“I saw the writing on the wall,” Lynch told People, explaining how his long-time practice of transcendental meditation helped him quit and to stay optimistic. Still, he admitted: “It’s tough living with emphysema. I can hardly walk across a room. It’s like you’re walking around with a plastic bag around your head.”
Consider the Trojan Horse. If only the Trojans had left it where it was – to rot!
I spent an hour trying to find out where David Lynch was – when he died! My worst fear (and David’s) is he was put in his car, that got stuck in the traffic jam on Sunset. Drivers ran for their lives. Their cars were bulldozed off the road to make way for the firetrucks.
Of course this would make a great death scene – in any movie! The rich old man can not walk ten feet without having to hit on a tank of oxygen. So as his frail secretary looks helplessly at her boss, she says;
“I’m not strong enough to carry you!”
“I understand Sabrena. Save yourself. Run Sabrina, Run for your life. Dont look back. Don’t cry for me Sabrina! I have lived a full life!
Sobbing, Sabrina runs fifty yards, and has to look back. She screams to see the Rolls Royce engulfed in flames!
“If only we had a wanning! If only there was a way – TO SEE IT COMING!”
JRP
a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.
“they believed that wild birds in the house were portents of death”
“David Lynch has been evacuated from his home due to the Los Angeles wildfires. Producer Sabrina Sutherland has confirmed he’s safe and doing okay.”
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L.A. fire forced David Lynch to leave his home before his death, report says
Last year, the filmmaker talked about his struggles with emphysema, saying he didn’t leave his home due to concerns about COVID-19 and other infections
By Martha Ross | Bay Area News Group
UPDATED: January 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM PST
David Lynch, diagnosed with emphysema, which he said left him homebound, was reportedly forced to evacuate from his home when the Sunset fire, one of the blazes burning in Los Angeles since last week, erupted on Jan. 8 and triggered mandatory evacuations in Hollywood and the Hollywood hills.
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“Because of COVID, it would be very bad for me to get sick, even with a cold. So I would probably be directing from my home,” he continued.
As recently as November, Lynch told People magazine that he had to rely on supplemental oxygen for anything more strenuous than a walk across the room. He wanted to warn other smokers that the same could happen to them.
Lynch told People he started smoking at age 8, and it was a “big important part of my life.” After years of trying to give up cigarettes, he finally managed to quit after receiving his emphysema diagnosis.
“I saw the writing on the wall,” Lynch told People, explaining how his long-time practice of transcendental meditation helped him quit and to stay optimistic. Still, he admitted: “It’s tough living with emphysema. I can hardly walk across a room. It’s like you’re walking around with a plastic bag around your head.”
The Sunset fire erupted in the Hollywood Hills on the evening of Jan. 8, the day after the outbreaks of the deadly and destructive Palisades and Eaton fires on either side of the city.
For embattled Los Angeles, the Sunset fire seemed to be especially terrifying, as it threatened to burn down into Hollywood and forced the evacuation of such iconic locations as the TCL Chinese Theatre, the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, the Dolby Theatre and Ovation Hollywood, the shopping center in the heart of the neighborhood, the Los Angeles Times reported. Fortunately, firefighters were able to make significant progress overnight and keep the fire to 50 acres. Evacuation orders were lifted by the following morning.
In the family members’ announcement of Lynch’s passing, they said, “We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”
That “golden sunshine and blue skies” sounds inspired by an idealized vision of Lynch’s adopted hometown of Los Angeles. In her tribute to Lynch, Manohla Dargis, the film critic for the New York Times, wrote it was sadly “fitting” that the news of Lynch’s death came while “my city was burning.”
“Few filmmakers grasped the complexities of Los Angeles better than Lynch did and fewer still seemed so at home with its distinct, otherworldly mix of beauty and disaster, sunshine and noir,” Dargis said.
While born in Montana, the Idaho-, Washington- and Virginia-reared Lynch was really “birthed” in Los Angeles, where he attended film school and began making movies, starting with the cult classic “Eraserhead,” Dargis said. Although he was never accepted as a mainstream Hollywood filmmaker, he still had “his own sense of Hollywood,” said his New York Times obituary. He was revered by critics and other acclaimed filmmakers, and “the great outsider” received an honorary Academy Award in 2019, as Dargis said.
“Mulholland Drive” (2001) was his “poisonous valentine” to L.A., the New York Times said, telling a surrealist tale about the misadventures of two would-be female stars who become embroiled in murder, mobsters and the dark side of the the Hollywood dream factory.
Nonetheless, Lynch’s affection for his adopted hometown was apparent in his beloved local weather reports, which he released on YouTube. In one report from May 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown, Lynch faced the camera to let his followers know that “here in L.A.” some morning fog “should burn off pretty soon and we’ll have sunshine and 70 degrees. Have a great day.”
a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.
“they believed that wild birds in the house were portents of death”
Speaking to Deadline, the source claimed David’s health worsened after he had to relocate from his house due to the Sunset Fire. The Mirror US has approached David’s representatives for comment.
David’s family announced his death on Facebook, writing, “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.”
They continued, “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ … It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”
Speaking to Deadline, the source claimed David’s health worsened after he had to relocate from his house due to the Sunset Fire. The Mirror US has approached David’s representatives for comment.
David’s family announced his death on Facebook, writing, “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.”
They continued, “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ … It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”
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