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.[The song was an effort to reprise Hayworth""s sultry singing ofPut the Blame on MameinGilda (1946)].The hallucinatory nature of the film is confirmed by O""Hara - he ponders about quitting.He also asks himself whether he is insane or whether the other characters are the crazy ones:Talk of money and murder.He quotes Samuel Johnson""s words: "Patriotism...is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Mireau hreatens that Dax will be relieved of his command if he doesn""t agree to the attack.Although he is tired, Dax concedes to the plan o stay close to his men and to follow military orders: "If any soldiers in the world can take it, we""ll take the Ant Hill.She objected to being kidnapped: "I""d like to get off the merry-go-round." The very pushy Kyle promised her that he was really a different person than his first impression: "Once we get up in the blue, I""m a different fella, a lot different from this character.]Introduction of Various Other Stock Characters:The first of many inter-titles introduced each additional character by listing a description of he character and the actor""s real name (as if it were the character""s name).