what i find remarkable about this terrific film and be that altman and the crazy and wild guy that he be and take the novel that cold day in the park and the sandy dennis character be originally a male in the book . he be a mentally whack out isolated gay who look out of his apartment window when he spot the hustler . it be strange that altman fan aren not aware of how clever he be to change the sex of the main character while thereby avoid the homo erotic taboo of gay life in the 60 and actually make dennis reclusive kind of madness work even well in the transposition . if you see the film again and it will be evident how wily the altman mind work .