red and chewing gum. After Ebert, Roger (qv) reported this  in his "Movie Answer Man" column in 2001,  Coppola, Francis Ford (qv) and Aubry, Kim (qv) investigated:  they confirmed that King was not supposed to be in the shot, but had  gotten into it by an accidental reflection in the optics, probably  off a filter (hence the tint) in the matte box.