YES, MR.DEMILLE (1959)

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"HIT SEX HABD!" 229 Ong's free commentary became an important reference through much of the early story discussions. A meeting between DeMille and Ong took pkce several months later, lasting only a few minutes during a train stop in Kansas City. DeMille extended a bit of fatherly encouragement to the young ascetic. "The Jesuits need your kind of thinking,'* he said; then added sorrowfully, "The world might have had a great document in the Virgin Mary story but Dan Lord wouldn't let me make it." But there was nothing to indicate Ong would have either. 5. DEMILLE would outline his concepts to writers, then dispatch them to their typewriters. He expected those ideas to be reduced to writing in a form as dramatic as he felt he had presented them. This was where the trouble began. One scrivener spent months on a draft of a story about the Biblical hero Samson, working closely with the boss and assum- ing that he was doing fairly well, everything considered. One morning, as he passed DeMille in the corridor, he was handed a note reading: You have just killed the character of Samson. The writer, stunned, later sought out his employer and told him it might be helpful if they asked themselves what the objectives were that they were trying to reach. Tve told you that in every language including English," DeMille barked. Millions of words passed between DeMille and his writers over the relationship of hero and heroine. Every shade of re- action and attitude, every variation of human emotion that appealed to their sense of drama in those circumstances, was trotted out, looked at, taken apart, examined, kept or tossed