Word: chayefskyean
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...even supplies a woman: the city's leading whore (Chris Richard). Morley is aghast. "To marry a woman would be a betrayal of my identity," he whines as he minces about in an elephantine parody of homosexuality. But marry he does, and he is transformed by Chayefskyean legerdemain into a happy, prospective father. To his considerable grief, the child is stillborn. Meantime, with his tax man spurring him on, Morley has acquired a corporate identity, liens on real estate, a sub rosa connection with the Mafia, a Lichtenstein subsidiary. The erstwhile writer becomes monomaniacally absorbed in profits...
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