I Believe if I Lived My Life Again (Bruce Phillips)
When I remember of beingness aÂTwin Peaks fan in the 1990s, three things come to mind – the Log Lady introductions on Bravo Television, John Thorne and Craig Miller's outstanding magazine "Wrapped in Plastic," and post order catalogs from Bruce Phillips. The latter were filled with wonderful and strange listings of treasures I only dreamed of owning. Thanks to an introduction past Ben Durant and Bryon Kozaczka, authors of the infrequent "Twin Peaks Unwrapped," I recently spoke with Bruce Phillips most his decades-long interest inÂTwin Peaks collectibles.
Ben and Bryon spoke with Bruce while working on their recent book. They graciously connected u.s.a. and, through a serial of exchanges via email, I'm delighted to shine the spotlight on this long-time fan. I'll acknowledge that I was totally geeked out by our correspondence (something I expressed to Bruce multiple times during our exchanges). He is a legend in theÂTwin PeaksÂcommunity, one of the first truthful archivists of the show.
I strongly advise you also check out Andy Hageman'southward interview with Bruce on 25YL Site every bit it'southward a phenomenal read (way ameliorate than anything I could ever pen).
COLLECTING PEAKS
Steven Miller: Â How did yous get into collecting Twin Peaks items?
Bruce Phillips:  When I saw the television trailers for the original circulate of Twin Peaks back in 1990, information technology looked very interesting. My married woman and I started watching from the original broadcast, and we were instantly hooked. Nosotros made certain to adjust our schedules so that we could watch every episode when it aired. From the inviting music, to the suspense and quirkiness, it was totally new and addicting.Â
I had been a collector of various cult-type things for many years before this, so it was only natural for me to then start collecting Twin Peaks items. I enjoy collecting; it’south like a scavenger hunt to me and always interesting when doing enquiry on the things I’g collecting.
SM:ÂTwin Peaks apace became a worldwide phenomenal when it aired in countries outside the United states. The show was particularly pop in Japan. How did you detect products from the international marketplace?
BP:ÂAs the series aired world-wide, each country had their own merchandise, promotional items, and point-of-buy incentives. These are specific promotional items retailers, like myself at the time, would receive based on the quantity of videos purchased. I would start chasing things downwardly as soon as I learned most them. Think, there was no eBay or online shop presence at that fourth dimension.Â
The same occurred with the worldwide distribution of the video releases. I already had some contacts with individuals from other countries from my previous collecting and reached out to everyone possible, even traveled internationally personally, to obtain things. In one case I obtained various items from other countries, I would then contact those distributors and manufacturers straight which enabled me to obtain even more than.
ÂI worked with both Bravo Usa and Bravo Twyman House Timewarp Boob tube United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. Because of my previous association with them, when Bravo Britain was finished with their promotion, I was able to purchase all their promo items.
SM: Information technology'due south strange to retrieve in that location was a time without instant access to thousands of shopping websites. When I first accessed the world wide web in jump 1995, at that place were but a handful of websites available. How did Twin Peaks fans and collectors find you?
BP: As I was obtaining items from effectually the world, I began placing advertisements in various magazines offering to trade various Twin Peaks items for things I didn’t have. When Wrapped in Plastic (WIP) began their publication, I ran advertisements there too.
Again, because there was no internet, everything was done past mail or telephone. Many times I found other collectors preferred to trade for items equally opposed to selling from their collections. This helped them obtain pieces they were personally looking for merely like I was doing. I would contact those I was dealing with here in the The states past mail or fax.Â
SM: How did you lot get started selling collectibles and creating a mail service order catalog for Twin Peaks fans?
BP: ÂIf y'all started adding upwardly my costsâ€"from making large purchases to get promo incentives; purchasing promotional items and cast and crew memorabilia; traveling internationally to get things; purchasing remaining items that various manufacturers and distributors were liquidating; obtaining the necessary video and DVD equipment; etc.â€"I had to try to do something to recoup my expenses as well as requite me a cushion to buy more. I was young at the time, but starting a family, running a business, and finding it was getting very expensiveâ€"literally thousands of dollars.
