Season 2, Episode 04: Laura's Secret Diary — October 20–26, 1990

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...why does everyone keep saying Mr. "Tashihara"...the way his name
was pronounced by the desk clerk was more like Tajemoora...i haven't
checked the credits but maybe someone can clear this up...

console cowboy

In article <7861@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> chiang@iris.ucdavis.edu (Tom Chiang) writes:
>...why does everyone keep saying Mr. "Tashihara"...the way his name
>was pronounced by the desk clerk was more like Tajemoora...i haven't
>checked the credits but maybe someone can clear this up...
I don't think he was in the credits at all. As for the pronunciation,
I vote for 'Tajiwara' or 'Tajewara'. Which reminds me of one of my
favorite songs from my childhood up at Pearl Lakes. Hit it, Gersten!

(singing)
"I say Tajiwara, you say Tajemura,
I say 'One chants out', you say 'One chance out',
Tajiwara, Tajemura, 'One chants out', 'One chance out',
Let's call the whole thing off." Dee doop-dee doop doo....
(thud of body falling to floor in a faint)


Sorry, I had an attack of Leland-itis, commonly known as 'Happy Feet'.

By the way, can we stop using nonexistent words like 'alot'? Thank you.
I hate that. Also, 'everyday' is not an adverb, contrary to popular
opinion.


>> Bill Sherman sherman@math.ucla.edu <<
"The equality pi3(S2)=pi3(S3) ... was one of the main sensations of the early
thirties." _Homotopic Topology_, by Fomenko, Fuchs and Gutenmacher; p. 68

In article <7861@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> chiang@iris.ucdavis.edu (Tom Chiang) writes:
>...why does everyone keep saying Mr. "Tashihara"...the way his name
>was pronounced by the desk clerk was more like Tajemoora...i haven't
>checked the credits but maybe someone can clear this up...
In today's USA Today, it is spelled as "Tojimura"
It is disclosed that "Mr T" is NOT Catherine.

Also BOB will be disclosed on Nov 10th (mark your calendars!)

Quotes from USA Today:
"Frost likens this Tojimura to a new-wave 'samurai hero, a yakuza
(Japanese mafia)'"

"...all Yamaguchi [the actor] would say - through an interpreter -
was that his character is 'very colorful, dangerous and romantic ...
with an original way of expressing his desires. There are many
faces and sides to his character.'"

I replayed the tape again last night, and I'm positive there was no M or R
in the way Louie said the gentleman's name. I believe the name is:
*Tajewa*


Janet

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In article <1990Oct24.170700.835@odin.corp.sgi.com>, bam@sgi.com (Brian McClendon) writes...
} This comment reminded me of the fact that in the first season, 2nd to
} last episode, Cooper sees an Asian gentleman checking into the the
} Great Northern (room 315?). This man is older and and more business-like
} in appearance than Jonathon.

Actually, it was Audrey that saw him checking in, not Cooper. It was after
she left the note under Cooper's door.

} Are we to believe they are one and the same and that DL just couldn't
} get the same actor for the second season? Or are they different people
} and we should be worrying about this guy we haven't seen in 5 hours/days?

Back when that episode first aired, there was an article posted here that
came from a newspaper article claiming that that MAG was a detective from
Hong Kong who was on Josie's trail. Either that article was wrong, or
Lynch & Frost changed their minds, or his is not the same character as
Jonathan. It's definitely a different actor, though.

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