Lunch break
Often, when watching a movie on TV, I’ll look up the movie on IMDb, and that’s what I did tonight during ABC’s annual Easter airing of “The Ten Commandments.”
This story on the trivia page was so funny I had to pass it along:
According to Hollywood lore, while filming the orgy sequence which precedes Moses’ descent from Mount Horab with the Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille was perched on top of a ladder delivering his customarily long-winded directions through a megaphone to the hundreds of extras involved in the scene. After droning on to the extras for several minutes, DeMille was distracted by one young woman who was persistently talking to the woman standing next to her.
DeMille stopped his speech and addressed everyone’s attention to the young woman. “Here,” DeMille said, “We have a young woman whose conversation with her friend is apparently more important than listening to her instructions from her director while we are all engaged in making motion picture history. Perhaps the young woman would care to enlighten us all, and tell us what the devil is so important that it cannot wait until after we make this shot.”
After a moment of awkward silence, the young woman spoke up and boldly confessed, “I was just saying to my friend, ‘I wonder when that bald-headed old fart is gonna call ‘Lunch!’”
DeMille stared at the woman for a moment, paused, then lifted his megaphone and shouted, “Lunch!”
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