Max's climactic and hilarious
play about Vietnam —
staged at Grover Cleveland with
elaborate special effects in the movie's final and longest sequence — is dedicated to his mother and to Rosemary's late husband («the friend of a friend»), pointedly bringing all three together.
His scenes — a man seated in an
elaborate office, a polycephalous couple
playing cards, a group of figures resting on spindly bunks — are depicted as if you're standing at the edge of a
stage set or peering, mesmerized, through a window into another world just slightly different from our own.