Soap Opera Twin Peaks is a murder mystery and a soap opera. Lynch and his creative partner Mark Frost intend no soap-opera parody here, as some have hypothesized. No, he’s giving us a soap opera wrapped around a murder mystery. During the summer of 1980, Americans wondered who shot J.R. Ewing, the villainous Texas oil […]
Motel Hell (1980) Roger Ebert once dubbed Motel Hell “a welcome change of pace; it’s to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as Airplane! is to Airport.” Ebert even admires certain scenes, including a chainsaw duel and the final confession from the dying Farmer Vincent, the proprietor of Motel Hello (the “o” on the sign has burnt […]
For decades, Jillian Venters, the Lady of the Manners, has been cultivating better deportment among goths, which is important because individuals should resist reacting to harsh societal judgments about this subculture with equal venom and thus inviting perhaps even worse abuse. There are additional perks as well: There’s an added benefit to being a Goth […]
Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi spent her youth in Astoria, Oregon, working for fish canneries. After high school, she developed grander ambitions and headed to New York and Los Angeles, where she acted, danced, and flirted with greatness. Finally, in 1954, now known as Maila Nurmi, she entered pop culture notoriety, initiating a […]
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