Daily Dialogue — June 12, 2018

“And the dream breaks into a million, tiny little pieces which leaves you with a choice. You can either stick with it which is unbearable or you can go off and dream another dream.”

— Heartburn (1986), screenplay by Nora Ephron based on her book

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Nora Ephron.

Trivia: In Everything Is Copy (2015), Jacob Bernstein’s documentary about his mother Nora Ephron’s life and career, he reveals that contentious negotiations over the movie adaptation of her novel “Heartburn” extended his parents’ divorce for several years longer than most divorces take. Eventually, their divorce agreement included a stipulation that the movie was not allowed to depict the “Mark Forman” (Carl Bernstein) character as anything but a good, loving, and conscientious father (whatever his failings as a faithful husband were), and Mike Nichols had to be named as a legal signatory to the divorce.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The line is delivered moments before Rachel (Meryl Streep) rams a pie into Mark’s face (Jack Nicholson).