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• 16/06/00 - Fox is to remake Channel 4's ULTRAVIOLET. The pilot cast includes Madchen Amick (Peaks' Shelley Johnson).

• 16/06/00 - STARBURST claims that David Duchovny (Peaks' Denis/Denise Bryson) will be in 11 of the 22 new X FILES episodes.

• 14/06/00 - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL has an in-depth feature on TWIN PEAKS. This is not the usual mixture of innaccuracies and well known facts. It contains interviews with Lynch, Tony Krantz (his agent at the time), Mark Frost, Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee and David Duchovny. I would urge people to buy this U.S magazine but, when time permits, I will type the entire article and put it in this section on my site. In the meantime click here for the full page montage scanned from the same feature.

• 10/06/00 - OK MAGAZINE tells us this bizarre story when Lara Flynn Boyle (Peaks' Donna Hayward) went to a recent basketball game in Los Angeles. As the camera panned to Lara and Jack Nicholson a man sitting beside her tapped her on the knee and, never taking his eyes of the court, handed her something. Lara took whatever it was and buried it in her lap. Jack, as videotapes of the game prove, saw none of this. However, a few minutes later, when the cameras panned back to the couple, the mystery man had gone. Who was he? What did he give her? Lara's agent refuses to explain. We wonder why.

• 26/05/00 - The June edition of CULT TIMES has an instant guide to TWIN PEAKS in it. This is a full page article including two pictures. To see this feature click here.

• 25/04/00 - TWIN PEAKS begins again tonight on SCI-FI. Wednesday nights at 8.00pm is the time slot.

• 24/03/00 - Lara Flynn Boyle (Peaks' Donna Hayward) is 30 today.

• 29/02/00 - TV QUICK quotes Lara Flynn Boyle (Peaks' Donna Hayward) as saying, "I can't imagine a film with Jack (Nicholson). I'd be nauseous, simply too nervous working with him."

• 27/02/00 - The cover of CULT TIMES features David Duchovny (Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson).

