Daily Dialogue — February 23, 2015

“I don’t like it when people come up to me after my plays and say, ‘I really dug your message, man.’ Or, ‘I really dug your play, man, I cried.’ You know. I like it when people come up to me the next day, or a week later, and they say, ‘I saw your play. What happened?’”

— Tootsie (1982), screenplay by Larry Gelbart & Murray Schisgal, story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart

The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Birthday.

Trivia: Barry Levinson and Elaine May contributed writing to the script.

Dialogue On Dialogue: I was going to feature Dustin Hoffman’s character Michael Dorsey at his birthday party because it’s important in establishing both his loneliness and his sexist attitudes toward women, but I got waylaid by Bill Murray who is brilliant in the movie.

If you have a suggestion for this week’s theme, please post in comments.