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Article: The TP furiku just love Rora Pama. (Japanese 'Twin Peaks' freaks love star Laura Palmer)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- August 24, 1992
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TOKYO- The other day, thousands of Japanese showed up at downtown Tokyo's Shinjuku Station to place wreaths on an altar adorned with photographs of a famous dead American-not John Kennedy, not Elvis Presley, but a woman known throughout Japan as "Rora Pama." They call themselves pika, hard-core fans of director David Lynch's twisted and often abstruse TV series about the murder of Laura Palmer and the bizarre characters who reside in the fictional town of Twin Peaks.
The show was canceled in America a year ago after two hype-filled seasons. But fans in Japan can't get enough of its symbol-rich plot. WowWow, a fledgling satellite pay-TV service, has aired the ...
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