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hello Sameera! old coloring style anon here again. i'm sorry you feel that way, they genuinely looked good - so many people asked about them for a reason!
i mean mostly anything would be wonderful, but these are just a few examples that caught my eye:
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hi, and thanks again! i've always been overly critical of my gifmaking skills as they've evolved, but it really means a lot to me that you and so many others have enjoyed my creations over the years 🥺❤️
it turns out i still had one old base psd saved from back when i made many of those sets you mentioned! here's a link to download it:
it's a fairly straightforward psd imo. since i largely color gifs from scratch, i only use psds as a guide and change many of the settings a lot based on the media/scene i'm giffing; i'd recommend you do the same! if you have any questions, feel free to reach out <3
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The #TwinPeaks Season 3 Blu-ray is a Wonderful Package for 2017’s Greatest Piece of Narrative Entertainment
David Lynch‘s stunning Twin Peaks season 3, also known as Twin Peaks: The Return, comes to Blu-ray as a must-have box set loaded with fascinating and revealing looks behind the production. Just as they did so many years ago, David Lynch and Mark Frost have created a TV event unlike any other before, and probably unlike anything that will ever come after it. Here, as one cohesive Blu-ray, we have the chance to watch the saga unfold from beginning to end, which might very well be the best way to experience the show. Our Twin Peaks season 3 Blu-ray review below pulls back the red curtain and journeys into the unknown. Join me?
The Owls Are Not What They Seem
The greatest piece of narrative entertainment from 2017 was not in movie theaters, but rather playing on Showtime over the course of one weird, wild summer. Defying the odds, premium cable channel Showtime parked a large amount of money on David Lynch’s doorstep and convinced him to come out of semi-retirement to resurrect his cult TV series Twin Peaks. The results were stunning.
Lynch, the brilliant, mad mind behind Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and more, hadn’t made a film since 2006’s Inland Empire, yet any fears that the iconic filmmaker might have grown rusty in his time off were quickly assuaged as the beginning of the new Twin Peaks unfolded. Lynch and Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost had pulled out all the stops to return audiences to a place both wonderful and strange, and we all got a lot more than we could’ve possibly bargained for.
The importance of the original Twin Peaks can not be overstated. TV as we know it today, everything we lump into the “Peak TV” category of high quality, cinematic television, can trace its roots back to what Lynch and Frost did with the original Twin Peaks. He brought the auteur theory and the avant-garde to mainstream primetime TV, and television has been paying tribute ever since. The original Peaks only lasted two seasons, but after its cancellation in 1991, the show took on a life of its own, its cult fandom growing to monolithic proportions. Lynch revisited the town with 1992’s prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, which polarized audiences and took the mythology of the series into even stranger, near-indecipherable directions. Something curious happened after that: the show became even more popular, but the show that newer fans seemed to latch onto wasn’t actually the show that Lynch had created.
A meme-ification of Twin Peaks had set in, fueled by the Tumblr generation fond of sharing out of context screen grabs and quick gifs that may look amazing but don’t even come close to capturing the aura of what Lynch was going for. So when Lynch and Frost announced that “That gum you like is going to come back in style,” there was an uneasiness with how modern TV viewers would react to whatever it was they were about to witness. We live in the age of the live-tweet, where audiences have trouble putting their phone down to entirely focus on their entertainment, and are instead prone to firing off an instant reaction with the hopes of raking up a few “likes.” This is not the ideal type of viewing experience for something created by Lynch, and if audiences thought they were going to be in for instant gratification with the new Twin Peaks, they were setting themselves up for failure.
The same foul fate would befall the aforementioned Tumblr generation, who apparently wanted nothing deeper than endless shots of cherry pie, black coffee, and Audrey Horne’s saddle shoes. Anyone who dares to cruise the Twin Peakshashtag on Tumblr while the new series was airing likely found themselves in a world of woe, with Tumblr users bemoaning that the new Twin Peaks was denying them their dream of Special Agent Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne finally falling into each other’s arms at the Double R Diner while Shelly Johnson serves them up a slice of pie. In short, what they wanted was fan service. And fan service is not what David Lynch traffics in. I doubt the term even exists in his vocabulary.
Instead, Lynch provided viewers with one of the most audacious 18 hours ever committed to television. A daring, mind-warping journey back to the town of Twin Peaks and beyond. He blew a big, black hole into the very mythology of the show, and created something stranger than anyone viewing the original series would’ve imagined.
I Am Dead Yet I Live
The original Twin Peaks began as a procedural drama, then blossomed into something nearly unclassifiable. After local teen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is found murdered, FBI Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) arrives in town to investigate. Cooper gets to know the town, and the townsfolk, as he tries to crack the Palmer case.
