In the West Village screening room, Burns told his colleagues that at his first audience Q. & A., in 1981, a woman asked him where he'd found footage of the Brooklyn Bridge's construction.
At least my first audience would be manageably small, I hoped, but instead it was an SRO crowd.
That politician was Margaret Thatcher, and 27 years after she wrote those words, she arrived at Buckingham Palace for her first audience with the queen as prime minister.
Last Tuesday, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican — the first audience ever by the head of the Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch.
We can now see the film more or less as it was experienced by that first audience at the German premiere.
He found his first audience at those flea markets, before moving on to car shows popular with low-rider enthusiasts, mom-and-pop record stores and bodegas in African-American and Mexican-American areas of Houston.
A visually-opulent retelling of Cinderella by British director Kenneth Branagh has wowed its first audience at the Berlin film festival for its fresh approach to the centuries' old fairytale.
The long-anticipated international movie premiere of the soft-porn S&M novel Fifty Shades of Grey has received mixed responses from its first audience at the Berlin film festival, with initial reactions ranging from "harmless" to "excruciatingly boring".
We were the first audience at this year's Avignon Festival to have seen the Mahabharata as it should ideally be experienced: not as three separate evenings but, as in Jean-Claude Carriere's adaptation, a dusk-to-dawn epic dealing with the birth of heroes and legends, a world-shaking family quarrel and a final exhausted calm.
In his first audience at the Vatican, he said Jesus Christ and not the Pope was the centre of the Church, which he stressed was "spiritual not political" in nature.
