--seed, you are right, it is too long. Summertime rereading!
Let us not forget Chief HalfOat, surrounded by oil executives, and of course the famous trial scene:

"Popinjay, is your father a millionaire or a high ranking member of the Senate."
"No sir."
""Then you are up shit creek without a paddle, Popinjay. What the hell kind of a name is Popinjay, anyway?".... "After his trial ends, yours begins!" and so on.
Did anyone mention "Dr. Strangelove?" (Has there ever been a better line than, "You can't fight in here, this is the War Room?")
Yours, Peter T.