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Mckenzie Phillips' role in this film?

posted 18 years ago by gumbah24-1
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First off I am a huge fan of the original and the other day I was checking the HD channels and seen More American Graffiti. I set the dvr before I went to bed thinking that maybe it was American Graffiti with added footage, instead it was a sequel that I had no idea was ever made.

The stories were great, Curt wasnt my favorite character so his absence didnt matter to me but I know in the credits Mckenzie Phillips is Carol which she appears in Milners sequence but then also as Rainbow in Debbies. There is no mention during Debbies sequence that Carol happened to change her name to a hippie name like Rainbow so is she suppose to be Carol or is Rainbow a completely different person in this film?

[–] PretoriaDZ 11 years ago

It is the same character. In an early time frame, when she goes to see Milner at the race track, he calls her Carol. It was a big (stupid) thing in the 60's to change one's name to things like Rainbow, River, etc. Barbara Hershey changed her last name to Seagull. Hershey said, at the time, when a bird was killed near her she felt it's soul enter her. These days, she claims it was just because she liked seagulls and changed it back to Hershey. I think she realized just how stupid a name Seagull was!

This positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms!Terry-Thomas about US 1963.Hasnt changed much!