Okay, maybe not....

Maybe not a post a day in July [already missed that this weekend] but 30-31 posts during the month?

Just saw an annoying movie called HAPPY TEARS. I wait for the day when a movie offers a realistic portrayal of children stuck caring for aging parents who often did not actually parent. No heartwarming crap, no life lessons learned. Just the sheer thanklessness, guilt, and misery, the lives deferred, the taking things out on others, the avoidance of responsibility, etc. Having a character mess his pants once or twice during the course of the film doesn't make up for it. It's also rare that you run into a situation where one of the children has the money and resources to care for the parent as happens here.

Will never happen. Who would want to see it? More importantly, who would put the money up to make it?

The movie was written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein, son of artist Roy Lichtenstein. Meaningless anecdotes: When I was a senior in high school we did a class trip to Washington DC. We went to a modern art museum [can't remember where, maybe the National Gallery] and they were doing a retrospective of Roy Lichtenstein. He actually was touring it at the time and started at me, probably trying to decipher my Simpsons T-shirt [the Simpsons were still pretty new at the time.]

In college, I dated a woman who worked for a famous photographer [or at least he was famous in photography/advertising circles.] He owned a huge funky old building in New York on the Bowery. Apparently, Roy Lichtenstein used to rent a floor of the building. A few years after that, I went to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and saw some of Warhol's old mail in an exhibit. Some of it was from Roy Lichtenstein, and the return address was that very building where my girlfriend at the time had worked and where I had spent quite a bit of time when visiting her.
/meaningless anecdote.