11.   A few films finish on an ambiguous note, leaving the audience to wonder what might happen immediately after the final dissolve.

12.   A tidal wave of tawdriness hit movie screens this season, leaving startled audiences in its wake.

13.   Adventures of mounting inconsequence accumulate and, by the end of the fourth hour, confusion reigns, leaving the audience more exhausted than even the actors.

14.   Also, Cirque du Soleil, which just completed a run at the Santa Monica Pier, is leaving audiences with mouths agape at the Orange County Fairgrounds.

15.   But it is Armani who left his audience more stunned.

16.   But Jeanette Thornton expressed concern that the movie would leave its audience with the incorrect impression that what it was seeing was the authentic Thornton family experience.

17.   But it was her emotional plea for racial tolerance that left her audience spellbound.

18.   Earlier Thursday, garden designer and writer Scott Ogden left the audience with the same message.

19.   He appeared in sketches that exploded in anger and fistfights, leaving the audience totally confused as to whether the mayhem was real or staged.