Daily Dialogue — January 30, 2015

Famous Austin: Yeah Baby.
Dixie Normous: Hi, I’m Dixie. Dixie Normous. I may be just a small-town FBI agent slash single mother, but I’m still tough… and sexy.
Famous Austin: Well, Miss Normous… shall we shag now, or shag later?
Dixie Normous: Oh Austin, behave.
Famous Dr. Evil: Hey Powers! You better watch your frickin’ self because this is one doctor who does make house calls. Right Mini-Me?
[camera pans over to… ]
Famous Mini-Me: Hey assholes! I’m Mini-Me! Come and get me!
Steven Spielberg: So, Austin, what did you think of the opening credits?
Austin Powers: Well, I can’t believe Sir Steven Spielberg, the grooviest film maker in the history of cinema, is making a movie about my life. Very Shagadelic, baby, yeah.
[laughs]
Austin Powers: Having said that, I do have some thoughts.
Steven Spielberg: [holding an Oscar] Really? Well, my friend here thinks it’s fine the way it is.
Austin Powers: Well, no offense, Sir Stevie, but you gotta have mojo, babe, yeah. Hit it.

— Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), screenplay by Mike Myers & Michael McCullers

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Espionage. Today’s suggestion by James Schramm.

Trivia: The items on Austin Powers’ briefly-glimpsed “Things To Do Before I Die” list are, in order: Become International Man of Mystery; Save World from Certain Doom; Find True Love; Go to Outer Space; Travel Through Time, Backward and Forward; Be Cryogenically Frozen; Catch Dr. Evil in the First Act; Threesome with Japanese Twins; Win Daddy’s Respect

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by James: “This falls under the category of Best Espionage Movie that was Never Made but You Wish it Had Been. A movie about the grooviest spy ever starring Tom Cruise and Kevin Spacey and directed by Steven Spielberg? Who wouldn’t want to see that?”

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