" Brilliant, but fading alcoholic movie actor Norman Maine (James Mason) arrives late to the benefit, obviously drunk.However many questions you ask, you never expect an answer." In her dressing room, they discuss his negotiations to sell the Duchess""s memoirs and "life""s secrets" to be printed in theGazette Parisienneas "The Life and Loves of the Grand Duchess Swana of Russia":We won""t have to worry about our future if you""re willing to raffle off your past."" [The film ends with the same tradition.] A master stands at the doorway with a list of the names of each pupil, and the boys file past and call out their last name.Afterwards as they sat at one of the tables, they listened in disbelief to a TV broadcast, in which the worried President abdicated "all authority and control over this planet to General Zod.You""ve killed us").The rescued Soviet crew believed the explosion to be of theRed October.The Soviet ambassador knew of the destroyed Soviet submarine, and then haltingly reported to Pelt that they had lost a ""second"" submarine, in the area of the Grand Banks.