Subject: Today's Frost report
From: raveling@Unify.com (Paul Raveling)
Date: 1991-09-24, 13:38
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

I haven't been following Peaks the movie much, but the subject
did come up briefly last night in a phone convesation with
Scott Frost (my cousin-in-law).  About all I found out was...

    --Scott did some work on the movie as a consultant.
He says the first third of the script is "pretty
bizarre", but of course that's natural where
David Lynch is involved.

    --The movie is in fact (approximately) about the last
week of Laura Palmer's life, so it won't tie off
any loose ends left by the TV series.

    --Except for Sheryl Lee, most of the acting goes to
new people.  Many of the "old regulars" have only
a couple days' production work, Kyle MacLachlan
has only about a week's work.  Lara Flynn Boyle
didn't want the job, so there's a new actress as
Donna Hayward.

    --There's about a week of shooting left on location;
then it'll move indoors to the studios in Van Nuys.


Aside from Peaks, Scott's recent writing includes some for
Frost/Lynch, some for others.  The Frost/Lynch work included
a pilot and at least one episode of a new comedy about the early
days of TV.  ABC bought the pilot and ordered scripts for
7 episodes, but hasn't authorized production beyond the pilot
(yet).  It remains to be seen whether this will become
a new series, but it sounds like it could be a great vehicle
for the humor that I've always considered to be Scott's forte.


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Paul Raveling
Raveling@Unify.com