Subject: Apologies From "Twin Peaks" Producer
From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
Date: 1991-06-14, 17:45
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

From the SF Chronicle Personals column, Thursday, June 13 (typed in
without permission):

The show is over, but the remorse lingers on. Harley Peyton, writer and
producer of "Twin Peaks," has expressed his regrets about the chess
match between Dale Cooper and Windom Earle, which began last January at
the behest of chess player and series co-creator Mark Frost.

Frost quickly lost interest in the game, Peyton told the Vialage Voice,
and the rest of the writers plotted the moves with sporadic advice from
the "self-ordained chess experts" on the set.

Chess maven Helmer Pelaez told the Voice the game was "pretty dumb" and
Nick Conticello said it "had no objective chess value" and was
"hopelessly boring."

Peyton said he was sorry. "We weren't as exact as we should have been,"
he said. "It became a pain in the ass."