>Liz Weis inquires: >"I would very much appreciate references to scenes, lines of dialogue, >characters that refer to insurance. I would guess that most of them >would refer to insurance salespeople. Most useful would be comic references. >If possible please mention something that would help me locate the scene, as >well as the title and possibly the specific line of dialogue. To save you >all the trouble, I've already remembered Bruce Baldwin in _His Girl Friday_..." >OF COURSE IT DOESN'T DO YOU MUCH GOOD WHILE YOU'RE ALIVE..." (or something >to that effect) and Lloyds of London and Double Indemnity. But just minor >characters are equally helpful for my purposes. Thanks. liz Weis, the >Stern Professor of Humor (no kidding!), Brooklyn College, CUNY." A completely obvious reference (but sometimes the obvious is helpful): Double Indemnity, a Billy WIlder film from 1944. Kristine J. Butler Department of French and Italian University of Minnesota 260 Folwell Hall, 9 Pleasant St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455-0122 [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]