--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > From "The Review," November 15, excerpt from an item on > > David Lynch's new book: > > > > "Dr. Lynch has been nominated for an Academy Award three > > times and is among the leading filmmakers of this era. His > > movies include The Elephant Man and The Straight Story. He > > also did the TV series Twin Peaks." > > > > Brave of them to include "Twin Peaks"... > > I've never seen it. Just about everyone I've mentioned Lynch > to liked the series however.
Wasn't referring to the quality of the filmmaking, which was superb (at least the episodes Lynch directed), but the fact that it most definitely was not what the TMO would think of as uplifting in its content. There were quantities of Lynchian sex and violence and ugliness and just general weirdness. In one scene, Sherilyn Fenn is being interviewed for a job in a whorehouse. Asked about her qualifications, without a word she plucks a cherry from a drink on the table and pops the stem in her mouth. A moment later she spits it out again, tied in a knot. Needless to say, she's hired on the spot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLeOVMH91Tc I suspect whoever wrote the TMO piece had never seen "Twin Peaks" and had no idea what it was like, but they figured since it was a TV show rather than a film, it couldn't have been all that bad.