• 24/02/00 - Billy Zane (Peaks' John Justice Wheeler) is 34 today.
• 23/02/00 - HELLO magazine has two pictures of David Duchovny (Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson) alongside an article that his daughter was recently taken into hospital.
• 22/02/00 - Kyle Maclachlan (Peaks' Agent Cooper) is 41 today.
• 12/02/00 - DAILY MAIL WEEKEND magazine lists the top 100 TV shows of all time. TWIN PEAKS is at number 17. "In David Lynch's bizarre murder mystery series, his powerful film-maker's imagination transforms the small screen into something weird and wonderful."
• 17/02/00 - Derek Malcolm's 100 Greatest movies reaches number 55 in todays GUARDIAN. Lynch fans will be familiar with his choice. "Those celebrating the success of the oscar-nominated AMERICAN BEAUTY might benefit from taking another look at 16/02/00 - The Oscar nominations were revealed today. Richard Farnsworth gets a Best actor nomination but David Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY is ignored in the Best film catergory.BLUE VELVET, a much more radical view on the same subject.
• 16/02/00 - The Oscar nominations were revealed today. Richard Farnsworth gets a Best actor nomination but David Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY is ignored in the Best film catergory.
• 16/02/00 - STARBURST has a picture of David Duchovny (Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson) and says that the situation regarding him doing an eighth series of THE X FILES is now "50/50".
• 12/02/00 - DAILY MAIL WEEKEND magazine lists the top 100 TV shows of all time. TWIN PEAKS is at number 17. "In David Lynch's bizarre murder mystery series, his powerful film-maker's imagination transforms the small screen into something weird and wonderful."
• 01/02/00 - The cover of TV AND SATELLITE WEEK features David Duchovny (Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson) as THE X FILES MOVIE is shown on British television for the first time this week
• 28/01/00 - FHM reports that Heather Graham (Peaks' Annie Blackburn) looks likely to star in SAY IT ISN'T SO for the Farrelly brothers. A small picture from AUSTIN POWERS 2: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME accompanies the article.
• 20/01/00 - David Lynch is 54 today.
• 01/01/00 - TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME - BBC2 23:45- A rerun of the TWIN PEAKS sequel after its cancellation in November.
• 01/01/00 - The soundtrack to THE STRAIGHT STORY is reviewed in FILM REVIEW. "The whole thing is the embodiment of charm." "Could they really produce a better soundtrack?" 5 stars (out of 5) round off a very complimentary review.
• 01/01/00 - FILM REVIEW reports that Kyle Maclachlan (Peaks' Agent Cooper) is currently shooting the sci-fi drama TIME CODE 2000 in L.A.
• 01/01/00 - Lara Flynn Boyle (Peaks' Donna Hayward) is interviewed in MAXIM. She is described as the woman who "livened up TWIN PEAKS" and "now she's steaming up American TV in red-hot law drama THE PRACTICE."
• 31/12/99 - TIMS TWIN PEAKS EXPERIENCE has its 1000th visitor today.
• 06/12/99 - Angelo Badalamenti's soundtrack to THE STRAIGHT STORY is available from today. UNCUT gives it a 5 star rating and EMPIRE says the score is "redolent with tender eccentricity and a quirky ability to wield a way into your heart
• 03/12/99 - THE STRAIGHT STORY opens at selected cinemas today. www.straightstory.com
• 02/12/99 - THE TIMES reviews THE STRAIGHT STORY. "This must be the strangest road movie ever made, but it is also one of the most loveable. It was with TWIN PEAKS, which won and then lost a mass audience, that Lynch showed most clearly his ambivalence about narrative: the first episodes of that series created a powerful need to know, which later ones only teased at mocked."
• 01/12/99 - Q describes THE STRAIGHT STORY as "a perfectly observed character piece."
• 01/12/99 -The David Lynch Technics ad reappears in this month's issue of EMPIRE.
• 30/11/99 - TV TIMES reviews THE STRAIGHT STORY and gives it a 3 star rating. It comments, "The films pace is about as slow as Alvin's mower, but it does build a persuasive picture."
• 28/11/99 - DAVID LYNCH: SCENE BY SCENE BBC2 22:30 - A must for all fans of TWIN PEAKS. Lynch gives one of his most revealing interviews to date.
• 28/11/99 - TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME - BBC2 23:20 - A rerun of the TWIN PEAKS sequel confirming that Lynch is flavour of the month in Britain. A generally favourable set of reviews from the TV listings magazines, here are some examples; WHATS ON TV - 3 out of 4 (good), "Totally weird and unique." TV CHOICE - 3 out of 5 (good), "If you never watched TWIN PEAKS on the telly this might not make a lot of sense - but bear in mind it isn't supposed to. Director David Lynch created the weirdest little town in America, so don't expect things to happen logically." RADIO TIMES - 4 out of 5 (very good), "Undervalued on cinema release, this is a spaced out odyssey of extraordinary obsession and power, as one hypnotic sequence follows another. Lynch's startling contemplation on our unfair universe is a must for TWIN PEAKS freaks." TV QUICK - 3 out of 5 (recommended),"Those unfamiliar with TWIN PEAKS might find it all a bit too weird, but should persevere. Fans will lap it up though." TV TIMES - 1 out of 5 (missable), "At well over two hours, a long indulgence. David Bowie appears and says nothing, while other stars appear and may wish they had said nothing."
• 27/11/99 - THE STRAIGHT STORY is reviewed in EMPIRE. "After the spiralling despair of his previous films, Lynch has evidently cheered up. You probably wouldn't take this from anyone else, but Lynch's tribute to the human spirit in twilight leaves the likes of DRIVING MISS DAISY and GRUMPY OLD MEN stranded on the verge while the mower moves inexorably on." 4 stars (very good).
