Daily Dialogue — May 4, 2012

INT. THE CASTORINI HOUSE — KITCHEN — DAY

Rose is at the stove. The kitchen is filled with steam and sunlight. Rose is stirring a pot filled with oatmeal. Another range has the coffeepot heating. Loretta shuffles into the kitchen, goes to the tin table, and sits down. There are red roses on the table. Rose sees Loretta.

ROSE
What the hell happened to you?

LORETTA
Well. I don’t really know where to start.

ROSE
Your hair’s different.

LORETTA
Everything’s different.

ROSE
Are you drunk?

LORETTA
No. Are you drunk?

ROSE
No. But I have a hangover.

LORETTA
Where’s pop?

ROSE
Upstairs. Johnny Cammareri showed up last night.

Loretta is suddenly electrified.

LORETTA
What? He’s in Sicily!

ROSE
No more he’s not.

LORETTA
He’s with his dying mother!

ROSE
She recovered.

LORETTA
WHAT!! She was dying!

ROSE
It was a miracle.

LORETTA
A miracle? This is modern times! There ain’t supposed to be miracles any more!

ROSE
I guess it ain’t modern times in Sicily. He came right from the airport. He wanted to talk to you. You got a love bite on your neck. He’s coming back this morning.

With a long low MOAN, Loretta lowers her head to the table.

— Loretta (Cher), Rose (Olympia Dukakis), Moonstruck (1987), written by John Patrick Shanley

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is revelation, suggested by Alexander Gorelik. Today’s suggestion by blknwite.

Trivia: The original screenplay featured a subplot that showed the characters played by Cher and Vincent Gardenia volunteering at a men’s homeless shelter as penance for their sins. The subplot was discarded.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Two reveals here, one through dialogue — “Johnny Cammareri showed up last night” — the other through a “love bite on your neck.”