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My Man Wants Me Because I Have His Rib
The following is from the movie Moonstruck. This conversation is another reason why I love this movie entirely too much.
Rose: Why do men chase women?
Johnny: Well, there’s a Bible story… God… God took a rib from Adam and made Eve. Now maybe men chase women to get the rib back. When God took the rib, he left a big hole there, where there used to be something. And the women have that. Now maybe, just maybe, a man isn’t complete as a man without a woman.
Absolutely loved her in so many works. Lovely actress to watch and so many memorable roles.
Olympia Dukakis, June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021.
Cosmo's Moonstruck (Strike)
I simply cannot picture AI ever coming up with the delightful original screenplay (written by John Patrick Shanley) for the film Moonstruck (1987). Perhaps those in the AMPTP can heed Loretta Castorini's words and change the way they do things. What the WGA and the SAG-AFTRA are asking is not unreasonable. But then again, Loretta inherited her wisdom from her mother and Rose Castorini was a smart cookie...
Cosmo Castorini: I have no money.
Rose Castorini: You're as rich as Roosevelt. You're just cheap, Cosmo.
Hear that studio executives?
I hope the AMPTP won't wait until the moon is full and bright to make up. Even in darkness, the path forward is quite clear: compensation and safe treatment assist creativity and productivity and everyone benefits.
To those that say well, the studios could use AI and then have a writer polish it up:
