" Days of Wine and Roses "

Jack Lemon and beautiful Lee Remick starred together in a

    poignant movie about alcoholism . I am reminded of their " problem "

    every time I hear that sweet theme song on the radio : " Days of Wine

    and Roses ". The music almost seems incongruous with the reality of the

    stinking mess hopeless drunks make out of their lives.

           Yet Lee Remick has a line in that movie  hinting at a " reason "

    for alcoholism that is hardly silly and superficial : She tells her

    " recovering " husband Jack that she simply cannot stop because everything

    would seem too UGLY if she quit drinking.

            Does that explain the affinity of many artists for various intoxicants?

        I smile at the words on a downtown lowlife's T shirt : " You're 

    Looking Better With Every  Beer ! "

          To think that the aesthetic sense may be a factor in the life style

    of a bar fly !