interestingly enough, she does not have as much sense of humor as doug strutt does.eraction together, she takes everything literally and seriously. i try to toss. for me, it completely works to dismiss everything, to make fun of everything serious. charlie: we have to tell why she's at the party. salma: she's at the party because she comes to give a massage to this woman, and i have treated her daughter when she had cancer. so they feel in debt to me. the daughter is now out to college. she feels like i'm part of the family. it's a woman that she wants to feel like she's a really good person, doing the political right thing, but not for real, just for her to feel good about it. and that's why a lot of people identify with this one. then my car breaks down and there's no way out and i live very far away. so she ends up -- john: staying for dinner. charlie: we have a central idea. you have to have this go somewhere. where does it go, or is it just an evening of the relationship between two interesting characters? john: very slowly and incrementally, the tension just ra