Abraham's Son, Chapter 17

 INT. ABRAHAM'S KITCHEN - NIGHT

Two weeks later, ABRAHAM removes lasagna from oven at same time there is a knock on front door.  He puts lasagna on table, grabs flowers and heads toward front door.

INT. BY FRONT DOOR OF ABRAHAM'S HOUSE - NIGHT

ABRAHAM opens front door.  SARA enters and shows a poker face, no expression.

ABRAHAM:  Here's some flowers for you.

SARA:  Oh, thanks.  They're beautiful...Well, what do you want first, good news or bad news?

ABRAHAM:  Good news.

SARA:  I'm pregnant.  Congratulations, Dad.

They embrace and kiss each other on the cheek.

ABRAHAM:  I couldn't be happier, SARA...What was the bad news?

SARA:  No more fucking.

INT. ABRAHAM'S KITCHEN - NIGHT

ABRAHAM and SARA eat lasagna and discuss the future.

SARA:  The lasagna's good...but, I'm not Italian.  What do I know?

ABRAHAM:  I'm glad you like it, but let's talk about the future.  I'm going to pay for everything.  Have you chosen an OB-GYN yet?  

SARA:  No.

ABRAHAM:  Let me get a recommendation and then we'll make an appointment.  I want to go to all the doctor's visits.  I can pick you up and bring you back.  I want to make this as pain free for you as possible.  

SARA:  Pain free.  Yeah!  

ABRAHAM:  Also, any food supplements, vitamins, whatever the doctor recommends, I'll pay for.  You have to carry the baby, but I want to take care of you...Oh, if and when you decide, you can come here to live.  I have two more bedrooms, one for you and one for the baby.  There'll come a time when you can't work.  Also, I'll want to make sure you're okay and living here will help with that, but it's your decision.

SARA:  You're very kind, ABRAHAM.  We'll work it out together.

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Next blog post will be in two weeks on June 4, 2023.

Hyannis

Starting in the early 1980s, when my daughter Rachel was a little girl and my son Bret was yet to be born, my family, numerous times, would go for a week's vacation during the summer to Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  On such visits, we would spend some time in nearby Hyannis which offered many tourist attractions.

President John F. Kennedy put Hyannis on the map as he and his extended family lived in a compound nearby.  We drove by it once.  

I remember dining in restaurants near the water where I would start with a delicious bowl of New England clam chowder.  One time, we took a boat trip to Martha's Vineyard.  Another time, we went to see a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston.

One rainy day on one of our trips to Hyannis, we stopped at a resort to find out more about a time share.  I was just curious and had no intention of buying one.  

However, a slick saleswoman changed my mind and we bought a time share for a week at the resort in Hyannis.  We spent several weeks there over the years.  When we grew less interested in going to the Cape, we sold our time share at a great loss.  Better to buy at the resale market.  

When my son Bret finished his sophomore year at the University of Maryland (2005), he got a summer job broadcasting baseball games for the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod League.  I drove him there from New York and when we arrived the weather had changed drastically from what it had been when we left home.  

It was May, but it seemed as if it was still winter on the Cape.  We went to a store to buy sweat shirts to protect ourselves from the cold weather.  I still have the New England Patriots sweat shirt I bought there.  

Bret spent the summers of both 2005 and 2006 broadcasting baseball games for the Hyannis Mets.  The last game he broadcast there was on my 61st birthday, August 7, 2006, while I was in attendance.         

   

Sabrina

 Sabrina is a 1954 film comedy-drama starring Audrey Hepburn, William Holden and Humphrey Bogart, in a much different role than last month's In a Lonely Place.  The film was written and directed by Billy Wilder.

In the film, Sabrina (Hepburn) is the daughter of a rich family's chauffeur and is in love with David (Holden), the rich family's younger son.  Because of her youth and lack of sophistication, David never pays any attention to Sabrina.  

Distraught that David plans on seducing another woman at their home on Long Island,  Sabrina attempts suicide by turning on all eight cars in the family's garage and closing the doors.  

One bitter cold day when I was an ignorant teenager, I almost did the same thing without knowing what I was doing.  I did not have a key to my family's house, but was able to enter our garage and turn on one of the family's cars to get warm.  I did not know enough to open the garage door.  I could have died from carbon monoxide had not my parents arrived soon after.

In Sabrina's case, she was saved by David's older brother Linus (Bogart) who discovers what she has done.    

Two years later, Sabrina returns from an education in Paris as an attractive and sophisticated young woman.  At first, David does not recognize her, but when he finally realizes who she is, he invites her to his engagement party (to his fourth wife) where he plans on attempting to make love to her.

The marriage to David's fourth wife was arranged by Linus as a sort of business deal.  The two families that would be joined together would form a profitable venture.  As such, Linus wants to prevent David from having a rendezvous with Sabrina and thus sabotaging the engagement and the business deal.

David has the habit of hiding champagne glasses in his back pocket.  Linus forces him to sit down which has the affect of breaking the glasses and putting David out of commission for some days.

While David is recuperating, Linus spends a lot of time with Sabrina hoping to get her to stop thinking of David.  Linus's plan works so well that the two of them forget David and fall in love with each other.  At the end, the two lovebirds take a cruise to France.

One criticism of Sabrina is that Bogart is 30 years older than Hepburn.  Gary Cooper in Love in the Afternoon (1957) is 28 years older than Hepburn.  Cary Grant in Charade (1963) is 25 years older than Hepburn.  That was typical of Hollywood during that era, much older male star opposite a young starlet.