Daily Dialogue — February 1, 2014

Gas Station Attendant: Gordon Street. I once knew a girl who lived on Gordon Street. But that was a long time ago. When I was young.
Wayne: Do we have to put up with this? I mean, can’t we get a better actor. I know it’s a small part, but I think we can do better than this.

Crew member escorts Attendant aside. In comes Charlton Heston.

Charlton Heston: Gordon Street. I once knew a girl who lived on Gordon Street. But that was a long time ago. When I was a young man. Not a day passes that I don’t think of her and the promise I made which… I will always keep. That one perfect day on Gordon Street. (to Wayne) That’s five blocks up, two over.

— Wayne’s World (1992), written by Mike Myers and Bonnie Turner & Terry Turner

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is directions, suggested by Bretton Zinger.

Trivia: The scene where Wayne’s ex-girlfriend Stacy (Lara Flynn Boyle) tries to patch up their relationship by buying him a gun rack, is based on some truth. Mike Myers once dated a girl who apparently broke up with him due to his preoccupation with his comedy. A week later, after some thought, she tried to reconcile by buying Mike a gun-rack. To her, this was an absurd joke that she had hoped Mike would appreciate. He didn’t, and the two remained apart. When the movie was released, and Mike’s ex viewed the movie with her new steady boyfriend, she was mortified not only to learn that the gun-rack anecdote had been written into the film, but also she was shocked to see that the main characters referred to the Stacy character as a ‘psycho hose-beast’. Some time later, Myers telephoned his former girl, attempting to apologize for including a very detracting version of her in the movie.

Dialogue On Dialogue: I met Charlton Heston when he starred in the movie I wrote Alaska. Such a commanding presence in real life… and on screen as this scene conveys. Funny bit.

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