Daily Dialogue — July 27, 2017

“I don’t know the answer.”

— Magnolia (1999), written by Paul Thomas Anderson

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Television. Today’s suggestion by Gisela Wehrl.

Trivia: Paul Thomas Anderson wrote the bulk of the script during two weeks he spent at William H. Macy’s Vermont cabin — afraid to go outside because he’d seen a snake.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Gisela: “The whole business is embarrassing for Jimmy, the Gameshow kid. And he don’t want to admit his accident and has to embarrass himself by this sentence, though he would know the correct answer.”