someday...this tv movie will be iconic

remember when marcia gay harden defended the honor of her promiscuous teen in lifetime's "she's too young" (tagline: to fit in, you've gotta put out)? oh, how you weeped for lost innocence and a mother's struggle! you said to yourself, never again can marcia know the pain of raising a child who rejects true love! after you dried your eyes and poured out another glass of rosé, you dared god himself to produce a more thrilling television event. you shook your head. it couldn't be done, it just couldn't.

dearest reader, you were wrong. it can - and has! - been done again. this time, the appropriately named marcia gay harden, will appear as mother-of-the-teen in the book-to-film translation of someday this pain will be useful to you, a story about my favorite kind of disaffected youth - the gay new york socialite.

in all seriousness, of the ya in the last few years, this novel managed to really capture the tone of a not-quite-adult. nothing is ever right for james sveck, son of an inattentive mother and arrogant father. the walls of his well-heeled world (brown university, manhattan's upper east side...) are closing in on him and it's everyone else's fault but his. he's a completely unlikable hero to be sure, but a smart ass who keeps you in on the joke (ie.: see how much everyone sucks?)

his tiny "tragedies" made for one great read and i can't wait for them to bring the drama to the small screen.