Word: earings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Switch to the hero, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), who has just found a human ear in a field. He takes it to the Lumberton police and carries out a personal investigation that leads him to Sandy Williams, the chief's daughter (Laura Dern), Dorothy Vallens, a masochistic torch singer (Isabella Rossellini) and Frank Booth, a perverted drug dealer (Dennis Hopper). Jeffrey discovers that Vallens' son and husband have been kidnapped by Booth, and his effort to intervene opens realms of violence and sexuality he never knew possible...
...Things got a little out of hand," nice young Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) tells his nice young friend Sandy (Laura Dern). Well, yes. Walking through the woods of peaceful Lumberton, Jeffrey found a severed human ear crawling with ants. The ear belonged to a man who, with his son, had been kidnaped by Frank (Dennis Hopper), a sicko on a helium high. Frank was blackmailing the man's wife Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini), and hiding in Dorothy's closet, Jeffrey watched Frank work his awful sexual will on her. When Dorothy discovered Jeffrey, she took him to bed. "Hurt me," she said...
...telephoned Frost to invite him to the dinner too. "He told Mrs. Frost over the phone that I was a great admirer of Frost's." When the venerable poet arrived at the increasingly disastrous dinner, Lowell kept moving him from chair to chair, allegedly because Frost had a bad ear but effectively making "sustained conversation impossible...
...community -- wheat mostly -- set on rolling land studded with spruce, fir and aspen, by the eastern face of the Rockies. Its winters can get quite brutal, and now and again an old hand decides to break the monotony by taking a lesson from Marge. Even if you have no ear at all, Marge can get you over the hump with, say, Old MacDonald Had a Farm. She cannot, however, rid you of the jitters on recital day. Thereby hangs a tale...
...understand and fight the metamorphosis. What remains of Seth the scientist is all too aware of the monster he is turning into: an efficient killer with "no compassion, no compromise." At times he can be wildly ironic, as when he meticulously preserves in his bathroom the teeth, fingernails and ear that have molted, and then jokes that "the medicine cabinet's now the Brundle Museum of Natural History." At other moments he can lurch from irony to insanity to Kafkaesque insight. "I'm an insect who dreamed he was a man, and loved it." "Help me," he tells Veronica. "Help...