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Article: Scenes from a nightmare.(editorial)
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- Nursing Homes
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- April 1, 2006
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The other evening I was channel surfing (I may be the fastest clicker in Cleveland) when I was snagged by an old movie I hadn't seen in decades called I Never Sang for My Father. I remembered having enjoyed it when it was first released in 1970, and I stayed with it. It's a riveting story of an ambivalent adult son (Gene Hackman, great even then) trying to support his powerful but declining father (Melvyn Douglas, always great) who is living at home alone. I tuned in just before Hackman goes out on a tour of local long-term care facilities to see what might be suitable for this imposing old man.
Hackman parks his car near one of them, gets out with a friend, and ...