I learned two things while re-watching All the President’s Men on DVD the other night:

1. Director Alan Pakula pronounces his last name “puh-KOO-luh.” Embarrassingly, I’d been pronouncing it to rhyme with “Dracula” my whole life. If “Blacula” is a black vampire, I thought “Pakula” might be, I don’t know, a vampire who’s really good at packing. Or a Pakistani vampire. Is that racist?
2. Jack Warden’s character apparently christens the two lead characters “Woodstein.” So here’s my question: was this the first case of the modern trend of combining partnerships into a single name, a la Bennifer and Brangelina? I can’t think of an earlier case. Did Lewis and Clark go by “Clawis”? Did Victorians know the work of “Gillivan” and “Mangels”?