A week ago I saw a new Volvo commercial that invoked Rocky Point. Today I got around to googling it.

“The story is that he wrote an award-winning screenplay three to four years ago but struggled to write his second,” says O’Rourke. “Was that all he had in him, or is he a truly talented guy?” He adds, “When you tell an actor that, and he has this information to chew on, it makes him give a deeper performance.”

We see our hero bringing home a woman with short hair and freckles. She has undergone some ordeal, perhaps, a medical one. I suspect she is his First Muse that got cast aside. They now know their true role in life that will unfold at a very dramatic modern house overlooking the sea. Has this guy been reading my blog? Has Rena ended her Cold War with me, and now wants…