"It's like he's too close to me, but I don't think he's changed over the years...He's still the same Norm. I think he's the toughest to write for because he's not really anything. He's just funny."
Agent Cooper's love for the fictional RR Diner's cherry pie, matched with his appreciation of the diner's 'damn fine cup of coffee,' turned the real-life diner into a cherry pie Mecca for 'Twin Peaks' fans.
It's the hotel where Rose is days away from staging a giant wedding for relatives from her often-mentioned hometown of St. Olaf, Minn. The homicide, of course, throws everything into disarray.
In 1976, The Two Ronnies included a weekly serial called The Phantom Raspberry Blower Of Old London Town, about an elusive figure who does for people by leaping out and blowing raspberries at them, and I was given the honour of providing the raspberries for the soundtrack.
I mean, I remember shooting the Academy Award Show during the pandemic, and my daughter and I wound up just sleeping in my dressing room because we were here so late. So it really is like a second home.
Smith's chemotherapy left him with an awful half shaggy, half bald look, so he buzzed it all off. 'First time I've been bald since I was a baby,' he says, happily.