The Drudge headline says, "LYNCH PULLS OUT OF NBC MOVIE DEAL..." in the usual screaming all-caps boldface.
All I could think was, "David Lynch pulled out of a TV-movie deal before the network honchos could fire him for wanting to put a movie on the air about a nitrous-sniffing dwarf male lesbian on a lawnmower roadtrip across a desolate retro-modern hellscape to escape his backwards-talking, overly-controlling mother?"
Not even Bravo, home of the fabulous Queer Eye for the Straight Guy would touch Lynch with a ten-foot boa -- constrictor or otherwise.
Then I clicked on the link and got the straight story:
Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch has reportedly pulled out of a proposed deal with NBC for a television movie about her ordeal during the war in Iraq.
Either Drudge is a tease, or I'm just too-outcast hip for my own good sometimes.
Or both.
UPDATE: Yes, I know Lynch has done TV stuff before (what, you didn't catch the Twin Peaks reference?). I just wanted to write that silly run-on sentence conflating all of his best-known stuff. So stop with the know-it-all emails already.
ha - i had the exact same reaction. in addition to his tv work, i remembered reading something about mullholland dr being originally planned as a pilot for a tv show on abc, so i thought it was slightly plausible but quite surprising. alas.
How ignorant. David Lynch directs stories from the point of view of outsiders, weirdos, not middle-American bourgeoisie like YOU describe.
Cretan!
I guess it's probably hopelessly bourgeois of me to point out: "cretin". But what the hell.
Hope she can make a buck or two before her 15 minutes are up and everyone's moved on.
You forgot "The Elephant Man".
Wouldn't it be interesting to see the Jessica Lynch story told by David Lynch?
Too old to play Jessica, but perhaps roles could be found for Jane Lynch (a tough-talking Army officer?) and Kelly Lynch (distraught family member?). There also has to be room for Richard Lynch (another tough-talking Army officer?).
I can see it now...
Jessica Lynch as Laura Palmer...not dead, just laid up in a hospital with amnesia while no one really knows what happened to her
Howell Raines as Leeland Palmer...one day will wake up with white hair when he realizes what he has done
Al Gore as the log lady...(no elaboration necessary)
Dennis Kucinich as the dancing midget...no one really knows why he is there except to make the whole production more bizaare
