Lindsay knows someone who knows the real Kaiser Sose.

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Any "The Usual Suspects" fans out there? You'll get a kick out of this.

The person who replaced me in my old job is a gal named RC. Prior to becoming my replacement RC worked at a law firm where Christopher McQuarrie, the screenwriter for "The Usual Suspects" had worked. The law firm had a lawyer named Kaiser Sume (pronounced sue-may), and when McQuarrie decided to write a script for a new movie he decided to name several of the people in the script after the people at the firm. Edy, Gabriel Byrne's love interest in the film, is named after a legal secretary who had been working for the firm for something like 40 years. RC says everyone in the office whose name McQuarrie used had to sign a waiver for the use of their name, but Kaiser Sume was out of the country, so they changed it to Kaiser Sose.

Here's an excerpt from an interview that McQuarrie gave:

Q: What was the genesis of "Usual Suspects"?

A: Get comfortable. I saw an article in Spy magazine and it had a subtitle of 'usual suspects'. So then we started designing this poster with five guys who keep getting arrested. Brian forgot about it until we needed a movie to make cheaply. So he called. I told him I had a poster.... I was working in a law office and started smoking. The smoking room looked like an interrogation room, sort of dingy and it had this bulletin board. And there was an attorney named Kaiser. I told him his name was cool and he would be a villain in my script. He said, "Yeah, sure kid."

How freaky would it be to go up in the courtroom against the real Kaiser Sose? Ha!