In honor of the passing of David Lynch, John and Stephen McClurg discuss the screenplay for a legendary Lynch project that was never made, Ronnie Rocket, which is a metaphysical detective story mixed with a Frankensteinesque story about a youngish rock and roll phenomenon called Ronny Rocket.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Read Ronnie Rocket over at lynchnet.com.

Did the robin puppet from Mary Poppins (1964)

influence the robin puppet in Blue Velvet (1986)?

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