But, most indelibly, by going to the movies that day, I had managed to free myself from the alcohol-fueled volatility of my family’s holidays, from ugly childhood memories. (via latimesopinion)
In 1990, at Mann’s Chinese Theatre, I saw my first Christmas Day movie, Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather: Part III.” I had watched the first two films with my father, though they were Channel 5’s edited-for-television versions . My father wanted to see the third Godfather film. His interest probably made it easier for me to break away from Christmas obligations at home and see the movie in Hollywood on its opening day.
After the movie, on our way out of the theater, we encountered blinding camera lights. Our friend G. was pulled aside by a local TV newsperson. G. goofed on him by shouting, “Godfather, man!!! Awesome!!!” like Metallica had just played “Master of Puppets” exclusively for us. Every Christmas, early, I’d buy a newspaper, flip straight to the movie listings, then start making calls. Later in the day, away from home and needing to kill time before the film, we’d window-shop, toes aching with cold, or we’d play Scrabble in the bed of my friend A.’s pick-up, jackets pulled tight, a tin of Mrs. Romero’s homemade peanut-butter cookies, another Christmas tradition, opened and shared. Without fail or compromise, for 21 years, this was how my friends and I observed Christmas.
In our second decade of Christmas movies, our girlfriends joined us. And after 2010’s movie, my wife and I learned, under an awning, chilled by winter rain, that A. and his girlfriend J. were expecting their first child, my eventual godson. A few years later, when my son arrived, J. recognized my wife’s post-delivery exhaustion and my sleepless befuddlement. She changed the baby’s very first diaper, announcing, “Don’t worry, compadre. I got this one.” And when my father passed away, A.
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