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My biggest regrets

17 March 2024

4:40 PM

17 March 2024

4:40 PM

Regrets, I’ve had a few, but unlike Mr. “My Way,” mine are enough to mention. (Didn’t Hoboken Frank at least regret slapping Ava Gardner or hanging out with Joey Bishop?)

“When you see the end of things coming close and staring at you,” as Jason Robards tells his son in Ray Bradbury’s filmic adaptation of his own novelSomething Wicked This Way Comes, “it’s not what you’ve done that you regret — it’s what you didn’t do.”

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