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Is David Lynch David Byrne?

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Jim Pellmann

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Feb 1, 1991, 3:25:38 AM2/1/91
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from January-February issue of "Spy" magazine:

Is David Lynch David Byrne?

Something Wild at Heart

A Cutting-Edge-Auteur Scorecard

Lynch Byrne
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First name David? Yes Yes

Attended art school? Dropped out of Dropped out of
Pennsylvania Academy Rhode Island School
of Fine Arts after of Design after
two years two years

Early fame with 'head' Late-1970s Late-1970s
experimental film, experimental band,
"Eraserhead" Talking Heads

Continued fame with 'man' Auteured 1980s film Auteured 1980s song
"The Elephant Man" "Television Man"

Preoccupied with banal Yes Yes
middle-class life and psycho
killers?

Mainstream breakthrough First TV series, First feature film,
"Twin Peaks", a "True Stories", a
darkly satric look darkly satiric look
at small-town life at small-town life
in Washington, close in Texas, close
to the Canadian to the Mexican
border border

Crossover project Wrote lyrics for Wrote music for
album (Julee Cruise) ballet (Twyla Tharp's
"Catherine Wheel")

Last name describes grisly Yes Yes
form of homicide?

Oddly named collaborator Angelo Badalamenti Brian Eno

Preferred attire Big black suits, Big white suits,
shirt buttoned up shirt buttoned up

Material has been performed Yes Yes
at Brooklyn Academy of Music?

Has been on cover of Time? Yes Yes

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Hans Huttel

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Feb 1, 1991, 2:16:29 PM2/1/91
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In article <jgp.665396738@rutabaga>, j...@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Pellmann) writes:
> from January-February issue of "Spy" magazine:
>
> Is David Lynch David Byrne?
>
> Something Wild at Heart
>
> A Cutting-Edge-Auteur Scorecard
>
> Lynch Byrne
> ----- -----

Scottish ? Not at all. Yes.


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