In heir room with double beds, they are engaged in vigorous humping with two hired prostitutes who are making the customary moans." BackgroundBeing There(1979), subtitled "a story of chance," is a provocative and elegiac black comedy -- a wonderful dramatic yet placid tale or fable that satirized politics, celebrity, media-obsession and television.] Eager to serve, 21 year-old Stone has been assigned to the frontier fresh from England""s Sandhurst military college, although his strict disciplinarian father vows o not show favoritism towards him.He admitted that he "enjoyed it" and was carried away by "how good it felt." Now, Jor-El""s son had been "revealed to the world" -- but he was cautioned to keep his "secret identity" for two reasons: he couldn""t serve humanity 24 hours a day, and because his enemies would discover that the only way to hurt him would be by "hurting the people you care for.She is determined to escape detection and join her husband (to spite her father) after a night bus ride from Miami, Florida to New York.