Subject: Audrey smiling & possible rerun alterations
From: sandell@ferret.ils.nwu.edu
Date: 1990-08-12, 15:15
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

From: Greg Sandell <sandell@ferret.ils.nwu.edu>


(Whoops, my first version of this post got truncated...)


After talking with somebody who says Audrey WAS indeed smiling in
class during the announcement over the P.A. of Laura's death,
whereas I said she WASN'T, I went and checked my video tape of
the pilot rerun.  Here's the verdict...

Audrey does not appear on camera during the P.A. announcement...
not once!  As for any other Audrey appearances in class:  she
does indeed smile when her name is called by the teacher (she says
"here" while making quote mark signs with her hands).  But this
is before anybody has any hint of the tragedy.  The
ONLY other shot of her is after the P.A. announcement, while
Donna is loudly crying, Audrey looks around to her right.  She's
not showing any grief, that's true, but she's not smiling. The
feeling I get from this scene is that she doesn't care so much
about Laura dying but that she IS very interested in the
reaction it's getting from other people.

I think that her absense of grief is in such strong contrast 
to the others around her, that viewers have stored the memory
as Audrey smiling even though she wasn't.

However, there is the chance that the scene was edited between
the original showing and the rerun.  As I said, my copy is of
the rerun.  Can anybody with the original re-view it and
REALLY determine if Audrey ever smiles?

I thought that there was at least one other thing changed
between original broadcast and the re-broadcast.  When
Audrey walks in on the Norwegians and spoils the deal by
announcing Laura's death, I thought I remember her saying
something like "Do you know how that makes a person feel??",
but she didn't say that this time.  Also I don't remember that
goofy, Laurel-and-Hardy-like music that played through the
scene the second time as being present the first time.

Also, I though the scene where Cooper pulls out the "R"
from Laura's fingernail was longer than it was the 2nd
time.  But maybe I have the memory of that scene stored
differently!

Greg Sandell