we'll always have Paris

In the film Play It Again Sam, the protagonist, Allan Felix, is this insecure guy who's trying to get over a divorce and date new women.

He gets advice and direction from Humphrey Bogart -- well, not actually, but in the mind of the Allan Felix character, he turns to Humphrey Bogart in one of the typical roles he played -- Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, Rick Blaine in Casablanca, and similar strong, knowing characters in To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, and others.

The Bogart character appears in the room -- we, the audience, can see and hear him, and we understand that while Allan Felix also can hear and see Bogart, other characters in the movie cannot.

When Allan Felix is thinkng of putting his arm around the shoulders of a woman who's sitting next to him on a sofa, "Bogart" materializes at the end of the davenport and tells Allan, "Now move over closer to her."

Allan:  "How close?"

Bogart:  "The length of your lips."

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Tried imagining the icons I look up to -- what if they materialized in the room with me, periodically, and gave me directions?

Tina Turner:  "Keep working; your dreams can come true!"

Princess Diana:  "Focus on your goals. Locate your inner confidence."

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis:  "Keep writing -- I can't wait to read your first book!"

"Now, click your heels together -- three times...." -- no, wait -- that's something else....

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