Haines His Way

Don't ask me.

Nope.


Just don't.


I won't do it.


Not one step.

DR JOSE is back in the City that Never Sleeps.  We demand photographic proof of the trip.

DR ELMORE is in the air.

DR RLP - I noticed that "96 hours of restoration" on a few films as well.....quien sabe?

Looking at Amazon and the message boards, it seems a LOT of us fell in love with this movie and Susan Hayward when this film was broadcast on NBC'S SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES....during its first season.....I remember the broadcast sequence as GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, THE SNOWS OF KILMANJARO, and then TITANIC!!!  But I could be wrong.

Ben - The Major and the Minor sadly is not available on DVD - anywhere.

Happy to see Pogue posting - we had a lovely telephonic conversation the other day.

Happy to see Pogue posting - we had a lovely telephonic conversation the other day.

Is he trodding the boards this holiday season?  

Well... We did indeed take off about 15 minutes, and we were fine until were over North Carolina, and the captain announced that due to the heavy air traffic flying in and out of LGA, we would probably have to circle for a bit.  And I realized that the sun was "shifting" from one side of the plane to the other, well...  I guess we had indeed started circling.

Once we got closer to LGA, we were informed that there might be one more brief delay, but then we got the go ahead to come in for the landing.  We landed, then the plane made its way to the gate.  We pulled up to the gate, then.. Well, we almost made it to the gate.  Apparently, one of the signal lights on the gateway was not working properly.  So, after that initial "DING" when everyone started to get out of their seats and grab their luggage, the captain come on and said that we were about four feet short of the gate, and that we would have to sit down again until he moved us closer to the gate.  Of course, since he thought he had the go ahead to disembark, he had turned off the engine, so that took a minute or two to start up again.  Then the plane foot-ed ahead a couple more feet, and then the "DING", and then we all started to get up again.  Well...

It seemed that more than just the signal light on the gateway was broken.  The gate itself was too.  While looking outside my window, I started to see a couple of Delta coaches pull up to the plane.  Hmm...  And sure enough, about five minutes later, the captain announced that we would be disembarking from the rear of the plane.  And since I was sitting in Row 29 (out of 32), well...  I was one of the first people off the plane.  

And by the time I made my way to Baggage Claim, my bag had just appeared on the carousel.  

Thankfully, no one on the plane seemed to have any connecting flights to make - or at least none that were going to be close to call due to the delays.  And the captain had a good sense of humor about the whole situation, and there were lots of people laughing and giggling - myself included - throughout all the "gate trauma".  In case...

I'm home.  

Favorites HOT Sandwiches

Philly Steaks
Hot Chicken/Roast Beef (The ones witht he gravy poured over them)
French Dips

Do they have french dips in France?

Maybe Francois would know.

And another round of Travel Vibes to DR elmore!~~~~~

Do they have french dips in France?

Maybe Francois would know.

They're everywhere....everywhere.  

This gives me an idea for dinner tonight -

Leftover lamb, thinly sliced, served open-faced on some kind of bread (challah would work well), with some avegolemono sauce spooned over.

Maybe some sauteed spinach on the side.

Thanks for the Major/Minor confirmation. Anthony will be disappointed. He has a copy of a copy of a copy of Dior, wait, that's the wrong reference.

He has an old VHS copy and he really likes the movie but it's not to be, at least for a while.

DR RLP - I noticed that "96 hours of restoration" on a few films as well.....quien sabe?

Looking at Amazon and the message boards, it seems a LOT of us fell in love with this movie and Susan Hayward when this film was broadcast on NBC'S SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES....during its first season.....I remember the broadcast sequence as GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, THE SNOWS OF KILMANJARO, and then TITANIC!!!  But I could be wrong.

I know my folks and I watched all those films when they first aired.  We sometimes watched repeats, but sometimes my dad wanted something different.

When "With A Song in My Heart" was scheduled for a repeat, I did extra chores just to get a guarantee of being able to see it again.

After that airing, I didn't see it again until sometime in 1972 on a Florida TV station.  After that, it was on AMC in the early-mid 1990s, from which I made a VHS recording that had to satisfy me until now.

The packaging indicates that this issue is its first appearance on DVD.  In actuality, this DVD is the film's FIRST appearance on any home video media.  It had been announced for VHS, but never got issued.

Jose, glad you made it home without much of a hassle, in your opinion anyway.  I don't like circling, makes me sick.

Well, we actually didn't really circle.  We basically took a long, but turning curve in order to eat up some air time.  Once we got to LGA, we flew right in.


*I also counted at least 20 planes on the tarmac in line for take-off.  And once I got in the terminal, I noticed that two flights due in from Dayton, OH, were cancelled this morning.  I hope that DR elmore is not affected by those circumstances.

DR SWW - Oh... And if you have some pine nuts in your cupboard and/or fridge/freezer... Those work well tossed in with the sauteed spinach.