David Lynch - The most Lynchian of them all

CIGARETTES, COFFEE, CANDY. ACCORDING TO LEGEND, AND TO people who spent time with him, these were the things David Lynch would fuel up on, substances that kept him going and contributed to the mad, cosmic swirl of ideas that found their way-to our lasting pleasure-from his brain to the screen.

- STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

Lynch, who died on Jan. 15, just a few days shy of his 79th birthday, was so extraordinary that his last name became the foundation of a descriptive adjective. But if he inspired countless filmmakers and TV creators, no one was more Lynchian than David Lynch.