Daily Dialogue — June 19, 2010

“He’s so full of twists. He starts to describe a donut and it comes out a pretzel.”

 — Henry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon), The Fortune Cookie (1966), written by I.A.L. Diamond & Billy Wilder

This week’s Daily Dialogue theme is movies written by I.A.L. “Izzy” Diamond, Billy Wilder’s longtime writing partner.

Trivia: Billy Wilder came up with the idea for this film when he saw a player run into a cameraman on the sidelines while watching a football game.

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