And then things get weird.
Twin Peaks made what many consider to be a huge mistake by wrapping up the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer rather quickly, and then becoming stranger and stranger until it found itself canceled. The problem: the series ended on one major cliffhanger, with Cooper trapped in The Black Lodge, an eerie, extra-dimensional location populated with backward-talking people, billowing red curtains, and flashes of lighting. Meanwhile, an evil Cooper doppelgänger, connected to the malevolent force known as BOB, took the real Cooper’s place back in the real world.
There was never any real chance that Lynch and Frost would quickly sew up this dangling thread, however. Instead, when Twin Peaks returned to Showtime, it expanded the mythology of the series and took viewers on a long journey that was all part of Cooper’s return to the real world. But Cooper isn’t the real focus of Twin Peaks. Laura Palmer is. For Lynch, Laura Palmer is a representation of horribly wronged innocence. Fire Walk With Me revealed the traumatic events leading up to Laura’s death, and Lynch’s focus seems to be on the cosmic injustice of it all. The cruel blindness of fate. Laura Palmer is a force of something pure and good in the universe, and no matter how hard Cooper might try, he can never really save her. But perhaps that’s not what’s important. Perhaps what’s important is that he’ll keep trying.
Twin Peaks season 3 has Cooper escape the Black Lodge by taking the place of hapless, corrupt Las Vegas dwelling insurance salesman Dougie Jones (also played by MacLachlan). In reality, Dougie is a “tulpa” – a being created from the selected thoughts of different individuals. Tibetan mythology describe tulpas as “extra bodies that were created from one person’s mind in order to travel to spiritual realms.”
Rather than have Cooper escape the Black Lodge and come back to the real world acting like his old self, Lynch and Frost have the agent stuck in a childlike state, as if all the years stuck in an alternate dimension has blasted away a part of his consciousness. Then, in the most delightfully devious twist of all, Lynch proceeds to keep Cooper in this state through nearly the entire series. There are triggers that we keep expecting will snap Cooper out of his Dougie state: coffee, pie, etc. But Lynch isn’t interested in an easy way out. Instead, he engrosses us into the life of Dougie Jones, as the traumatized Cooper adapts to his new reality with Dougie’s wife Janey-E (Naomi Watts) and son Sonny Jim (Pierce Gagnon).
You could practically hear the groans of certain viewers as Lynch refused to break Cooper out of the Jones family mold, yet this material provides us with some of the most incredible moments of the revival series, and gives Kyle MacLachlan a chance to shine, playing up both the comic relief elements of Dougie Jones (see: Dougie in a casino yelling “Hello-oooooo!” at slot machines) mixed with more heartbreaking scenes (see: Dougie watching Sonny Jim with a look of profound sadness on his face).
Twin Peaks sets up a horde of new characters, almost all of which become memorable almost instantaneously – a feat few other shows can pull off. There’s the Mitchum Brothers (Jim Belushi and Robert Knepper), who are both trying to murder Dougie Jones before growing fond of him on the basis of a dream. There are two assassins (Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Roth), who spend most of their time in a van shooting the breeze when they’re not shooting people. And most important of all, there’s Diane (Laura Dern), Cooper’s old flame who teams up with FBI Director Gordon Cole (Lynch) and company to find out what happened to the real Cooper. Dern, with her various wigs, foul mouth, chain smoking and multi-colored manicure, steals every scene she appears in.
But what of Twin Peaks, the town that started it all? Lynch brings us back to the town, and gives us a glimpse into the lives of old favorites: Shelly (Mädchen Amick), Bobby (Dana Ashbrook), Big Ed (Everett McGill), Norma (Peggy Lipton), Andy (Harry Goaz), Lucy (Kimmy Robertson), Hawk (Michael Horse), Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn), and more, but the new season isn’t so much interested in closing out their stories as it is showing the effects of the passage of time. That’s not to say there aren’t narrative conclusions. In one of the new season’s most satisfying moments, Big Ed and Norma finally seal the deal on their romance after years apart. Lynch stages this in a lovely way, with Norma’s hands coming from just off frame onto Big Ed’s shoulders, while Big Ed closes his eyes in contentment.
These lovely moments are contrasted with stark, disturbing horror. In the opening episode alone, a nameless, shapeless monster escapes a containment unit and lays waste to a pair of lovers in a scene drenched in blood and confusion. And at the center of the series as a whole is the terrifying notion that evil, in all its forms, will almost always come out ahead. After nearly 18 hours, Cooper manages to alter time and save Laura Palmer from her teenage demise. Yet the aftershocks of this change are not ideal – the world as Cooper (and by extension, the audience) knows it has been altered forever. The final few seconds of the series find Cooper and Laura in a state of limbo, with Cooper absently wondering “What year is this?” before Laura, looking up at the house that once held such trauma and abuse for her in another life, emits a piercing, blood-chilling scream that seems to be echoing across time and space itself (note: if there was an award for Best Scream, Sheryl Lee would be the clear winner).
