--  didn't want anyone to think I had any news regarding them. I know how excited people get about them  --

 Anyway, what's the deal with these deleted scenes? I know after being on here for a while I should probably know. Is it certain that they still exist? How come we can't see them? It seems such a waste when there's so many people who would love to watch them.

In my case at least you'd need to scratch excited and replace it with catatonic, disillusioned, bitter, resentful, vitriolic, despondent or weepy.

The scenes were deleted for contractual reasons rather than quality control. Depending on who you listen to the rough cut was rumoured to be up to five hours long. Pete, Andy and Lucy aside I could live without the footage of missing characters but between the shooting script, stills of deleted scenes and allusions made by actors to scenes that were filmed and not shown I can't help feeling I'm missing something good.

If it was financially viable to digitally remaster Eraserhead I can't see how mixing and colour correcting an hours worth of footage from Fire Walk With Me is going to result in financial ruin. Gone are the days when you could stick a trailer and an animated menu on a DVD and call it a special edition. The market's saturated with Fire Walk With Me DVDs now and any future editions are going to have to work hard just to be worthwhile, let alone special.

Profeeta, some of them were cut for a good reason, especially the scenes that had very little to do with Laura (e.g. Pete and Ed at the Gas Farm). But I have a hard time believing the muffin scene at the Haywards' and the Palmer dinner scene (where they speak Norwegian) were cut for reasons of quality. Lynch had to keep it under the maximum length. Laura's muffin comment seems really strange without the prior muffin reference. (Also, cutting the drive to Partyland - which I assume was shot - makes the transition really strange as it seems like it's a back room at the Roadhouse (I remember being really confused when Jacques says "Welcome to Canada".)) I'd like to see the Jacoby scene too. The Jack Nance, Everett McGill and Ed Wright scenes, on the other hand, I want to see because they're great characters - not because they matter to the film.

EDIT: Collides with ham, a stand-alone incoherent programme of deleted scenes like "More Things That Happened" is what I want to see. And "Meanwhile..." is a good name.     

"What credit card do you want to put that on?"
"Caash, prease."

"What credit card do you want to put that on?"
"Caash, prease."

 How fortunate of you! I think FWWM's perfect as is but it's been sixteen years since its release and it seems there's been talk of a directors cut (on VHS and laserdisc) or deleted scenes (on DVD) ever since. People love the film, have waited a long time for the deleted scenes to surface and feel frustrated by all the near misses.  

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

Nicely put.  Unearthing these scenes would be more like Criterion Collection archiving than 'Crazy bloopers from Superbad'...

And regarding the "How's Annie" continuation- anyone know if those scenes in the shooting script where the nurse puts on the Owl Cave ring were actually shot? 

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

 Yeah but we don't want the suits to know that! I've got a horrible feeling I'd buy FWWM on VHS tomorrow for Lil and Buck interviews or a lavish postcard showing red drapes. I still can't believe CBS playing 'exploit the crazy person' resulted in me collecting 61 postcards I didn't even like very much. One minute I was adamant I wouldn't be taken in by such a crass marketing ploy and the next I was knee deep in Gold Boxes, hotly debating how best to present my haul. Damn!

Five Gold Boxes. I had to get down in the mud and wrestle for the remaining postcards (of which there were many) on Ebay. I had almost two complete sets at one point. The Gold Boxes themselves weren't expensive but once you add priority shipping and import duties they double in price. I realised too late that all the Amazon sets came with virtually identical sets of postcards.

I'd love to see the deleted scene of Annie in the hospital. I was salivating when I read the interview with Heather Graham in Wrapped In Plastic. Another thing that really caught my attention was Sheryl Lee's mention in the R1 documentary of coming off set and hearing David Lynch rehearsing with Michael Anderson, a trampoline and a monkey.

Here's a part of the interview.

http://spectrummagazines.bizland.com/WIP24.chtml

"JT: The ending of the film changed dramatically from the script to the final edit. How much of that original ending was filmed--with your character being rolled into the hospital?

HG: I don't remember filming being rolled into the hospital, but we did film a scene where I am asleep in a hospital bed. I have a ring on my finger, and a nurse steals the ring off of my finger. I think at some point, there may have been some person appearing by the side of the bed. I'm not sure. "

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!