Subject: More on Laura's Diary
From: alle@cbnewse.att.com (patterson.a.england)
Date: 1990-09-13, 10:09
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

From USA Today, Monday September 10, 1990

Products From 'Twin Peaks'

(Photo of Laura Palmer, The caption reads:) LAURA PALMER: The sordid life
of the homecoming queen, played by Sheryl Lee, is detailed in a 'Twin Peaks'
diary.

(Photo of Joan Chen [Josie Packard], the caption reads:) JOAN CHEN: English
isn't all that was taught at tutorials.

(Photo of Richard Beymer [Ben Horne], the caption reads) RICHARD BEYMER: May
have been too fond of Laura.

(Photo of Jennifer Lynch, the caption reads:) JENNIFER LYNCH: Child of
'Twin Peaks' creator, she wrote Laura Palmer's diary.

Diary drops dark hints
By Matt Roush
USA TODAY

Drear diary:
Perhaps poor Laura Palmer is better off dead.

As the merchandising blitz for ABC's 'Twin Peaks' begins this week, new
clues are dangling before armchair Sherlocks antsy for the bizarre soap's
return Sept. 30.
A warning: 'The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer' (Pocket Books, $8.95) is
an R-rated, darkly sexual odyssey of perverted adolescent awakening: drug
addiction and prostitution, sadomasochism with both sexes and intimations
of childhood molestation.
"As seen by" Jennifer Lynch, 22, daughter of 'Peaks' creator David Lynch,
the 'Diary' drops hints and sheds new light on Laura's sordid relationships.
But not on all of them. One page-and-a-half entry is filled with initials
of sexual partners.
This is not the diary FBI Agent Dale Cooper found. That was a smokescreen
for this creepy confessional, which will turn up in the new season. "It
plays an integral part," says Jennifer Lynch.
Among key revelations:
> Benjamin Horne's fondness for Laura (over his own daughter Audrey) has
sinister undertones. Poems in the diary indicate repression of early sexual
abuse. A late entry: "I'm going to have to tell the world about Benjamin."
> Josie Packard, widow with a mysterious past, treats her English tutorials
with Laura "more like poorly executed seductions."
> And there's BOB, a shadowy figure akin to a psychic sexual vampire, who
invades her consciousness to initiate weird rites that plague her self-image.
Throughout, Laura and BOB engage in brutal dialogues, one foreshadowing the
"Fire ... Walk With Me" clue at her murder site.
Much lighter in tone is 'Diane ... The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper'
(Simon & Schuster Audio, $9.95), Kyle MacLachlan's tongue-in-cheek dictations.
Full of rhapsodies on food, reasonably priced lodging, nature and the cost
of things (including his tape recorder), it takes us beyond his cliffhanger
shooting to resolve character's fates - and furthers Cooper's serial murder
theories with a culprit sounding just like BOB.
Also coming: a soundtrack CD this week, T-shirts at month's end, a calendar,
just approved coffee mugs, and next year, a Nintendo game.

Allen England
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