"How's COOPER??"

• Few could care less how Annie is; most are far more interested in resolving the 'But What Became of Cooper??' storyline cliffhanger...
A couple of years ago, [TP series writer] Harley Peyton addressed this issue with the following newsgroup post:
"Just for the record, our original intention was to play it as if good Coop had left the lodge with Bob inside him. Then, at some later date, reveal that it was, in fact, his doppelganger. Too bad we never got the chance." - HP

Cooper's fate- was a 'rescue' planned?
Sarah Palmer: "I'm...waiting...for...you."
Sarah Palmer is acting as a medium when this comes from her mouth. I have a theory that it's Windom speaking through Sarah, daring or inviting (you be the judge) Major Briggs to come in after Cooper and save him. I asked Don Davis (Briggs) himself at the festival in '96 if he was meant to save him and he said "YES!"
According to Davis, had the series continued, the Major would have been a pivotal character and the strong spirit and insight given to him by the White Lodge would have made him the only possible choice to release Cooper from the Black Lodge...
-Count Zero (ashpool@swbell.net)


• From the lynch mail list
Is Dale Cooper telepathic or psychic?
I think Agent Cooper has very good intuition, especially considering David Lynch's fascination with intuition. I think that Cooper *knows* what is going on in the same way that we *know* the answers to Twin Peaks' mysteries, but without really being able to explain it. This applies of course not only to Twin Peaks but to Eraserhead and Lost Highway as well. We all know what it's about. Really. There's just no logical way to put it. Maybe it's better to put it Lynch's way and say we all "feel" what it's about. I think that the way Cooper "feels" what is unspoken is exactly the same way that Lynch wants us to "feel" what is unspoken in his films.
I don't really know what I'm talking about, you know. But I can feel it, by God!
-Ike

• Courtesy J.D.P. LaFrance, we zip back in time to check out two examples of real-time Lynch serendipity:
I read an interview with Dean Stockwell where he mentions that the scene at Ben's house was scripted a lot differently than what appears in the film. apparently Stockwell was fooling around with a light fixture (the one he uses in the film) and he got the idea to use it, instead of a microphone to lipsynch to Roy Orbison's "In Dreams." Lynch thought it a great idea and they did it.

[In the] Lynch documentary Pretty As A Picture they talk about this. I guess Lynch was filming the scene in the pilot episode where Laura's mom has a vision. when they took a look at the footage they noticed that Frank Silva (who plays) BOB was in the shot.
Lynch thought it was great and kept it and asked Frank if he was an actor, he said he was and Lynch decided to have him play BOB. that's the gist of it at least. I'd have to look it up for a more detailed account but there you go.

• Twin Peaks CAST dopplegangers - two different people in the same role (shifted from pilot to series/ or from series to movie FWWM)

1. Ronette’s father, Janek Pulaski- Rick Tutor/ Alan Ogle
2. Ronette's mother, Suburbis Pulaski- Roberta Maguire/ Michele Milantoni
3. Audrey's brother, Johnny Horne- Robert Davenport/ Robert Bauer
4. 'Real' Mrs. Tremond (Harold's neighbor)- Mae Williams, 'Dream' Mrs. Tremond (Pierre's grandmother) - Frances Bay
5. Pierre Tremond - Austin Jack Lynch / Jonathan J. Leppell
(• David Lynch’s son, Austin Jack Lynch, appeared in the television series as Pierre Tremond, or "The Creamed Corn Kid". Lynch's nephew, Jonathan J. Leppell, played Pierre Tremond/Chalfont in the movie "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me".)
6. Donna Hayward- Lara Flynn Boyle/ Moira Kelly

Latin link

Posted January 24, 1998 on the Interstate95 TP Message Board by Jed Smith
• A friend of mine once told me about this phrase in Latin he once found. " In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni" It means, "We enter the circle by night and are consumed by fire" The really strange thing is that it's a palindrome sentence. Maybe it's a portal to the Black Lodge.

• Lynch *MOVIE/ stage/ TV* references in Twin Peaks

From the message board:
Re: the ‘Mod Squad trinity’ and *SUNSET BOULEVARD* :
Q: Did David Lynch called his character Gordon COLE so that all three (Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III and COLE) would then all appear on the credit crawl?
-wild@heart

A: No. The name ‘Cole’ is a Sunset Boulevard reference. David Lynch had an affinity for the film.


From the twin peaks newsgroup:
Re: *THE WIZARD OF OZ*
Theory: The Black Lodge is the opposite of OZ!
Consider these references:
1. Garland Briggs asks about JUDY GARLAND, who starred as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
2. When Briggs emerges from the woods, he asks where the castle is. Though this could have been a reference to the castle of the king of Romania!)
3. Near the black and white firepit portal stands Pete's truck, which has twelve RAINBOW trout. Thus the portal could be said to be over the rainbow.
4. The wizard used fire to strike fear into Dorothy and her friends.
5. Water was used to kill the wicked witch, just as the sprinklers removed Bob from Leland.
6. The colors RED and GREEN (Jacoby's glasses) are opposites. The red traffic light is akin to the red room, the green light to peacefulness. The emerald city in the land of Oz was, of course, GREEN.
7. David Lynch used Oz references extensively in 'Wild at Heart'.
8. The ABC promo spot featuring Coop acting as Dorothy in bed, surrounded by his (her) friends may have been more symbolic than we knew!
** Here's the answer to how Coop gets out of the Black Lodge: he clicks his heels together 3 times and repeats "There's no place like home." :)

Amber (astrickland@airnet.net), adds the following notation:
In the Wizard of Oz sequel, Return to Oz, Aunt Em is played by none other than Piper Laurie (i.e. Catherine Martell).


