In early May 1990, the first season of Twin Peaks was halfway finished. The show had taken the United States by storm and series’ actors were popping up in a variety of magazines. On May 7, 1990, People Weekly magazine published a short blurb about Dana Ashbrook who played Bobby Briggs in the show.
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me since first viewing the film on VHS in October 1993. Despite watching both the original theatrical cut and the deleted and extend scenes from 2014’s The Missing Pieces, I’m still finding new details to discuss. This time,…
Leading up to the season two premiere of Twin Peaks, ABC Television aired a 30-minute special about David Lynch and Mark Frost’s show on Friday, September 14, 1990. Hosted by Alan Thicke, the special featured a recap about the show’s first season followed by a brief look at the short lived, Steven Bochco police-themed musical show,…
Despite having visited a number of Twin Peaks locations, there are certain spots that I will never visit unless a time machine is created. One of those spots is from the Pilot episode where Bobby Briggs is questioned by Sheriff Truman and Deputies Hawk and Brennan in the Twin Peaks High School library. This location no…
With the passage of time, my fascination of how Mark Frost, David Lynch and the entire Twin Peaks crew created the show continues growing. I love understanding how exactly the show was assembled. Thanks to a production memo from a DVD extra, we learn which “insert shots” were captured on November 20, 1989 during production…
Production for David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me started on September 4, 1991 in Snoqualmie, Washington at the former Riverside Mobile Home Park serving as the Fat Trout Trailer Park. Before social media, mobile phones or the internet, newspapers, magazine articles and news broadcasts served as the primary way people found out the latest…
Recently, long-time David Lynch collaborator Sabrina Sutherland shared a behind-the-scenes photo of the Palmer family from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. The Instagram post featured Grace Zabriskie, Sheryl Lee and Ray Wise gathered in the Palmer family dining room on location in Everett, Washington. The image is similar to other promotional stills captured by…
Despite being a Twin Peaks fan for more than 30 years, I am continually finding new details about the show. This time, I am returning to the original production of “Northwest Passage,” the original name of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s pilot episode. The crew visited Everett, Washington on March 10, 1989 to shoot scenes…
I was delighted to read several new articles about Joan Chen who played Josie Packard in the first two seasons of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks. She also had scenes that appeared in The Missing Pieces, deleted and extended scenes from Lynch’s 1992 masterpiece Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. In a Vanity Fair article by…
From the beginning, the relationship between Special Agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Truman was a special one. It’s best exemplified in the pilot episode when the law enforcement duo is on a stakeout at the Roadhouse. This scene was conveniently shot just outside the location in Fall City, Washington. But let’s take a closer look…