From uwvax!uwm.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!masscomp!joisey.westford.ccur.com!danny Wed Feb 13 16:36:49 CST 1991 Article: 10824 of alt.tv.twin-peaks Path: uwvax!uwm.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!masscomp!joisey.westford.ccur.com!danny From: danny@joisey.westford.ccur.com (Daniel Pearl) Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks Subject: New Twin Peaks Book Message-ID: <61709@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> Date: 12 Feb 91 15:52:54 GMT Sender: news@masscomp.westford.ccur.com Reply-To: danny@joisey.westford.ccur.com (Daniel Pearl) Distribution: na Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp. Westford MA. Lines: 85 Just purchased from my local bookstore: TWIN PEAKS Behind The Scenes An Unofficial Visitors Guide to Twin Peaks by Mark Altman (c) 1990 Pioneer Books ISBN #1-55698-284-4 $14.95/$19.95 Canada 145 pages, 8.5"x11" paperbound This book is worth a look. It has some interesting interviews, and clears up some items that we have been arguing about. The book is shoddily edited. Spelling errors abound. On two successive pages, they spell Michael Ontkean's last name as "OUTKEAN", Catherine's guise as "Mr. Takiyama", and Madchen's last name as "ANICK". The editor, Hal Schuster, puts his name in 24 point type. This, from an editor who consistently hyphenates MacLachlan as Ma-cLachlan. A sample: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ["Shooting the Pilot"] The pilot was shot on location in Snoqualmie, Washington, a logging town 25 miles east of Seattle. The exteriors, which have since reappeared in the voluminous stock footage the series makes use of, were shot at the Salish Lodge, a huge resort overlooking a 268 foot waterfall which was transformed into the Great Northern, the hotel owned by Ben Horne. The Kiana Lodge, located on a Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound, doubled for the Blue Lake Lodge where Peter and Catherine Martell live with Josie Packard. The Weyerhauser Administration Building was redressed to magically become the TWIN PEAKS Sheriff's Office. At the junction of Highways 202 and 203 in Falls City is the Colonial Inn, better known to "Peaks Freaks" as the Roadhouse. The shows interiors are shot on sound stages in Van Nuys and all location footage since the pilot has been shot in and around the studio except for some second unit work done in Snoqualmie. ... Even the production offices were utilized during filming. By changing the door to read 'Warden's Office', the mundane space of the staff was transformed into another nook of TWIN PEAKS. The scenes of Hank and Norma visiting his parole hearing in prison actually took place in the main production offices adjoining the sound stages. Outside in the parking lot, one of the fire exits was used in Episode Six, as the entrance to Doctor Jacoby's office where James had parked his motorcycle as Bobby plants cocaine in its gas tank. ---------- [Ferrer Speaks] "We started shooting Episode 3 with the scene in the operating room where I was performing the autopsy," recalls Ferrer. "It was the hardest, most difficult day of dialogue I have ever had in 12 years of acting. It is probably the most difficult one I will ever have. It was just tongue twisters of unsayable dialogue and it was Shakespearean almost in that if you let one link of the chain drop, you couldn't ad lib this stuff so it really all had to come out letter-perfect. I sweated bullets to get through that day." ------- [Harley Peyton on "Invitation to Love"] "It's just so hard to try and get these stories straight, and it finally became too much. At one point, we were toying with having the lead actors coming to town but we were really never able to go through with that. We shot a lot of that stuff but whenever we were looking to edit our shows down to running time, those INVITATION TO LOVE segements were always the first to go." ------- [Tom Holland, a Peak's director] One of the elements that Holland was able to incorporate into his episode was an ominous thunderstorm in the town wich was added to the last twenty minutes of the episode as a result of his input into the story. "I spent time coming up with approaches to the material like the thunderstorm," he says. "Leleand confesses to the murder (of Jaques [sic] Renault) and I convinced them to add the storm because it would reveal the Oriental man watching Josie and Truman while they're making love and enhance the fight between Hank and him at the end." [Thus ending a hotly debated issue.] -- Daniel Pearl Concurrent Computer Corporation, Westford, Massachusetts USA (508) 392-2478 danny@westford.ccur.com