Daily Dialogue — February 26, 2015

Mitch: Hi, Mom.
Mom (on telephone): It’s September 8th, 1952. We’re driving back from your Aunt Marsha. My water breaks. Your father jumps the divider of the highway and races me to Doctor’s Hospital. And… [laughs] … at 5:16, out you came. Oh… happy birthday, Darling. Here’s your father.
Dad (on telephone): Hello, boy. Happy birthday.
Mitch: Hi, Dad. How you doing?
Dad (on telephone): I’m losing feeling in my left leg. Here’s your mother.

— City Slickers (1991), written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel

The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Birthday.

Trivia: Aside from the Yankee game story that Mitch tell, another true story from Billy Crystal’s life is the wake up call from his mother on his birthday. According to Billy in the DVD Commentary, in real life, his mother would call him on his birthday at around 5 o’clock in the morning (the time he was born) and verbally re-enact the event over the phone. The rendition in the film is word-for-word the true story of Billy Crystal’s birth.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This scene is part of the story’s setup to sell Mitch’s sense of growing old and wondering if this is all there is to life. It’s his 39th birthday. Next one is the big Four Oh.

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