Christina Hamlett
Articles by Christina Hamlett
November 20, 2009
Filmmaker Vitaly Sumin talks about his new project and the challenges of adapting screenplays from existing literature.
August 17, 2009
An interview with actress/director Maru Garcia.
March 31, 2009
How America is failing its students and its future by penalizing success.
January 17, 2009
How the legacy of Merle Norman continues to endure over 80 years after its debut.
November 16, 2008
A peek inside America's oldest independently owned children's bookstore.
October 01, 2008
October is National Adopt-a-Shelter-Dog Month. What better way to observe it than with a musical about man's best friend?
June 05, 2008
It's time to get your children off the computer, off their iPods, away from text messaging and into the pages of a good summer read. Who knows? It's a habit that could end up lasting a lifetime.
April 05, 2008
Amazon.com's recent ultimatum will create a dangerous monopoly. Here's how you can help put a stop to it.
April 02, 2008
What does it take to break into screenwriting? Having an expert in your corner is a good start.
March 26, 2008
A new fashion boutique in Pasadena extols the virtues of star quality.
March 26, 2008
"redwhite+bluezz" launches some jazzy new traditions in Old Town Pasadena.
February 22, 2008
Hervé This, the founding father of molecular gastronomy, makes a special appearance at the California School of Culinary Arts in Pasadena, California.
January 05, 2008
As goes a favorite Christmas week tradition at our house, I was in charge of picking the movies we’d traipse off to the mall to see while everyone else was doing frantic last-minute shopping. “Sweeney Todd is first on the list,” I told my husband. Who could blame him for raising an eyebrow? Tim Burt...
December 30, 2007
On a chill New Year’s Eve in 1969, Los Angeles native Mike Riffey stepped up to his first official assignment as a newly elected member of the Tournament of Roses committee. “My job for the night was to guard an alley by Pasadena Avenue and make sure no one trespassed into the formation area.” He co...
December 04, 2007
If my husband and I are ever on a quiz show and the topic is White Christmas, we will easily leave our fellow contestants in the dust. Throughout our marriage – and, for me, even longer than that – it has been a tradition that the holidays don’t officially commence until we’ve watched Bing Crosby an...
October 30, 2007
Losing a loved one to an unexpected medical condition is never easy for any of us. When it is a death that might have prevented as a result of pre-emptive health screening, however, the tragedy is magnified tenfold.
Lou Weiss, Executive Director of Longevity, Inc. in Dana Point, California, is a...
October 25, 2007
Carolyn Flowers, Chief Operations Executive Officer of Southern California’s Metro system, is no stranger to the realities of heart disease and strokes within her own family. Like many women of her generation, however, she admits that she would more likely have named breast cancer rather than cardio...
October 22, 2007
Made you look, didn’t I? The power of a strong hook has been fueling marketing schemes for years, not the least of which involve the glamour and glitz of writing scripts for the movies.
The illusion that movies look so easy and effortless when one is seated in a darkened theater belies the reali...
October 15, 2007
The sight of students in starched white jackets and trademark checkered pants is a fairly common one on the streets of downtown Pasadena. Our move to the hometown of the Tournament of Roses Parade a little over five years ago not only planted us a few short blocks from The California School of Culin...
October 04, 2007
My great aunt has been wanting to die for the last three years. Society, however, refuses to grant her request. Although her mind is still sharp as ever, the passage of time has taken a brutal toll on her body and even more so on her spirit. Her insistence that she is only taking up space falls on d...
September 17, 2007
When she was 20 years old, Ariel Penn went in for a routine physical and was diagnosed as having a mitral valve prolapse. “I was told by my doctor that a mitral valve that wasn’t closing completely was a fairly common condition,” Penn explains. “Many people have it and it’s not usually life-threaten...
September 13, 2007
It was shortly after my 14th birthday that my parents decided I should go to finishing school. That I was somewhat geeky and couldn’t cross a room without tripping over my own feet probably had something to do with it. That, and the fact that after several thousand dollars worth of orthodontia the...
September 12, 2007
The good news is that an associate of mine had finally written a rough draft of her first novel. The bad news is that she wanted me to read it and tell her if I thought it would make a hot movie. The good news is that, since I do this for a living, I felt perfectly comfortable telling her that, no,...
