The HAPPIEST event we have ever had took place this past Saturday: Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. My Cavaliers upset the Detroit Pistons for the 4th game in a row to clinch their FIRST EVER NBA Finals berth. All the pain I have gone through as a Cleveland Sports fan is 4 wins away from alleviation.
The next day was the SADDEST event we have had. I bought 10 tickets to a screening of the Devil Came on Horseback, an amazing documentary on the crisis in Darfur. It is playing for only 10 days at the Leammle Theater on Wilshire. We had recruited 12 people to come with us for the 10PM showing on Sunday knowing that, since this is an apathetic LA, 2 would flake. Well, 5 flaked. This I could get over. But when we sat down in the theater we discovered that there were less than 20 people there, including the 7 of us. A friend of mine had gone to see the film last Friday for the 6:15 showing and it was just as empty. How can it be that in a city so densely populated, with so much money to spend on philanthropy, no one cares to see this film? Even worse, in an area of that city that is so heavily concentrated with Jewish people, who are constantly reminded by their history to "never forget" the Holocaust and that genocide can happen again, no one would be bothered. Darfur doesn't effect them, so they will continue living their luxurious lives and driving around in their German cars. I wished we could have bought out the entire theater and filled it ourselves.
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