Season 2, Episode 11: Masked Ball — December 15, 1990–January 11, 1991

> >    One of the endearing qualities of the FBI agent played by Kyle
> >     MacLachlan on the television series "Twin Peaks" is his now-
> >    famous sincerely-expressed appreciation of good coffee.  Kyle was
> >    in Chicago last month with co-star (and forer Evanstonian) Lara
> >    Flynn Boyle.  He spent several hours at Scenes Coffeehouse and 
> >    Dramatist Bookstore.  Kyle's verdict on the house coffee?  It's
> >    "mighty good."

A friend of a friend was in Chicago with a friend and saw Kyle and
Lara walking around.  They (discreetly) followed them around for a
while, not bothering them for an autograph but just enjoying watching
them.  She said that Lara looked like she hadn't slept in a week, and
just generally looked like hell and was having a lousy time.  Kyle, on
the other hand, looked like Agent Cooper, looking clean-cut and happy,
staring around at all the buildings.

Pete harlan@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu                 "maybe interesting..."

In article <6718@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> sam@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Sam Tan) writes:
> >bims@diku.dk (Asger H|gsted) writes:
> >
> >
>> >> Well, if any of you netters out there can spare the time and effort, I sure
>> >>would like to have a copy of any GIF's of Audrey Horne/Sherilyn Fenn, seeing
>> >>as how I am since recently a dedicated Twin Peaks freak and a small-time GIF
>> >>collector.
>> >>  Thankyou for your time,
>> >>    hoping to hear from Someone Out There
> >
>> >>      bims@freja.diku.dk or bims@diku.dk
> >
> >I don't know about Sherilyn Fenn, but there is a collection of GIFs scanned 
>from an NTSC source available in freebie.umich.engin.edu. The path is
> >/pub/twin-peaks followed by the date of the episode aired.
> >
> >sam@wolfen.cc.uow.edu.au

Are you sure this is the right address, I can't seem to access it ??

Matt Crowd glmwc@marlin.edu.au

In article <1991Jan11.012632.6258@marlin.jcu.edu.au> glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes:
> >In article <6718@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> sam@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Sam Tan) writes:

>> >>I don't know about Sherilyn Fenn, but there is a collection of GIFs scanned 
> >>from an NTSC source available in freebie.umich.engin.edu. The path is
>> >>/pub/twin-peaks followed by the date of the episode aired.

> >Are you sure this is the right address, I can't seem to access it ??

This is the right address.  The engin network at umich.edu has been
having some problems lately--maybe that's the source of your problem.
Or maybe it's your software, or the fact that you're in Australia.  I
dunno.  But I just pinged freebie and it's wide awake and ready for
your lusty internet thrusts.


-- Rod Johnson * rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu * (313) 650 2315 "Stop whining and enjoy the puppet show" --Richard Gehr

l> Kyle's verdict on the house coffee?  It's "mighty good."
___
__  Not "damn good?"  Looks like a pan to me . . . :-)
_
r> Is "Jo" (== "Java"?) synonymous with good coffee in the USA?
___
__  It's not currently popular slang; it went out of style decades
_   ago.  I believe they call it "Joe" in Twin Peaks to show how
    much of a backwater the town is.
___
__  It has, of course, come back into usage amongst fans of the
_   show.  Retro-slang, like.
    <_Jym_>

/F356/<_Jym_Dyer_>/B893/A972/F83/H25/N729/F387/G298/O37/X235/Q734/
/X243/K822/L262/B23/THE/OWLS/ARE/NOT/WHAT/THEY/SEEM/B383/L947/M84/
/M867/B586/K389/O98/AND/I/LIKE/WHALES/N37/B88/L867/P213/N297/B957/
/W482/jym@mica.berkeley.edu/I55/K387/P987/R80/Z903/Y983/O092/C381/

[ Followups to alt.tv.twin-peaks; alt.sex.pictures is for pictures, not
  questions. ]

glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes:

> >sam@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Sam Tan) writes:

[ ... ]

>> >>I don't know about Sherilyn Fenn, but there is a collection of GIFs scanned 
> >>from an NTSC source available in freebie.umich.engin.edu. The path is
>> >>/pub/twin-peaks followed by the date of the episode aired.

> >Are you sure this is the right address, I can't seem to access it ??

The correct hostname is freebie.engin.umich.edu (141.212.68.23).  The
GIFS are fairly good quality, but probably only of interest to dedicated
Twin Peaks viewers (from what I downloaded).

