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Virtually overnight, Pinky is a famous Hollywood star. Without his clown getup, the customers notice that Pinky sings and dances beautifully. On Pinky's birthday, Louisa suggests he perform without his usual time-consuming make-up and costume so they will not be late for his party after the show. The two fall in love and idyllically live aboard Pinky's run-down houseboat on the Hudson River. Management loves Pinky's corny musical act because it never distracts the customers from eating and drinking. In a small-town café, she meets Pinky Benson who, for over a decade, has performed nightly dressed as a clown. Now fantastically wealthy, Louisa wanders the country. After sharing a jug with a few locals, an inebriated Rod mistakenly attempts to milk a bull, which kicks him through the barn wall, leaving Louisa widowed once again. Fearful of losing him like her first two husbands, Louisa convinces Rod to retire to a small farm similar to his boyhood home. They marry shortly after and live luxuriously. She initially finds him cold and calculating, but sees his softer side during the flight. When she misses her flight, famed business tycoon Rod Anderson Jr. Louisa, richer and more depressed, prepares to return to the US. One night, two petulant cranes turn on their creator and beat him to death. Larry builds larger cranes and sells many more paintings, making him a successful artist. One day, Louisa plays classical music that produces a beautiful painting resulting in Larry's first major art sale. Larry invents a crane-like machine that converts eclectic sounds into paint strokes on canvas. They fall in love, marry, and live a picturesque bohemian lifestyle. Edgar transforms his small store into a tremendous empire, neglecting Louisa, ruining Crawley, and eventually overworking himself to an early death.Ī grieving Louisa travels to Paris where she meets Larry Flint, an impoverished avant-garde artist. They are happily poor until the jilted Leonard arrives and ridicules their rustic lifestyle, humiliating Edgar and motivating him to achieve success. Louisa instead marries Edgar Hopper, a poor shop owner who, inspired by Henry David Thoreau, prefers a simple life. Her money-grubbing mother pushed Louisa to marry rich local business owner, Leonard Crawley. Louisa describes her childhood as being a young, idealistic girl.

Which way to go series#

Stephanson, Louisa tries to explain why she wants to give away her money, leading to a series of flashbacks, interspersed with fantasy sequences. Sobbing to her unstable psychiatrist, Dr. government Internal Revenue Service, who believes it is an April Fools' Day joke. Louisa wants to give her $211 million to the U.S. The pallbearers slip and drop the coffin, which slides down the stairs, leading into the opening titles. She is followed by pallbearers carrying a pink coffin.

In a dream-like pre-credit sequence, Louisa, a black-clad widow, descends a pink staircase inside a pink mansion.