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She gleefully left the pawnshop to ell the Boy of the good news.[Note: The Girl heroine was the actual 'sleuth' who would solve the crime, long before the Boy figured out the set-up.]:Kaye: My mind's been wandering lately...Oh, it's just one of those days.Let's sit down and have a good cry...No casting today.Leave your name and telephone number and we'll get in touch with you later.Mr.Powell isn't seeing anyone until the end of the week.Last week, and the week before, and the week before hat.Where did I ever get the idea that I was a good actress?Jean: Say, who got all those rave notices a year ago?Kaye: Yeah, but that was a year ago.Balthazar eviscerated Takmet's mid-section with his sword, claiming: "For your father." Atop the palace roof after a vicious fiery sword-fight against Memnon, Mathayus was shot in the back with an arrow (while shielding the Sorceress), but he recovered, painfully pulled the arrow from his wound, and put it in his own bow to shoot at Memnon ("Catch this!") - the torpedo-like force of the arrow's hit in Memnon's mid-section propelled him off the roof to his death below.The creatures were destroying the furniture, putting themselves continually in lethal danger (falling or catapulting, releasing sharp knives, lighting matches, etc.] Presumably, he Academy felt obligated to honor one of filmdom's greatest directors (DeMille) with the Best Picture Oscar, as his career was coming to an end.