What are we to make of this cryptic, haunting conclusion? The beauty of Twin Peaks is that Lynch and Frost aren’t interested in providing us with clear answers. One of the quotes from the revival series states, “We are like the dreamer who dreams and lives inside the dream.” This is as clear a Twin Peaks mission statement as we’ll ever receive. The series as a whole is a dream that the audience is living inside, and like dreams, the narrative is open to endless interpretation. And best of all, no interpretation can really be considered incorrect. You can take away a million different morals from Twin Peaks as a whole, but I think a strong case can be made for the unsettling message that evil – in all its forms – will frequently come out ahead. The important thing is for committed, determined people like Dale Cooper to continue to try to stop it anyway. Cooper may not always succeed, but we can take some sort of cold comfort in the fact that he’ll try anyway.
Phenomenon
The Blu-ray special feature Phenomenon is broken into three distinct parts: Creation, Life After Death and Renaissance. As a whole, this feature is a fun but mostly boilerplate look at the series as a whole. It’s quick and to the point, and was likely originally cut to serve as more of a commercial for the revival series than a truly in-depth look at Twin Peaks. Creation looks at the show’s origins, from its time on ABC to the fan reaction, including the popular “watching parties” that had audiences coming together to experience each weekly episode as a group. Life After Death examines the growing cult fandom that sprung up after the show had been canceled. Fan magazines and conventions gave Twin Peaks whole new life and kept the series alive for an entire new generation born after the first show had long been canceled. Renaissance is a crash-course in bringing the show back to life on Showtime. Again, there’s no real insight here or depth. Lynch and frost pop-up for quick soundbites, but anyone hoping for the creators to delve into the process of bringing Twin Peaks back from the dead need look elsewhere.
Behind the Red Curtain and I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
Richard Beymer, who plays Twin Peaks character Ben Horne, shot these two mini-documentaries that appear in the Blu-ray special features. There’s no narrative thread to these two features. Instead, they provide a raw, uncensored look at Lynch and company on the Black Lodge set, setting up shots. These two features provide us with what will become a running theme of the behind-the-scenes footage provided on the Blu-ray: shot after shot of Lynch at work.
If you ever wanted to sit back and watch David Lynch direct, the features provided here are a gold mine. They also provide an amusing, even charming look at how normal it all is. Lynch deals with such strange, dark, violent material that it can be easy to think of him as a dark, brooding weirdo, but the footage here shows him as an affable, laid-back fellow who knows exactly what he wants from a scene and how to get it. These slice-of-life moments give us an opportunity to see Lynch help Kyle MacLachlan tie a necktie, or give Sherilyn Fenn a cigarette as he talks with her about her character. Speaking of cigarettes, get ready to see a lot of them. Lynch is constantly smoking in these behind-the-scenes moments, an American Spirit cigarette always perched in his mouth or resting between his fingers. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself longing for a smoke after watching all of this.
The only downside to this, and other behind-the-scenes features is that some of the magic of the show is lost. We’re peeling back the red curtain here, and seeing how the sausage is made. The otherworldly nature of Twin Peaks drops away as we see numerous crew members making everything come together. In one amusing moment, we see Lynch and company watching a clip from the original Twin Peaks on YouTube so they can match a shot up to a new scene
In A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
Filmmaker Charles DeLauzirika put together this on-location feature that goes behind the scenes. Not much of the material here is very comprehensive, but it does provide a fly-on-the-wall look at the production, including actors discussing how strange it was to step back into roles they hadn’t played in more than two decades. The best moments come when we get to watch Lynch direct – almost always through a megaphone. If you’re looking for a bit more, however, this isn’t the feature for you. Instead, you should move quickly to IMPRESSIONS: A Journey Behind the Scenes of Twin Peaks.
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IMPRESSIONS: A Journey Behind the Scenes of Twin Peaks
Without question, the best features on the new Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series Blu-ray release are the series of behind-the-scenes films bundled together as IMPRESSIONS: A Journey Behind the Scenes of Twin Peaks. Longtime Lynch documentarian and friend Jason S. shot these 10 revealing, fascinating films (each runs about 30 minutes), covering almost the entire filming schedule of the new series.
