Bio Elliot Wilhelm: Mr Wlhem has run the DFT for the past 30 years as the film curator of the Detroit Institute of Arts, made the top bid of $2,700 at a 1998 DFT fund-raiser to have Elmore Leonard use his name in an upcoming book. The book was "Be Cool" and moviemakers kept the name for Rock's character. The real Wilhelm also turns up as an extra in the bar scene where Travolta meets Rock, which is a great inside joke for those of us who are fans of the DFT.

Elliot Wilhelm is a brilliant programmer and critic, and a heck of a nice guy, and on the basis of his cameo I think he has a promising future ahead of him as a programmer, critic and nice guy --

Roger Ebert.