So my daughter was telling me the other day about some advice that her mother gave her once. A lot of you have probably heard it before; but the idea is that before you go leave the house, turn around and look at yourself in the mirror and see what you notice first.
The idea being (at least in my daughter’s (and late wife’s) mind) that it might be a quick way to see if you’re wearing too much jewelry, for example, or have too much makeup on.
I laughed when she told me that; because I’m pretty sure that came from a move. If I had to guess, from a romcom. My wife died over 10 years ago; so it’s obviously older than that.
My memory is a bunch of young ladies standing around getting ready to go out clubbing for the night, and one of them offers up this advice to the others.
As soon as you said it, I pictured it. It’s one of my favorite movies too; but apparently you and I are the only people who have ever watched it; I rarely find anyone who’s seen it.
Oddly enough another Steve Martin movie shares the same fate of no-one-I-know-seems-to-have-ever-watched-that-move… My Blue Heaven. The quote that I use from that one is when Steve Martin is telling Joan Cusack “Everybody THINKS they have a sense of humor, but they don’t all!”
If only I wasn’t at lunch during this post - I love that movie and instantly thought of the scene where they’re all at lunch. Steve & Marilu are the first to arrive, despite being 20 minutes late.
Best line : “Oh really? You’re taking a course in the Art of Conversation?”
Little bit OT, but I can’t stand Steve Martin’s comedy; however, the couple of times I’ve seen him do dramatic acting, I loved him. Just as one example, he had a small role in And the Band Played on who [SPOILER ALERT] has to finally acknowledge his brother is gay, when health workers ask him about his brother’s blood donations, and he finds out his brother died of AIDS (or, it was probably still GRID at the time), and unknowingly caused several other cases, some in children. He is so good in that scene, it’s unbelievable.
Something rather distressing has just happened. The first time I saw this movie was on Showtime about 25 years ago. It had an intro by John Lithgow, and ended with Lithgow’s scene that was cut from the film. He plays mega-producer Harry Zell, who Harris (Martin) has a meeting with after being fired from the TV station. Zell pitches him several projects. It was fucking hysterical.
The distressing part is that I can’t find it online. There are still references to the Zell character in the final film, and Lithgow can be seen in this trailer starting at about 0:46.
For the rest of the poem, see The Man With Two Brains.
And if you asked Marilu about that scene should could tell you the exact date they shot it, how many takes and everything else that occurred, since she’s one of this rare people with Hyperthymesia.