• 27/11/99 - FILM REVIEW gives THE STRAIGHT STORY a rare thumbs-down. "Like sitting by a river, it's not an unpleasant experience but, at the same time, it's not an engaging one either." 2 (out of 5).
• 27/11/99 - Kyle Maclachlan (Agent Cooper) has joined the TV production of THE SPRING reports FILM REVIEW.
• 23/11/99 - TV AND SATELLITE WEEK has a small picture of David Lynch and says, "In DAVID LYNCH: SCENE BY SCENE he talks to Mark Cousins about his weird and wonderful creations including BLUE VELVET, TWIN PEAKS and his most recent film THE STRAIGHT STORY."
• 26/11/99 - LOADED describes THE STRAIGHT STORY as "a touching tale...directed by David (TWIN PEAKS) Lynch. The magazine gives it a four star rating.
• 23/11/99 - A picture of David Lynch and a report on his forthcoming interview appear in this weeks TV TIMES. "The show sees Lynch explain why he wears three ties and explores some of the legends about him, such as his collection of mouldy sandwiches. Cousins describes him as very very nice and very very weird."
• 23/11/99 - A RADIO TIMES feature claims, If you like...TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, why not try...ERASERHEAD, THE ELEPHANT MAN, BLUE VELVE
• 23/11/99 - The A to Z of the TV millennium features TWIN PEAKS in this weeks WHATS ON TV. A small picture of Kyle Maclachlan (Peaks' Agent Cooper) accompanies this review; "It's offbeat storylines, stunning cinematography, haunting music and performances by Sherilyn Fenn and Lara Flynn Boyle, as well as old timers Richard Beymer and Piper Laurie, made it a ground-breaking drama."
• 23/11/99 - RADIO TIMES reports that next weeks David Lynch interview, to be screened on BBC 2, took place in London Zoo's aquarium. "From his inspired debut with ERASERHEAD to his TWIN PEAKS TV triumph, David Lynch has a track record for directing wonderfully weird films."
• 23/11/99 - David Duchovny (Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson) confesses that he changes nappies for the baby "but not at 5 o'clock in the morning". This mind numbing trivia is reported in TV QUICK.
• 20/11/99 - CULT TIMES has the news that "TWIN PEAKS' Mark Frost and Joel Schumacker are collaborating on a pilot for a new CBS series about the souls of those engaged in the struggle between good and evil.
• 09/11/99 - Free tickets to see David Lynch's touching tale THE STRAIGHT STORY from THE RADIO TIMES. A list of participating cinemas, three stills from the film and another glowing review in this full-page feature.
• 05/11/99 - David Lynch's new movie THE STRAIGHT STORY comes to the London Film Festival today. It will be shown at 3.15pm and 9pm at The Odeon West End.
• 04/11/99 - UNCUT gives a 5 star rating to THE STRAIGHT STORY. It describes the minor characters as "decent and cherry-pie loving as TWIN PEAKS' Agent Cooper..." The reviewer says the film is "a hundred times more compelling than the oblique nonsense Lynch has been peddling since the early Nineties."
• 02/11/99 - TWIN PEAKS makes it into the best shows ever list that the TV TIMES is compiling. It was placed at 76 and the picture that accompanied it was from the Vodaphone commercial! Here's what they had to say- "Feted as the television masterpiece of the 90's, the series also attracted flak for its style-over-content approach."
• 01/11/99 - EMPIRE reports on the car crash involving Jack Nicholson and Lara Flynn Boyle (Peaks' Donna Hayward). Now here's the interesting bit. "According to reports, Nicholson and current partner Lara Flynn Boyle collided with the BMW on MULHOLLAND DRIVE in LA..."
• -/10/99 - The advert featuring David Lynch appears to be cropping up in magazines again. This Technics ad is a montage of Lynch's work including TWIN PEAKS and also has a picture of Lynch himself.
• 26/10/99 - Respected film critic Barry Norman heaps praise on THE STRAIGHT STORY in THE RADIO TIMES. It will be shown at The London Film Festival in November, I will keep you posted.
• 26/10/99 - TV AND SATELLITE WEEK runs an article on the return of the revamped FANTASY ISLAND accompanied with a picture of Madchen Amick (Peaks' Shelley Johnson). "TWIN PEAKS' star Madchen Amick provides the glamour as Ariel..." it says.
• 20/10/99 - HELLO reports on David Duchovny (Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson) taking part in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon to raise money for charity. The event generated funds for the children's AIDS charity run by Paul Michael Glaser.
• 13/10/99 - HELLO magazine has a picture of Billy Zane (Peaks' John Justice Wheeler) with Leonor Varela. The pair fell in love while filming a TV movie based on the book MEMORIES OF CLEOPATRA.
• 12/10/99 - Another shot of David Duchovny (Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson) in TV TIMES. It reports on a rumour that David is to do a TV revival of THE FUGITIVE.
• 09/10/99 - Hollywood gossip from OK magazine. It states that Jack Nicholson was involved in a recent car smash whilst in the car of Sally Boyle, the mother of Lara Flynn Boyle (Peaks' Donna Hayward). The unnamed passenger is believed to have been Lara as the two have been seen together at this years Emmy awards. A stunning picture of Lara accompanies this news.
• 07/10/99 - This is taken from STARBURST magazine. "Another TV pilot to bite the dust is David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE. It won rave reviews from the trade writers who managed to see it but apparently the ABC network thought it was too weird as well as excessively violent. Lynch may now take the production elsewhere, possibly HBO or Fox."
