Lymelife: The best dark family comedy since American Beauty with a great ensemble cast

From executive producer Martin Scorsese and producer Alec Baldwin comes LYMELIFE, a funny, biting and loving tribute to the American family directed by Derick Martini, making his directorial debut. Award-winning filmmakers Derick and his brother Steven collaborated on the script based on their experiences growing up on suburban Long Island.
LYMELIFE, opeming in movie theaters April 8th, is a story about the dark side of suburban paradise and the loss of innocence centers on two deeply troubled, dysfunctional families during the late 1970s. The film revolves around an awkward, sensitive 15-year old boy, Scott Bartlett (brilliantly played by Rory Culkin), whose family life is turned upside-down after an outbreak of Lyme disease hits the community spreading illness and paranoia. Scott’s parents -- a workaholic father, Mickey (Alec Baldwin) and an overprotective mother, Brenda (Jill Hennessy) -- are on the verge of a divorce as his older brother Jim (Kieran Culkin) is about to ship off for war. Complicating matters, Scott has fallen in love with his next door neighbor, Adrianna Bragg (Emma Roberts). Adrianna seems to be the only person in the world who understands Scott demonstrated by her equally troubled, less affluent family including an uptight mother, Melissa (Cynthia Nixon), carrying on a not-so-clandestine love affair, and a father, Charlie (Timothy Hutton), slowly slipping away from the effects of Lyme disease. Both profoundly funny and deeply moving, LYMELIFE looks at first love and family dynamics during a time of drastic economic and cultural change.
The ensemble cast is terrific, but Rory Culkin and Emma Roberts as the young teens steal the show. Their performances are fresh, real, and poignant. Alec Baldwin plays the philandering husband to perfection, and Jill Hennessy’s performance is brilliant and light years from her Law & Order assistant DA character. Cynthia Nixon is great in the role of the sexy cheating wife, and Timothy Hutton is frighteningly insane. Lymelife is funny and poignant, and eventhough the ending is foreshadowed, it is jolting none the less.

Boomerangst

Boomerangst: Coping with the Angst of Aging with Wit, Wisdom and Humor, is the ideal recession-friendly gift for those milestone birthdays when you want to give more than greeting card.Baby Boomers reading this book have been observed nodding, groaning, laughing out loud, and definitely relating. This generation of almost 80 million, now turning 50 and 60 at the rate of about 10,000 per day, is challenged with facing their own mortality and doing what any respectable boomer would do--rejecting it.Filled with the wit and wisdom of the ages, expressed by the pundits of their times, in their own words, Boomerangst brings a little humor to the reality of aging and helps relieve--if only for a moment--the accompanying angst.

Author Judy Massey, a tomato and baby boomer, she is a freelance writer, marketing consultant and former marketing executive at a number of consumer publications who began to speak on behalf of her generation in 1996, when the first boomers turned 50.

Alexander the Last

Alexander the Last a film by Joe Swanberg produced by Noah Baumbach of The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding, had it's WORLD PREMIERE AT SXSW AND ON IFC FESTIVAL DIRECT MARCH 14th, 2009. And it is available nationwide on-demand for 90 days on most major cable systems .

In tomato speak, the film Alexander the Last would be most suitable for junior cherry tomatoes. That’s right, not even cherry tomatoes, but junior cherry tomatoes. The film is about a husband and wife – musician and actress respectively – and in the words of Joe Swandberg, the film “explores how they deal with their creative relationships with other people while keeping their [young] marriage together”. It is clear that the director is exploring his own relationship while making it clear that his marriage is worth fighting for.

So is this film a tomato worth picking? Seems to us tomatoes are the kinds of people who realized a long time ago which relationships are worth fighting for and which need to be let go and the kind of people who have ‘found themselves’. So we would pass on that one and perhaps recommend it to some junior cherry tomatoes we know.
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The Hour Glass Solution

The Hour Glass Solution
A Boomer’s Guide to the Rest of Your Life

Jeff Johnson, PhD, and Paula Forman, PhD

“This book may just be the kick in the butt you need to jump start a stalled life.”
The Three Tomatoes

Synopsis:
YOU’VE FOCUSED ON YOUR GOALS, achieved almost everything you had your eye on, and now that you’ve arrived, you ask yourself: Where am I?

Many boomers are surprised to find themselves stuck in the middle of the hourglass, constrained by the choices they made earlier in life and downright afraid of the retirement days that stretch ahead. But as the voices in The Hourglass Solution confirm, it’s all a matter of perspective: you can remain stuck in that narrow channel for the rest of your life—or it can be a passage to an expanding future of possibilities.


In this groundbreaking work, two experts define this problem that didn’t have a name—until now. They tackle the sense of ennui, fear, and confusion that confront many of us who are fifty and older, and offer up stories from those who broke free from the neck of the hourglass. You’ll meet a successful attorney who’s ready for a life change. You’ll hear from a big-city banker who packs up and moves to Phoenix, to the surprise of friends and family. Also here are stories of a couple looking for ways to reconnect after caring for aging parents, a former accountant who finally does buy that dreamed-of diving shop in Costa Rica, and a couple who downsizes to travel.

The Hourglass Solution is not about making the perfect choice; there is no single right choice. Rather, it’s about increasing your options and possibilities
in later life. This book will give you the energy, the self-awareness, and the courage to set out on a new course that includes wonderful new adventures—and new meanings.

Check out the Hourglass blog too.
http://thehourglasssolution.com/