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I'm trying to find a link other than a brief mention at Winter Is Coming, but Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei) is apparently now a part of the regular cast, for as much as that counts for longevity on GOT. No word yet on Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm), who is also doing a run on Broadchurch. -
I actually like that nonsense with Hank and Ernie Niles, but it really is just silly. You could tell they were hyped to get Jane Greer - they loved hiring old Hollywood vets like that for bits - but I didn't think it went anywhere with a point. I wouldn't have minded if she'd shown back up in a Season 3, though (had the show gone on then), to pester Norma and Annie, especially since, in my most recent re-viewing, I also wondered about a fan theory that Annie wasn't Norma's sister, but rather her illegitimate daughter. I would have loved to see Cooper and Audrey together back then, and they push it so much up til Episode 18 or 19 in a way that's just heartbreaking in hindsight, but I think that ship may have sailed by 2016. I suppose they could do it after all and I guess I'd be on board, but I have my doubts they'll do it now. I also think the Nadine frontburner in Episode 17 is just too much, as are the brothers. It just drags on in the midst of the stuff that does work (which is too little). Do watch the videos! You will love them. They're full of so much stuff and period materials, data, etc. that is so rare to see compiled together so artfully, more than I could ever post or bother you with. I hope you did get to watch all of the Missing Pieces. That Norma/Ed car scene (discussed in the videos!) stays with me.
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David Duchovny wants back in to TP and I want him back in too. Denise Bryson, DEA is one of the strongest new elements of the TP mid-Season 2 fog, which has aged somewhat better and somewhat worse than I remembered in various areas throughout episodes 17-23 or so. And now, another excuse to post yet more of that video essay none of you are watching! There ain't nothin' else to report and it's 3 AM, you got no place to go! The first video deals with Mark Frost and Lynch's separate paths post-TP, and how Lynch circled back to the show and the film, first with Bravo's newly-filmed "Log Lady introductions" for syndication, then with the "The Missing Pieces" (deleted scenes) of FWWM on the new Blu-Ray set, and how they all profoundly enrich the larger TP experience, especially the journey into FWWM. There's also a nice bit of Laura from "Between Two Worlds". I was too terrified of BOB to watch very much of the show after episode 14 when the show originally aired on ABC, back when I was very small and watched it live, so instead I first got to watch it all the way through when it was syndicated on Bravo with those Log Lady intros, written and shot by Lynch. They mean a lot to me. The second video delves - very insightfully, IMO - into how TP and FWWM profoundly evolved Lynch's work, at times against his will - Lynch was originally, allegedly opposed to Mark Frost's take on a more troubled Agent Cooper during production of the show, but this changed. After TP, he went from using iconic, pure heroic protagonists pitted against the underworld (in films like Blue Velvet) to tortured or deeply flawed ones (in Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, etc.). From the failure of Cooper in the Black Lodge and the exploration of Laura's torment came the psychic imprint of much of his future cinematic art.
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A particularly probing episode of Joel Bocko's video essay, looking in-depth at Sheryl Lee's performance (with various interview materials, audio and text, incorporated into the essay) and the final act of FWWM. Specifically mentioned is how Lee and Phoebe Augustine's (Ronette Pulaski) on-set discussions with Lynch about the script's darkness led to the creation of the "angel" character. I know interpretations vary on the ending of FWWM - I always thought it might mean Laura was ascending to the White Lodge, or at least out of the alleged, supposed (yet unconfirmed) limbo of the Red Room/waiting room/Black Lodge, if that's how you see the Red Room. Everything on the show is, after all, open to interpretation. But one way or another, whether she's headed for the White Lodge or Heaven or some other plane, I always took that to be a happy ending, that she's blowing this joint.
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Well, I like TV On The Radio so I like it. And now we can all hear it again, because here's a more HQ version, sourced from Facebook, I believe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE9fSAZ7KwI
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Yeah, no, I meant it was an in-theater cam rip done as a bootleg by a fan. The trailer itself is excellent, AFAIC.
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Leaked, poor-quality Season 5 trailer from IMAX screenings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422503916&feature=player_embedded&x-yt-cl=85027636&v=ZMKhdDlKHNE Who said anything about 'him'?
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I guess we can say goodbye to Noah - Tyler James Williams has booked a backdoor Criminal Minds spinoff pilot. I was loving him on the show, but oh well.
