What's in a name

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2006)

That's the second femme fatale called Nola in a Woody Allen film, after Winona Ryder's character in Celebrity. (Nevermind the fact that Scarlet J. seems to be getting much of what could be Winona Ryder's roles some years ago..). I wonder if the name, and the repetition, has any significance in the general scheme of things... After all, it's not such an ordinary name. James Joyce liked the name because it was where Giordano Bruno was born: Nola, Italy. I wonder if that means anything to woody.. Any hopes of finding relevant connections for the name Chris Wilton have floundered, for me at least.. but this coincidence of names and characters struck me as something worth noticing.