My New Bev Experience

I've written about the New Beverly Cinema a couple of times on this blog in the past. I even contributed money to Julia Marchese's excellent Out of Print documentary about it-- my name is in the credits.
Quentin Tarantino bought it and saved it from closing down several years after I began frequenting it in 2010.
On March 22 I watched "The Cowboys" there. Mark Rydell, its director, was in attendance. I loved the movie-- in fact, it's my new favorite John Wayne film-- but I was getting tired, and I wanted to know the time. Usually I have an iPod on hand that I can whip out, check and put away in a matter of a second. However, I couldn't find my iPod as I left my car to enter the theater. So I had only my droid phone on hand.
I was sitting in an aisle seat, so I placed it completely to the side of the seat as it powered up (white screen), put it to my chest for two seconds when it switched to a dark blue screen, then put it to the side of my seat in order to turn it off. At that moment a lesbian-looking man who I've seen in the lobby in the past took notice. It continued to be on a dark blue screen as I pushed the power off and held it close to the seat so as not to distract anyone. Maybe ten seconds after I turned it off I could see in my peripheral vision that a figure was standing to my immediate left. He YELLED something like, "TURN OFF THE PHONE!!! KEEP IT OFF!!" in my face from maybe one foot away from me. I jumped slightly, turned around and saw that the man who was seated behind me had a bemused expression (as any normal human being would), then tried to return to the movie. I couldn't focus on it, so I left.
This account is precisely how the incident played out. New Bev's message that I checked it "repeatedly" is erroneous. I checked it one time during the last ten or fifteen minutes of the film.
If you read this account and thought, "DON'T CARE. YOU WERE OUT OF LINE, AND I DON'T EVEN CARE IF YELLING AT YOU WAS MUCH MORE DISTRACTING THAN ANYTHING YOU DID. ANY AMOUNT OF BERATING AND BELITTLING YOU ISN'T ENOUGH FOR THOSE FEW SECONDS! YOU SHOULD FLAY YOURSELF BEFORE A CROWD OF BLOOD HUNGRY BEASTS IN PENANCE" then you're in hack comic Doug Benson's camp.
It's cool-- you're entitled to your opinion. I just don't respect it whatsoever.