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HAPPY VALLEY screens Thursday January 15th at 6:45 pm and January 16 at 9:25 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
About this time of year (and the rest of the year) I wonder what went seriously wrong in my life and career that brought me to this stage. A theory: I attended the wrong college. Yes, I know - and I often tell kids - that in today's-no- jobs-no-future climate, a college degree really doesn't matter, and you are somewhat better off just saving time, student-loan money and heartache by moving directly into your parents' basement and playing videogames. It's what's going to happen anyway. But there is, at least in NE Ohio, one college diploma that might still open a few doors - or would have for me, a long time ago, if I'd tried for it.
Back in my high-school senior year, I was actually accepted at four out of the five colleges to which I applied. But one I never really seriously considered, and thus one to which I didn't bother applying, was the now-in-the-headlines Ohio State University. Yep, home of the Buckeyes.