Tim
--
Tim Ramsey (tar@math.ksu.edu)   (913) 532-6750 (voice)  532-7004 (FAX)
Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506

Sorry about my garbled post from yesterday.
I was wondering if anyone had talked about Senor DroolCup's appearance
on the last episode of the now cancelled "CopRock".  I was surprised to see
him there.  He was playing one of many senior citizens who were filming a 
commercial with the mayor.  His only lines were about how he was an actor in 
the movie "The Searchers" with John Wayne.  I believe that someone he pointed
out this fact earlier!  I was pretty amazed.
That's the second CopRock/TP crossover.  The first was Lucy's sister.

-Steven Greco

   >>I don't know about Sherilyn Fenn, but there is a collection of GIFs scanned 
   >>from an NTSC source available in freebie.umich.engin.edu. The path is
   >>/pub/twin-peaks followed by the date of the episode aired.

   >Are you sure this is the right address, I can't seem to access it ??

.... no.. the address is..

   freebie.engin.umich.edu
   (see my previous post on this subjuct...)
  
  unfortunately.. there aren't any great pictures of Sherilyn Fenn...
  there is one of her and also one with her father... but neither
  one is very good... 

   If i get a chance to scan any more pictures... i'll try and get
   a better picture of her...

         HAVE A DAY
         -darrin


          
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In the midst of the month-long TP deprivation, I had a special treat last
night.  A friend and I rented Agatha Christie's "Appointment with Death,"
starring none other than Piper Laurie!  This was a 1988 production with
Peter Ustinov in the role of Hercule Poirot, as well as Lauren Bacall and
Carrie Fischer.  

The movie itself was excellent (I'm partial to mysteries, you understand),
and Piper had a wonderful role as the evil stepmother who ends up getting
herself bumped off.  Wow!

I highly recommend this film for anyone who's interested in seeing more of
Piper, not to mention anyone who likes a good old-fashioned mystery.

-Fen

"Into what I have said no gleam of reason has been allowed to intrude;
 and I can think of scarcely a single error, however ancient and obscure,
 which I have failed to propogate."

            Internet:       fen@toyshop.lonestar.org
            UUCP            ...{ernest,tsci,egsner}!shibaya!toyshop!fen

Hello,

I'm looking for a adress of David Lynch to contact him. I want to ask him some
questions. I wonder if somebody out there could help me ?

Thanks Maarten
mwjoosen@cs.ruu.nl

In article <12090005@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson) writes:
>> >> Somebody posted that Walther PPK's are illegal to import into the US.
> >
> >I seriously doubt this.

Well, yes and no. The German-made Walther PPK is illegal to import
into the US unless you are a law enforcement officer. This is because
it is small enough to fall under the so-called "Saturday Night
Special" provisions of the pertinent gun laws.

But you _can_ legally purchase a Walther PPK that was manufactured
domestically.

> >A nice gun, but for all but
> >the best shot only effective at short range (short barrel, don't ya
> >know).

You'd be surprised how accurate you can be with a "short" barrel.
It just takes a little practice...

Steve Golson -- Trilobyte Systems -- Carlisle MA -- sgolson@east.sun.com
       (consultant for, but not employed by, Sun Microsystems)
"As the people here grow colder, I turn to my computer..." -- Kate Bush

Sherilyn's Playboy spread contained a picture of her in profile that was
previously posted to Alt.sex.pictures.
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The following article appeared in the Jan./Feb. 1991 edition of the Utne
Reader. This magazine provides an excellent overview of the plethora of
alternative magazines that are currently available. It is being published
without the permission of the Utne Reader.

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Is David Lynch Creepier Than His Movies?

  David Lynch, whose strange imagination is behind the dark, disturbing film
BLUE VELVET, the much-lauded television show TWIN PEAKS, and the bizarre 
Cannes film festival winner WILD AT HEART, has been widely praised as one of 
the era's most gifted directors-a creative genius whose inimitable surrealist
style makes him the reigning leader of intellectual, avant-garde filmmaking.

  Lynch is know for his dreamlike manipulation of images and for what the
right-wing NATIONAL REVIEW (Oct. 1, 1990) lists as his trademark themes:
death, violence, mutilation, deformity, sex, kinkiness, and secret traumas.
In his most recent works, Lynch takes the viewer into what he calls the
"dark underside of middle America," where nothing is quite as it seems:
Middle-class college boy finds a human ear and somehow gets mixed up with 
the victim of a psychotic rapist-both of them from the wrong side of the 
tracks (BLUE VELVET); a picturesque small town is plaqued by seductive women,
wife-beaters, and the murder of a homecoming queen with mysterious 
connections to the drug world (TWIN PEAKS); the innocent love of a young 
couple is threatened by an evil, deranged mother and white-trash killers 
(WILD AT HEART).

