Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Remember My Name (1978)

Pike: I don't bother you. I expect the same.

Emily: I don't want to bother you. 

Just wanna be friendly and talk.

Pike: I don't talk to nobody. I listen.

Emily: What's the matter, you scared of women?

Pike: Look, what do you want from me?

Emily: I want a set of clean sheets.

If you've never seen Remember My Name go find some way to see Remember My Name -- it used to be hard to see but it is streaming right now on Tubi! (Go Tubi.) Co-starring Anthony Perkins, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Franz and Jeff Goldblum and directed by Alan Rudolph (who also did Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle and Afterglow) it's a fantastic way-ahead-of-its-time character study of an extremely difficult woman, and Geraldine Chaplin gives one of my favorite performances of all time in it. So hard-edged, such a total weirdo -- I relate! I deeply relate. Anyway Miss Chaplin is celebrating her 80th birthday today and we wish her a very happy one! Oh and it also muct be mentioned that the poster for this movie rules -- I gotta get myself a copy of this: