Profile David Lynch: Peaked interest

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Age:71

Appearance: gaunt, with a shock of electric white hair

Newsworthiness: the American director’s seminal television series Twin Peaks is returning to the small screen

At 2am tomorrow, millions of fortysomethings and older around the world will sit down to an experience they thought they had left behind 25 years ago: the screening of a new episode of Twin Peaks (simulcast with its prime-time broadcast tonight in the US).

In this new ...