David Lynch died yesterday at the age of 78, after a couple of years housebound, battling emphysema. The official cause of death has not been revealed, but reports are that the LA wildfires forced him to move from the sanctuary of his sprawling Frank Lloyd-designed house in the Hollywood Hills, and this had something to do with it.
Without being trite, it could almost be an ending from one of his movies, which were all fire and smoke, elemental, darkly poetic and above all, mysterious.
