March 12, 2001 –
The Chris Isaak Show, a television sitcom which follows a fictionalized version of the life of American rock musician Chris Isaak, premiered on Showtime on this date.
The character of Mona is based on a real woman at the Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco known as “Dolphina“. In the 1930s, a magician worked the joint and rigged up a series of mirrors that would project an image of anyone who was lying on a rotating table in the basement up into the fish tank located behind the bar.
