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horrorme · 1 month

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The Ray Bradbury Theater (Marionettes, Inc.)

#The Ray Bradbury Theater #tv #sci-fi #sci fi horror #1980s #leslie nielsen #james coco #kenneth welsh #gifs #1980s tv #sci fi #television #my gifs

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erstwhile-punk-guerito · 5 months

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#Witchblade #Yancy Butler #Anthony Cistaro #Conrad Dunn #Lazar Rockwood #Kenneth Welsh #Will Yun Lee #Ralph Hemecker #2000

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ruleof3bobby · 7 months

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HEARTBURN (1986) Grade: C-

The lead acting saves it from being dull. I thought a Mike Nichols film will have more depth. The set design was very plain as well.

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mordicaifeed · 2 years

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#kenneth welsh #windom earle #twin peaks #david lynch #sheryl lee #laura palmer #the black lodge #black lodge

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spockvarietyhour · 1 year

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Kenneth Welsh

#Stargate Atlantis #SGA #The Ark #Kenneth Welsh #Jamus #it's not a stargate rewatch rewatch

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mbharestuff · 1 year

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Kenneth Welsh is so much fun as Windom Earle in Twin Peaks. He's obviously having the time of his life, and who wouldn't? You get to play a chess-based serial killer with occult superpowers. It doesn't get much better than that.

#windom earle #twin peaks #kenneth welsh #camp #the black lodge

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crumbargento · 2 years

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Rest in Peace Kenneth Welsh (1942-2022)

#kenneth welsh #rest in peace #hommage #twin peaks

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loveboatinsanity · 2 years

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autolenaphilia · 2 years

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"The cultivation of evil for the sake of evil": About Windom Earle from Twin Peaks

Windom Earle is an underrated character, and far from being part of the bad of that part of the series, the character almost single-handedly saves the second half of season 2 of Twin Peaks. There are spoilers up to the end of season 2 of course.

First, he is just a fun character to watch. His actor Kenneth Welsh plays him with such delightful flamboyance and drive, like he wants to make every second of screentime as interesting as possible.

Earle is the kind of villain that has such fun in doing evil that the audience can’t help but have fun alongside him. Everything he does is theatrical in an entertaining way, from donning disguises including a horse at one point, to putting a guy in a giant papier-maché chess piece and killing him.

I’ve seen people criticize his antics for being over-the-top and ridiculous, but they’re clearly meant to be that, and such things have been part of Twin Peaks since the start. He might be a cartoonish villain, but Twin Peaks has always had something of the cartoon within it, like Andy running into a loose plankLooney Tunes style. Ultimately, Earle’s actions are all just so much fun that I can’t complain.

I also like the trope of the hero’s evil counterpart or nemesis, and Earle makes a fine Moriarty to Cooper’s Holmes. And like Holmes and Moriarty, he feels like what would happen if Cooper used his eccentric intelligence on the side of evil instead of good. Earle was like Cooper an FBI agent, and was in fact his former partner and mentor in the FBI, the man who according to Cooper taught him everything.

And Earle as a character seems partly responsible for even more aspects of Cooper’s personality. Earle’s murder of his wife Caroline haunts Cooper, who clearly holds himself partly responsible for falling in love with Caroline and being lax with guarding her. And this failure seems to have amplified the white knight syndrome of Cooper’s personality. He responds to the pervasive violence against women in our society by wanting to be the male hero who always saves the damsel in distress, and this character trait leads him to disaster in the season 2 finale, which we will talk about later.

Most importantly, Windom Earle while being fun drives the plot forward. That wasn’t true of a lot of side-plots in the post- Laura Palmer mystery Twin Peaks.He provides a threat and suspense that had been lacking. Cooper being stripped of his FBI status after he solved the mystery, and getting it back to deal with Earle feels almost symbolic of how the show lost its footing and then regained it with Earle.

And he provides a lead-in for the main mystery of the show, that of the Black and White Lodges. Earle’s deepest motivation is his search for the Black Lodge. It is actually the lynchpin of Earle’s personality. He might at first seem unrelated to the broader mythology of the show, but he is actually intimately connected to it. His search for it brings the mystery of the Black Lodge to the show’s forefront, bringing back to the sense of mystery that was partially lost earlier when Laura Palmer’s murder was solved.

