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WILD AT HEART. You may have thought David Lynch set the standard for weirdness with his TV series, but compared with his horrifically, hilariously violent new road movie, Twin Peaks is the Bobbsey Twins. Be awed -- and grateful -- that nobody else makes movies like this...
David Lynch is an industry these days. America's most distinctive moviemaker had directed just four features (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune and Blue Velvet) in a 15-year career, but now he's everywhere. His Twin Peaks brought flaming weirdness to prime-time television. He has directed TV commercials and a 25-minute music video. This fall he is co-producing a documentary series for the Fox network. And here's Wild at Heart, another three-ring freak show that won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and serves as an entertaining anthology of Lynch...
Carolyn Pitts runs her palm over the hand-tooled sandstone exterior of an old textile mill. "The stonework is marvelous," she says. "It was obviously ! meant to be a real showpiece." Built in 1849 in Cannelton, Ind., alongside the Ohio River, the brooding, fortress-like structure with twin turrets and heavily bracketed cornice was abandoned in the 1950s. Now the roof is a wreck, and starlings nest inside...
From the reviews, you may think that Gremlins 2: The New Batch is about a cute creature who battles his evil brethren to save Manhattan. You may read that RoboCop 2 is about a police officer, half man, half machine, who battles his evil robot twin to save Detroit. You may have heard that Total Recall is about Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to reclaim his memory and save Mars...
...conspiracy anytime two Congressmen voice similar criticisms of him. His speeches bristle with darts for "liberal tax-and-spend Democrats" who want to cripple the military while coddling drug pushers and flag burners. This is the Bush that Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau calls Skippy, the gentleman President's "evil twin," who pops up whenever harsh partisanship is deemed necessary...