The publisher goes to a movie, then talks with his son in Salt Lake City

 Ill-titled, if wanderlust is defined as a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about. Period Piece would have been more apt inasmuch as Alan Alda plays an old hippie. No lust either, but several decent male-female moments and running time passed quickly in the dark. When he came home,  Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity was playing on TCM. The screenplay was written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler.

Later he spoke to his son in Salt Lake City. His son indicated that he was going rock-hunting for 3 days with a woman named Natalie, 'looking for topaz' in the desert near Wendover.

"Well you might want to watch The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", the publisher said, and that other movie about the guy who went rock-climbing and got caught and had to cut his arm off to save himself..."

"Yeah, Natalie said I should see it, it's called 27 Hours or something like that."

He asked his son, a serious reader who does not have cable tv, what he was reading at the moment: a book about the French Revolution.

"The French dis-interred 20,000 people in Paris, right before or right after the revolution," he said.

Oh.

"The doctors justified it, saying improper burials threatened the health of the commune."

Hmm.

"I think that signals a big shift in thinking and power," his son continued, "away from the church and the clergy and toward the scientific community."