After a mini-break, the shock of being back on French territory usually hits me as soon as I step onto the plane (if not up to the Air France check-in counter). No one knows better than an Air France steward how to piroutte over one of my outlandish requests ("Can I please have some peanuts?") with a single patronizing glance. Quel knack for making one wonder, even before take-off, what the hell she's doing back in the rooster's coop.Pauline Collins as Shirley Valentine. [Online image] 1989.
