| Believe Again XFN Coverage - Live |
[Saturday
November 14th, 2009 at 9:54pm] |
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http://www.xfilesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3382:believe-again-xfn-coverage&catid=32:conventions&Itemid=111
It is that time again, philes!
Philes from all over the world are right now, at this moment, in LA for the IBG event. We will be updating as they go. So stay tuned for some more great news.
5:00PM EST - XFN Staff members Tiffany Devol, Avi Quijada and Roileigh Ollson among other philes are waiting for the event to start but have run into Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz while waiting. Frankenbear has been delivered to Frank Spotnitz where he will be living for the rest of his life. He has raised over $1400 for the Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center - Rape Treatment Center. Frank has also received the scrapbook with all of the mementos from his trip and Frank said it was the nicest fan gift he has ever received.
5:30PM - XFN is hanging out with Alison Groves from Big Light.
5:40PM - They are announcing the panel. Erin Fox is thanking the audience and remembering how great it is to be in this fandom and to be together. They are introducing the members of the charities. Gale, director of UCLA Medical Center - Rape Treatment Center, is speaking now. They are also benefitting from this event. They are talking about victims they see ranging in age from four months to ninety two years old. They see four new victims a day and are grateful for the help. They have programs in schools and do training and education for police. Healing and hope for a new tomorrow is their slogan. Kid defense team is up to improve the lives of homeless and impoverished children. The child poverty rate is 1 in 50. Check out Kidsdefenseteam.org. Off The Street Kids responds to kids needs in Africa once they turn 18 when they have no place to go and no support.
6:00PM - Rob Bowman is coming. He is currently directing and producing ABC's Castle. Frank Spotnitz is there. Erin Fox introduces Frank and includes that he is the inspiration behind Frankenbear. Chris Carter and Gillian Anderson have arrived! Q&A has started. Rob Bowman asks Gillian how it feels to be Scully. When she was on a plane she saw a picture of herself and said it was the weirdest feeling and came to appreciate the fortune they all had. Gillian says it feels pretty awesome! Frank said she didn't enjoy playing Scully, but kissing Mulder was ok. Frank says he is very proud. Chris is asking when it was the first time they cursed his name to Gillian, Frank and Rob. Gillian says the first episode. Frank says he didn't curse Chris and Gillian says shut up. Frank says Chris is a difficult and demanding boss. Rob says Chris was intense about the show quality. Rob said they had to operate in the edge of talent of people and the schedules were really hard. He said they had 3 to 4 years of bliss. Rob said it was amazing to work in such and amazing environment with such creative people. He said he remembers getting yelled at a lot. Frank asks Gillian what movies make her cry. She says Bambi. Same question to Chris. He says Babbats Feast. Rob says the end of Fly Away Home. Gillian says a recent movie that made her cry is Dean Spanley based on a New Zealand folk tale.
6:20PM - Gillian is asking Chris what was the first thing that came to his mind when he found out she was pregnant. He said rats, then he said he was surprised. He said we have a situation to deal with. In the end it worked out well. Gillian and Erin Fox are talking about pregnancy. Gillian said she deserved all the penance she got from being pregnant and shooting while pregnant but the trunk of the car was out of line, jokingly. Ericka Fraga is asking a question about Kim Manners. She asked Rob what techniques they applied to themselves to make te best episode it could be. Rob says they had different styles.
6:30PM - Rob says Kim Manners was much better at monster episodes. Rob says he wouldn't dare to get into Kim's approach. There was a contest week to week between Rob and Kim.
6:32PM - Talk about third movie. According to Chris Carter himself, 2012 is looming and it would be the subject of a third movie. They said the fan campaign approaching FOX is mind blowing. They are very positive on the fan campaign and the visit to FOX. Frank says he is very humbled by all that he receives at Big Light and what fans come together and do like this event.
6:40PM - XFN's question is asked and Gillian is sharing her special memory of Sheila Larken and says she is like her real mom. She says when she thinks of Sheila she thinks of her own mother. She is very similar to her mother. Chris is talking about doing research for IWTB. Similarities between Humanitas and IWTB with the medical topic. He was very leery to do it at first but when started doing research he fell in love with it.
6:50PM - Someone asked a question about redoing The X-Files in the future. Frank says he hopes they are respectful and not out to do it for money alone and that the studio isn't out to do it for just money. Gillian says that would be sad and the audience agrees. One of the funniest parts of the Q & A comes when Gillian acts as though she is walking with a cane and creaks out, "Mulder!" in an elderly woman's voice. Frank says he wants the show to be a gem and it should be treated as such. He said there are people in the room who are capable of revamping The X-Files.
7:00PM - Q&A is over. Autographs are beginning.
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| The XFN Anniversary Beach Party |
[Friday
November 13th, 2009 at 7:38am] |
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http://www.xfilesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3377:the-xfn-anniversary-beach-party&catid=25:recent-news&Itemid=106 So here comes the weekend!
Nothing but sun and waves and some very wicked phile excitement!
For those around the Los Angeles Area, coming to the IBG event on saturday or just a phile in the SoCal wonderland, we got a plan for your extra day around!
You only need to bring your good energy and a few snacks to celebrate XFN's 2nd anniversary, the end of Frankenbear's campaign and the excitement over the "Believe in the Future" Campaign.
We will meet by the beach entrance nearest to the Ocean Park Blvd. (You can see the map here) You won't miss us, we will be the philes with the x-files t-shirts! Party starts at 12 pm and finishes at sundown.
There's no entrance fee at all. Its FREE!
