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“... Of all the now vanished breed of New Yorker humorists – James Thurber, E.B. White, Dorothy Parker – S.J. Perelman wrote by far the richest, most meticulously crafted prose. His dedication to his art was almost frightening. He was once asked in an interview how many drafts each piece went through. ‘Thirty-seven,’ he replied ...”

“... shaped by lasting collaborations, his greatest was with his composer, Angelo Badalamenti, the Herrmann to his Hitch, who could meet even the vaguest brief (‘Be very Russian’). There’s a video on YouTube of Badalamenti describing the way he and Lynch composed Laura Palmer’s theme for Twin Peaks (‘OK, Angelo, we’re in a dark woods now, and ...”