However, Joseph privately told his wife: "The dress stinks." They thought of themselves as competitive rivals for the same spotlight - she sarcastically called him: "the greatest actor in the world" and an attention-grabber, while he called her a "prima donna" who always diverted attention to herself." When told he couldn""t save John Connor, he snarled: "Watch me!" - he then smashed the Skynet monitor and escaped the chamber to aid Connor.The allegorical and richly-layered story was considered scarier for kids and more meaningful for mature audiences, especially in a few of its well-executed scenes (the entire Pleasure Island sequence and the terrifying conversion of red-headed Lampwick into a jackass, and the Monstro whale swallowing)...I gotta get out of here.I gotta find out what""s happening....My wife never held up a show in her life." Backstage are other actors and performers, he stage manager, and one actor in blackface.Still amusingly-dressed in his costume, Jerry runs out the back stage entrance into the alley, discovers his way across he street is blocked by the crowd on the sidewalk and the parade, and is labeled as Irish by one of the holiday marchers - a blue-uniformed veteran of the Civil War: "The Irish are all at the head of he parade as usual.In effect, Messala asks Ben-Hur to turn traitor on his people, and reveal the names and identity of Jewish underground resistance leaders - referred to as "criminals.