September 02, 2007
“Beauty is not in the face,” wrote Kahlil Gibran. “Beauty is a light in the heart.”
It is a philosophy of confidence, radiance and female empowerment that is reflected in every aspect of customer service at Hair Profile, an upscale salon located in the San Gabriel Valley community of La Cañada Fl...
August 02, 2007
What’s cooking at your house this summer? If you’re the parent of a budding Julia Child or Wolfgang Puck, don’t be surprised if the answer is Chicken Kiev, Steak au Poivre, or a spicy seafood paella. Not only is The Food Channel garnering an escalating share of teen and tween fans but today’s junior...
July 03, 2007
Writers have often expressed the view that Life is a continuous melting pot of free material; it’s just a matter of soaking it all up and discerning which parts are the most likely to yield commercial success when you put them to paper. To someone like myself who is as much an enthusiast of good wri...
June 28, 2007
"Why stay in a hotel," Carmie said, "when you can house-sit for me for free?"
The coincidence of a major court filing scheduled the same week as her vacation was topped only by the luck that San Diego was enjoying an unseasonable stretch of warm weather for so late in the year. By the third da...
June 27, 2007
Romance is in the air…and checks are in the mail for writers who can craft a compelling love story, particularly one that not only transports the heart but engages the senses in the sweeping tapestry of another time and place. Before you sit down to pen the next Gone With the Wind, though, here are...
June 27, 2007
"I'm putting Christy on the davenport in the bomb shelter," she said. "Just watch out for the mangle that used to be in the rumpus room."
Although I'm pretty savvy to regional lingo, the 'bomb shelter' reference baffled me. "It's the 1970's," I told Bruce. "Who's going to attack Cleveland?"
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June 19, 2007
One of my longstanding objections to the 24 hour day is the fact that – even over the course of an entire lifetime – one will never be able to read every book, listen to every song, or watch every play that has ever come into being. In the case of the latter, however, theater lovers worldwide could ...
June 16, 2007
He sits in the same chair, day after day. Waiting. Watching. “Do you want to go out, Clare?” he asks. Her response is always the same. Nothing. “Maybe tomorrow,” he tells the aide. “I think we’ll just stay in today.”
It has been the pattern of my father’s life for the past two years. When my moth...
June 15, 2007
It’s a fact of life that teen and tween girls spend 95 percent of their lives behind the closed doors of their bedrooms. Or at least so it seemed back in the 1960’s when my friends and I were growing up. Our rooms represented safe harbor from a turbulent world that couldn’t possibly begin to know wh...
June 05, 2007
Have you ever stood in front of a closet that was bursting with clothes and shoes and yet lamented you had absolutely nothing to wear? The bad news is that it’s an infectious malady in a society which thrives on malls, online shopping and keeping up with fashion fads. The good news is that JuliAnn S...
May 12, 2007
She’s got the moves, she’s got the grooves, she’s got the come-hither, seductive allure that plays well from every angle of the camera. No wonder Las Vegas has been a super star of so many movies…or at least an unmistakable backdrop against which are played out man’s best – and worst – moments of pa...
May 09, 2007
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” These words, credited to the late Norman Vincent Peale, have never found truer meaning than within the context of society’s traditional treatment of the developmentally disabled. It was a mindset which pervaded we...
May 04, 2007
Wally had found me - as many clients do - by reading screenwriting magazines and trolling the Internet. With full throttle enthusiasm, he wanted to engage my consulting services to mentor him through his Epic.
Yes, you read that right. Epic. Wally was fixated on Lewis and Clark. In fact, he had s...
May 01, 2007
Summer is coming and, with it, the opportunity for your child to experience nature, camping, sports, and a teamwork experience in a setting away from home. To help prepare both of you for this time apart, here are some helpful guidelines to follow.
The first question to ask is whether your child ...
April 28, 2007
Nothing is more peaceful than the gentle patter of rain falling on a rooftop. Such aural serenity, of course, takes on an entirely different meaning when Mother Nature invites herself inside and those placid drops suddenly become menacing drips that threaten to saturate your walls, your carpets, and...
April 20, 2007
I should have known there’d be obstacles when I accepted a supervisory position in a particular midtown law firm. The clerical staff of nine—comprised of secretaries, word processing technicians, and a key data operator—had been without an office manager for nearly a year, a condition owing to thei...
