ps. I will always be indebted to “Alligator” because it’s due to that film that I chose Robert Forster to play Max Cherry in my film “Jackie Brown.” (..) the Sayles-scripted, Forster-portrayed cop who battles the giant Alligator in the movie of the same name could very well be the same man who became a bail bondsmen and opened up a bail bonds office in Carson, California, seventeen years later. All the way down to the jokes they make about Forster’s thinning hair in the first movie, to his visible hair plugs in the second (“When I look in the mirror, it looks like me”).