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"Ultimately, I was the audience's guide into a very scary place," Kyle MacLachlan says of his roles in Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. He's shown above in London on Dec. 3, 2025.
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Kyle MacLachlan says he was David Lynch's 'submersible' into dark places
Terry Gross
MacLachlan was 23 when he auditioned for Lynch's adaptation of Dune. The two would go on to work together on the cult classics Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. MacLachlan's new memoir is Fictional Selves.
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People walk on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., in 2024.
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Prosecutors are reexamining a Cornell fraternity rape case. Here's what we know
Jaclyn Diaz
Dale Mortimer, left, and his son Brett fill milk jugs at Daloris Dairy, a dairy farm in Rigby, Idaho, in 2024.
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Trump's immigration push has largely spared farms. Idaho dairymen worry it won't last.
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