Subject: Re: TP: Lynch's Megaphone (was: Film Threat articles)
From: perl@dwrsun4.UUCP (Robert Perlberg)
Date: 1992-08-20, 14:09
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.movies

In article <jgp.713657134@zodmate>, jgp@zodmate.Rational.COM (Jim Pellmann) writes:
> >   - On Lynch's behavior on the set: "Not so amusing to some is Lynch's
> >     penchant for using a megaphone on the set--regardless of his distance
> >     from the person he's addressing.  Recalls the anonymous production 
> >     assistant:  'One time he used it while I was standing right next to
> >     him.  I jumped three feet.'"  
> >     
> >     (I can't help but think that this was the impetus for the megaphone
> >     gags in "On the Air".)

It may also have inspired the over amplified persona of Gordon Cole,
played at high gain by Lynch himself.  If that's what he can sound like
_without_ a megaphone...

Robert Perlberg
Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., New York
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