In episode 27, Briggs finds a video-tape of a younger Earle, in which Earle is talking about the “these evil sorcerers, dugpas… they cultivate evil for the sake of evil, nothing else. They express themselves in darkness for darkness, without leavening motive.. This ardent purity allows them to access a secret place where the cultivation of evil proceeds in an exponential fashion, and with it, the furtherance of evil’s resulting power”. This place is The Black Lodge, and Earle believes he can enter it and utilize its power. This is his true motivation, evil and power in itself.

You might accuse this of being a simplistic motivation, but that is how evil works in Twin Peaks. It is that simple. Causing suffering is the whole point of the actions of Bob and the other Black Lodge creatures. They feed on pain and suffering, which they call “garmonbozia”.

Earle is entirely human, not possessed or anything, but he wants to be like Bob and the Black lodge beings, have their power, so he acts like them in the belief that will give him access to the Lodge and allow him to wield its power. He wants to cause suffering out of sheer sadistic glee, “cultivate evil for the sake of evil”. His attempt to get revenge on Cooper is senseless, but causing Cooper pain is the point in itself.

This makes normal people think he is insane and he gets consequently locked up in a mental asylum for years when his crimes are revealed. But as Cooper says, he probably feigned that insanity. And sure, killing people just for fun, “without leavening motive” is not healthy behaviour, but he is not delusional. He is right about the place of supernatural evil called the Black Lodge existing. Not that he is completely right, more on that later.

So Earle actually subverts the “crazy serial killer” trope. The chess gimmick he has at first is a serial killer fiction cliché, but it is clear that it is a ruse. He used to play chess with Cooper when they were partners in the FBI, and Cooper was the inferior player, so after escaping the asylum, he starts playing a correspondence chess game with Cooper. He then kills a person for each piece Cooper loses in the game. But it is clearly a mindgame to exploit Cooper’s white knight syndrome rather than a genuinely held obsession. He wants to make Cooper feel guilty and suffer by giving him the feeling that he can prevent the murders by being a better chess player.

But when Cooper cheats by getting help from Pete Martell (Pete being very good at chess is another thing I love, because it’s a fun subversion of his lumberjack persona), Earle just gets angry for a bit and kills people anyway, mocking his old gimmick by putting his first victim after that in a papier-maché chess piece. The chess thing wasn’t some “insane obsession” for him, just another mindgame. There is a subtly funny scene in episode 27 where he even pushes his chess pieces unceremoniously to the floor to make some space on the table, because chess doesn’t interest him at all any more.

The final episode of season 2 brings Earle’s arc to a satisfying close. He finds the Black Lodge, and kidnaps Cooper’s girlfriend Annie and brings her there. This lures perennial white knight Cooper into the Lodge in the quest to save Annie, resulting in him making a pivotal mistake. He is trapped there by the end of the episode, and remains there for 25 years until season 3. Earle thus does defeat Cooper in a way.

Yet he is utterly mistaken that he would be able to wield the power of the Black Lodge for himself. He tries to take Cooper’s soul, but it doesn’t work. Bob turns up to explain that no, Earle can’t take Cooper’s soul. Instead Bob takes Earle’s soul. It’s the perfect ending for Earle, who while being very fun, is ultimately utterly selfish, evil and arrogant man. And having this arrogance be shown up by an actual Black Lodge creature who then destroys him is great poetic justice.

This essay sadly turned out more topical than I imagined at first, as Kenneth Welsh passed away recently. He did a lot of acting and gained an extensive resumé, but Windom Earle is probably his most famous role. And that performance alone is enough to secure his legacy. Windom Earle is a great villain, and a force that reversed the show’s decline rather than furthered it. And it was Welsh’s acting skills that gave this character life. He will be missed.

#Twin Peaks #my writings #windom earle #kenneth welsh #seriously he is great

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gatecast · 2 years

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Our deepest condolences to the friends and family of Kenneth Welsh.

