Vermilion I Remember Nothing and other reflections

FROM THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING FILMMAKER OF WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, JULIE AND JULIA AND YOU'VE GOT MAIL, AND AUTHOR OF HEARTBURN AND I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK, MORE WIT AND WISDOM CULLED FROM HER OWN WELL-LIVED LIFE 'Old friends? We must be. You're delighted to see me...But who are you? Oh my God, you're Ellen, I can't believe it...I'd like to suggest that the reason I didn't recognize you is that you've done something to your hair, but what you've actually done is gotten older. You used to be my age, and now you're much much older than I am. You could be my mother.' ' * No one actually likes to admit they're old. The most they will cop to is that they're older. Or oldish. * The main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn't share the housework but that we were unbelievably irritable young women and our husbands irritated us unbelievably. * Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. * The Senior Moment has become the Google moment. * I have been forgetting things for years-at least since I was in my thirties. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time. I have proof. Of course, I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it, or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to. ...