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‘Twin Peaks’ Executive Gary Levine On David Lynch’s Legacy: “He Revolutionized Television”
Gary Levine shares funny anecdotes about working with David Lynch on Twin Peaks, talks about filmmaker's profound impact on the television medium.
In summer 1988, Levine, then a senior drama executive at ABC, had just seen Lynch’s Blue Velvet a few weeks earlier when they got word that the director was coming to pitch his first television show. Between Levine’s existing relationship with Lynch and the filmmaker really liking a painting in Showtime CEO David Nevins’ office of a bookshelf about to fall on a baby, the project landed at the network. Lynch, a heavy smoker, “always was stationed at his directing stand with that cigarette,” Levine recalls, remembering the filmmaker not only for his “velvet glove, iron fist” approach but also his perfectionism.
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