Magaw: 'Powerful when Nicholson confronts Dunaway about her "sister".'
Reminds of one of my favorite moments of the last few years. Five years ago, failing health made me want to live close to home. My best pal offered me an old carriage house on his property near Boston in exchange for daycare of his 4yo. I am 350 pounds of kid myself, so our days were largely him using 'my giant' as a jungle gym and adversary in pretend games - the neighbors still talk of me dressed in 30 pounds of garden shed paraphernalia (yellow sandpail on my head) and chasing him best i could around the yard as an angry British commander called Gen. Thunderbucket - and i had near as much fun as him.
On a weather day, we were squared off in indoor combat and the kid decided to hurl a gigantic fake slap my way. Did a proper turn in response but, for some reason, I exclaimed "My sister!" to someone who would not know the movie reference nor what it meant. But he saw it crack me up and decided to give my other cheek the same treatment. "My daughter!", I cried. For weeks, as an inside fight would near its logical conclusion, one of us would start the "mysister/mydaughter" sequence on the other as the contest's denouement. So we thought nothing of it when we started goofin on the couch watchin TV with the fam and i'm fake slappin' and he's "sister/daughter"ing and we look up. His mom, a bit of a prune who was just starting to warm up to me for the help with her kid after a pretty good 20yr hate, was looking at us in abject horror as we virtually re-enacted an incest confession scene from a great ol' flick in front of her. I'm well used to "oh, he's the one who said/did that" looks from women, but this was the only one i could call mortally withering. To the kid's (now 9) credit, he hasnt let a single one of my visits back go more than a minute without him launching the "s/d" sequence since, timeout be damned.
'Kind Hearts and Coronets'
The decade of Alec Guiness comedies begun by this one are 1-1A with Pythonalia in the collections of every Brit i know.