Today was the day that my expansive Aviator post was to flow. The bane of life, television, has interfered. Damn the tube, I say. Damn it to the depths of hell.

Somehow, synchronicity arranged that the distraction would be the Tom Hanks flick The Terminal, where one supposes the aviator would spend some time.

The film introduces an interesting, slightly throwaway plot element: Hanks’ character has come to New York in search of the autograph of one Benny Golson, a man pictured in a famous portrait taken in 1958 in Harlem.

There is a wonderful hyperlinked exploration of the image itself, known as “Jazz Portrait, Harlem, 1958.” The shot was taken by Art Kane, and yes, Benny Golson is the man cited in the film.