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I\u2019ll post links to my reviews of The Honeymooners<\/i> and Mr. & Mrs. Smith<\/i> when they go up tomorrow<\/a>, but for now, suffice to say that I was amused to see that, in both films, the couples in question have been together for six years and are beginning to wonder if the marriage has run out of steam. I have two basic reactions to this: (1) Gosh, I hope it ain\u2019t like that for D and me in 2011, and (2) these are the sorts of moviegoing coincidences I live for. Who knows, I might even be able to pitch a \u201ctheme\u201d piece on this.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not why I\u2019m writing this post.<\/p>\n

No, the reason I\u2019m writing this post is that I have decided to stay home and watch something from the video pile or get some more work done or something, instead of dashing out to catch the last matinee of a movie that is finishing its first run tonight.<\/p>\n

My reasons for skipping this screening are partly financial, and partly due to time constraints, but it all comes down to my wife, really: She has, shall we say, encouraged me to be more responsible with my money, and I suspect this film will probably come back on a second-run double-bill in the near future; and she is seeing another film with me tonight, at a theatre for which I have a media pass, so I might as well stay put and wait for her to get home from work, instead of rushing around from film to film and barely having time to pick her up between theatres.<\/p>\n

On top of this, our marriage hit another \u201cfirst\u201d last night. Last night I saw The Honeymooners<\/i> at a theatre just four blocks from where we live, and because the film opens tomorrow, my editor wanted the review by noon today. (Actually, he wanted it by first thing yesterday morning, but since the only preview screening in town wasn\u2019t until last night\u2026) And because there was a screening of another<\/i> film at 10am this morning that I really, really wanted to catch, I basically had 13 hours between the end of last night\u2019s screening and the beginning of this morning\u2019s screening to come home, write the review, sleep, eat, say a few words to my wife, and go back to the theatre \u2014 and not necessarily in that order.<\/p>\n

In my bachelor days, this sort of thing would have been no problem whatsoever \u2014 I crammed work in between screenings at odd hours of the morning or evening all the time.<\/p>\n

But, you see, I share the alarm clock now.<\/p>\n

So that<\/i> was interesting.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, D had to wake up around 7am anyway, but I still felt obliged to persuade her to set it for just a little bit earlier, to give me the breathing room I usually need so that I can read the paper and do whatever else I need to do whenever I take brief breaks during my writing. D and I had anticipated this sort of thing and had talked about it before we got married, and we had kind of agreed that, if I needed to work any particularly unusual hours, then I should probably sleep on the couch \u2014 but fortunately, we didn\u2019t have to resort to that, at least not this first time.<\/p>\n

And hey, it took us almost four months to get to this point. So we probably won\u2019t encounter this sort of thing that<\/i> often.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"