Top cast:Mary Miles Minter,Ethel Elder
Director:Danny DeVito
Genre:News
Region:Argentina
Year:2002
Storyline:He said he""d put on 50 pounds, and his spring was gone from his step, but he could still hit.(smiling) Dad used to say nobody could hit like Shoeless Joe.[Note: In reality, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson was a right-handed, barely-literate Italian-American, not a left-hander from the rural South in Carolina.) Well, f--k it.I don""t have to talk either, man.See how you like it.(Pause) Just total f--kin"" silence.Two can play at that game, smart guy.We""ll just see how you like it.Total silence.In his office (with vertical blinds imprisoning him in his ""cell"" and web of lies), Jerry receives a phone call from a Reilly Diefenbach, a representative from GMAC (General Motors) who is inquiring about the illegible serial numbers on the vehicles (worth $320,000) that he has submitted in financing documents ("I gotta correlate that money with the cars it""s being lent on").The suggestion was that much of the film would be seen from the protagonist""s POV.Abruptly, this was followed by a close-up of the symbolic cracking of an aging female""s facial mask.She looked like a corpse lying immobile on a table, wrapped like a mummy in towels - in a sense, the patron was sacrificing herself on an altar to be made o be more attractive to men.He expresses a brotherly love for her:Ashley: Isn""t it enough that you""ve gathered every other man""s heart today? You""ve always had mine.Angered, he snarls as he looks over and coldly tells her:You almost wrecked my car.Well? Get in!He begrudgingly gives a ride to the woman who has appeared out of the darkness.On the driver""s car radio, the announcer introduces he next jazzy piano selection by Nat King Cole,Rather Have he Blues.