Jeremy is the 1973 high-school romance movie which relates to the Pearl Jam song of the same name, in name only. That's a good thing, because the song is a real bummer. Besides being a fairly good flick, the movie, Jeremy, reportedly has the distinction of spawning a real life love affair between the principals.
Robbie Benson plays a cello-studying, dog-walking, poetry-reading, chess-playing 15-year-old who follows the ponies. He falls for Glynnis O’Connor - can you blame him? - but they never make it to the track to place a bet. They have a short teenage love affair - as if there is another kind - and in fine early '70s fashion, the ending leaves a few tears in our eyes. Enjoy Detroit, missy.
We're going to need something on the happy side for Jeremy, so let's grab a chocolate Port from Jeremy Wine Company, located in downtown Lodi. You're probably not shelling out more than four bucks to see the film, so go ahead and spring for a $28 bottle of sweet that will soften the inevitable heartbreak.
The 2011 thriller, We Need to Talk About Kevin, features Tilda Swinton as a woman who drew the bad luck card in motherhood and Ezra Miller as a child who should not have been given the gift of life. When I told my wife I was writing about this film, she nearly burst into tears and said it was one of the saddest stories she could remember. The laughs are not coming easily this week.
Suffice it to say, if you think your offspring might be a sociopath, don't give him a weapon as a gift.
You may know Kevin O'Leary from TV's Shark Tank, but he also makes wine. I should say, he also sells wine … the bottles happen to have his name on them. It's high class stuff - you can get it in red, white or pink.
1973's Charley Varrick features Walter Matthau as a bank robber. That casting error aside, let's focus on imagining Oscar Madison as a hardened criminal. At least he was good at it. He seems to be the only one left alive at the end of the film. Better luck imagining him as a crop duster, which the script attempts to pass off as well.
The movie was received fairly well by critics, if not by Clint Eastwood, for whom the role of Varrick was intended. He turned it down. Matthau himself reportedly didn't think much of the finished product.
We'll alter the spelling a bit to pair Varick wine with Charley Varrick. The New York winery is on the shore of one of the Finger Lakes - Cayuga. Their Cabernet Franc looks enticing, but I'd beware the bright pink ones. Steer toward the rosé labeled as "dry."
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