Everyone in the pool at the Marmont, wrote Sarlot and Basten, seemed to be waiting for an important phone call from a producer or director, and since there was only one phone near the pool itself, many brought their phones out as far as they could go from the houses surrounding it. When a phone would ring, it was often hard to tell which it was because there were so many. "Whoever was [in the water] would surface in a flash, wide-eyed in anticipation," Sarlot and Basten wrote of those who were underwater when a phone rang. "But no one hurtled out of the pool – and no one along the sidelines made the first move to answer the calls. Only after a suitable pause would some brave soul give in. Then there was a hush, as everyone waited for his or her name to be called... One of the regulars confessed... 'Who in Hollywood would dare appear so anxious, or insecure, as to ask, "Is it for me?"'"
