Later, Buscemi told me he sometimes did that, liked to test directors out a bit.
Like most studios, Disney's custom was to test directors' cuts of movies in front of audiences, so it would be possible to make changes, and develop a marketing campaign, based on their reactions.
As testing director for the local school system, Mr. Kline quickly alerted the company, CTB/McGraw-Hill, but it did not fully investigate his complaint at the time.
Before releasing the bad news, Mr. Kline called half a dozen other testing directors to see how they fared.
Graves became dismissive of the radiation risks from nuclear testing while serving as test director for the Nevada Test Site shots during the 1950s.
"These include a fit and proper persons test for directors and a requirement to register students for the course before they can access funding.
What New York audiences will think remains to be seen, but for now both plays are testing their directors, designers and particularly their casts.
These regulations, to be part of "fundamental standards" across health and social care, include a "duty of candour" on the part of care providers when things go wrong and a "fit and proper persons" test for directors of care organisations.
He said his opinion was supported by the Pentagon's top testing director.
He said the department was already searching for a new testing director.
His colleague, test director Kenneth Bainbridge less poetically but no less accurately remarked: "Now we are all sons of bitches".
