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The range of insider reference, innuendo and quotation, from Aristotle to Liberace, is astonishing: those you know, those you don't know and those you don't know you don't know (likely most of them).
In 2011, he appeared onstage at a Disney fan convention wearing a gaudy earring that dangled to his shoulder, an insider reference to the colorful style of Joe Rohde, the Disney imagineer leading the "Avatar" park design.
Maybe it is just an insider reference to a favorite movie scene or video game.
The "Gang of Four" is an insider reference to the top members of the House and Senate intelligence committees and not to the thugs who ran Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution.
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There are numerous insider references to Mr. Pacino's films.
Wilson's, created by Factory designers Peter Saville and Ben Kelly, is deliberately oblique and peppered with insider references.
"He could say, 'I want a warm color, you know, that red.' There were insider references".
But these are insider references on a show that is more "Desperate Housewives" than "Austin City Limits".
At the same time, the show is full of insider references to Annie, Billy Crystal and even The Iceman Cometh.
This is not a trend for obscure insider references; it's happily familiar and therefore unapologetically commercial.
These are only a few of the insider references that give "Holy Motors" the feel of an artistic life being relived.
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