Subject: Re: Gordon Cole == Origins
From: gmcguffi@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Guff)
Date: 1991-05-15, 11:03
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991May14.075413.5238@panix.uucp> dfl@panix.uucp (Danny Lieberman) writes:
> >I honestly don't recall if I read this tidbit on usenet or NOT, so I'll post
> >it anyway, what the hell when theres no new TWEEKS to dissect.  Yesterday
> >(sunday) I saw Wilder's Sunset Boulevard for the first time, one of the
> >openers of the Billy Wilder festival at the Film Forum.  Wilder named an
> >off camera character "Gordon Cole", a worker at Paramount studios under
> >Cecil B Demille... maybe a real Paramount person?  In the film Cole calls
> >the movie stars house but she won't speak to him.  When she goes to see
> >De Mille she mentions that the calls from Gordon Cole prompted her to visit
> >the studio for the first time in decades.  De Mille calls Cole to ask just 
> >what the hell was going on.  Gordon Cole explains that he wanted to use
> >her old fashioned car as a movie prop for a period picture!  Not much of
> >a MacGuffin but an cute origin to a peculiar character. 
> >
> >
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Sorry to dump this in a.t.tp, but my messages got bounced!  I just wanted to
know the definition of "a MacGuffin."  My last name being McGufficke, I 
wanted to see if there was a connection.  Again--my apologies to anyone
who wasted time reading this!

Guff

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