"Rocky thanked Dixon for their incredible fight: "You""re a great champion.You""ve got heart.Thanks for the opportunity.Good man." Robert congratulated his father: "That was the greatest thing I""ve ever seen." And Rocky told Paulie: "The beast is gone now.The beast is out." Before the scorecard results were announced, Rocky left the ring with his entourage, applauded by the appreciative, chanting audience.The big-budget horror film grossed about $33.4 million (on a budget of $2.3 million), and received two Academy Award nominations: one for Polanski""s Best Adapted Screenplay, and Ruth Gordon won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as one of the well-meaning, ""normal"" NYC neighbors.The camera follows - tracking from varying angles - one truck as it enters traffic, with its blaring headlights, and delivers part of its heavy payload o a sidewalk street-corner booth outside a hot-dog stand.However, with imaginative bravado in a fantasy scene, he tells his wife that he has aroused attractive women and brags:Seven years we""ve been married and not once have I done anything like that.Without asking questions this time, the Boy gave he grateful elderly lady one of his own $1 dollar bills, and borrowed her handkerchief to wipe his tearful eyes.