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David Lynch on His Memoir Room to Dream and Clues to His Films
“People are detectives and we have life to find clues about in the same way we would with a piece of cinema.”
The “smart” toilets favored by Lynch are made by Montreal’s Ove Decors, and have all the bells and whistles: nightlight mode, heated seat, remote control, and multiple bidet wash settings. That’d be Brent Briscoe (Dave Macklay), Catherine Coulson (the log lady), Miguel Ferrer (Albert Rosenfield), Warren Frost (Doctor Hayward), Marv Rosand (Toad), and Harry Dean Stanton (Carl Rodd). Lynch’s two most straightforward films: The Elephant Man(1980) depicts, in lyrical and heartbreaking fashion, the story of Joseph Merrick, played by John Hurt, whose physical deformities earned him the titular nickname.
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