I’m on the BAFTA screening
committee. Working with Twentieth
Century Fox, I arrange a screening for THE HEAT at an AMC multiplex theater on
42nd Street. BAFTA does not
have its own venue, so the studios pay for space at theaters and screening
rooms throughout the city.
I arrive early as I am doing
the introduction. We expect about 200
people. The ladies room across from the
theater is disgusting. No toilet
paper. Water all over the place. Clogged and overflowing toilets. I exit behind a well-dressed-normal-looking woman
who approaches the three security people from Fox, plus one BAFTA
representative — they are all standing outside theater #9 where the screening
will be shown. “The lady’s room is
awful,” she tells them. They of course
have nothing to do with this. I overhear
her and say, “I know, you’re right. I’ll
go get someone to clean it up.” I turn
and walk away. I’m about thirty feet
away, heading toward the escalator, when I hear her shout, “Nice that you care,
BITCH!” And she’s loud.
I return and ask for her
name. She gives it (probably not her
real one) and I ask if she’s with BAFTA.
“What’s that?” she answers. In
other words, no.
I go down a level and find
the appropriate people to 1) clean the bathroom, and 2) get the woman removed
from the theater.
The security people from the
theater approach her. She has transformed into an amnesiac. She looks at me and says perplexed, “I’m
sorry. I have no idea who you are. I don’t’ think we’ve ever met.” “You don’t remember calling me a bitch?” I
ask. “I never did that,” she answers calmly,
suggesting of course that I am the crazy one.
I say to the security staff, “ I have four witnesses. Ask them.
They are all too eager to tell you.”
She looks over, and the four people in front of the theater are nodding
in agreement.
She is escorted out, with a
look of confusion. Then I hear her say,
“Boy, that woman is so intense. I didn’t
even do anything.”
I announce the film. Give the requisite thanks. Take my seat.
And watch a movie that really makes me laugh.
People have lost their minds!! Glad to hear the movie is funny...I've been waiting for this one. Summer fun!!!
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