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- From: hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes)
- Subject: Re: Jacobs Ladder
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.162329.16186@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
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- Organization: Botany Department - U of Georgia, Athens
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:23:29 GMT
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- >Various people have posted interesting explanations of "Jacob's Ladder".
- >Several of the more recent ones have confused two of the characters.
- >There is a mysterious stranger, who tells our hero that he was an
- >participant in a secret mind control, drug experiment. Then there is
- >the more important character, Louie, played by Danny Aeillo (sp?), who
- >our hero thinks of as his chiropractor. Recent posters have referred
- >to the mysterious stranger as Louie.
- >
- >The chiropractor is the more important character, he gives our hero
- >important spiritual advice, displays super-human powers when he rescues
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- Thanks! You're absolutely right. I learned to like Danny Aiello from
- this movie. It was a critical role and he played it perfectly.
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- >our hero from the VA hospital. I believe that "Louie" is actually
- >supposed to be "Lucifer".
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- >I watch for name clues like this nowadays. I saw "Angel Heart" with
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- Good idea, and that he takes on the name of the fallen angel
- is also interesting, given that he is pragmatic, but clearly
- good.
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- And of course you noticed that the culkinator's name was Gabe.
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- Wayne
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