The Man with the Million Dollar Coiffure
On the occasion of presenting the new David Lynch Foundation For Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace a Q&A took place at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, Emerson College, Boston, MA, on Saturday October 1, 2005 (wmv 67Mb).
A young guy, black hair, somewhat hispanic, is next in line to submit his question to the renowned filmmaker and founding father.
Ah–, I know this question probably be, aah, interesting to no one than myself, so– I apologize in advance for that, but I’m promising askin‘ on behalf of my father. Aah–
I know that you were a-, eh, are you frequented the Bob’s Big Boy restaurant – …?Yes.
… in, ahem, …, that’s a two-part-question, mh: first off (laughter in the audience, slightly embarrassed smile of the guy at the microphone): approximately what year would this had been?, I know you went there for a long time …
It would be (–it would be … (the guy echoing, tryin‘ to soften his being embarrassed)) in the mid-seventies (– mid-seventies …) to the … (hesitating, apparently trying really hard – putting the techniques of Transcendental Meditation by now familiar to him to some good use – to remember correctly) early eighties … in the eighties
… and this would be the second part–: would this be the one in Hollywood, or …–
I went to pretty much, ah, every Bob’s Big Boy …
Audience laughing, Lynch smiling.The only reason I ask, my father used to, ah, work at the Bob’s Big Boy in Hollywood and …
Aha.
I mentioned something to him that I read about you …
Yeah, I was probably in his … his Bob’s–
It’s very possible, so— that’s all I need to know, thank you.
Waving good-bye, while standing back from the microphone.Lynch smiling wholeheartedly, touched.
Beautiful.
For the legend of Bob’s Big Boy,
please click the image above.