While he waits for his new neighbor"s arrival, his virtuous resolutions are put to the test.He unlocks the drawer where he keeps his cigarettes to have just one smoke, pours himself drinks, idies up, turns down the lights for atmosphere, and plumps up the pillows on the sofa until he realizes what he is doing:What am I doing anyway? Well, this is absolutely ridiculous.An amused, cynical, and witty Saunders cringes at the hought of innocent Senator Smith.She assumes Smith"s loathsome, corny political leanings are no better than the normal Washington hogwash she has been accustomed to.[By the year 2000, Pan Am had already been bankrupt for almost ten years - since 1991.] Images of the giant circular space station revolving and orbiting in space are accompanied by the lyricalBlue Danube Waltzby Johann Strauss.The bloated 197-minute lengthy film had a production budget of $5.4 million and made $14 million in revenue, and made more internationally and during its US re-releases in 1963, 1970, and 1996 (financial figures are unreliable).