He responded that she was hired because her mother and father were the "finest patrons" of the museum." Luke slipped into his X-wing fighter""s cockpit as part of the Red Group squadron, to be aided by a Gold Group squadron piloting Y-wing fighters.She retaliated with her own brief affair with a timid Iowa bank officer Sam Burns (John Lithgow).Meanwhile, middle-aged Aurora was dodging the womanizing flirtations of her next-door neighbor, a boozy, beer-bellied, over-the-hill, former astronaut Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson), even though she had turned 50 and was now free to date.His delightfully inventive, and ribald script with fast-paced witty dialogue, delivered mostly by a saucy woman, was taken from the short storyTwo Bad Hatsby English playwright Monckton Hoffe.