The Ritz

Director Richard Lester’s almost creepy opening, Jack Weston and Kaye Ballard, with their kids and her mobbed-up brother Jerry Stiller, awaiting the passing of George Coulouris, as old-man Vespucci, from Terrence McNally’s play and screenplay, in The Ritz, 1976, starring Rita Moreno.

Still in the lobby of the Manhattan gay bath-house, from Terrence McNally’s play and screenplay, Cleveland businessman Gaetano (Jack Weston) aiming to hide from his gangster brother in law, blown back by profane performer Googie (Rita Moreno), Dave King as Abe the clerk, in The Ritz, 1976.

Cleveland-based sanitation pro Gaetano Proclo (Jack Weston) seeks refuge in a Manhattan men’s bath-house, hiding from the mobster brother-in-law who plans to have him whacked, meeting Dave King as Abe the clerk, and F. Murray Abraham as regular client Chris, early in The Ritz, 1976.