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Sep 4, 2015 · Hep Alien is an anagram of Helen Pai. Helen Pai, co-producer and music supervisor for "Gilmore Girls," was also Sherman-Palladino's childhood friend and the basis for Lane Kim's character. She "really was a Seventh Day Adventist Korean, and Hep Alien is an anagram for Helen Pai," Lowe explained.
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Helen Pai is a Korean-American television writer, producer and director.
Pai started out on the show as a script coordinator, and was credited as producer on several episodes on the Gilmore Girls. She is the best friend of the show's creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and has served various roles on the show, from taking notes in the writer's room, typing, to unspecified involvement in set design, publicity, DVD special features, legal clearances, sound mixing and post-production.
Pai was the inspiration for Lane Kim, and an anagram of her name created the band name, Hep Alien. Like Lane, she is Korean-American and was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist. She also was in charge of publication of a series of books based on the the show, which included writing one of the novelizations, "The Other Side of Summer," herself.
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Nov 30, 2020 · The 'Gilmore Girls' character Lane Kim Is based on a real person named Helen Pai. Who is Pai and what does she have in common with Lane? On Gilmore Girls, actor Keiko Agena played the quirky, kind ...
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May 26, 2021 · My parents are Hindu, not Christian like the Kims — Mrs. Kim’s rigid Seventh-Day Adventism (based on Korean American Gilmore Girls producer Helen Pai’s real life) would have been deeply ...
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Pai works at Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, founded by close friend Amy Sherman-Palladino, and was co-producer of the television series Gilmore Girls and Bunheads. She was an associate producer on SMILF. Sherman-Paladino loosely modeled Gilmore Girls character Lane Kim after Pai. Helen Pai is an American television writer, director, and ...
