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David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind ‘Twin Peaks’
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vid Lynch, the filmmaker
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Oranjestad: died just days before his
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San Nicolas: His family announced the
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OTHER on Thursday. The cause of
death and location was
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EMERGENCY There’s a big hole in the
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Noord 527 3200 would say, ‘Keep your eye David Lynch appears at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2019.
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Ambulancia 911 “It’s a beautiful day with would not be leaving his cades. His notable releases said at the time, in char-
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Last summer, Lynch had re- rus or “even a cold.” skewed Gothic of “Blue nice face. Good night.”
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Women in Difficulties didn’t expect to make an- theme music. cal drama “The Elephant
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“I would try to do it remote- petitive Academy Award. aptly straightforward “The
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honorary Oscar for lifetime
in the 1970s with the surreal
Aruba Food Bank “Eraserhead” and rarely achievement. Lynch was a Missoula,
Tel. 588 0002 failed to startle and inspire “To the Academy and ev- Montana, native who
FAVI- Visually Impaired audiences, peers and crit- eryone who helped me moved around often with
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Alcoholics Anonymous ics in the following de- along the way, thanks,” he his family as a child and
Tel. 736 2952 would long feel most at
Narcotics Anonymous home away from the class-
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of short movies.
“David’s always had a
cheerful disposition and
sunny personality, but he’s
always been attracted to
dark things,” a childhood
friend is quoted as saying in
“Room to Dream,” a 2018
book by Lynch and Kristine
McKenna. That’s one of
the mysteries of David.”q