Allusions To Old Movies Spread Throughout Show

``Twin Peaks'' has become a mother lode for film buffs. David Lynch and Mark Frost have submerged references to old movies throughout the series. Some are intentional, but it is entirely possible that others are only in the mind of the beholder. Here are a few:

In the classic mystery ``Laura,'' Waldo Lydecker is the name of the murderer. In ``Twin Peaks,'' Laura is the victim; Waldo is the myna bird; Lydecker is the veterinarian.

Diane is the woman who was actually killed in ``Laura.'' And, of course, Diane is the woman in ``Twin Peaks'' whom Cooper is always speaking to on the tape recorder.

Laura in ``The Glass Menagerie'' collected glass unicorns. In ``Twin Peaks,'' a glass unicorn was given to the perfume-counter clerk when she went to work at One-Eyed Jacks.

The insurance man who called on sawmill manager Catherine Martell was named Mr. Neff. The insurance man that Fred MacMurray played in the 1944 murder classic ``Double Indemnity'' was named Walter Neff.

The 1981 movie ``Body Heat'' was inspired by ``Double Indemnity.'' And Maddie was the name of the Kathleen Turner character in ``Body Heat'' who faked her own death by arranging the death of her lookalike friend. Madeleine Ferguson is the name of Laura Palmer's lookalike cousin.

In Alfred Hitchcock's ``Vertigo,'' the woman who faked her death was named Madeleine and was blond. Then she masqueraded as a dark-haired woman. And Ferguson was the last name of the hero (Jimmy Stewart).

The one-armed man in ``Twin Peaks'' and the police lieutenant who stalked Richard Kimble in ``The Fugitive'' are each named Gerard. And the one-armed man in ``The Fugitive'' actually was the killer.

In Hitchcock's ``Marnie,'' Tippi Hedren went from being a brunette to a blonde, perhaps a tipoff that the brunette Madeleine is really the blonde Laura. And, of course, Hedren was attacked by birds in ``The Birds.'' In ``Twin Peaks,'' Laura had been pecked by Waldo.