We will be podcasting the event and also recording a video message to send to Frank Spotnitz.
Come to the beach and join the fun! Who knows we might end up making a sand castle... X-Files Style!
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| Regarding the MEEP controversy... |
[Saturday
November 14th, 2009 at 2:40pm] |
Remember the controversy about the school that would not let students say "meep"??
Lawyer Theodora Michaels lodged her protest and was told that her email had been forward to the local police department. http://theodoramichaels.com/articles/meep.php for the story.
There're links to the news articles in her post as well, so I won't beat a dead horse and repost linkage that's already out there.
And here's my email to the school administrators:
To Whom It May Concern,
I do meep wonder if you meep realize that drawing attention to the meep controversy at your meep institution you've not only meep attracted negative attention to your meep district but have perpetrated, yourself, the disruption you were meep afraid students would meep execute.
IN SHORT--being a meep control-freak about student behavior that is neither meep distractive or dangerous, albeit maybe anno ying and meep disruptive is probably working meep against your goals of control over the student meep populace.
Weren't we all meep kids once? Rebelling is an important meep part of developing a sense of meep self and establishing what one believes.
It's actually meep encouraging to see meep kids lodging their protest meep against "the man" in a non-destructive, safe manner. Kids need to protest. If it wasn't a nonsensical meep word, it would be a protest about long lines in the meep lunchroom.
Though you have reinforced for me that meep most 7th graders are meep far cooler than many adults, so thank meep you.
I also meep think it's funny that if your students had "meep-ed" in the school newspaper that would be covered under free speech but classroom behavior gets no such meep consideration.
--A Concerned University meep Professor and Productive meep Member of Society
Wanna lodge your meep protest?? Send mail to murray@danvers.org, strout@danvers.org, cvaroudakis@danvers.org and dana@danvers.org
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| Frazer Hines: Hines Sight |
[Saturday
November 14th, 2009 at 10:26am] |
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http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/11/frazer-hines-hines-sight.html A revised autobiography of Frazer Hines's autobiography (originally published as "Films, Farms and Fillies" by Boxtree in 1996) entitled Hines Sight is being released; the hardback book is being published by Frazer Hines himself, with assistance from David Howe and Sam Stone, and also features 16 pages of photos from the actor's own collection covering his life and career, plus a foreword by variety entertainers Ian and Janette Krankie.
For full details and ordering information visit the Frazer Hines website.
Hines Sight
Frazer Hines is one of the UK's most charismatic stars of stage and screen. From his early days as a child actor in films such as X The Unknown, and appearances in Emergency Ward 10 and Coronation Street, Frazer became a household name playing the time-travelling Scot, Jamie McCrimmon, alongside Patrick Troughton in the BBC's cult series Doctor Who. In 1972 he was cast as Joe Sugden in the fledgeling soap opera Emmerdale Farm, and became the housewife's favourite farmer for over two decades.
In this compelling and funny book, Frazer reveals his own thoughts and feelings when faced with stardom at an early age, the pressure of being an early 'media celebrity', his love of horses and cricket, and what it was actually like to date, marry and divorce some of the most eligible and beautiful women to have crossed stage and screen in the last 40 years.
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| Michael Moorcock Will Write Who Novel |
[Saturday
November 14th, 2009 at 4:42am] |
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http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/11/michael-moorcock-will-write-who-novel.html 
Award-winning novelist Michael Moorcock has announced on his forum that he will be writing a Doctor Who novel:
Looks like it's official. I'll be doing a new Dr Who novel (not a tie-in) for appearance, I understand, by next Christmas. Still have to have talks etc. with producers and publishers but we should be signing shortly. Should be fun.
Moorcock is perhaps best known for his fantasy stories and novels featuring Elric of Melniboné, and for his series featuring the sexually ambiguous spy and adventurer Jerry Cornelius. He has also written critically acclaimed literary fiction, and has received many awards.
UPDATE:
On his forum, Moorcock has responded to questions from that site and from Gallifrey Base:
Hmmm. I couldn't get to the Gallifrey site but I can answer the odd question here:
1) I've been watching Dr Who since it began. Haven't liked all the doctors and after Peter Davison stopped watching regularly until the new BBC Wales series.
2) Since the Tom Baker series, a lot of my ideas crept into the stories and so in many ways I'll be writing a story which already echoes my own work.
3)I do have to submit it to editors so they can make sure it fits into the canon and this, of course, is understandable. By saying it wasn't a tie-in I did, of course, mean that it would be an original novel, not one which was linked to previous stories.
I share an enthusiasm for the current Dr Who broadcasts with quite a few friends who are 'literary' novelists and I sense in some of the Gallifrey remarks a suspicion of the 'outsider' which you used to get when someone with a reputation as a non-sf writer would decide to write an sf novel. All I can answer to this is 'wait and see'. I'm certainly not a non-watcher! Neither am I someone who ascribes a kind of religiosity to an enthusiasm. This phenomenon crops up a lot, these days associated with sf/fantasy, LOTR, H.Potter, Twilight and so on. I hate these presumptions of exclusivity either in my own corner of the literary world or elsewhere. Mike Kustow, once director of the Royal Shakespeare Co, described this as 'the anxious ownership syndrome', when faced with his first confrontation with sf fandom in Brighton 1968. He'd found the same sort of expression with Shakespeare fans when someone from 'outside' showed an interest.
I've been asked to write Dr Who scripts or stories almost since the series began, because I was known to enjoy Dr Who. Only recently did the time feel right to me to do one. I'm going to enjoy that, too.
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