Both hailed and reviled, Blue Velvet was rejected by the Venice film festival. Lynch’s scarcely less controversial follow-up, Wild at Heart, starring Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage as a young couple on the run in the American southwest, won the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes film festival.

David Lynch, who made films and television shows unlike anyone else, has died at 78, his family said in a statement Thursday.

David Lynch, who died Thursday, combined Eisenhower-era innocence & experimental cinema to forge a disturbing, darkly hilarious look at American life

David Lynch, the prolific artist and filmmaker who created the television show “Twin Peaks,” died Thursday, four days before his 79th birthday. His early childhood in the Inland Northwest left a lasting impression on his psyche.

Lynch was far more revered in Europe than in America, but he was a particularly American artist. Like one of his idols, Elvis Presley, Lynch was one those unique cultural figures who embodied both the optimism and nightmare of the American dream.

David Lynch, the American filmmaker, writer and artist who scored best director Oscar nominations for Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive has died at age 78As per the statement shared by his family on Thursday said,

David Lynch has died at the age of 78, his family announced on Thursday, Jan. 16. "It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time,

Other area titlists included Orofino’s Hunter Gamble (138) and Reagan Kessinger (126 girls), Clearwater Valley’s Jake Fabbi (150) and Jesse Rice (138 girls), Pullman’s Hafisatu Abess (114 girls) and Prairie of Cottonwood’s Avery Schacher (165 girls).

The 38th annual Clearwater Classic wrestling tournament reached its dramatic height on Saturday at Lewiston High School when area standouts Joely Slyter of Lewiston and James Greene of Moscow simultaneously took to adjacent mats for the title matches of their respective divisions.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: David Burns won. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Iggie Wolfington was nominated but did not win.

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