• *Laura*
Some familiar names from this 1944 Lynch favorite made their way into Peaksville from the movie Laura in which Laura (Gene Tierney) eludes killer Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb).

• Peaks and the Beatles' *HELP!*
Anybody ever notice the plot line for the Beatle's movie "Help!" and Twin Peaks have a lot in common?
1)Both are about people who are sacrificed (die) from wearing a ring.
2) Kali worshipers are mentioned in both works.
3) The key to taking off the ring is to show perfect courage (in Help.)
Cooper must show perfect courage to survive his encounter with the Black Lodge.
4) Red is a significant color in both works.
5) In FWWM, Cooper tells Albert that he senses the next victim (Laura) is crying out for help.
6) Both equate the sacrifice (death) with feeding a supernatural being.
Who knows, but watch Help! again and see if you don't feel a deja vu effect in a wierd sort of way.
- Frank Barnes (from Mike Dunn message board)

*THE FUGATIVE* and *VERTIGO*

Vertigo- There's a scene where Kim Novak has her hair dark and is sitting in a dark room, with green neon on one side of her face and a lamp in the room on the other side. She looks EXACTLY like Laura Palmer! - now this is all very fine, except that Kim Novak plays *two* parts - Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton. James Stewart plays John 'Scottie' Ferguson. In Twin Peaks, Sheryl Lee plays Laura Palmer, and her cousin, *Madeleine Ferguson*!

In the film the Madeleine character is killed and a double of her pops up. She looks just like Madeleine and is played by Kim Novak in a dual role. Like Maddy on Twin Peaks, this double is made to look like the original by changing her clothes and dying her hair just as Donna and James did to Maddy in order to fool Dr. Jacoby. The name of the double is Judy, the same name as the monkey in Fire Walk With Me as well as the object of Phillip Jeffries' ranting and/or affection.

The Fugitive - Lawman Phillip Gerard hunted the protagonist, Richard Kimbel, in the show, The Fugitive; Kimbel was, in turn, hunting a one armed man.

Experiment in Terror - In 1962, Blake Edwards, better known for his film farces, directed a suspense picture called Experiment In Terror. Glenn Ford played an FBI agent trying to protect Lee Remick and her younger sister from a murderous bank robber. The San Francisco suburb in which the Remick character lives is called Twin Peaks.

(-- Above entry an amalgamation of several posts to the Twin Peaks newsgroup in 1998)


•From the newsgroup:
Tennessee Williams’- *THE GLASS MENAGERIE*

In the play 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams, Laura (a young woman who is mildly crippled and not totally engaged in reality) tells her mother, Amanda, that a boy from high school named Jim used to call her BLUE ROSES, because long before, when she'd suffered an attack of pleurosis [a condition which affects the membranes or air sacs lining the thoractic cavity of the lungs] Jim misunderstood her, thinking she'd said "Blue Roses", rather than "pleurosis".
- Andrew




• Twin Peaks / FWWM Trivia and tidbits •

The HAPPY DAYS / Twin Peaks association:
Gavan O'Herlihy, the original Chuck Cunningham in the TV show Happy Days, appeared as RCMP Officer Preston King in the television series version of Twin Peaks.

-From the Usenet FAQ MOVIE TRIVIA archive :

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
- The film's original title was "Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me, Teresa Banks and the Last Seven Days of Laura Palmer", but was shortened sometime before release.

- In most versions of the film certain sequences are sub-titled - at the nightclub where the music drowns out the dialogue and when characters speak backwards - but not in the British version. Apparently, director 'David Lynch' changed his mind so often as to whether they should be included or not, by the time he came to a final decision, the British distributors had already made all their prints (without subtitles) and couldn't afford to make any more.

- Dale Cooper was allegedly named after the man who hijacked an aircraft over Washington state, bailed out with a parachute, and has never been seen again.

- 'Bob Engels' says the script that he and Lynch wrote is much longer than the version that Lynch actually filmed and claims there is enough story for a sequel. Indeed, as with many other Lynch films, about five hours of footage was shot. Many of the scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor involved characters who appeared in the television series. These scenes include

- Sheriff Harry Truman singing to girlfriend Josie Packard

- Johnny Horne's birthday party

- Bobby Briggs' parents reading from the Bible

- Doc Hayward performing magic tricks

- a fight scene between FBI Agent Chester Desmond and Sheriff Cable.

- DIRTRADE(David Lynch): [singer]: 'Julee Cruise' (qv), 'Chris Issak' (qv), 'David Bowie' (qv).