Once again, we have Lynch constantly smoking his American Spirit cigarettes, but these features are much more in-depth than Behind the Red Curtain and I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun. We get to watch as Lynch and his crew come up with character names on the fly, and cracking up when he thinks up silly-sounding names. This feature also reveals how hands-on Lynch is: at one point, we see him sculpting one of the show’s props himself – a spout made of styrofoam that will eventually serve as the giant teapot-like contraption that took the place of the dearly departed David Bowie.
Again, the best moments are those when we get to watch Lynch direct, like a sequence where he chats with Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern in a motel room set. Lynch has nicknames for all his actors, and it’s charming to listen to him refer to Dern as “Tidbit” and MacLachlan as “Kale.” Later, he has to talk Dern into letting makeup artists cover her face in bread dough. After the scene is complete, Dern gets payback by applying the same dough to Lynch’s face. It’s a charming, funny glimpse into the carefree, friendly atmosphere prevalent on Lynch’s sets. “I wouldn’t have a career if it wasn’t for David,” MacLachlan said once. “He pretty much brought me up in the film world and spoiled me; we’ve all spoken about how the set is, he creates the environment and the joyfulness and the creativity. I’ve been spoiled forever working with David.” The footage here is proof positive of that statement.
Still, there are moments where Lynch can lose his temper. In one sequence, not filmed on set but rather in a meeting with his crew, Lynch gets frustrated when he’s told that they’ll only be able to film in one location for two days. The filmmaker grows apoplectic at this time constraint, shouting, “Why do I only have two fucking days?” and complaining that given the chance, he could spend “weeks” on certain sets “dreaming up new ideas.”
The only negative thing I’ll say about this feature: the footage is (sporadically) narrated by Josef Maria Schäfers, in what I presume is an attempt to mock (or perhaps pay loving tribute to) the existential narration that filmmaker Werner Herzog usually gives his documentaries. The narration here is unnecessary and distracting and grows truly tiresome after a while.
Goodbye, Margaret
Other features on the Blu-ray include a series of David Lynch produced promos for the series. Lynch managed to avoid having to cut a proper trailer for the Showtime revival, and instead put together these abstract clips that teased the tone without giving anything away. Also included is a behind-the-scenes photo gallery, a series of alternating versions of the Rancho Rosa production logo that started each episode, and the full San Diego Comic-Con 2017 Twin Peaks Panel, which you can watch in full above.
As a whole, the Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series Blu-ray is a must-own for any David Lynch or Twin Peaks fan. There’s a wealth of material here beyond the series itself, but best of all is the opportunity to watch the episodes back-to-back, and watch as the create an elaborate, hypnotic saga the likes of which we’ll never see again.
Full list of special features:
BLU-RAY AND DVD:
IMPRESSIONS: A Journey Behind the Scenes of Twin Peaks
Phenomenon
Rancho Rosa Logos (2:25)
San Diego Comic-Con 2017 Twin Peaks Panel (61:26)
David Lynch Produced Promos
The Man with the Grey Elevated Hair (29:40)
Tell it Martin (29:08)
Two Blue Balls (24:14)
The Number of Completion (29:17)
Bad Binoculars (28:08)
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend (30:00)
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers (26:44)
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth (26:49)
The Polish Accountant (28:05)
A Pot of Boiling Oil (38:32)
Part 1: Creation (4:40)
Part 2: Life After Death (4:50)
Part 3: Renaissance (4:50)
Behind-the-scenes Photo Gallery
Piano (1:02)
Donut (:32)
Woods (:32)
People (:32)
Places (:32)
Albert (1:02)
In – cinema (1:32)
BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVE:
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks (27:09)
Behind the Red Curtain (29:17)
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun (28:11)
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The Owls Are Not What They Seem
The greatest piece of narrative entertainment from 2017 was not in movie theaters, but rather playing on Showtime over the course of one weird, wild summer. Defying the odds, premium cable channel Showtime parked a large amount of money on David Lynch’s doorstep and convinced him to come out of semi-retirement to resurrect his cult TV series Twin Peaks. The results were stunning.
Lynch, the brilliant, mad mind behind Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and more, hadn’t made a film since 2006’s Inland Empire, yet any fears that the iconic filmmaker might have grown rusty in his time off were quickly assuaged as the beginning of the new Twin Peaks unfolded. Lynch and Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost had pulled out all the stops to return audiences to a place both wonderful and strange, and we all got a lot more than we could’ve possibly bargained for.
The importance of the original Twin Peaks can not be overstated. TV as we know it today, everything we lump into the “Peak TV” category of high quality, cinematic television, can trace its roots back to what Lynch and Frost did with the original Twin Peaks. He brought the auteur theory and the avant-garde to mainstream primetime TV, and television has been paying tribute ever since. The original Peaks only lasted two seasons, but after its cancellation in 1991, the show took on a life of its own, its cult fandom growing to monolithic proportions. Lynch revisited the town with 1992’s prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, which polarized audiences and took the mythology of the series into even stranger, near-indecipherable directions. Something curious happened after that: the show became even more popular, but the show that newer fans seemed to latch onto wasn’t actually the show that Lynch had created.
