As I write this, Hurricane Harvey has just finished his work, washing away the property and livelihoods of millions in Texas, and Hurricane Irma is just beginning hers, stirring panic in Florida that its residents will soon suffer a similar fate. Among my dear friends, there are some that are so tender-hearted that they are almost overcome with grief and…
What if this is as good as it gets?
Melvin knows life – somehow. The contradiction is that Melvin (played by Jack Nicholson in the 1997 film, As Good as It Gets) is a successful author whose novels have an emotional appeal to female readers, but who repulses any human contact or genuine relationship. An ill-tempered, obsessive-compulsive misanthrope, he is accurately judged by another character to be an “absolute…