I wish you were a wise, kind friend, instead of a gossiping acquaintance I""ve known casually for years and never particularly cared for.He plays with the phallic cigar that he is smoking, seemingly bitter and cynical.On the bedside table next to the indifferent, apathetic, world-weary, paralytic man are objects he holds dear - a shot glass of whiskey, another glass of water for a chaser, and an open billfold with a carelessly-strewn pile of bills on top (some of the bills have toppled o the floor and lie srewn around).[Note: The film was eerily reminiscent of the same year""sA Face in the Crowd (1957)by director Elia Kazan, in which Andy Griffith also portrayed a meteoric rise by a country-hick, guitar-playing singer in jail who became an instant mass-media star and power-hungry political idol on television.Charlie left to find a corkscrew to open the stolen wine bottle.In a moment of complete self-revelation, Miss Tate told Will the "truth" about her past history, as they kissed each other (although at first he thought she was joking):"I""m not who you think I am.It was a socio-economic drama based on theCinderellastory, but actually taken from Ovid""s Greek myth of Pygmalion - about a sculptor who fell in love with Galatea, a marble-ivory statue of his own making.