BEER Ch. 3 The Pop-Culture Department.

[Dave Monroe]

   "Heidi, relieved to be single, pursued a career in academia, having
recently been given tenure at City College in the pop-culture
department." (BE, Ch. 3, p. 27)


Gracy Kelly...Rear Window...Thelma Ritter...Wendell Corey.

All references to Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film "Rear Window." Oddly,
the star of the film, James Stewart, doesn't get his name dropped.
Thelma Ritter played Stewart's earthy, commonsensical nurse, a bit
like the talkative Nurse from Romeo and Juliet. Wendell Corey played
Stewart's skeptical policeman friend who helps save the day in the
dramatic ending. You could say that Stewart, more than anyone else, is
the one who 'saves' Grace Kelly from a murderer by calling the police
at a crucial moment, and in general Kelly interacts more with Stewart
than with Ritter or Corey, so I don't understand why Maxine is being
identified more with them than with Stewart. Anyone have a better
handle on this and can rewrite this entry?

http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_27

Rear Window (1954)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kCcZCMYw38
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