The Sixties, as viewed by those of us downwind of the Baby Boomers ...

Fred: You think wedding vows are going to change everything? God, your naivete is astounding! Didn’t you see “The Graduate"?

Ted: You can remember “The Graduate"?

Fred: Yeah, I can remember a few things. Apparently you don’t. The end? Katharine Ross has just married this really cool guy - tall, blond, incredibly popular, the make-out king of his fraternity in Berkeley - when this obnoxious Dustin Hoffman character shows up at the back of the church, acting like a total a**hole. “Elaine! Elaine!” Does Katharine Ross tell Dustin Hoffman, “Get lost, creep. I’m a married woman"? No. She runs off with him - on a bus. That is the reality.


-- from Whit Stillman's Barcelona