January 2nd is rough. The champagne’s gone, that exciting post-midnight feeling of renewal is a distant memory, and we’re left to face the harsh reality that our overly-ambitious resolutions might actually require a less-than-pleasant change in behavior. Or maybe we’re just hungover. Whatever. In any case, here’s a clip from one of my favorite New Year’s movies, George Cukor’s Holiday, in which Cary Grant spoils a New Year’s Eve party by telling his fiancee’s moneybags dad that he plans to quit working in order to “find out who I am and what goes on and what to do about it––now, when I’m young and feel good all the time!”
