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We shot it at night and
Billy invited Ardis Holden.
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She was Brenda Marshall
but her name was Ardis.
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That was Mrs Holden.
I'd never met her.
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I was going to embrace her husband
in a long, passionate love scene.
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I was terrified and Billy said,
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"Look, after the embrace,
do not come apart until I say cut."
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"It's going to seem a long time,
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because what I want to do
is a long dissolve."
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"This is for the purpose of the camera
and what I have in mind in my cutting."
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"It's going to seem a long time,
but just continue to embrace."
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He pulls me into his arms
and we kiss.
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And we kiss. And kiss.
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And hold on. It seems like an eternity.
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All of a sudden,
a female voice from below says,
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"Cut, damn it! Cut!"
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And it was Ardis Holden.
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The New Year's Eve party
is bizarre and unpleasant.
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She's hired a band.
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She's gotten all this expensive
champagne... caviar.
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Joe Gillis expects that it's a party.
It is, but there are only two guests.
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He's a little freaked out. It begins
to dawn on him what it is he's doing.
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I thought that was an inspired scene,
and very hard to pull off.
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The other key scene is the final
scene, and the last one they filmed.
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Norma walking down the stairs,
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performing in what she believes is
her cherished "Salome" epic,
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having killed her lover
and employee, Joe Gillis,