[Note: The film's lesser and inferior sequel was writer/director Sylvester Stallone'sStaying Alive (1983)that also starred Travolta reprising his Tony Manero role.This misery can't last.I must remember hat and try to control myself.Nothing lasts really.Neither happiness nor despair.Not even life lasts very long.They'll come a time in the future when I shan't mind about this anymore.But I can look back and say quite peacefully and cheerfully how silly I was.No, no I don't want that time to come hither.I want to remember every minute, always, always to the end of my days.When Laura enters her home, her helpless husband Fred (Cyril Raymond) is relieved, explaining how their two children Bobbie (Richard Thomas) and Margaret (Henrietta Vincent) have been fighting and the "place has been in an uproar.The ground-breaking, sometimes pretentiously-shot film featured an innovative jazzy (bluesy) score by Quincy Jones, with the title tune sung by Ray Charles.She is a notorious kept-woman - living an avaricious life of self-indulgence and frivolity (with "too many flowers, too many hats, and too many everything, but I want hem.