• 07/10/99 - STARBURST reports that the remake of FANTASY ISLAND is to be shown on Sci- Fi soon. Madchen Amick (Peaks' Shelley Johnson) stars as a little spirit who can change shape as per her guests fantasies.
• 05/10/99 - TV QUICK quotes David Duchovny (Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson) alongside a small photo. "We turn up and do the work...we're hardly tennis partners", he says of Gillian Anderson.
• 04/10/99 - TWIN PEAKS - SCI-FI 21:00 - That mind- blowing final episode. The program itself ends its current run tonight.
• 02/10/99 - In a section of FILM REVIEW called "Movie quotes" there is a line from David Lynch's latest film THE STRAIGHT STORY. A philosophical Richard Farnsworth says, "The worst part about being old is remembering when you were young."
• 28/09/99 - Website of the week features STARGATE SG-1 in TV AND SATELLITE WEEK. A small photo of Don S. Davis (Peaks' Major Briggs) and a feature that mentions his TWIN PEAKS role.
• 24/09/99 - CULT TIMES has an interview with Don S. Davis (Peaks' Major Briggs) regarding his character in STARGATE SG-1. TWIN PEAKS gets a mention.
• 24/09/99 - A small picture of David Duchovny (Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson) accompanies news that he is suing 20th Century Fox in CULT TIMES.
• 14/09/99 - David Duchovny (Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson) looks like he has burned his bridges with THE X FILES according to TV TIMES. Duchovny claims that 20th Century Fox sold the show to its subsidiaries at a cut-price rate, so cheating him out of money.
• 12/09/99 - LIFE - THE OBSERVER MAGAZINE today published televisions 100 greatest moments. Although TWIN PEAKS didn't feature in the actual 100, it was mentioned twice in a selection of reader's favorite moments on TV. "In the first episode of TWIN PEAKS when the father is told that Laura is dead, and the wife hears over the phone. The father drops the phone and you can hear the mother screaming on the other end", says one reader. Another person prefers the final episode saying, "There is pure evil in the final five minutes - don't flinch."
• 04/09/99 - THE STRAIGHT STORY is featured in this month's edition of UNCUT. There is a factfile and a small photo and the film is favorably reviewed. It mentions the glowing reception it received at Cannes and says "...you wish he'd (Lynch) been making films like this all along instead of increasingly impenetrable tosh like LOST HIGHWAY. At last here's one for film lovers, not obscurant Goth weirdos." Quite clearly our friend speaks for himself when describing the films of Lynch as impenetrable! THE STRAIGHT STORY will be at cinemas from December.
• 03/09/99 - Miguel Ferrer (Peaks' Albert Rosenfeld), is EMPIRE magazines video superstar this month. A small photo from ROBOCOP accompanies a short factfile of his film career. FIREWALK WITH ME is listed in his track record but there is no reference to TWIN PEAKS.
• 24/08/99 - In this weeks TV TIMES there is a small photograph of Heather Graham (Peaks' Annie Blackburn), and a short interview. Commenting on her role in AUSTIN POWERS 2, she says that it has changed her life and "people come up to me and take pictures."
• 17/08/99 - This weeks issue of the TV TIMES reports that David Duchovny (Peaks' Dennis/Denise Bryson) is wanted by James Cameron to star in MARS, his big budget television series. This is Cameron's next major project after TITANIC whose cast included David Warner and Billy Zane from Twin Peaks' second season.
• 17/08/99 - An interesting fact appeared in TV AND SATELLITE WEEK. This information is in a David Duchovny fact file: "His TWIN PEAKS role as cross-dressing drugs investigator Dennis/Denise Bryson - originally to be played by James Spader - helped get him the part of Fox Mulder". I didn't know that James Spader was linked with this role and if anyone knows any more details I would be interested to hear from them.
• 14/08/99 - This weeks issue of O.K magazine has small photographs of David Lynch and David Duchovny accompanying separate stories. Duchovny has lost in a bid to stop an Internet company from selling autographs, which he claims are forged. The Lynch article claimed..."When his new movie THE STRAIGHT STORY took Cannes by storm, because of its family-friendly content, everyone thought he'd changed his ways. Not that much. ABC has decided not to show a pilot for TV drama MULHOLLAND DRIVE, because it's "too weird". The level of violent imagery probably bothered them. And here they may have a point. The script for the pilot opens with a car crash where a limo driver is catapulted through the windscreen, another man is torn apart as the car drives over him, and a woman in the back is tossed about in a shower of glass and rocks. Hardly Little House on the Prairie, is it." If there is no room in the television schedule for a David Lynch project, I find it rather sad. Television is still 99% garbage yet ABC will not take a risk with something that Lynch has been so heavily involved in. 
• 05/08/99 - THEY THINK IT'S ALL OVER - BBC1 22:20 - A mention of TWIN PEAKS on a repeat of the New Years Eve episode of the alternative sporting quiz. At the end of the show one team member has a number of cards with the names of sportspersons on them and the other person has to guess who it is from a description by them. When trying to describe British golfer Laura Davies, one of the contestants kept saying "Twin Peaks, who killed somebody Palmer", in an attempt to describe the name of Laura!
• 01/08/99 - AUTUMN IN NEW YORK - Joan Chen (Peaks' Josie Packard) will direct Richard Gere and Winona Ryder in this tearjerker. Chen impressed with her directoral debut XIU XIU:THE SEAT DOWN GIRL.

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