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Hopefully, Lynch is having some damn good cherry pie right now up in the sky. While I talk frequently about directors on this website, there's one I rarely talk about here, and that’s David Lynch.

David Lynch—the great American film director known for his dark, unsettling, surrealist imagery—died today, leaving a large gap behind in the world of art house cinema. He was 78 years old.

We’re rerunning it following David Lynch’s death at 78 ... with some mayonnaise and some chicken. That’s it. Then at dinner I have one piece of bread with some mayonnaise and some chicken ...

By Annie Aguiar The death of the surrealist film and television director David Lynch on Thursday prompted mourning across the entertainment world, with celebrities and artists paying tribute to ...

If you met him in person, David Lynch came across as a Midwestern pastor, all gee-whiz and aw-shucks. He was one of the few people who seemed wholly incapable of irony and, hearing him talk ...

As I sit here frozen, trying to put words to all that I feel about David Lynch on his birthday ... You and Kyle introduced me to the chicken walk. As we sat together in Sandy’s childhood ...

David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark and dreamlike vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died just ...

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American ... the voice of the mad scientist in “Robot Chicken.” Beyond his work in film and TV, Lynch exhibited his paintings internationally ...