A meme-ification of Twin Peaks had set in, fueled by the Tumblr generation fond of sharing out of context screen grabs and quick gifs that may look amazing but don’t even come close to capturing the aura of what Lynch was going for. So when Lynch and Frost announced that “That gum you like is going to come back in style,” there was an uneasiness with how modern TV viewers would react to whatever it was they were about to witness. We live in the age of the live-tweet, where audiences have trouble putting their phone down to entirely focus on their entertainment, and are instead prone to firing off an instant reaction with the hopes of raking up a few “likes.” This is not the ideal type of viewing experience for something created by Lynch, and if audiences thought they were going to be in for instant gratification with the new Twin Peaks, they were setting themselves up for failure.
The same foul fate would befall the aforementioned Tumblr generation, who apparently wanted nothing deeper than endless shots of cherry pie, black coffee, and Audrey Horne’s saddle shoes. Anyone who dares to cruise the Twin Peakshashtag on Tumblr while the new series was airing likely found themselves in a world of woe, with Tumblr users bemoaning that the new Twin Peaks was denying them their dream of Special Agent Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne finally falling into each other’s arms at the Double R Diner while Shelly Johnson serves them up a slice of pie. In short, what they wanted was fan service. And fan service is not what David Lynch traffics in. I doubt the term even exists in his vocabulary.
Instead, Lynch provided viewers with one of the most audacious 18 hours ever committed to television. A daring, mind-warping journey back to the town of Twin Peaks and beyond. He blew a big, black hole into the very mythology of the show, and created something stranger than anyone viewing the original series would’ve imagined.
I Am Dead Yet I Live
The original Twin Peaks began as a procedural drama, then blossomed into something nearly unclassifiable. After local teen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is found murdered, FBI Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) arrives in town to investigate. Cooper gets to know the town, and the townsfolk, as he tries to crack the Palmer case.
And then things get weird.
Twin Peaks made what many consider to be a huge mistake by wrapping up the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer rather quickly, and then becoming stranger and stranger until it found itself canceled. The problem: the series ended on one major cliffhanger, with Cooper trapped in The Black Lodge, an eerie, extra-dimensional location populated with backward-talking people, billowing red curtains, and flashes of lighting. Meanwhile, an evil Cooper doppelgänger, connected to the malevolent force known as BOB, took the real Cooper’s place back in the real world.
There was never any real chance that Lynch and Frost would quickly sew up this dangling thread, however. Instead, when Twin Peaks returned to Showtime, it expanded the mythology of the series and took viewers on a long journey that was all part of Cooper’s return to the real world. But Cooper isn’t the real focus of Twin Peaks. Laura Palmer is. For Lynch, Laura Palmer is a representation of horribly wronged innocence. Fire Walk With Me revealed the traumatic events leading up to Laura’s death, and Lynch’s focus seems to be on the cosmic injustice of it all. The cruel blindness of fate. Laura Palmer is a force of something pure and good in the universe, and no matter how hard Cooper might try, he can never really save her. But perhaps that’s not what’s important. Perhaps what’s important is that he’ll keep trying.
Twin Peaks season 3 has Cooper escape the Black Lodge by taking the place of hapless, corrupt Las Vegas dwelling insurance salesman Dougie Jones (also played by MacLachlan). In reality, Dougie is a “tulpa” – a being created from the selected thoughts of different individuals. Tibetan mythology describe tulpas as “extra bodies that were created from one person’s mind in order to travel to spiritual realms.”
Rather than have Cooper escape the Black Lodge and come back to the real world acting like his old self, Lynch and Frost have the agent stuck in a childlike state, as if all the years stuck in an alternate dimension has blasted away a part of his consciousness. Then, in the most delightfully devious twist of all, Lynch proceeds to keep Cooper in this state through nearly the entire series. There are triggers that we keep expecting will snap Cooper out of his Dougie state: coffee, pie, etc. But Lynch isn’t interested in an easy way out. Instead, he engrosses us into the life of Dougie Jones, as the traumatized Cooper adapts to his new reality with Dougie’s wife Janey-E (Naomi Watts) and son Sonny Jim (Pierce Gagnon).