Since I already had ads running in various magazines and Wrapped in Plastic to obtain things, I decided to create a postal service order catalog and include this with my ads which really was the merely way to reach out to Twin Peaks fans…again, no internet; everything had to exist done by mail.
However, the catalog took a lot of time every bit it was cutting and paste – didn’t take desktop publishing software either. I had to go through boxes and boxes of things I’d purchased, categorize them, and determine a price to sell them at based on my costs.
Give thanks goodness for technology and the internet as I now sell strictly on eBay (follow his auctions at Brucew412). I even become requests for items I have but haven’t had time to list on eBay yet or at that place being a personal favorite. Fifty-fifty today I’1000 still ownership and trading and getting new items weekly. Information technology is amazing, however, information technology is getting increasingly hard to get many items.
With the return of Twin Peaks by Kickoff, I besides started a new service. Offset and other licensees do not ship internationally, so I buy items on fans’ behalf and ship them myself internationally.
VIDEO PEAKS
SM: Speaking of analog applied science like snail postal service, you offered some pretty extensive collections of broadcast clips featuring Twin Peaks. Today information technology's incredibly easy to notice  video clips on sites like YouTube. In the 1990s, this was no easy feat.  How did you amass such a collection?
BP:ÂAt the aforementioned time I was collecting, I started recording whatsoever circulate that just might happen to have something most Twin Peaks or any of its bandage members. I had my VCR programmed to record Entertainment Tonight; late-night shows similar, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman and others.ÂIt took MANY hours to watch these broadcasts and then compile pertinent information.
I likewise began reaching out worldwide for international broadcasts. Again, equally I did a lot of trading around the globe with fellow fans not looking to sell simply wanting to merchandise, I established a network to go broadcasts and merchandise from their countries.
All the same, the videos I received from other countries would not play on the U.S. equipment; so I had to purchase a worldwide player/recorder simply available to purchase outside of the U.S. I and then purchased a video/DVD burner to convert these recordings to trade or sell. I remember existence shocked at having to spend over $one,000 for the worldwide player and an boosted $1,000 for the VHS/DVD recorder.Â
SM: Tin y'all talk almost the Twin Peaks outtake videos that accept never been shown on DVD or Blu-ray?
BP: As I was amassing my video collection, more and more people became aware of it and began contributing what they had that I didn’t worldwide. I ended up with over 50, 2-hour video tapes which included TV broadcasts, interviews, personal footage other fans had recorded, etc.
I too have footage from the International Pilot which is different from that aired in the United states of america. This is because they would non broadcast the US pilot video for Twin Peaks every bit they weren’t confident enough nearly distributing the entire series questioning its appeal. Television executives wanted some type of closure to the pilot. As a result, Lynch Frost Productions / ABC / Earth Vision put additional footage on the International Pilot, making this version different from the one broadcast on Apr 8, 1990.
DELETED SCENES
SM: The Season 3 behind-the-scenes footage on the recent Twin Peaks – From Z to A drove offers a fascinating look at how the show was created. In the 1990s, this sort of footage wasn't readily available. Cheers to you, we have a look at deleted scenes, outtakes and more from the original series. How did you obtain these treasures?
BP:ÂOffice of the Deleted Scenes video that I collected came from fans who found out the shooting schedules, which listed the locations, twenty-four hours, time, cast members, and props for sure scenes, then they went to those specific locations to record them. Fans weren’t allowed on site, so cameras were hidden.
I was also approached by individuals who discretely wanted to share scraped footage. They were probably crew members who worked in or around the editing room. When I asked where the footage came from, I was told that it was fished out of a dumpster. Just for fun, I complied that footage to make my “Deleted Scenes†collection.
