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 everyones 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