You could practically hear the groans of certain viewers as Lynch refused to break Cooper out of the Jones family mold, yet this material provides us with some of the most incredible moments of the revival series, and gives Kyle MacLachlan a chance to shine, playing up both the comic relief elements of Dougie Jones (see: Dougie in a casino yelling “Hello-oooooo!” at slot machines) mixed with more heartbreaking scenes (see: Dougie watching Sonny Jim with a look of profound sadness on his face).
Twin Peaks sets up a horde of new characters, almost all of which become memorable almost instantaneously – a feat few other shows can pull off. There’s the Mitchum Brothers (Jim Belushi and Robert Knepper), who are both trying to murder Dougie Jones before growing fond of him on the basis of a dream. There are two assassins (Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Roth), who spend most of their time in a van shooting the breeze when they’re not shooting people. And most important of all, there’s Diane (Laura Dern), Cooper’s old flame who teams up with FBI Director Gordon Cole (Lynch) and company to find out what happened to the real Cooper. Dern, with her various wigs, foul mouth, chain smoking and multi-colored manicure, steals every scene she appears in.
But what of Twin Peaks, the town that started it all? Lynch brings us back to the town, and gives us a glimpse into the lives of old favorites: Shelly (Mädchen Amick), Bobby (Dana Ashbrook), Big Ed (Everett McGill), Norma (Peggy Lipton), Andy (Harry Goaz), Lucy (Kimmy Robertson), Hawk (Michael Horse), Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn), and more, but the new season isn’t so much interested in closing out their stories as it is showing the effects of the passage of time. That’s not to say there aren’t narrative conclusions. In one of the new season’s most satisfying moments, Big Ed and Norma finally seal the deal on their romance after years apart. Lynch stages this in a lovely way, with Norma’s hands coming from just off frame onto Big Ed’s shoulders, while Big Ed closes his eyes in contentment.
These lovely moments are contrasted with stark, disturbing horror. In the opening episode alone, a nameless, shapeless monster escapes a containment unit and lays waste to a pair of lovers in a scene drenched in blood and confusion. And at the center of the series as a whole is the terrifying notion that evil, in all its forms, will almost always come out ahead. After nearly 18 hours, Cooper manages to alter time and save Laura Palmer from her teenage demise. Yet the aftershocks of this change are not ideal – the world as Cooper (and by extension, the audience) knows it has been altered forever. The final few seconds of the series find Cooper and Laura in a state of limbo, with Cooper absently wondering “What year is this?” before Laura, looking up at the house that once held such trauma and abuse for her in another life, emits a piercing, blood-chilling scream that seems to be echoing across time and space itself (note: if there was an award for Best Scream, Sheryl Lee would be the clear winner).
What are we to make of this cryptic, haunting conclusion? The beauty of Twin Peaks is that Lynch and Frost aren’t interested in providing us with clear answers. One of the quotes from the revival series states, “We are like the dreamer who dreams and lives inside the dream.” This is as clear a Twin Peaksmission statement as we’ll ever receive. The series as a whole is a dream that the audience is living inside, and like dreams, the narrative is open to endless interpretation. And best of all, no interpretation can really be considered incorrect. You can take away a million different morals from Twin Peaks as a whole, but I think a strong case can be made for the unsettling message that evil – in all its forms – will frequently come out ahead. The important thing is for committed, determined people like Dale Cooper to continue to try to stop it anyway. Cooper may not always succeed, but we can take some sort of cold comfort in the fact that he’ll try anyway.
