Variety has a statement from Lynch, who calls Coulson “one of my dearest friends”, and adds that she was “solid gold…”
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In addition to her work in David Lynch’s cult series, she was active in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for over 21 seasons. She was a spiritual person – a longtime TM (Transcendental Meditation) meditator.
Coulson was born October 22, 1943, and raised in Southern California, the daughter of a radio producer and public relations executive. Her mother was a ballet dancer and vaudevillian; her father, a producer and PR executive for Walt Disney, among other companies.
For example, she told authorities on the show that the log had clues as to who might have killed Laura Palmer (the murder which set the series in motion). Coulson responded: “He suggested I talk about sustainable forestry”. She doesn’t do very much, but she seems to know everything: In Lynch’s cosmology, this might make her God, the Devil, or something more powerful.
On a break from the project, Coulson starred in a Lynch short, The Amputee, as a legless woman.
Hailing from Ashland, OR, Coulson was married twice: first to Twin Peaks/Eraserhead co-star Jack Nance, and then to Marc Sirinsky.
The Log Lady says, simply: “I thought so”, and walks away. He had initially cast her as a nurse in the 1977 movie “Eraserhead.” but she became an assistant director on the film instead.
“I carry a log – yes”.
She is a monastic figure, but Coulson plays her with a fussy drollness.
But what may have elicited “hmms” in the late 1970s proved a hit little more than a decade later.
Complete information about survivors was not immediately available. It didn’t matter. People loved it. The character was partly Coulson’s brainchild.
The Log Lady even had the ideal tonic speech for grief, whether it be the result of a break-up or a death or a looming essay deadline.
And yet the Log Lady was a lovable eccentric, fighting the good fight for those on the margins of society. Concerned everyone else’s life is fine and dandy while you slip into ennui and feelings of inadequacy? Instead, however, Coulson wound up working as an assistant director on the film.
“I don’t believe we’ve been introduced”, came the reply.
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Twin Peaks is a show in which spirits shift around rather routinely, and, specifically, there’s a mysterious connection between wooden objects and transmogrified souls.
