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David Lynch, Legendary Filmmaker, Dead at 78


“There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’”

David Lynch, the legendary director, writer, and artist behind totemic American works like Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, has died at the age of 78. On the afternoon of January 16, his family posted a statement to his official Facebook page announcing his death, writing, “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. He acted in both iterations of the series, as well as in the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, playing the lovable, hard-of-hearing FBI agent Gordon Cole.

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