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Closer, August 12
Cover: Secrets of Hollywood’s Golden Age -- Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind
Page 1: Contents
Page 2: The Big Picture -- Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra on their wedding day on July 19, 1966, in Las Vegas
Page 4: Bo Derek opens up about her romance with John Corbett
Page 5: Noah Wyle and David Crosby -- inside Hollywood’s most unlikely bromance, John Cleese -- the 4th marriage is the charm
Page 6: Hellos & Goodbyes
Page 8: Picture Perfect -- Prince George turns 6
Page 10: Ariana DeBose channeling Rita Moreno in Steven Speilberg’s remake of West Side Story, Knots Landing stars Donna Mills and Michelle Lee and Joan Van Ark reunite, Derek Hough
Page 12: Helen Mirren and Idris Elba and Jason Statham,
Page 13: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Chris Pratt kisses Blue
Page 14: David Beckham and daughter Harper, Alec Baldwin and daughter Carmen, Jenny McCarthy
Page 16: Jessica Lange -- What I’ve learned at 70
Page 18: Valerie Harper -- Her family’s heartbreak as her health weakens
Page 20: Cover Story -- Secrets of Hollywood’s greatest year -- 1939 -- Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Page 27: Spot the Difference -- Nicole Byer and Jenna Bush Hager and Jacques Torres on Today
Page 29: Horoscopes -- Leo Antonio Banderas
Page 30: Entertainment -- Jason Priestley on BH90210, Betty Gilpin on Geena Davis joining GLOW, In the Spotlight -- Ann Curry
Page 32: Movies -- Hobbs & Shaw
Page 33: Music -- John Fogerty on Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Live at Woodstock
Page 34: Television
Page 38: Good Food -- Mouthwatering Veggie Burgers from the book The Best Veggie Burgers on the Planet by Joni Marie Newman
Page 40: 5 easy ways to cut carbs, Halle Berry
Page 42: Whatver happened to the cast from Perfect Strangers -- Bronson Pinchot, Mark Linn-Baker, Melanie Wilson, Rebeca Arthur
Page 43: It Happened This Week
Page 44: Sheryl Underwood -- I’m Livin’ the Dream
Page 48: Kurt Russell -- As his new ‘60s-set movie opens he reflects on his long hard road to fame
Page 50: Reese Witherspoon -- My kids keep me grounded
Page 52: Sha Na Na is here to stay
Page 54: The Style of Christina Applegate
Page 58: My Life in 10 Pictures -- Charlize Theron
Page 60: Flashback -- Tied-Up Tops on Mary Tyler Moore in 1975 and Bebe Rexha now, band t-shirts on Sammy Davis Jr. in 1967 and Miranda Lambert now, Minnie Mouse’s friends Annette Funicello in 1986 and Heidi Klum now, sidewalk surfers Farrah Fawcett in 1976 and Sailor Brinkley-Cook now
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Closer, April 8
Cover: Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber -- Our Untold Love Story
Page 1: Contents, What I’ve Learned -- Kelsey Grammer, Joke of the Week -- Groucho Marx
Page 2: Generation Wow -- Embellished Gowns -- Viola Davis, Helen Mirren, Glenn Close, Dolly Parton
Page 3: Jennifer Lopez, Judith Light, Regina Hall, Jane Fonda
Page 4: Julia Roberts has faith in her kids
Page 5: Wendy Williams works to help others while fighting her addition, Michael Buble’s son’s health scare changed him
Page 6: Lionel Richie shares his greatest achievement in life
Page 7: Hellos & Goodbyes
Page 8: Picture Perfect -- Christie Brinkley, Rebel Wilson
Page 9: Allison Janney and Samuel L. Jackson and James Corden, Patti LaBelle
Page 10: Anderson Cooper and Big Bird, Glenn Close, Ali Wentworth and Mariska Hargitay
Page 12: Jamie Foxx and T-Pain as the Monster from The Masked Singer, Megan Mullally, Sheryl Crow
Page 14: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Jane Seymour and the Property Brothers, Prince Charles
Page 16: Reba McEntire stronger than ever
Page 18: Cover Story -- Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber -- why our marriage works
Page 22: Jay Leno -- What I’ve Learned at 68
Page 24: Fay Wray -- She loved being a mom
Page 27: Spot the Difference -- Julia Butters on American Housewife
Page 29: Horoscopes -- Aries Russell Crowe
Page 30: Entertainment -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Veep, Ruth Wilson in Mrs. Wilson, In the Spotlight -- Richard Kind
Page 32: Movies
Page 33: Music -- Suzi Quatro on No Control
Page 34: Television
Page 36: Great Escape -- Patrick Warburton in Sydney, Australia
Page 38: Food -- Please try a plant-based diet
Page 40: 5 tips to live to 100
Page 42: Whatever happened to the cast of The Partridge Family -- Dave Madden, Shirley Jones, Danny Bonaduce, David Cassidy, Suzanne Crough, Susan Dey, Brian Forster
Page 43: Best Day of My Life -- Tony Shaloub -- Working with Gena Rowlands
Page 44: Who Am I? Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Eva Longoria’s hobby is sewing, It Happened This Week
Page 45: Closer to the Heart
