Possible Clues:

• Kathy Bates' Oscar film
• "__ loves company"
• Unhappiness caused by penny-pincher at end of holiday
• Company lover
• Gracious, there's a terrible rise in unhappiness!
• Lowest state?
• Good thing to be put out of
• Does this make one mean to be sad?
• Extreme unhappiness
• Meanness, perhaps, will not make one happy