  So far Lynch has enjoyed a barrage of favorable media attention and the
cultlike adoration of white, "hip", college-educated people who normally
shun anything as lowbrow as television but tune in religiously to TWIN PEAKS.
Why would an upper middle-class audience develop such a fascination with a 
troubled, shocking world so different from their own? Stuart Klawans, writing
in THE NATION (Sept. 17, 1990), points out the irony in Lynch's voyuerism and
the audience for whom it is intended: "The poor get locked out of their jobs,
get tossed out of their homes, get shot by stray bullets at the rate of once
a day; and the college-educated play at wanting to be disturbed."

  Fans aren't the only ones raging over Lynch. Some critics see his work as
misogynist, elitist and racist and believe his admittedly conservative politics
are somehow connected. The principal charge against Lynch is glamarization of
sexual violence. As feminist film critic Kathi Maio points out in Ms.
(Sept./Oct. 1990), Lynch has a disturbing habit of casting women as victims in
sadomasochistic scenarios. Consider that most female characters on TWIN PEAKS
are beautiful, "promiscuous" young women who are routinely murdered, tortured,
beaten, and manipulated by men, while the rest of the women are depicted as
old and mentally ill. Critic Tony Alterman, writing in the radical newspaper 
THE GUARDIAN (Sept. 12, 1990), charges Lynch with presenting the dangerous
idea that rape can be sexy in a particularly offensive scene in WILD AT HEART.
Perhaps more disturbing than any Lynch film is his explanation of Dorothy, the
passive victim of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse in BLUE VELVET. 
In an interview in the British magazine BLITZ (Aug. 1990), Lynch says: "There 
are some women that you want to hit because you're getting a feeling from them
that they want it, or maybe they upset you in a certain way. I see this 
happening. But I don't really understand it."

  The personal politics of any creative artist have a way of creeping into
the art, and Lynch is no exception. His adoration of Ronald Reagan is no 
secret, and, according to Judith Lewis of the Minneapolis alternative weekly
CITY PAGES (Aug. 15, 1990), Lynch "misses the '50s, deifies Elvis Presley,
and loves all things American." Yet in an interview, Lynch is unable to 
account for the contents of his work, unwilling to explain how his personal
views fit into his films or TWIN PEAKS. Lewis is just one critic who has a 
hunch. She writes: "The demons in Lynch's imagination jibe well with 
neo-conservative paranoia, from the war on drugs to the fear of black folk
(unless they work in your dad's hardware store, as they do in BLUE VELVET) and
the danger of seductive women. In every film, his criminals are poor white
trash types who must be eliminated-never understood-before the world can
be put back in order."

  What David Lynch does know is that he is afraid. As he admitted to 
ROLLING STONE (Sept. 6, 1990), he's afraid that "so many people are 
participating in strange and horrible things-you begin to worry that the 
peaceful, happy life could vanish or be threatened." And who wouldn't be 
afraid? Real-life stories of violence, rape, psychotic killings, sexual
perversities, and other heinous crimes permeate the headlines daily. 
Strangely enough, they never attract any real, root-cause examination in
Lynch's work.

  Lynch's success has been explained as a talent for dipping into the 
collective unconscious. What else can explain why so many have so 
suddenly become so enthralled with a world where everyone is abnormal, 
where everyone is handicapped, mentally or physically, where violence and
rape are everyday occurrences? Media scholars constantly debate whether
film and television are reflections of society or forces shaping it. 
Either way, when someone like David Lynch becomes a popular icon, his 
anti-female, anti-minority, anti-poor folks, avant-garde fantasy world
becomes truely frightening. Then again, as Ella Taylor of LA WEEKLY 
(Aug. 17, 1990) points out, "Maybe we should be grateful that Lynch
empties the contents of his murky, endlessly inventive head into film
and not into public office."

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Jim Southern
Workstation Products Development
OCLC, Inc.
Dublin, Ohio 43017
Internet: jds@rsch.oclc.org

In article <7752@castle.ed.ac.uk> erdb04@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Neilson) writes:
> >
> >and i'm sure agent cooper would recommend valrhona. i just had a square
> >with 66% cocoa solids (and that ain't the highest concentration).
> >of course, that is if you can get french chocolate in the u.s.:-)
> >

Valrhona is available here in many ``gourmet'' stores, among them
Williams Sonoma which also sells it mail order.  Cost: around $3.50 -
$4.00 for a regular bar.  Expensive but worth it.  

- Andrei
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