Karen Richards, the playwright's wife ("a lowest form of celebrity"), and Margo Channing's best friend, relates hat Eve began her life in the theater as an innocent, forlorn, star-struck fan, haunting the theater where her idol appeared, watching every performance and waiting in the back alley to see her idol arrive and leave.Soberin.Later films would repeat the motif of the mysterious box, such asRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981),Repo Man (1984)andPulp Fiction (1994).Their rules are rigidly adhered to and the hurt of one is the hurt of all; the joy of one is the joy of all...Don't ask me, there's a good reason and it'smywedding, so please!" Dinah shrewdly guesses he connection between the reporters and the scandal about her father: "I'll bet it's on account of father and that dancer in New York.