April 20, 2007
Before he even reached the age of 18, Paul Devine had built an eclectic portfolio of experiences for himself. That they should all be united by the common theme of selling an elegant first impression was no small coincidence.
“My early jobs were with a fine men’s tailor shop and fabric showrooms...
April 20, 2007
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look out upon verdure,” wrote Jane Austen, “is the most perfect refreshment.”
Although we’ve certainly no shortage of fine days to enjoy in the San Gabriel Valley, the challenge of quenching one’s thirst for backyard beauty sometimes needs the intervention o...
April 17, 2007
Amidst the oft-heard “ooh’” and “ahh’s” on the Pasadena Showcase House of Design tour, a comment that lingers from last year’s event best captures, I think, the reaction from most visitors: “Honey, when we get home, I want to throw everything out and start over from scratch!”
Since 1965, the Pasa...
April 04, 2007
The arrival of Daylight Savings Time three weeks early this year heralds the approach of a long stretch of summer for you to finally get cracking on that Great American Novel you’ve always been wanting to write.
There’s only one obstacle: Where to find a fresh story to whet the appetite of prospe...
March 15, 2007
It may happen one day when you open the front door to the place you have called home for a decade, or it may be the light bulb that goes off in your mind when you walk into the new house that is to become home. Either way, your eye tells you that something more could be done, some color here, a chan...
March 15, 2007
Talk about overcrowding! When seven strangers arrive at a European hostel, they are greeted with the disquieting news that they must all share the same room for the night. Against a dreamscape tableau, the travelers find themselves becoming lovers, adversaries, allies, family, and much more.
Und...
February 28, 2007
Since 1984, the men and women volunteers of Angel Flight West (AFW) have literally been delivering hope on a wing and a prayer to patients for whom access to needed – and distant - medical services would constitute financial hardship. Since its founding at Santa Monica Airport by 15 pilots willing t...
February 28, 2007
Like many a young person growing up in the 1960’s, Jim Yukich was no stranger to music.
“I started playing guitar in fifth grade and, like everybody else, I was influenced by the Beatles. Through high school I played semi-professionally in different bands.”
When he went off to college at Purd...
February 11, 2007
Wedding cakes have come a long way since the Roman Empire. For one thing, they used to be a hard loaf of barley that the groom would break over his new wife’s head. As the crumbs scattered, the invited guests would dive to the floor and try to scarf them up as a rite of fertility. Obviously, the onl...
February 11, 2007
If you’re planning a romantic getaway to celebrate your new marriage, we want you to know you’ve got the Babylonians to thank for making honeymoons part of our wedding vocabulary. According to lore, it was a tradition for newlyweds to go into hiding for a full lunar cycle and drink nothing but mead....
February 10, 2007
Roses are enduring. So say wedding florists when it comes to the most popular choice for bouquets and reception centerpieces. Mixed color blooms are on the rise, however, especially for more casual events. This correlates to the breezier style of many of today’s brides and invites hydrangeas, garden...
February 09, 2007
What has half a million feet, 250,000 hearts, carousing Klingons, rigging-swinger pirates and a serenade by Elvis?
During any given year in Las Vegas, giddy couples pledge their troth in hotel ballrooms, kitschy chapels, helicopters, and even the drive-through lane of fast-track kiosks. The spon...
February 09, 2007
Unlike earlier generations where a bride’s parents started saving toward an elaborate wedding and reception from the moment she was born, many of today’s working couples are footing the bill themselves. Rather than entering the joys of marriage with an overwhelming truckload of debt, there are a num...
February 09, 2007
When we think of brides, we usually picture them in beautiful white dresses. As a tradition, though, white dresses with elegant trains didn’t come into vogue until 1840 – the year that Queen Victoria wed her beloved Albert. As is often the case when celebrities make an original fashion statement, th...
February 09, 2007
Etiquette books from an earlier generation were very big on rules, especially when it came to the proper protocol to be followed at weddings and receptions. Mixed-faith marriages, blended families and commitment ceremonies hadn’t entered the picture yet.
It was an era in which cohabitation befor...
