< Sidetracked by the Analogy

Sidetracked by the Analogy/Quotes

  • Bob. Bob McCay is in his workplace talking with his wife and daughter about an old friend coming over, who had once made a pass at Kaye (Bob's wife). The conversation quickly devolves into a discussion of movies Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas were in.

Bob: I still don't trust Jerry. I'm not taking my eyes off him. If he so much as looks crosseyed at you I'm gonna punch him in the breadbasket.
Kay: You're gonna do what?
Bob: It's not funny Kaye. It's very serious. Houdini died from that.
Tricia: Didn't Houdini die trying to escape from a water chamber?
Harlan walks over
Harlan: No. In the movie that was how Tony Curtis died.
Albie & Chad walk over
Albie: I thought Kirk Douglas stabbed Tony Curtis in the movie.
Chad: No, no you're thinking of Spartacus.
Harlan: No, Tony Curtis killed Kirk Douglas in that.
Albie: No, that was The Vikings.
Bob: I didn't, I didn't see that.
Tricia: So what happend to Kirk Douglas?
Chad: Cut his ear off.
Harlan: No that was in Lust For Life when he played Toulouse-Lautrec.[1]
Tricia: No, that was Jose Ferrer.[2]
-2- You know, interestingly Kirk Douglas lost his ear in Lust for Life and his eye in The Vikings.
Harlan: What brought this up?
Albie: Mr. McCay is threatening to punch Tony Curtis in the stomach.
Harlan: C'mon Bob, Tony's no kid.

  1. Harlan is wrong, Lust for Life was about van Gogh.
  2. she's thinking of Mulin Rouge from 1952.
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