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The Red and Black « Wednesday. May 23, 1990 » 7
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Twin Peaks: Season finale
expected to reveal the killer
By NOEL MURRAY
Contributing Writer
There’s been a great deal of
bun in the media and on the
street lately about a strange new
show called ‘Twin Peaks,” cre
ated by “Eraserhead” and “Blue
Velvet” director David Lynch.
Some say it stretches the
limits of what television can be,
with off-beat characters and 10-
minute dream sequences that ac
tually LOOK lilte dream se
quences, not just normal scenes
shot through a haze filter. Others
claim that surrealism has been
on T.V. for years with shows such
as “Green Acres” and that “Twin
Peaks” is nothing more than an
other “Dallas” only with better
music .
So, just what is Twin Peaks?
Twin Peaks is the story of a
simple fictional town on the Ca
nadian border or at least it ap
pears simple.
The show is about cutting
through the wholesome citizens,
great pie and breathtaking
Douglas Firs, and taking a look
at the wormy mud beneath the
beautiful rock.
For seven weeks now, “Twin
Peaks” has dug into the corrup
tion of its seemingly pristine
community under the premise of
solving the murder of the Home
coming Queen-Porn Goddess-
Service Volunteer-Prostitute-
Perfume Girl-Drug Addict-Occa
sional Waitress-All-Around-Psy-
chotic Laura Palmer. Tonight is
the season finale, and at last the
killer's identity is supposed to be
revealed. Or that’s what the di
rector would like us to think will
happen.
Creator David Lynch has made
his living confounding expecta-
tiops and the odds are that he
won’t do anything different with
tonight’s episode. The word is
that the season ends with several
new cliffhangers and twists, no
different from any other night
time soap.
But what sets this show apart
from “Dynasty” and “Falcon
Crest" and others of the genre is
that Twin Peaks” is everything
those shows are and more. Much
more. Too much more.
Twin Peaks” goes gleefully
over the top, just for the sake of
doing so. Any weirdness that can
be thrown in, will. What other
show has a one-eyed woman ob
sessed with silent drape runners,
or a lady who talks to a log, or a
police sergeant named Harry S.
Truman, or an FBI agent who
solves cases by incorporating
strange dreams about Tibet ana
chewing gum?
This last bit of weirdness, FBI
Agent Cooper, is to many viewers
the soul of the show, the reason
to watch. He is the archetypal de
tective who never misses a clue,
whose virtue is never questioned
and whose faith in mankind iB
unwavering. He often stops the
show with his reveries about
"Damn Good” slices of pie, fan
tastic coffee, and fine-smelling
trees. It’s not rare to hear Cooper
quotes repeated all over Athens
the day after an episode.
Despite the large and vora
cious fandom that follows the
show, however, it’s not very
highly rated in the Nielsens. This
is probably because for every
person who can’t miss an episode,
there are two who watched it for
fifteen minutes once and turned
it off in disgust. Twin Peaks” is
definitely an acquired taste, and
not easy to pick up on this late in
the game.
Still, it’s definitely worth
trying, and besides, it’s great fun.
It would be impossible to sum up
the story so far in this short
space, especially since by tonight
it’s almost certain that the
relationships between the almost
40 characters will have changed.
Several publications (Time”,
“People”) have recently run self-
made charts of the convoluted
storyline, but even those charts
don’t make it any easier.
The best thing to do is watch
and try to figure it out indepen
dently. Tonight could be the last
chance to taste the coffee before
next fall so it’d be best to jump on
it now. Man, smell those trees.
Smell those Douglas Firs.
Twin Peaks will air tonight at 10
p.m. on ABC, local channel 2.
Plenty of art shows
for all in Athens
Figaro’s: Bobby Parker’s masks
and other paper mache creations-
will be shown for two weeks at this
neat coffee Bhop at 131 E. Broad St.
Hours are 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Mon.-Sat.
The Downstairs: The underground
cafe and artists den is featuring
conte (a type of pastel/charcoal)
drawings by Tendai Johnson and
black and white photographs by
Elizabeth Arola. 140 E. Clayton St.
Open from 11 a.m.- 1 a.m. Mon.-
Thurs., Fri.- Sat. until 2 a.m.
Tata Cantor Gallery:“ltaly: One
Hundred Years of Photography”
through June 26. Mon.- Fri. 8 a.m.-
5 p.m.
