“Ring out the old year, ring in the new. Ring-a-ding-ding.”
Carol (2015), After the Thin Man (1936), An Affair to Remember (1957), Remember the Night (1940), When Harry Met Sally… (1989), Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Holdovers (2023), Penny Serenade (1941), Phantom Thread (2017)
The nerve of those Whos. Inviting me down there - on such short notice! Even if I wanted to go my schedule wouldn’t allow it. 4:00, wallow in self pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize; 6:30, dinner with me - I can’t cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing… I’m booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9:00, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness.
“We have only days before the games begin. Your attendance will bring even greater glory to General Acacius.” GLADIATOR II (2024), dir. Ridley Scott | Deleted Scene
All you have to do is turn that dial, and you have all the company you want, right there on the screen. Drama, comedy… life’s parade at your fingertips.
I’m just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It’s just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade.
Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) & Addams Family Values (1993)
