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Breaking Baz: How David Lynch’s Vivid Imagination Was Sparked By What He Saw Beyond His Bedroom Window As A Kid


Deadline's Baz Bamigboye writes an appreciation of the late David Lynch, whose vivid imagination was sparked by what he saw beyond his bedroom widow as a kid.

When his 1977 movie Eraserhead played at an obscure film festival, now long gone, in Woolwich, London, it was like nirvana for a kid raised on The Sound of Music, Cliff Richard in Summer Holiday and Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence! I saw Blue Velvet stars Isabella Rossellini and Kyle MacLachlan leaving the Beverly Hilton ballroom after the Golden Globes. I whipped out my camera and shot a few seconds of video of them, suddenly finding myself hurled back nearly four decades to when I interviewed them as well for Blue Velvet.

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