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  3. In 1926, while filming The King of Kings, director Cecil B. DeMille moved his cast and crew to Catalina Island, off the coast of

In 1926, while filming The King of Kings, director Cecil B. DeMille moved his cast and crew to Catalina Island, off the coast of

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问题     In 1926, while filming The King of Kings, director Cecil B. DeMille moved his cast and crew to Catalina Island, off the coast of California. There, he housed everyone in tents to promote a sense of community on the project.
    Not everyone was happy with the tents, including H. B. Warner, the actor playing Christ. One day, in the middle of a scene, a yacht sailed into camera range. When an enraged DeMille learned that the yacht belonged to his leading man, he said, "If I thought Mr. Warner needed a yacht, I’d have brought my own. Just who does he think he is?"
    "Jesus Christ, sir," replied a crew member.
    DeMille digested this and then said, "That puts me at something of a disadvantage, doesn’t it?"
    Mark it down as one of the very few times anyone ever got the better of Cecil B. DeMille.
    The superb film historian Scott Eyman includes this anecdote in his admiring and exhaustive new DeMille biography, Empire of Dreams, a life of the man who forged our idea of Hollywood. Eyman labors to unlock the contradictions in DeMille’s puzzling personality, or at least to put some flesh on the legend. Good as Eyman is, it’s uphill all the way. DeMille was a master showman onscreen and off. He ruled with a despot’s hand and a hambone’s instincts. Nearly all of our cliches about imperious movie directors come straight from him. Struggling to penetrate DeMille’s facade, Eyman never gets much beyond establishing that the filmmaker was an autocrat on the set and a kindly man at home(though one with three mistresses). But there is almost no time—or reason—to tabulate flaws.
    For an unparalleled half century, DeMille was one of the most powerful, successful producer-directors in Hollywood. And yet, on contemporary lists of great directors, he often goes unmentioned. His historical and biblical epics are no longer the fashion, with nothing to offer a modern audience.
    His fellow directors are wiser about DeMille’s accomplishments. Martin Scorsese claims that only Steven Spielberg knows as much as DeMille about manipulating crowds onscreen. Better yet, DeMille at his best always knew how to make a movie move. The special effects in The Ten Commandments look clunky today, but the story never flags. Every scene sets up the next, and the film holds your interest whether you like it or not. Cecil B. DeMille was a storyteller of genius—a genius without shame, but a genius just the same.  
Which of the following would Eyman most probably agree to?
选项 A、DeMille was a success with complex character.
B、All the flaws of DeMille should be counted in his biography.
C、DeMille was considered an odd fish in the society.
D、DeMille’s personality and gift contradicted each other.
答案A
解析 推断题。原文只有第六段是围绕艾曼所著的传记，故该题应主要从第六段中寻找依据。通读该段，可知在艾曼看来戴米尔是成功的，因为他和他的作品影响着好莱坞在人们心中的印象；而他的性格却又是充满矛盾的，很难揭示真相，故选项[A]正确。[B]项的说法与本段的最后一句相矛盾，艾曼认为罗列瑕疵是没有必要的，故[B]项错误。戴米尔的性格或许会给我们特立独行的印象，但艾曼并没有说社会将他看成一个怪人，故[C]项说法过于主观，也应排除。[D]项说法有一定迷惑性，但原文是说戴米尔性格充满了矛盾，而不是性格与才华相互矛盾，故该项也是错误的。
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