The film won only one award - Best Director.The Oscar-nominated screen adaptation by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry (who appears as the hotel""s desk clerk) was based on the novel of the same name by Charles Webb (a recent graduate of the East Coast""s Williams College when he wrote his first novel).But life is much simpler now." Vantine surmised: "I bet you painted your hometown red!"At the start of their relationship, although he was irritated by her chattering gab (and kept telling her to shut up), here was tremendous sexual chemistry brewing between Vantine and Denny.But this time, it was an American and an officer.It wasn""t supposed to make any difference to me, but it did." Willard wonders at the hypocrisy of the trumped-up murder charges received from military intelligence:Shit! Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500."In the dilapidated World""s Fair grounds, Valestra met with The Joker (voice of Mark Hamill) for business - he asked for the Joker to kill his enemy Batman (for $5 million up front), believing that the masked "guano-man" had killed his partners Sol and Bronski ("You""re the only one who can take him down").