I’m glad he took the step to clarify (for once). I’m sure Laura Dern, MacLachlan, Rossellini, etc. were in his ear.

For better or worse, that was not the take I saw from a number of critics who were willing to jump on the bad clickbait version of the interview.

Really???

I would not condone it say the Tojamura caper is something to be repeated beyond 1990 (or, y’know, even before that) but IIRC it may have been down to Piper Laurie. I think she claims in her memoirs that they were going to disguise Catherine as a foreign man and asked her to choose a type or ethnicity, and thus…

Definitely not, but at the same time the original passage is a little more complex and not some ringing endorsement of L’Orange.

In theory it’s fine. In practice, my problem is how often they seem to intersect.

OK

I’m referring to his overall political opinions, few of which I share but none of which amount to, say, Scott Baio.

That may be great for folks who are socially or financially insulated enough to roll the dice of fate and wait progress out, but it always leaves a lot of people behind. Historically, said movements rarely think of those people.

Either way, unlike most celebrities he probably will never care enough to comment further or try to clean it up - Lynch just doesn’t give a shit about media cycles - so it’s a pity he said it at all.

The indispensable third party vote in action.

I mean quoting the original passage, which I think is considerably less horrifying than the lede some places are running with and then weaving around. Deadline’s version is actually worse than this one, mind.

You’re right in principle, I just think it’s something important enough to clarify for people to quote directly. It’s not like nuance is getting lost by the second in 2018 or in pieces repurposed from pieces which are repurposed from other pieces.

I might agree with you if that weren’t simply the writer’s phrasing. He also adds a number of jabs at Season 3 of Twin Peaks, and among other things, repurposes a story about Isabella Rossellini which insinuates the two no longer speak (they are still friendly, and she just attended one of Lynch’s events). It’s a bit…

A misquote of a misquote (from Deadline) of a very different article. Great job, guys.

If it keeps the cast and writers working on a show I thought was shaping up well in spite of a toxic bigot, I’m fine with giving her fuck off money to go away.

No, they’re not trying to burn it off. If they wanted to do that they’d just pay the stars off and quit. They are actively trying to save a moneymaker and keep it going indefinitely. That’s why they took the pitch and pushed Roseanne to give up her stake, which she did. You don’t have to burn off a show you’ve never…

They haven’t filmed anything, though.

They paid her off and iced her out of any further compensation for the spinoff.

Good.