this isn’t the time for a sad quote about christmas because, ummm, it’s not christmas. but roger ebert penned a very moving opening paragraph for his review of my all-time cinema hero’s, Billy Wilder’s, THE APARTMENT. 

this, i encountered while searching for a love story that might move me, in my desperation to find some inspiration while i think of our upcoming show.

so enough of the blah. here it is. (might be apt for the Lenten Holiday, so reflect)

There is a melancholy gulf over the holidays between those who have someplace to go, and those who do not. ”The Apartment” is so affecting partly because of that buried reason: It takes place on the shortest days of the year, when dusk falls swiftly and the streets are cold, when after the office party some people go home to their families and others go home to apartments where they haven’t even bothered to put up a tree. On Christmas Eve, more than any other night of the year, the lonely person feels robbed of something that was there in childhood and isn’t there anymore. - Roger Ebert