Subject: Re: Another in-joke (possibly?)-
From: dcoufal@athena.mit.edu (David E Coufal)
Date: 1992-02-20, 14:05
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <10953@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, czahrt@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Special Agent Dale Cooper aka The Bob) writes:
|> From article <1992Feb19.043519.12677@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, by jes2x@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (John Sommerville):
|> > In "Body Heat," the lawyer's name was Ned Racine.  Leo's lawyer's name is
|> > Racine as well.  Connection?
|> 
|> NO!  I seriously doubt that there is a connection.
|> 
|> *smiles to all!*
|> 
|> Bob 'BOB' Cappel

Actually Bob, he's probably right.  Lots of the names in TP are taken from
famous noir films. The names of Laura Palmer, Waldo the bird and Dr. Lydecker
are all from the classic film _Laura_ by Otto Preminger. Laura's cousin's name
Madeline Ferguson came from Hitchcock's _Vertigo_. The insurance man in episode
1006 (Mr. Neff) comes from the film _Double Indemnity_.

And if we extend the list to tv series, the name of the One-Armed Man, Phillip
Michael Gerard, comes from the show "The Fugitive."

-- David E. Coufal dcoufal@athena.mit.edu "One time I removed all the hair from a mouse with Nair-Hair just to see what it looked like. And it looked beautiful." - David K. Lynch "Let's hear it for the vague blur." - P. K. Dick