Picking Nits
The seven-year time jump is too long; Jane never smokes; the gazebo ending wraps things too tightly
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- With the ending already covered, seven years still feels too long for the epilogue, four would do; Grantland started seven years ago, which felt like forever, though in that era a father could work at one newspaper for 25 years.
- Why didn't she smoke? The character was dying to smoke, classic Diet Coke and cigarettes, and you could still smoke in the office in 87; getting into the cab with a cigarette and butts everywhere would have pushed it to the next level; Brooks must have been anti-smoking, or maybe Zerinsky (as transcribed) was not a smoker.
- Flagged earlier for nitpicks: one host hates the ending of one of his favorite movies, weird and rainy, the gazebo and the jackets, Tom staying for one second then leaving, the 'I guess we'll be working together again' tidy wrap; it took seven more years for Tom to get the Nicholson job, which is believable, and Albert Brooks needed a kid old enough, so at least five years had to pass.