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Alleged serial rapist Bill Cosby's Far from Finished tour hits "Sandusky"! You can't make a headline like that up.
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40% of Denver ticketholders at recent Cosby shows have demanded refunds. He has since gone on to cancel multiple other shows around the country.
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I won't be until someone grills Cosby face to face. An accusation from Alan Ladd's wife is serious business, too.
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From what I recall - and this is covered heavily in Brad Dukes's book - some diehard fans and their grassroots campaign, which I cannot recall the name of, had a huge role in the move back to the original timeslot and the final push. ABC was poised to cancel it after Episode 24 (Josie's death), with the hiatus, but the fans stepped in. I believe it is covered in-depth in the Joel Bocko video in my previous post, or the following one on his account - there is a lot of archival footage from talk shows, interviews, with fans and Lynch getting the word out. It helped that at least one of the key organizers for the campaign - I think it was called "C.O.O.P." but I can't remember what it stood for - was a Congressional staffer in D.C. who had access to network media sources as well as stuff like fax machines, etc. to get the word out. He's interviewed in the book too. I think part of the reason for using Piper was an in-joke. She played Auntie Em in the cult classic fantasy film Return to Oz in the '80s, with Fairuza Balk and Jean Marsh. As for Saturdays, it is discussed heavily in the Dukes book and I can't recall any of it. I do think it's possible ABC wanted to kill it. It had a fair number of detractors at the network in certain departments from the beginning, though it also had major boosters.
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That is a sort of backhanded joke at the end, I laughed. It did doom them. When the show finally moved back to its old timeslot, they ran a special Wizard of Oz-themed promo where Cooper wakes up in bed at the Great Northern surrounded by Deputy Andy, the Log Lady, Catherine Martell, and the Man From Another Place, talking about his terrible dream of the show being moved to Saturday nights. "Saturdays, that is a bad dream!" Catherine cries. You can glimpse it below around 4:05 (part of Joel Bocko's great video essay). I'm not sure if it's on the Blu-Ray box - I am only slowly making my way through its legion of extras. ETA: Aha! The original!
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Vox on Wilmore/Cosby. Jay Leno actually gets off a good one:
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A much wiser statement than Phylicia's. I've never seen Clair Huxtable backpedal furiously, but she sure did the other week.
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An interesting detail re: the persistent stories about Audrey and Mulholland Drive that I have somehow always missed, from an interview with Brad Dukes on his incredible TP oral history, Reflections: I didn't realize it was planned in that way, and not as a spinoff. But stories vary, of course. The weirdest Season 3 rumor I ever heard - besides the whole "planet/dimension of creamed corn/Sheriff Truman driving backwards through corn to reach MIKE and BOB's original world" thing - was Ted Raimi, who played the punk kid who Windom Earle kills and stuffs into a lifesize chess piece, claiming that the show wanted him to return for a third year as a preppy college student. Earle would escape the Lodge with evil powers, enslave Raimi's new character and imbue him with the spirit of the dead punk to use him as his familiar/henchman! What the !@#$%^&*]! I can only assume this was a kooky Harley Peyton or Bob Engels idea that got a little out of hand and I am glad that did not occur. (Along with the Audrey pregnancy by John Justice Wheeler, which a few people have claimed was a story possibility but which Sherilyn Fenn flatly refuses to acknowledge.)
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Bleeding Cool reviews the spinoff pilot script.
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You what? What board are you on? When has what anyone on this board thinks about anything ever stopped me? I feel how I feel and I don't give a [!@#$%^&*] what anyone thinks. What Bill Cosby did has nothing to do with this board, and how this board processes opinion has nothing to do with what Bill Cosby did. I'm not here to talk about this board, I'm here to talk about the 20+ women who all have the same story about Bill Cosby. Feel free to take your thesis about Internet forums to the Cocktail Lounge, otherwise stick to the subject.
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NBC is pressed about their decision to dump Cosby at the TCAs, and admits it is "safe to say" they will never work with him again.
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Bloody-Disgusting, a longtime horror and genre site, of all places, is running what they call an "exclusive" - claiming, without much support, that both Sherilyn Fenn and Sheryl Lee are "joining Kyle MacLachlan" on the new series. I'm not linking it because there's honestly nothing to be seen but their assertion. It's not news, per se; we already knew about Lee and we were pretty confident on Fenn. But maybe this site running with it in their backwards way is an indication that the network might be on the verge of officially announcing both, a la Kyle?