February 09, 2007
The day before your wedding is not the time to reinvent yourself with a new look. Bridal magazines have been issuing warnings to that effect since the 1950’s. Yet time and again the advice against last-minute experimentation has resulted in disastrous perms, unsightly rashes, puffy lips, and over-ba...
February 09, 2007
When it comes to hiring the right person to feed your wedding guests, word of mouth is often the best course to follow. Recent brides who have “been there/done that” won’t be shy about divulging what worked, what didn’t, and whether the caterer embraced the No. 1 desirable quality of being a good li...
December 19, 2006
There comes a time in every child's life when he or she discovers that something crucial is missing.
For some, it's the desire to get a new pet.
For me, it was the realization that I would probably have been better off just getting a new set of parents. Certainly the parents of my friends w...
December 19, 2006
The decision to change my name came on a summer Sunday morning when I was about 7. I have no idea what level of juvenile mayhem precipitated it but, as an inquisitive child, my rap-sheet of mischief was already pretty long.
My father stood at the foot of the staircase, his deep voice reverberati...
December 19, 2006
How often those seven scary little words can strike terror in the hearts of students everywhere. Years later, I can still summon remembrance of that pulse-pounding dread…the steely-eyed glint of every teacher who ever caught me in some silly infraction…the interminable walk down the long corridor f...
December 19, 2006
The next time someone gives you a box of Godiva truffles, you no longer need to feel guilty about eating it and not sharing. (Not that true chocoholics have ever seriously grappled with this moral dilemma anyway…) Recent research is shedding astonishing new light on the dark side of chocolate and...
December 04, 2006
For Mary and Michael Marsh, owners of Le Studio Dance in Pasadena, there will be more than visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads this December. Under the direction of former Bolshoi Theatre choreographer Alexei Badrak, the company will present “Clara’s Dream”, an exciting departure from the ...
November 12, 2006
It’s one of those things we usually don’t think about until we’re randomly channel-surfing and stumble across a familiar façade by accident. Only a few weeks ago, in fact, my husband called me one evening on a business trip to say he was watching an Alan Rickman movie that was supposedly set in the...
November 12, 2006
I am glad I was not born before tea,” declared English clergyman and prolific wit Sydney Smith in the early 19th century.
It’s a sentiment that modern tea lovers can ascribe to as well, for without this sophisticated and mood-soothing libation, there would be no stylish sanctuaries such as The “...
November 12, 2006
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. – Balzac (1829)
For the 6th time in as many years, my friend JB was truly, madly, deeply in love again.
“So where did you meet this one?”...
November 06, 2006
As the saying goes, “There’s no place like home”. No matter how humble – or palatial – one’s harbor of the heart, the comfort and security of familiar surroundings is a concept not lost on Elaine Reavis, R.N., M.A. at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, California.
In February 1999 she initiated...
November 04, 2006
Once upon a more innocent time, the measure of an organization’s legitimacy was proportional to the perceived expense of its letterhead and business cards. I even recall to this day a friend of my mother’s declaring, “Well, obviously it’s a real company! Why would they spend money on such nice sta...
November 03, 2006
America’s obsession with its newest spectator sport—ballroom bedazzlement—has not only seen an increase in sign-ups at Arthur Murray studios across the country but provided a welcome respite from reality shows in which contestants agree to be shot from canons, pelted by Dungeness crabs or go bobbing...
October 31, 2006
For many children, the thought of having to leave a favorite doll or stuffed animal at home while the family goes on vacation is unheard of. The ability of seemingly inanimate objects to provide comfort on long journeys to strange places is, after all, a fact of life for the younger set.
Even t...
October 31, 2006
It was the occasion of our first time at a “Music, Martinis & the Maestro” performance in the Romanesque Room at Castle Green. Advised by the California Philharmonic’s publicist that I might have a chance to meet and chat with the ensemble’s leader for a few minutes before the show began, I remarke...
October 31, 2006
By day, she’s an attorney, specializing in Immigration and Naturalization Law. Once the Southern California sun goes down, however, Linda Nakamura slips into the role of armchair sleuth, penning dark mysteries set in the Arizona desert and involving a stressed out but relentless D.A. heroine named ...
