This has been done on so many movies, but why not this great comedy?
Beecham: "He said to go in."
Robby: "Is that what he said?"
Beecham: "Not exactly."
"My God Max! You've gotten even fatter. You look like the Hindenburg! Have you seen a doctor?"
"How's that company of yours: American Fake Foods?"
"I found a jar of peanut butter in her desk!"
"I knew that divorce was too good to last."
How about "How many innocent children have you poisoned today?"
share( Natasha O'Brien [ Jacqueline Bisset ] is in Venice, interviewing seafood chef Fausto Zoppi [Stefano Satta Flores]. He has just surreptitiously pinched her rump. )
Natasha: Would you please explain to me what it is about pinching that appeals to Italian men so much?
Zoppi: It's a test to judge quality. You tap a melon, yes? You squeeze a cabbage, yes? ...You pinch a woman!
Natasha: Is that where you put us, Signor Zoppi? Just after cabbages?
Zoppi: Please...call me Fausto!
"Only an amateur would bake anything Swiss in a 450 oven."
"That is the most tasteless, vulgar, and macabre suggestion it has ever been my misfortune to hear. What next, I wonder? The Andes Plane Crash cookbook?"
"I'll go mad."
"What am I running? A magazine or a burial society?"
"At least I do not freeze my chicken livers."
"Dr. Deere, Dr. Sweetheart, Dr. Darling..."
"Why did you have to do it? ... Let her use my kitchen?"
"What a bounder you are."
"You don't have to be able to lay an egg to smell a bad one."
I could go on...
one of my dear favorite movies!
Here are a few of my favorite lines
Auguste: I spit on this pidgeon!
Kohner: You spit on my pidgeon?! I spit on you!
Maximillian: (on the phone to beechum) Miss Beechum I don't pay you enough! How much do I pay you?
(unheard response)
That's enough.
Maximillian: Doctor, deprived of all I love, what makes you think I would want to live?
- "How come the only available bed in this hotel comes with you on it?"
- "There's a convention in town"
- "The Optimists, no doubt"
Bisset was surprisingly good with the comedy in this film.
What is Max's line about his weight -- something about (paraphrasing) how it's taken years and the finest meals to achieve?
Look at him -- sittin' on that stool like he's doin' it a favor.share
The only line I can remember off the top of my head is-
Max: "Who is it this time... Aunt Jemima?!"
And the only reason I remember it is because it was in the commercial and cracked me up when I was a wee lad.
I've seen the movie only once on original release. One of those times you show up at a theater with a date and try and pick something not too terrible. I recall it being delightful adult comedy. One scene I remember involved J.B. responding to G.S. : "what would you call it, shorthand?" This clip was shown with J.B.'s appearance I think on the Today Show promoting the movie. When the interviewing host didn't laugh, J.B. urged "it's funny on the screen" I recall.
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