Twin Peaks: the Return part 6 Don’t Die (Vegas)

David Lynch & Mark Frost
2016 Las Vegas NV

 Make sense of it...

Last Sunday’s section of the ongoing film was largely divided between events in Twin Peaks WA and Las Vegas NV.  An earlier post examined the event in the rural community and this one takes images from the urban desert business.  It begins with Duncan Todd receiving a message in the form of a red square, which prompts him to send a message consisting of a black dot to a small muscular hit man named Ike “the Spike,” who's given the assignment of removing the contractor who flubbed the hit on Dougie, as well as Dougie himself, with his ice pick.  Elsewhere in Vegas, Dougie marked his case files with pictographs of ladders, stairs, blobs & conduits that somehow make sense to Bushnell “Battling Bud” Mullins, his Boss. In the last two pictures Janey is about to pay off two loan sharks, forthrightly stiffing them for half the cash they figure her husband owes them.

 

Yul Brynner portrait photo

Cecil Beaton 
circa 1945

I don't know that this next one is by Beaton, but it looks like it could have come from the same session.  The last one I'm pretty certain isn't Beaton's work, but I think it's equally as fine as the best above, or near, and Yul Brynner is looking as fine as he ever did with facial, chest and arm hair.

Francisco Ponce gogo dancing

at Club Cobra LA 
circa 2008

After retiring from dancing he took up bartending and even adopted the moniker of Frank DaBartender for a few years (and a Facebook page still exists under that name.)   He no longer wants to be known for his considerable skills in this area, but I can’t help but continue to marvel at the beauty of it.

Yul Brynner photographed by George Platt Lynes

Manhattan NY 1942

Yul Brynner was twenty two years old when this posing session took place.  He had been performing professionally (in Paris and after 1940 in New York) since at least the age of thirteen as a cabaret guitarist and singer and as a circus trapeze artist.  He was born in Vladivostok, but spent much of his childhood in Harbin, China, and Paris, France.  His ancestry was Swiss, Russian and Buryatt (which accounts for his Asian features.)  Around the time that these pictures were taken by the great queer photographer, Platt Lynes, Yul was known to be romantically and sexually involved with the actor and future movie star, Hurd Hatfield.  They had met in Ridgefield CT the year before where they were studying acting with Michael Chekhov (Anton’s nephew.)  Brynner married Virginia Gilmore (a well known film, television and stage actress) in 1944.  In 1946, he appeared on Broadway in Lute Song, with Mary Martin, which inevitably led to his great popular success and fame in Rodger and Hammerstein’s the King and I three years later.