We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.