Do you know someone who has the gift of the gab?
Someone who is clever in communicating?
Someone articulate with words?
But the words ring insincere, self serving and false when spoken?
I’ve been contacted by two such people in two days
After the first I was minimal in my replies, but the conversation and my lack of chutzpah bugged me and I kept thinking of a film scene that I couldn’t quite remember clearly enough
I kept musing about of Meryl Streep sort pulling a face
Before the second conversation I remembered the film scene which was haunting me
I was in Sainsbury’s by the udon noodles, and I said out loud Shirley MacLaine! When I recalled the scene properly .
In 1983 James L Brooks made Terms of Endearment. For those few that may not have seen it, it is a comedy/drama Autumnal love story between eccentric neighbours , the middle aged Aurora and Garrett, (Shirley MacLaine & Jack Nickleson )as well being a study of mother/ daughter love between MacLaine’s character Aurora and her feisty daughter Emma played by Debra Winger.
In one pivotal scene the cowardly Garrett finishes his budding relationship with Aurora and does so with all the right words, “ sincere” reflections and articulations but the humiliated Aurora, who sees through his insincerity, just sits there and vomits out a reply of “ Blah, Blah,Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah , Blah ………Blah.
”
It’s a clever play by Brooks who lets the scene speak for itself…I’m sure that last Blah was improvised
My second unsatisfactory conversation was today. It was with Someone who just wanted something from me A shallow request
I replied with an equivalent of Endearment’s Blah Blah BLAH
Not Meryl today , but with Shirley’s Aurora , totally on board.
Hey ho
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