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. . . Cincinnati Enquirer by John Kiesewetter X-FILES VISITS OVER THE RHINE Over the Rhine lead singer Karin Bergquist didn't get to die in David Duchovny's arms, but Sunday's X-Files was close enough. University of Cincinnati graduate Jeffrey Bell used names similar to Ms. Bergquist and her husband, Linford Detweiler, in the episode about a mysterious killer dog. He called the author and dog expert, "Karin Berquist," and named the evil scientist "Dr. Ian Detweiler." "It was just a tribute to my friends in Cincinnati," says Mr. Bell, a 1982 UC graduate. "Detweiler is a pretty good name. It wouldn't have worked if their names were 'Smith'. They just sounded like people who would be characters on The X-Files." The band's founders didn't know about the inside joke when they watched Ms. Bergquist's favorite TV show on Sunday. "I'm sure we missed some things because we were laughing so hard," Ms. Bergquist says. Their phone "rang pretty obsessively" after the broadcast. The dog theme was another bond the local rockers share with Mr. Bell, who is completing his first season as an X-Files staff writer. Two photos of Mr. Bell's Weimaraner dog, which he labeled "good dog" and "bad dog," inspired the title for the band's 1996 album. "When I told her I got a job writing for The X-Files, Karin freaked," says Mr. Bell, who wrote and directed Over the Rhine's Happy With Myself video in 1994. "She said her dream is to die in David Duchovny's arms with an alien exploding out of her chest." "I never thought he'd go this far!" Ms. Bergquist says. "I didn't think The X-Files could become any more surreal, but it has." |