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Almost any of the others have had more of a career than James Marshall, who disappeared after being the It Boy of the moment in the early '90s. I'm okay with giving him another moment, the others will be announced. And I expect TPTB know better now what he can and can't do, story-wise. Looking at the pilot and Season 1 again this week Marshall definitely had that sort of sweet sad boy thing going, which always made him less masculine than most of his female partners, and I suspect that fascinated Lynch/Frost. His stories got so terrible, but early on he was instrumental to helping flesh out Laura for the audience. I do wonder what Moira Kelly is doing these days. She was big for a bit in the '90s too, then she quietly left The West Wing when the role didn't pan out. That's the last I've heard of her. She was wonderful in FWWM, not that I need Donna back. -
James Marshall actually looks more handsome today than he did back then, IMO. I heard somewhere he'd been ill these last few years, reclusive, etc. James is far from my favorite character, but if Lynch and Frost have some use for him I will welcome him back. In other news, CBS has announced a new streaming-only service of some sort, a la HBO. Showtime is said to not be far behind, which will be good for me. And Mark Frost will be penning a new Twin Peaks book to be released in late 2015. Sounds like something of a primer on the last 25 years since Season 2.
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I'd just like to point out I was right. Leave your bills on the dresser.
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I think Shelly had a lot more fun in Season 2. They knew Amick could do screwball comedy and they gave it to her, a lot of the stuff with Bobby and Zombie Leo early on, then Gordon Cole. She also has a great bit later on with Norma where she mocks the Miss Twin Peaks pageant. I think she became a much lighter character with Leo out of commission - granted, some of that was in place in Season 1 - but it worked for me. I also sometimes thought Shelly was too much woman for Bobby; when I was younger I thought she should have ended up with Gordon. I love Dana Ashbrook's performance today and I think Bobby definitely has his place, and it was clearly Lynch and Frost's intention to reunite them at the end of Season 2 (perhaps because they suspected they would be cancelled), and I think they're adorable in the finale. But I also kind of liked the Bobby/Audrey thing, which I am pretty sure Ashbrook and Sherilyn Fenn have both said they didn't get. (There's some about this in the Brad Dukes book, I think from both of them.)
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My memory may be faulty but I remember Mädchen in a lot of press back then, not just the RS cover - lots of talk shows, lots of magazines, etc. I remember being mildly confounded by it as a little kid because while I liked her and Shelly a lot, my favorite back then was Maddy and I was frustrated that Sheryl Lee was not always featured with the others. On paper and often on the show, Shelly was a supporting character, especially in the second season, but Mädchen and her performance was what elevated her onscreen and in the media to more than that, and the scripts often went with it. Audrey clearly ended up becoming a lead before things went haywire and she got downgraded mid-Season 2. Catherine and Josie were more prestige and billing, plus I don't think Josie - a Lynchian female archetype - and her story worked out quite the way they had planned (Josie and Cooper was allegedly the original planned central romance, before they got Sherilyn Fenn and Kyle MacLachlan onscreen together). They were certainly into Audrey and SF by the end of Season 1 to begin planning ideas for the spinoff/telefilm for Audrey that ultimately became Mulholland Drive. Mädchen remains a favorite of Lynch, and I know he and Sherilyn Fenn patched it up long ago since FWWM. From what I have heard there's no love lost between Lara Flynn Boyle and TPTB.
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It was definitely her. The character's sort of cavalier take on life, I think, either came out of Mädchen's performance first or went hand in hand with the writing from the start. There's stuff like Shelly reenacting Leland's freakout at Laura's funeral in this hilariously perverse display for the diner patrons, or throwing a party with Bobby while the catatonic Leo sits in his chair, that sticks with me. She just doesn't give a !@#$%^&*]. She's not a bore like Donna became and she's sort of further along the moral scale than Audrey, a bit harder edged but still very plucky.
