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But with a few notable exceptions, America’s business leaders were silent about the sheer madness of Trump’s launching a trade war without legitimate justification.

"It's easier to get them into the Middle East than across the English Channel, that's the madness of it. It makes me sad."

On stage, she appeared alongside Glenda Jackson in Chekhov's Three Sisters; and played Ophelia in Hamlet – later admitting her nightly descent into madness had been chemically enhanced.

Lynch's black-and-white debut feature Eraserhead achieved this vision far more successfully than his years at art school, with its central character descending into madness after fathering a terrifying baby.

Lynch’s films often explored “the mystery and madness hidden in the normal,” as film critic Pauline Kael put it.