Kenneth graced Stargate by playing Jamus on the Atlantis episode "The Ark" and had a long and successful career on stage and screen.

#Kenneth Welsh #RIP

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nerds-yearbook · 2 years

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On May 21, 1985, The Ray Bradbury Theater premiered. It was an anthology series with each episode introduced by Bradbury whom the episodes were based on his stories. ("Marionettes, Inc", Ray Bradbury Theater, TV, Event)

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mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves · 2 years

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Rest in peace, Kenneth Welsh (1942-2022).

#kenneth welsh #rest in peace #radio days #twin peaks #miracle #the day after tomorrow #the fog

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kwebtv · 2 years

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Kenneth Welsh, CM (March 30, 1942 – May 5, 2022) Film and television actor best known as the multi-faceted villain Windom Earle in Twin Peaks.

Welsh has portrayed historical figures including Thomas E. Dewey, Colin Thatcher, Harry S. Truman (twice), Thomas Edison, James "Scotty" Reston, General Harry Crerar and James Baker. He made guest appearances on the acclaimed TV series Due South and Slings & Arrows.

Other series he appeared in were The Great Detective, Empire, Inc., Reno and the Doc, Love and Larceny, The Ray Bradbury Theater, Seeing Things, Spenser: For Hire, The Murder of Mary Phagan, T. and T., The Twilight Zone, Champagne Charlie, Gideon Oliver, Street Legal, Love, Lies and Murder, Beyond Reality, Cruel Doubt, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Lonesome Dove: The Series, The X-Files, Dead Man's Gun, Law & Order, Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension, Twitch City, Falcone, D.C., Murder Call, Witchblade, The Guardian, Soul Food, The Practice, ReGenesis, H2O, This Is Wonderland, Tilt, The Murdoch Mysteries, Smallville, Above and Beyond, Bionic Woman, The Trojan Horse, The Last Templar, Human Target, Haven, Being Erica, Less Than Kind, The Listener, The Best Laid Plans, Mr. D, The Expanse, The Blacklist, Saving Hope, Salvation, Lodge 49, Star Trek: Discovery, Charmed and The Kids in the Hall.

He also appeared in many made for TV movies beginning in 1969. (Wikipedia)

#Kenneth Welsh #TV #Obit #Obituay #O2022 #Twin Peaks

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thetruelodge49 · 2 years

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#:(#lodge 49 #kenneth welsh #larry loomis #time to rewatch 106 and blast nature boy

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greensparty · 2 years

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Remembering Kenneth Welch and Jack Kehler

Not one but two notable actors passed away today. Here is my combined remembrance:

Kenneth Welsh 1942-2022

Welsh (left) and Kyle MacLachlan on Twin Peaks

The Canadian actor has died at 80. His greatest role was as villain Windom Earle on TV’s Twin Peaks. He appeared in ten episode during the second season including the mind-blowing finale. Other notable roles movies included The Aviator and Survival of the Dead. He also filmed a small part in the upcoming The Kids in the Hall reboot.

The link above is the obit from Deadline.

Jack Kehler 1946-2022

Kehler’s dance performance in The Big Lebowski

The longtime actor has died at 75. His greatest role was as the Dude’s landlord in The Big Lebowski. He showed up asking for the rent and then later in the film Lebowski and Walter attend the landlord’s dance performance. That movie is pure genius! Kehler also appeared in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Love Liza, and an episode of Mad Men.

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

#kenneth welsh #twin peaks #david lynch #the aviator #survival of the dead #the kids in the hall #the big lebowski #coen brothers #austin powers: the spy who shagged me #love liza #mad men #Martin Scorsese #george a. romero #film geek #jack kehler #rip

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filmonizirani-filmo · 22 days

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Campton Manor (2024) - Godina: 2024 Žanr: Horor / Misterija / Triler Režija: Cat Hostick Glavne uloge: Shawn Roberts, Jason London, Kenneth Welsh, Julian R https://filmonizirani.net/campton-manor-2024/

#Cat Hostick #Jason London #Julian Richings #Kenneth Welsh #Shawn Roberts

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