Subject: Re: Peaks script address
From: clements@bbn.com (Bob Clements)
Date: 1992-09-06, 08:39
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
In article <31AUG92.17461019@vax.clarku.edu> mcohen@vax.clarku.edu writes:
> >Wow, I've been buried in requests for the number of the place that sells movie
> >scripts! Two months ago I went to a Trek convention and this place was
> >selling FWWM scripts (and much other movie stuff):
> >
> >PIX Poster Cellar
> >99 Mt. Auburn Street
> >Cambridge, MA 02138
> >(617) 864-7499
> >(800) 582-0085
> >
> >I can't verify the continued existance of this place - just tried calling them
> >and got no answer. [...]
I went over there on Friday afternoon. They've moved. In fact, the
day they moved was the day you called, Mitch, so that could explain it.
They are now at 1105 Massachusetts Avenue. Rest of the address
is the same. That's between Harvard Square and Central Square,
in the building with Games People Play and the Dolphin
Restaurant. Or, for the Peaks-oriented, between Banks Street
and Lee Street. :-)
I got the last copy they had, but he said they'll be getting more.
It's quite clearly a bootlegged copy of a draft script. It has
been through at least one Fax transmission and a number of Xerox
copyings. Still quite readable, but it would take a lot of
editing after an OCR scan. It's 126 pages long.
It is quite a bit different from the final script. There are
small parts for Truman and Josie, for Ed and Nadine, for Ben and Jerry
and Sylvia, and Lucy.
The Jeffries part is no bigger than in the final film, so if the rumored
long version that Bob Engels talked about actually exists it must
have been trimmed before this script.
There's a scene in the Briggs home, with Betty Briggs having a
couple of lines and Major Briggs having one line "Robert, put out
the cigarette." In the beginning of that sequence, in the Briggs
basement, Bobby and Laura discover that the big cocaine buy they
killed the deputy for is actually baby laxative.
The ending is an immature version. No angels. No mention of the
childhood picnic/angel picture, either, unless I missed it. So
all that motif was added later.
Anyhow, interesting as archaeology but not a final script by any means.
Bob Clements, K1BC, clements@bbn.com
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