Music is played on lyres and harps.The cat-women leap hrough burning hoops of flames.Later on, under a moonlit night as they are serenaded, Cleopatra proposes a union of forces:Cleopatra: The sound to the stars.Teague also warned: "The Fountain will test you." In the back storeroom of the pub, Jack confronted an imposter who was recruiting crew members under his name.White Heatis an entertaining, fascinating and hypnotic portrait of a flamboyant, mother-dominated and fixated, epileptic and psychotic killer, who often spouts crude bits of humor.The sprawling post-war Technicolored spectacle followed the Lone Star State""s remarkable transition over the years from the hard-work of agrarian cattle-ranching to oil-industry production.However, its idyllic view of life and example of personal film-making was overshadowed by the self-absorbent, drug-induced, erratic behavior of the filmmakers, chronicled in Peter Biskind""s ell-allEasy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and Rock ""N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (1999).