![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ginger got her name because Pratchett wanted to use the Fred Astaire quote (see a few annotations further down) about her partner, and so Ginger was an obvious choice for the leading lady's name. Instead, Ruby got her name because like all trolls she needed a mineral name. Pratchett said that he did not intend this as a reference to Gone with the Wind's Scarlett. The two femmes fatale of this novel are called Ginger and Ruby, both names signifying a red colour. Pratchett intended for Gaspode to die at the end of the book, but his editors/beta-readers made him reconsider. Meanwhile, it gradually becomes clear that the production of movies is having a deleterious effect on the structure of reality. Can handle a sword a little."), a dropout from Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University and Theda "Ginger" Withel, a girl "from a little town you never ever heard of", who become stars, and the Discworld's most infamous salesman, Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, who introduces commerce to the equation and becomes a successful producer. Many hopefuls are drawn by the siren call of Holy Wood, home of the fledgling "clicks" industry – among them Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. The alchemists of the Discworld have invented moving pictures. ![]()
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