Fans found out nigh this and wanted to see them, and so I shared them, simply indicated they were for their ain viewing and not for reproduction, public viewing, and with no rights unsaid. Glad I did this because later some of this footage was used in commercial video releases as special features.
When we decided to move into a new domicile, we of a sudden constitute ourselves madly packing due to a fast sale. Things were put in boxes with petty rhyme or reason to all my collections. I am even so opening boxes and finding Twin Peaks things. In fact, I simply recently uncovered the raw footage from one of the boxes. These are repeated duplicate takes of various scenes of which I included only one or two of each in the compiled Deleted Scenes.
The raw footage is very interesting because you can hear more of the various cast members’ comments on the way a item scene was existence shot, making suggestions, and directors’ comments on different re-shootings of scenes.  It’s too fun hearing the cast and directors joking around during the daily shoots. In that location are also backside-the-scenes recordings, clip board showings, count downs for the editing room to put things in proper place, and digital numbering to make up one's mind what gets cutting and what stays.
Fans that I accept shared my compiled and raw footage with take told me that I have some cloth that has non been included in the official deleted scenes and specials on the various releases of the serial or motion picture on video and DVD.
There accept been so many releases of the series and the movieâ€"from VHS tape to Laser Disc toÂDVD to High Definition and Blu-rayâ€"each with its own box artwork and different specials inside, e.thousand. trading cards, pamphlets, etc. All this was done worldwide, so information technology wouldn’t surprise me if at that place were hundreds of releases which makes information technology difficult to know what is on each release and compare with my deleted and raw footage.
SM: Angelo Badalamenti's music was the gateway to Twin Peaks for me. Â I heard you establish some music while digging through boxes.
BP: When I constitute the raw footage, I likewise establish with it six music CDs which had diverse renditions of Badalamenti'due south introduction musicâ€"probably  determining which to useâ€"Laura Palmer’s theme, Julee Cruise, and the fans' organisation of “Give Peaks a Run a risk.â€Â
The latter was recorded to try to convince ABC Television Network not to abolish the series and used in cooperation with C.O.O.P. (Citizens Opposing the Offing of Peaks) and Functioning Pine Weasel in their endeavour to encourage fans to contact the network. Considering of the efforts of these two organizations, ABC received over 300,000 faxes and letters in 1991.
I besides have on CD various artists throughout the globe, such as Moby, who did remixes of the various Twin Peaks music (east.one thousand. the Red Room dance music), which I even so have non had time to review and share with fans.
PROPPING PEAKS
SM: One of my favorite photos of you is found in Patricia Shook'southward "A Pictorial of Twin Peaks Stars" that I picked upwards at the 1996 Twin Peaks Fan Festival. You're sporting a Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department uniform while standing behind Windom Earle's chess board.
BP: Later the serial was cancelled, I was contacted past crew members through my advertisements in diverse magazines to see if I wanted to buy items they had, e.k. scripts, crew gifts, documents, props, etc, Of course, they weren’t looking to trade; they merely wanted to sell whatever they had, and I bought everything I could become my hands on.
In improver, as I met cast members and adult good relationships, I offered to purchase and sell whatever items they might have. Fifty-fifty today I am purchasing complete collections from individuals wanting to sell everything and non each piece individually which takes a lot of time.
SM: What are your favorite items you've nerveless?
BP: ÂEvery bit I mentioned, I was ever on the lookout for items that weren’t retail merchandise and not bachelor to the general public such as props; crew and bandage member things; product material; promotional items; point of purchase items; limited edition products; and items that were only licensed for distribution in various countries and non sold in the United states of america.
Many of these items ended up in my individual collection equally I may have had just one. Information technology wasn’t until years later on I decided to sell some of my private collection that fans became aware these items even existed.Â
In the prop category, I generally obtained items from bandage and coiffure members where these were given to them equally gifts, and some were purchased from the wardrobe department. I also reached out to various prop stores that actually leased props to television shows and bought known Twin Peaks items from them.
In that location was also a big prop sale by Lynch Frost in Los Angeles in 1991. I was too contacted by other individuals who had purchased props from there which I eventually purchased.
