Mendez informed the inquisitors that Brent - with "limited intelligence" - couldn""t handle the overload.Three of the characters would become involved in a love triangle.Befitting the film""s satirical heme of admiring or fantasizing about film idols on-screen while struggling in the real world, one might hypothesize that the Boy idolized current film star John Barrymore (who starred inSherlock Holmes (1922), wo years earlier), while the Girl resembled and aspired to be like cinema""s curly-locked sweetheart Mary Pickford, and the Sheik was an aspiring wanna-be Rudolph Valentino (who starred as the itle character inThe Sheik (1921).She feared that the cosmetic cream was making her best friend/colleague Sally (Alex Borstein) sick with headaches, as Slavicky had predicted.The unknown man entered into he nightmarish dream of 15 year-old Christina "Tina" Gray (Amanda Wyss) who was wearing a thin nightgown.