October 30, 2006
To say that the California Philharmonic’s Pavel Farkas is a compelling figure is almost an understatement. Whether he is striding across the stage at the Walt Disney Concert Hall moments before a sold-out performance or briskly bridging the distance between the hostess station at Il Fornaio and my ...
October 29, 2006
“To find joy in work,” wrote American novelist Pearl S. Buck, “is to discover the fountain of youth."
While Huntington Hospital’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ralph, is as impatient as the rest of us for a medical discovery that will reverse the aging process – or at least slow it...
October 27, 2006
From the first handshake, it’s easy to see why Dr. Kenneth Lam, Medical Director of the Huntington Cancer Center in Pasadena, California, has an international following worthy of a rock star. With a quick wit and engaging demeanor, this native of Hong Kong and long-time resident of San Marino is one...
October 27, 2006
The Russian-born painter Marc Chagall once said, “Great art picks up where nature ends.”
Although Chagall’s own medium was canvas – and later, stained glass – his observation aptly lends itself to the craft of taking nature’s finest gemstones and metals and turning them into unique jewelry. At...
October 18, 2006
Like most little girls, I grew up loving horses. I had a collection of plastic Palominos prancing along my windowsill, stick horses propped up against my footboard, and—yes, I even engaged in that popular recess game of galloping around the schoolground, whinnying, and pretending that jump ropes we...
October 18, 2006
“Explore! Investigate! Express!”
It’s the mantra of Kidspace Children’s Museum in Pasadena, California that not only resonates in every exhibit, program and activity it offers but which prompts a collective sigh amongst the adults who are there with their offspring. Even its kaleidoscope entry tu...
October 18, 2006
My best friend swears that the 16 year old daughter she sent out the door to get her driver’s license was decidely not the same person who came back with it. The love affair that Americans have with their cars is no better reflected than through the eager eyes of a teenager who no longer has to dep...
October 15, 2006
Amanda resents that her husband abandoned her. Laura’s attraction to Jim is crushed when she discovers he has a fiancée. Tom – a struggling poet – takes solace in drink as he plots to hit the road without warning.
If this sounds like a daytime novella or the latest episode of “Desperate Housewive...
October 14, 2006
It’s nearly 11 a.m. when I have the good fortune of finding a parking space directly in front of Japon Bistro on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California. Clarence Wong, the proprietor, steps out from the kitchen to greet me, extending his right hand as he stifles an unapologetic yawn with the le...
October 13, 2006
There are two things they never teach you in theater classes. The first is never to make an enemy of the piano player, not unless you like to be on stage and hear your song suddenly being played in a different key than you're capable of singing. The second is never to make an enemy of the costume ...
October 13, 2006
Last October, a young resident of San Gabriel, California boarded a plane for the adventure of a lifetime, an adventure she earned by doing exactly what she loves best—cooking. Bonnie Jiang, recent graduate of the California School of Culinary Arts in Pasadena, is easy to spot across the room for o...
October 13, 2006
Christmas Party Committee.
Have three words ever struck more dread in the hearts of office workers? Especially when they’ve only just started working somewhere and, accordingly, get assigned whatever the more seasoned employees avoid like the plague (i.e., savings bond campaigns)? Especially whe...
October 13, 2006
Suri, Moses and Barron. They’re not even old enough to talk and yet their celebrity status has already sent the tabloids scurrying for snapshots and the gossipmongers taking bets on which one will be the first to get enrolled in long-term therapy.
“Those kids will never want for anything,” I ove...
October 12, 2006
Like many a lad growing up in the 1960’s, Alan Lamb came away with an indelible memory from the television series “The Avengers”. And no, it wasn’t just Emma Peel. Alluring as Diana Rigg was in the role she played opposite the suave and bowler-topped Patrick Macnee, Lamb can still recall in detail t...
October 12, 2006
He’s handsome. He’s strong. He has warm brown eyes that melt your soul, an unabashed enthusiasm for companionship, and he’s definitely all ears when it comes to good listening skills. If you’re a fleeing criminal, of course, Officer Art’s most endearing qualities will probably be lost on you.
...
October 11, 2006
He held the Major League record for 20 years for career pinch hits (150), an overall lifetime batting average of .304, and—a quarter century after officially retiring from the game— still remains one of the most popular coaches in Dodger history.
But on this particular Saturday morning in the Dod...
