Romero""s choice of a black lead actor was due to his low budget, but was still revolutionary - the character was the first African-American to play the heroic lead role in a horror film.Outside her rented apartment in a crumbling section of town, Rocky met her teenaged son who was hanging out on the street, and offered the two of them a free meal at his restaurant some time in the future.She asks:Ouliotta: Are you really a man?Fields: Well, I""ve been called other things.He takes advantage of her ignorance and is only too happy to introduce her to the species.He teaches her a game called "squidgulum" (a variation on post office, a kissing game).With her hands placed on her head and her eyes closed, he kisses her twice.They are interrupted when her aggressive mother, black-robed Mrs.Hemoglobin (Margaret Dumont) appears with a ferocious mastiff guard dog with fangs.Fields labels them: "Romulus and Remus." Immediately smitten by him, she wants to join in the kissing game and puckers up in readiness, but he is terrified by how formidable she is.A cryptic conversation was occurring between two men about bringing up (awakening) a subject found in the woods in an intact capsule a week earlier.Clark was miffed to learn from the boy that Lois, as her old friend before Jason was born, had "never mentioned" his existence.