it is a picturesque image , only occurring in the worst of sentimental movies , where the course of the heros life is dramatically altered by the chance reading of a scrap of information he sees in a newspaper , the fated page of which , having been blown by the random vagaries of the wind , presents itself , still legible and intact , at the feet of the down-on-his-luck star but , nevertheless , this was , more or less , the sequence of events that resulted in martin noticing an advertisement in the help wanted section of the new york times , something that he would otherwise never have found himself reading had the erstwhile paper detritus not been swept by a kindly breeze directly into his temporary boardwalk abode .