| Is
David Lynch David Byrne? |
from January-February
1991 issue of "Spy" magazine:
Is David Lynch David Byrne?
Something Wild at Heart
A Cutting-Edge-Auteur Scorecard |
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Lynch
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Byrne
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First Name David?
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Yes
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Yes
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Attended Art School?
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Dropped out of Pennsylavania Academy
of Fine Arts after 2 years
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Dropped out of
Rhode Island School of Design after
2 years
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Early Fame with 'head'
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Late 1970's
experimental film
'Eraserhead'
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Late 1970's
experimental band
the 'Talking Heads'
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Continued fame with 'man'
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Auteured 1980's film
'The Elephant Man'
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Auteured 1980's song
'Television Man'
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Preoccupied with banal
middle-class life and psycho
killers?
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Yes
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Yes
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Mainstream Breakthrough
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First TV series,
'Twin Peaks', a darkly
satric look at small-town
life in Washington,
close to the Canadian
border
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First feature film,
'True Stories', a darkly
satric look at small-town
life in Texas,
close to the Mexican
border
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Crossover Project
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Wrote lyrics for album
(Julee Cruse)
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Wrote music for ballet
(Twyla Tharp's 'Catherine Wheel')
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Last name describes grisly
form of homicide?
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Yes
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Yes
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Oddly named collaborator
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Angelo Badalamenti
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Brian Eno
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Preferred Attire
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Big black suits,
shirt buttoned up
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Big white suits,
shirt buttoned up
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Material has been performed
at Brooklyn Academy of Music?
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Yes
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Yes
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Has been on cover of Time?
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Yes
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Yes
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