Twin Peaks : Press Kit
The Press Kit ABC CAPITAL CITIES/ABC, INC. TELEVISION NETWORK GROUP
"TWIN PEAKS"
Welcome to Twin Peaks. It's one of those picturesque rural towns that reminds
you of time-honored American traditions, like peace and order and homemade
cherry pie. Visitors tend to marvel over the magnificent Douglas firs and admire
the breathtaking mountain scenery. Located in the Pacific Northwest, just five
miles south of the Canadian border, Twin Peaks looks like a prosperous community
of contented citizens devoted to their families. On the surface, at least, it's
a bucolic life. But that's on the surface.
World-renowned director David Lynch ("Eraserhead," "The
Elephant Man," "Blue Velvet") brings his incomparable visual
artistry to "Twin Peaks," a disturbing mystery about the life of a
seemingly typical small town. Co-created with executive producer Mark Frost
("Hill Street Blues"), "Twin Peaks" presents an unsettling,
sometimes darkly comic vision of the ominous unknown lurking beneath the
commonplace and the everyday. The nude body of Laura Palmer, the high school
homecoming queen, emerges from beneath the surface of a nearby lake. Her
sensational murder sends shock waves through Twin Peaks, stripping away the
veneer of respectable gentility to expose seething undercurrents of illicit
passion, greed, jealousy and intrigue in a population of unusual characters.
When another girl is found, viciously tortured but still alive, FBI agent Dale
Cooper arrives in Twin Peaks to conduct an investigation.
Young and sardonic, Agent Cooper has an almost prescient understanding of
human motives and his own quirky but very methodical approach to doing business.
He is also keeping whatever information he has about the crimes to himself.
Cooper forms an immediate rapport with Sheriff Harry S. Truman, who has grown up
in the community. Harry is not much of a talker, but he knows more about the
people in that town than they probably know about themselves. Their search for
the murderer leads to one shattering discovery: No one is quite what they appear
to be and almost everyone has something to hide. Cooper and Truman's probe into
Laura's death uncovers many busy secrets in Twin Peaks. Was Laura leading a
sordid double existence? Did she find out that her erstwhile boyfriend, Bobbie
[sic] Briggs, was having an affair with a married woman? Why would
well-respected businessmen scheme to take over the valuable Packard Sawmill
property? Why is Catherine Martell so bitterly jealous of her brother's widow,
the beautiful and imperious mill owner, Jocelyn Packard? Each revelation lays
bare whole other worlds, as we delve deeper and deeper into the characters'
fantasies, loves and obsessions.
Starring are Kyle MacLachlan ("Dune," "Blue Velvet") as
FBI agent Dale Cooper, Michael Ontkean ("Maid to Order," "Slap
Shot") as Sheriff Harry S. Truman, Piper Laurie ("Carrie,"
"Children of a Lesser God") as Catherine Martell, Joan Chen ("The
Last Emperor") as Jocelyn Packard, Mädchen Amick as Shelly Johnson, Dana
Ashbrook as Bobby Briggs, Richard Beymer as Benjamin Horne, Lara Flynn Boyle as
Donna Hayward, Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horne, Warren Frost as Dr. William
Hayward, Peggy Lipton as Norma Jennings, James Marshall as James Hurley, Everett
McGill as Ed Hurley, Jack Nance as Pete Martell, Kimmy Robertson as Lucy Moran
and Ray Wise as Leland Palmer. Also starring are Russ Tamblyn as Dr. Lawrence
Jacoby, Eric Da Re as Leo Johnson, Harry Goaz as Deputy Andy Brennan, Michael
Horse as Tommy "The Hawk" Hill and Sheryl Lee as Madeleine Ferguson.
Executive producers, creators and writers are Mark Frost and David Lynch. Gregg
Fienberg is supervising producer, Harley Peyton is producer, Robert D. Simon is
co-producer and Phillip Neel is associate producer. The one-hour dramatic series
is filmed in locations in Washington and Southern California."Twin
Peaks" is from Lynch/Frost Productions, Inc., in association with
Propaganda Films in association with Worldvision Enterprises, Inc.
About Us Email
the Webmaster ©2001
|