Georgia Museum of Art: “...A Thou
sand Words: Four Women Artists
from the Georgia Review” features
the sculpture of Katherine Wells
and paintings of Paige Harvey,
Mary Jernigan and Mary Porter
through June 3. ‘Images of Amer
ican Artists: Selections of the Ju
nior Museum Curators” through
June 17. Italian art exemplary of
the age of Titian are seen in “Vene
tian Paintings of the Renaissance”
until June 17. Cool silkscreen
prints produced from 1974-1987 by
pop guru Andy Warhol are in
“Works of Warhol" exhibition until
July 1. The museum, located on
North campus, is open Mon.- Sat.,
9-5 p.m. and Sun., 1-5 p.m. Admis
sion is free.
Rage: Get a trim at the hair/art studio
while viewing paintings by Bill So
demen. 132 College Ave. Hours are
106 p.m., Mon.- Sat.
Lyndon House Art Center: Currently
on display is the “Seventeenth An
nual Juried Exhibition,” which will
run through May 31. The exhibit
featutures local artists' painting,
drawing, sculpture, photography,
metalwork, woodwork, ceramics
and mixed media. In the upstairs
gallery, “Interpretations: Real and
Imagined” an exhibit of watercolor
paintings by Athens artist Celia
Brooks will run through June 8.
Center hours are 12-5 p.m., Mon.-
Fri. with extended hours 12-8 p.m.
Tues. 293 Hoyt St.
Madleon-Morgan Cultural Center:
The center is celebrating those
beautiful bovines with a two-part
thematic exhibition, The Cow
Show.” An original Norman Rock
well painting along with folk art
objects is part of the historical sec
tion and contemporary works in
paper, paintings and sculpture by
16 Southern artists make up the
second part. The center is in Mad
ison at 434 S. Main St. Hours are
10 a.m. -4:30 p.m., Tues.- Sat. and
2-5 p.m. Sun. Admission is $2 for
adults, $1 for students.
Bacchus by Michele Bovi: The photograph Is part of the
exhibit "Italy: One hundred years of photography”
Getting a Master degree in art
Art graduate students show their work
By DEV JARRETT
Contributing Writer
The first installment of the
Master of Fine Arts Degree Candi
dates’ Exhibition opened Saturday,
May 12 and will run through May
27. The exhibition at the Georgia
Museum of Art includes paintings
by Ginny Agee, stone sculptures by
Matthew Fine, the fabric art of Su
sannah Flanigan and ceramics by
Deborah Groover and Marianne
Weinberg-Benson.
The exhibition is a requirement
for students of the University of
Georgia seeking a Master of Fine
Arts Degree and each work must
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demonstrate the artist’s abilities to
the public, as well as to his or her
faculty committee.
Matthew Fine, stone sculptor ,
stated that the exhibition is only a
part of the final work required.
“We also have to pass a written
test and an oral exam, and ev
eryone really gets different ques
tions on their oral test, questions
like, Why did you put this part
here?’, or Why did you do thisr "
Fine, whose largest stone sculp
ture in the exhibition weighs
around 1,200 pounds, said the
hardest part of preparations for
the exhibition (after tne actual cre
ation of the sculpture) was getting
the sculptures into the Museum.
However, he refused to let this
large problem compromise his
choices for the works he wanted in
the exhibition.
Unlike Fine, who is showing his
best body of work from his grad
uate study in the exhibit, Ginny
Agee is exhibiting her five most re
cent paintings.
‘Tve completed five paintings
this year, and I think they rep
resent the best of my work. They
have a flow that links them to
gether,” Agee said.
The exhibition is well done, and
well presented. The combination of
vegetables and chairs in Agee’s
paintings is particularly inter-*
esting.
The second installment of the
exhibition begins on June 1st, and
will feature paintings by Bruce
Knecht, Cong Yuan and Ken Paige,
the fabric art of Nancy Dolineich
and the sculpture of Phyllis Her-
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Tve completed five
paintings this year, and
I think they represent
the best of my work.’
—Ginny Agee
a graduate art student
bert. The second installment will
run through June 17th, with a
public reception sponsored by the
artists on jNnday, June 1st, from 7
to 9 p.m. at the museum.
The Georgia Museum of Art is
located on north campus, and the
hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Saturday, and
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