During showings, audience members arrived in cross-dressing lingerie, danced in the aisles, and participated in a song-along.The screenplay for director Ridley Scott's film (only his second feature film followingThe Duellists (1977), although Walter Hill was originally to be the director) was written by Dan O'Bannon, who based the script upon a story (originally titledStar Beast) that he had written with partner Ronald Shusett.Marion), the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge.In the famed, immortalized scene that was about sixteen minutes into the film, she made her grand entrance into a NY Battery waterfront saloon from a foggy street...That was Warren Sheffield calling long-distance to propose." The only member of the family unaware of the expected phone call is Papa, and he feels like an outsider:Just when was I voted out of this family?When the phone rings a second time, Rose answers and hesitantly (but yelling throughout in order to be heard) speaks to Warren while the entire family hangs on her every word.