October 11, 2006
Like many women whose husbands and beaus get glued to the screen whenever the Indy 500 is on, it took Tracy Bailey Holmes awhile to understand what drove such zealous obsession. “I’d ask myself what the big deal was about a bunch of noisy cars zipping around in the same circle and occasionally crash...
October 10, 2006
In 1938, a playwright and high school teacher named Murray Burnett was visiting a quaint little café in the south of France and was mesmerized by the eclectic mix of expatriates, Nazis, Frenchmen and artsy types who regularly congregated every night to hear the musical styling of an African American...
October 10, 2006
Back in her first year of college, one of my associates learned a valuable lesson about the importance of never loaning anything to friends no matter how nicely they asked or, in the case of the opposite sex, how cute they were. The proud new owner of her very first car, she decided to drive it to ...
October 10, 2006
Monique Tarin is only in third grade but is already demonstrating a wisdom and compassion beyond her tender years: “It is not fair that kids in Africa are sick and dying,” Tarin says. “All they need is hope and someone to care for them. I care about sick kids a lot. But if I don’t know they are sick...
October 09, 2006
I haven’t checked my dictionary lately but I’m pretty sure there’s a picture of Michael Matsuda displayed by the word “entrepreneur”. If not, there really should be. Matsuda is both founder and president of the world’s first museum to be entirely dedicated to the history of martial arts.
That it...
October 09, 2006
My first encounter with Castle Green was like something straight out of a movie. We were still living in Northern California at the time, poised on the threshold of trying to decide if we were really ready to take the big plunge and become full-fledged Angelenos.
That my husband and I were both ...
October 08, 2006
It was only supposed to be a temporary solution to keep the national economy humming. With the men folk off at war, a woman’s work on the home front was not only never done but also required her to pull a second shift in factories, stores and on farms and ranches across the country. These were the s...
October 08, 2006
"You're lucky to call when you did," the innkeeper informed us. "I only have one room left."
The color photograph of the house on the Internet was truly an invitation to step back in time--a cheery white, gingerbread Victorian in a Chesapeake Bay setting reminiscent of Charles Wysocki. Romantic...
October 08, 2006
Was there ever a concept so dreadful in the teenage vocabulary as “Gym Class”? Years later, I still cringe at the sound of it - the conjured memories of ugly uniforms, communal showers, and being picked last for virtually every team sport.
Even worse, I was cursed by the lotto gods for consecuti...
October 08, 2006
The Presidents’ Cookbook
Party politics aside, there’s one thing that over two centuries of elected officials who have resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can agree on: the enjoyment of a well cooked and satisfying meal.
The Presidents’ Cookbook, written by Poppy Cannon and Patricia Brooks and...
October 08, 2006
In the distance, the 1st Movement of Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto #3 underscores the elegant ambiance of the experience that is about to unfold. There are no cellphones, no noisy conversations to compete with the occasional glance of silver spoons against the interior of Royal Daulton china cups. S...
October 07, 2006
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. Our recent move to a larger home, coupled with the desire to redesign three rooms of furniture, put us into a spirit of generosity and giving. There has, after all, been no shortage of stories in the news lately about families who have lost all of their...
October 07, 2006
Although I didn’t know it at the beginning, it was my parents’ intention to have a major say-so in who I’d marry when I grew up. Had I been born in another country or culture or, for that matter, another century altogether, this edict might have been accepted as a matter of tradition. Choosing a s...
October 07, 2006
Secrets of the M*A*S*H Mess: The Lost Recipes of Private Igor
(A cookbook by actor Jeff Maxwell)
In 1950, a country bumpkin named Igor Straminsky answered his country’s call to duty and, as an unwitting Army private, soon found himself in the most hostile environment that the planet could ever s...
October 07, 2006
I first met Milton - or 'Presto', as he preferred to be called - at the graduation party of a friend who had just become an accredited psychic. It was an especially jubilant occasion for her, given that she was not only approaching the Big 5-0, but had graduated at the top of her class by getting 1...
October 05, 2006
There’s a measure of truth to the adage that good things come to those who wait. What they don’t bother to tell you, of course, is (1) how long, exactly, that wait is going to be, or (2) that it may take so long you will have forgotten what it was you were waiting for when it finally arrives.
In ...