Daily Dialogue — November 23, 2019

“Oh, Frank, my lips are hot! Kiss my hot lips!”

— MASH (1970), screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr., novel by Richard Hooker

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Doctor. Today’s suggestion by Conrad Steeves.

Trivia: According to Johnny Mandel and Robert Altman, the film’s famous theme song was intended to be the “stupidest song ever written”. After attempting to write the lyrics himself, Altman said he found it too difficult to write “dumb enough,” and instead gave to the task to his fourteen-year-old son. Mike Altman allegedly wrote the lyrics in five minutes. Because of its inclusion in the subsequent television series, he continued to get residuals throughout its run and syndication. His father was paid $75,000 for directing, but his son eventually made about $2 million in song royalties.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Doctors in a war zone exhibit great humanity to their patients… not so much to one of their nurses.

That sets up a later scene: