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‘I said your name, I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars. Hash bars, cherry mash and tinfoil tiaras.’ E-bow The Letter - REM’s tribute to River Phoenix This Halloween, it will be 25 years since the world lost River Phoenix, the bright young star whose light was dimmed by drugs and by …
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"Only the good die young" as the song goes. Over the years there have been a number of TV shows that have made an impact on us here at 25YL, which we have been sad to see struck down in their prime. A season or two that grabbed us, and... that's it. Whether there is …
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space… ‘The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them—She was the Universe.’ …
Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews… you name it, we've got it. "Favorites" takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites - whether it's moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever! …
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For most of her life, Laura made no connection between Bob and her father. In all her diary entries, Bob very specifically came into the family home from outside, through the window. Bob was the darkness in the woods that somehow followed her home and never left. One of the reasons that Laura never asked …
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DAY ONE Pilot - Season 1 - Season 2 Episodes 1-7 I wanted to do this re-watch for a long time. I hadn’t watched a thing since September in preparation for this—5 whole months already since the season finale! I wanted to wait until I had a week off so the experience could be completely immersive. …
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"The art spirit sort of became the art life, and I had this idea that you drink coffee, you smoke cigarettes, and you paint, and that’s it." The Art Life is essentially a long interview, interspersed by painting, moving artwork and home movies. The filmmakers have watched the artist at work, and in this way, …
‘What will be in the darkness that remains? The Truman brothers are both ‘true men.’ They are your brothers, and the others, the good ones who have been with you…’ - Margaret Lanterman to Deputy Hawk There has been a Truman running the Twin Peaks Sheriff Department for at least 70 years, ever since Frederick …
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‘At first it’s like, ‘Who are you?’ And then all this stuff comes back. And there’s a connection between the two of you. And you’ve seen him in a dream.’ - Lynch’s direction to ‘Laura’. Throughout her adolescence, Laura was plagued with dreams and nightmares that could be read as precognisant of her death and …
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There are those in Twin Peaks who seem to have been touched by the White Lodge, and to hold powers of healing and intuition that others don’t. The two people that most seem to be gifted in this way are Margaret Lanterman and Carl Rodd. Both are spiritual guardians within the town, with an otherworldly …
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