Page 46: Deidre Hall -- I’ve had a charmed life
Page 50: Harry Connick Jr. created the Krewe of Orpheus in Mardi Gras so wife Jill Goodacre could ride with him
Page 52: Larry King faces chronic leukemia with eternal optimism
Page 54: Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda -- Laughter keeps us young
Page 56: Whoopi Goldberg -- I’m lucky to be alive after battling double pneumonia and sepsis
Page 58: On the Move -- Armie Hammer
Page 60: The Big Picture -- James Brolin and son Josh Brolin in 1973
Page 62: Style -- Wrap dresses -- Katie Holmes
Page 63: Jennie Garth, Cybill Shepherd circa 1975
Page 64: The style of Kate Middleton
Page 66: Beauty -- Give your hair some TLC -- Cindy Crawford
Page 68: Best Friends -- Steven Van Zandt and his beloved dog Edie
Page 69: Carrie Ann Inaba and Dr. Evan Antin and a snake, Chris Hemsworth and quokka, Reese Witherspoon and her dog Pepper, Furry Flashback -- Elizabeth Ashley and a cat in 1963
Page 70: My Life in 10 Pictures -- Emma Thompson
Page 72: Flashback -- Velvet tuxedos on Jerry Lee Lewis in 1982 and Josh Hartnett now, brother and sister acts The Carpenters in 1978 and Jocelyn and Chris Arndt now, round glasses on Leslie Howard in 1927 and Alan Cumming now
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Closer, December 31
Cover: Kathie Lee Gifford
Page 1: Contents, What I’ve Learned -- Alyssa Milano, Joke of the Week -- Will Ferrell
Page 2: Generation Wow -- Cape Dresses -- Gwen Stefani, Julianne Moore, Diane Kruger, Emily Deschanel, Alyssa Milano, Debi Mazar
Page 4: Lynda Carter -- why I won’t have plastic surgery
Page 5: Christina Crawford looks back at her memoir Mommie Dearest 40 years later, thank-you note from Martin Luther King Jr. to Sammy Davis Jr. for sale
Page 6: Rare photos of The Beatles early years published
Page 7: Hellos & Goodbyes
Page 8: Picture Perfect -- Mariah Carey and twins, Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn with new granddaughter Rani
Page 9: Whoopi Goldberg, Reba McEntire
Page 10: Alec and Hilaria Baldwin and their 4 children, Cindy Crawford and daughter Kaia Gerber
Page 11: Sean Hayes, Then and Now -- David Hasselhoff
Page 12: Reese Witherspoon
Page 13: Ryan Seacrest, Amal Clooney with her twins, Cyndi Lauper
Page 14: Leslie Mann and 2 daughters, Sharon Osbourne and Kermit the Frog, Dolly Parton
Page 15: Sweet Memories -- Laura Dern and Diane Ladd, Valerie Bertinelli, Lisa Marie Presley and dad Elvis
Page 16: Bing Crosby -- Inside his private war
Page 18: Cover Story -- Kathie Lee Gifford -- My new life at 65
Page 22: Marlo Thomas -- Lessons from my father Danny Thomas
Page 24: Kate Middleton’s plans for holiday magic with her family
Page 27: Spot the Difference -- Sheryl Underwood on The Talk
Page 29: Horoscopes -- Capricorn Denzel Washington
Page 30: Entertainment -- Cher on the Kennedy Center Honors
Page 31: Stephan McGann on Call the Midwife, In the Spotlight -- Keith Carradine
Page 32: Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda on Mary Poppins Returns
Page 33: Lorne Greene on Christmas on the Ponderosa
Page 34: Television
Page 36: Great Escape -- Robin Quivers in Napa Valley
Page 38: Food -- Danielle Walker’s recipes are dairy-free and grain-free. Please try a plant-based diet in 2019
Page 40: How to Prevent Falls
Page 42: Readers Ask -- Merlin in The Sword in the Stone modeled on Walt Disney, the first female producer to win an Oscar for best picture was Julia Phillips for The Sting, Whatever Happened to the Cast of Elf -- Will Ferrell, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Daniel Tay
Page 43: Best Day of my Life -- Marin Hinkle
Page 44: Who Am I? Geena Davis, William Hurt, Rod Stewart’s hobby is model trains, It Happened This Week
Page 45: Closer to the Heart
Page 46: Charlene Tilton -- a Dallas girl at heart
Page 50: Love Notes -- Katie Couric and John Molner
Page 52: Ellen Pompeo -- how I’m raising strong kids
Page 54: Secrets of Some Like It Hot
Page 56: Clint Eastwood brings all 8 of his children together for the first time
Page 58: On the Move -- Kirstie Alley’s Los Angeles home
Page 60: The Big Picture: Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly in 1954
Page 62: Style -- Sequins -- Rita Wilson, Elizabeth Hurley, Marilyn Monroe circa 1953
Page 64: The Style of Demi Moore
Page 66: The secrets to a healthy scalp -- Gwyneth Paltrow, Sofia Vergara
Page 68: Best Friends -- Cameron Mathison and dog
Page 69: Jimmy Fallon and Robert Irwin and a baby zebra, Lori Loughlin and Happy the Dog, Beth Stern and a rescue kitty, Rita Hayworth and her dog circa 1946
Page 70: My Life in 10 Pictures -- Bebe Neuwirth
Page 72: Flashback -- Billy Idol and Pete Davidson with punk rock hair, Joni Mitchell and Taylor Swift are girls with guitars, Moulin Rouge!
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