That""s a game.Was that fun too?...Catherine: Boxing was fun, ""til Manny died.Nick: How did you feel when he died?Catherine: I loved him.It hurt.Nick: How did you feel when I told you Johnny Boz had died?Catherine: I felt like someone had read my book and was playing a game.It was also a celebration of life in the 1980s (following the Reagan Presidency), after so much hardship in the decades that had come before (marred by the Watergate affair, the many assassinations in the 1960s, and the drawn-out Vietnam War).