[THIN] Re: Strange Issue
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:24:58 +0100
Trivia-tastic, young man.
Seems you know your Hitchcock - can you remember the oddity between
Grant and the actress that played his mother in North by Northwest?
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nick Smith
> Sent: 02 July 2004 11:01
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Strange Issue
>
> Oh, I can do these:
> The 'O' stands for nothing. Which was what Hitchcock claimed
> for his own intial. Nick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 July 2004 11:06
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Strange Issue
>
> Indeedy - he was, and is why Coburn's character was so named
> in Hudson Hawk (not because the Hudson Hawk character was
> meant to be a fake one, just as sort of a homage (said in
> French accent ;-)).
>
> I'm not sure you'll have much joy with the communism quote,
> though - unless you know the movie - 'cos it's not on IMDB ;-)
>
> Second, related trivia question (there is a link, bear with
> me...) - Cary Grant's character (Roger Thornhill) in North by
> Northwest, sort of adopted the identity of the nebulous
> "George Kaplan" after being assumed to be him, in order to
> solve the puzzle. What was his character's (Roger
> Thornhill) middle initial and what did he say it stood for?
>
> Neil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > Behalf Of Lilley, Brian
> > Sent: 02 July 2004 11:00
> > To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Strange Issue
> >
> > George Kaplan is the name of the fake agent in North by Northwest??
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
> > Sent: 02 July 2004 10:25
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Strange Issue
> >
> > Ah token ring - the communism of the networking world ;-) Takes me
> > back... ;-) Have you seen the film "Hudson Hawk"? I loved Coburn's
> > character's comments on communism ;-) Bonus points for the trivia
> > question - why was his character named "George Kaplan"? (Well it is
> > Friday, after all...)
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