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By The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The
law enforcement officers of "Cop
Rock" burst into song. In "Twin
Peaks," they guzzle coffee, speak
in hyperbole and covet cherry pie.
Is ABC being weird simply for
the sake of being weird? Has TV
gotten so predictable that the only
way to stand out is to be completely
off the wall?
Not if you ask "Cop Rock"
creaior Eleven rsocnco or "Twin
Peaks" executive producer Mark
Frost.
"I think there's a real trap in trying
to create programming that is
-simply going to be scarier or more
out there than the next guy's program,"
Bochco told TV columnists
during a weekend session of
ABC's summer press tour.
And no, Frost said, "Twin
Peaks" was not trying to pull a fast
one on its audience by being
confusing.
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pretty terrible character traits to
us," Frost said. "I don't think we'd
give up two years of our lives to
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the murder of homecoming queen
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backwards in a dream sequence,
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son without solving the murder of
beauty queen Palmer, audiences
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