My nephew who lives in France saw a soap opera on TV in English named "Twin Peaks." He wrote me a letter saying it was very popular in the U.S. He said he loved the soap opera and he wanted me to send him an address where he could buy photographs, posters, magazines, etc.
Can you give me a clue? - J.W., Salt Lake City."Twin Peaks" was a rather short-lived series that ran on ABC. It was cancelled at the end of last season after unravelling the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer. The two-hour pilot was a ratings success. The successive series was not. One criticism is that it took too long to reveal the killer.
The fact that your nephew lives in France complicates matters because the cost of shipping something to Europe differs from the costs we'll list here. You could, of course, order the items and ship them to France yourself.
Your best bet is to contact the Twin Peaks Gazette, c/o Deep Woods Productions, P.O. Box 1804, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.
Twin Peaks Gazette was the town's newspaper. It published three issues replete with town news as well as celebrity interviews and photos. The Gazette hopes to publish another issue in conjunction with the movie scheduled to be released next spring. The movie is called "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me."
In the meantime, it still has a few collector's sets available for $10.95 plus $2 shipping. The set includes the three back-issues of the paper plus a residence card. The residence card lists a person's name and gives him an address in the town of Twin Peaks.
A Twin Peaks coffee mug costs $7 plus $3 shipping. A T-shirt costs $15 plus $2 shipping. They, too, are available from the Gazette.
A video of the pilot with an extra 15 minutes tacked on at the end is now available. The add-on reveals the killer and it isn't the killer in the TV series.
As far as cast photos are concerned, send your request to Lynch-Frost Productions, 7700 Balboa Blvd., Van Nuys, CA 91406. There's no charge.
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Out-patient psychiatric care
Alternatives to full-time hospitalization are being offered by a growing number of psychiatric hospitals, according to an official of Community Psychiatric Centers.
The increase is in day treatment or partial hospitalization, notes John Randazzo, vice president of the nationwide psychiatric hospital network.
Patients typically arrive at the hospital at 8 a.m., he explains, and spend the day in group, individual and occupational therapy programs in a safe controlled environment with constant access to professional help.
Some patients, he adds, call it "coming to work."
They leave home in the morning and return in the evening - "and their neighbors are none the wiser about where they've been."