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I would hesitate to call anyone but maybe MacLachlan, Beymer and Wise confirmed so far. Even some of their statements can be read differently, as just fooling around on social media. Amick I think is a yes, as are Sheryl Lee and Catherine Coulson, but we just don't know. Ontkean is hearsay from Michael Horse. Welcome to Twin Peaks has all of the above listed as confirmed (sans Sheryl Lee) based on the info we have seen, but I need a little more to go on to be sure on them, even if I personally expect all the Palmers to be there. Including on Peggy Lipton, who I wasn't sure to expect back but who is apparently tight with Lynch to the point that most of the Dugpa folks seem to think she is a shoo-in. I personally also suspect Harry Goaz is back judging by Frost following him.
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Ray Wise appears to have confirmed the obvious on Twitter: Dugpa and various TP sites are, at least, taking that as confirmation. They appear to have MacLachlan, Amick, and Richard Beymer also down as confirmed, though that's still somewhat debatable IMO. Mark Frost appears to have followed Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy) on Twitter. Goaz is notoriously shy if not reclusive; he started out as David Lynch's driver before being cast on the show. Until now I hadn't heard a thing of him in years.
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I don't think Cooper was an !@#$%^&*]. He and Laura were the central axis of the show - he had so much of Lynch in him. In the age of today's relentlessly kooky male heroes, it's easy to look at him now and attempt to dissect him as we would some of those self-satisfied characters and see something else behind their behavior, but Cooper wasn't any of those. He isn't built like that. He had past demons, but overall he just was what he was and he had no guile about him, much like David Lynch himself. I didn't care for the Annie love story so much, but I never stopped loving Cooper. I love all the characters (okay, except James and Donna), but I think Cooper and Sheryl Lee (regardless of who she plays) are easily the two things the show would really need to come back.
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Forgive me if this has been posted: Andy Greenwald at Grantland on the return of TP and why it matters. He also reminds me that while I am 50/50 on whether Sherilyn Fenn, etc. may return, she is already doing Ray Donovan on Showtime and so would be close at hand for TP. I don't know the details but Fenn has reportedly had some rough years of late, and Lynch has apparently been a good friend to her with his transcendental meditation.
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Sheryl Lee narrates pieces of The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer - ghostwritten by Jennifer Lynch and an essential for any TP fan, a very dark, graphic piece of official ABC-licensed promotional material that was once sold up front at every major bookstore for impressionable young tots like me to read. This narration comes from, of all things, an ABC recap special hosted by Alan Thicke.
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I've begun to wonder if they may actually have Tyreese and Carol hook up on the show after all. As twisted as it is, they now seem closer to each other than almost anyone else (sans Darryl - but Darryl doesn't know the things about Carol that Ty and Rick do). I also keep thinking one or both of them have a target on their back this year, but I thought last year was Melissa McBride's last round-up too.
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They continue to hedge on Rick and Michonne in the press. Just do it!
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I believe Sonequa Martin-Green is still in the Also Starring category with Larry Gilliard (who they haven't done nearly enough with yet, so I'm hoping he's okay for now), but I may be wrong. Emily Kinney was there for years, though, as was Melissa McBride, and now they're both on the big board. Not that that means that much on TWD, but still. I am always happy to see Lennie James, but I question what it will mean. They can feel free to kill any of Abraham's people to free up space.
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After Carl's status update I expected Carol or the baby to get, like, shot in the face at the end or something. I was hoping maybe they'd take Rosita out too. Instead I almost fast-forwarded past the post-credits tag. Great show, but I continue to fear for my beautiful Sasha, who has yet to make the opening credits. This was also probably the best acting Denise Crosby has ever done, not that that's saying much (and I loved Tasha Yar).
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A hilarious and candid interview from 2012 with Julee Cruise, the voice of Twin Peaks (and Blue Velvet). Portions of this were reprinted in Brad Dukes' Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks. As per Cruise's potential involvement in the new show, I think Frost has heavily hinted that Angelo Badalamenti will return, and I personally suspect she will as well. She seems to still be friendly with Lynch - and we still have no idea what the project with him she mentions here is.