My favorites here would have to be Laura’s Cloak-and-dagger Diary with the key inside; Agent Cooper’s FBI badge and Sheriff Truman’s sheriff bluecoat; the One-Eyed Jack’due south poker chip, and one of the Best Friends necklaces.Â
I was also a key reference for magazines and TV shows. One time I was contacted by a representative from the Frank Skinner Bear witness of Avalon Television in England. They were doing a special with a surprise guest, Kyle MacLachlan, which I had to continue secret. I sent them the various items they requested and answered their various questions. In return, I asked for Kyle's autograph on the "Autobiography of Agent Cooper" which he so kindly did.
The autograph is interesting … “All-time wishes and damn fine coffee Yours truly, The FBI, Kyle MacLachlan, Special Agent Dale Cooper†…and then a drawn motion-picture show of a steaming cup of coffee. That book is nevertheless a special role of my private drove.
SM: There are so many props I wish I had such as Agent Sam Stanley's Whiteman Machine or the original Guardian Angel pic from Laura Palmer's sleeping room.  Is there a prop or detail you wish you lot had in your collection?
BP:ÂThere is one prop that I actually purchased simply the crew member lost it before shipping information technology to me. It was Special Agent Denise Bryson’s DEA wallet identification. I was heart cleaved that this special prop was lost. I was later on fortunate to meet David Duchovny on the ready of X-Files in Vancouver, British Columbia and to be able to purchase ane of his FBI ID tags from a Play tricks charity auction. I’ve fastened a re-create of the original photo copy of what the crew member had for me showing the DEA wallet and several other props that I was able to buy.
SM: As nosotros wrap up, I have iii questions I enjoy asking fellow fans. Do yous call it the "Bang Bang Bar" or "The Roadhouse?"
BP:ÂI refer to it both ways as did the series. I exercise recall during one of my visits to North Bend, Washington having a drinkable with Michael Anderson (Man From The Other Place) and Catherine Coulson (The Log Lady), merely I don’t recall her having a potable. I as well recorded the exterior as part of the video tapes of filming locations.
SM: Which Donna Hayward – Lara Flynn Boyle or Moira Kelly?
BP: ÂDonna, in my heed, will always be Lara Flynn Boyle from the original series. She once sent me a mail card thanking me for my Twin Peaks efforts. I did meet Moira Kelly and had a great conversation with her. She had left her prescription eyeglasses at one of the events I attended, and I picked them up and returned them to her later in the day when I saw her. She was great and I also really liked her in The Cutting Edge.
SM: Which Twin Peaks character practice you most place with?
BP:ÂI think I can most place with Amanuensis Cooper because he was law enforcement. I take degrees in law enforcement and public assistants. I likewise have FBI and Presidential clearance.
In my authorities positions, I was the lead contact person for the customs for the FBI, Armed services Law, and the Secret Service with Presidential visits. I also identify with him because of his analytical insight also equally his quirkiness which I’ve been told I tend to have.
As I say in my eBay listings a quote from Agent Cooper:
"Every twenty-four hour period, in one case a twenty-four hours requite yourself a nowadays. Don't plan it. Don't wait for information technology. Just permit it happen.â€Â It could be something from my buddy'due south Bruce Phillips' drove."
SM: Thank yous for sharing your time and treasures with me. This has truly been a treat, especially for someone who has loved the bear witness for more than 27 years. Whatsoever terminal thoughts?
BP:ÂFrom my simple beginnings of collecting the rare and unusual items fromÂTwin Peaks, to amassing the world’s largest collection by purchasing and selling worldwide; and dealing with fans, distributors, merchandisers from all over to cast members and producers, I guess y'all tin say I became the hub for collecting and selling items thus becoming known as “The Twin Peaks Guy."
Source: https://twinpeaksblog.com/2020/09/25/twin-peaks-fan-spotlight-interview-with-bruce-phillips/
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