At 86, Eastwood hints at possible return to acting
HOLLYWOOD screen legend Clint Eastwood said on Sunday that he isn’t ruling out a return to acting – at the age of 86. The actor-turned-director told an audience at the Cannes film festival that he occasionally missed performing, adding: “I did a lot of it for a long time. I’ll visit it again someday.” Eastwood, who made his name in Westerns in the 1960s, has focused in recent years on directing movies, including AmericanSniper and Sully. The Oscar-winner, who backed Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election, notably steered clear of politics at a packed masterclass at the film festival in southern France. But he did rail against political correctness, telling the crowd: “We’re killing ourselves by doing that, we’ve lost our sense of humour.”
ONE of the creepiest images in the new Twin Peaks is a glass box, ensconced in a window in New York City, which is kept under constant observation in case something comes through it. (Not-such-aspoiler alert: Something does.)
Twin Peaks, returning 27 years after its debut, is no longer brand-new under the sun. But in its familiarly inscrutable first two hours, shown on Sunday night on Showtime, it still has the ability to turn your TV into that box – a quietly menacing portal through which something horrifying or wondrous might burst at any moment.
The broad strokes of the new story are easy enough to lay out. FBI Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) remains where the series left him: in the Black Lodge, the red-curtained lobby of the netherworld where he’s been trapped for 25 years. A wicked doppelganger (MacLachlan, Elvised out in a leather jacket and mane of hair) has taken his place. For Cooper to leave, his evil twin must be returned.
But there is a lot left hanging in this far-flung narrative, including a briefly introduced thread in Las Vegas and the matter of who is watching that box in Manhattan and why. We’ve also yet to see much of the huge cast – Laura Dern, Naomi Watts, Michael Cera and the returning Sherilyn Fenn, to name a few – that will populate this limited series.
(Don’t call it Season 3, by the way. The creators, David Lynch