26 December 2007: Joss Whedon - SFX Magazine
SFX magazine (UK) will have an interview with Joss Whedon in their issue #166, which wil be on sale from 16th January 2008. For more info and an interview taster go to www.sfx.co.uk.
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20 December 2007: James Marsters - Torchwood Trailer
BBC America are promoting the new season of Torchwood and you can watch the trailer for James Marsters' episode at www.youtube.com
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20 December 2007: David Boreanaz - Graham Norton Uncut
David Boreanaz recently appeared on the Graham Norton Show on the BBC. You can now view an uncut version of the show at the BBC's website. Watch it at www.bbc.co.uk. You will need to use Internet Explorer to download this video.
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16 December 2007: James Marsters - December Q & A Online
James Marsters has answered your questions for December and you can view them at www.jamesmarstes.com.
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15 December 2007: Nicholas Brendon - Supercat
Nicholas Brendon has been cast as the voice of Supercat in the new Cartoon Network show of the same name.
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15 December 2007: David Boreanaz - On BBC Radio 1
David Boreanaz appeared on Edith Bowman's show on BBC Radio 1 on Tuesday and you can listen again at www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 until next Tuesday (including the answer to my very own question about his Executive Producer status on Bones).
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14 December 2007: Charisma Carpenter - Updates her Journal
Charisma Carpenter now has a journal on her Official Website and you can view her first update at www.charismacarpenteronline.weebly.com
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11 December 2007: Eliza Dushku - The Thacker Case
Eliza Dushku has been cast alongside John Savage and Gabriel Mann in The Thacker Case. The story revolves around the discovery of the body of Thacker, a repeat drunk driving offender, after his latest arrest. Eliza will play Monica Wrightm an attorney. Shooting begins this week in Los Anegles and Iowa.
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6 December 2007: Seth Green - Annie Nomination
Seth Green has been nominated for an Annie award for his work on the Robot Chicken Star Wars special. You can see the full list of nominations at www.moviecitynews.com
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6 December 2007: Michelle Trachtenberg - 17
Michelle Trachtenberg has been cast in 17, a teen comedy from New Line. 17 follows the story of a middle-age father who wakes up to find he#s 17 again and enrols in the same school as his children. Matthew Perry also stars as the adult version of the father. Production will begin next month.
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5 December 2007: Alyson Hannigan - How I Met Your Mother Season 2 in the UK
Season Two of Alyson Hannigan's sitcom, How I Met Your Mother, will premiere in the UK on Trouble tonight at 9pm.
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5 December 2007: James Marsters - Advent Calendar
James Marsters' official site have put together an advent calendar offering tasty James Marsters' treats every day until christmas. You can view it at www.jamesmarsters.com
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5 December 2007: Nathan Fillion - Serenity Found Essay
Nathan Fillion is one of the many contributors to the sequel to Finding Serenity, Serenity Found. Pop Candy have a transcript of the essay and you can read it at http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy
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4 December 2007: Summer Glau - Poster Competition
Fox are holding a competition for viewers to design a poster for the Sarah Conner Chronicles. Using images and content from their site you are invited to design a promotional poster. The winner will win a trip to Los Angeles to attend the Sarah Connor Chronicles Premiere Party. For full details and to enter go to www.fox.com. Competition is open to US residents only.
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26 November 2007: Jewel Staite - New Official Site
Jewel Staite has a brand spanking shiny new official website. Check out www.jewelstaite.com for news and updates from Jewel.
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26 November 2007: Joss Whedon - Fans4Writers Plug
Joss Whedon and Ron Moore (Battlestar Galactica) have got together and written a letter to other showrunners to ask them to support Fans4writers. Joss also posted on Whedonesque to assure fans he will be at Fox on Mutant Enemy day come what may.
Here's the letter as posted the Fans4writers forum:
Dear Sarah,
Could you send this out in a mass email to the other showrunners?
There's a site out there called Fans4Writers.com that was put together by -- you guessed it -- fans. It's a really great place for fans to go to find information about the strike and how they can help to support the WGA in our cause. They're already started doing things like creating their own postcards for fans to download and send to the studios, and of course, they are participating in the Pencils campaign instituted by the Guild. Everything's all set-up, they just need more fans to actually go there and participate. Once they're there, they can participate in bigger actions like potentially demonstrating at individual TV stations across the country (something under discussion on the site right now).
Something we can do as showrunners is to go to our own boards and tell our fans to go to this site for information on what they can do to support us. We can also go to the forum they've set up and post messages in the threads they've created for our individual shows.
Having us there, even only sporadically, will help drive traffic to their site and bring more of our fans to a place where they can help support the strike as we enter the next round of negotiations.
Please take a minute to check out www.Fans4Writers.com and consider posting a message to your fans, we think it's worth the effort.
Thank you,
Joss Whedon & Ronald D. Moore
And here's what Joss posted on Whedonesque the same day:
Hey folk. I see you've found the letter Ron and I sent out. (I call him 'Ron'. It's like that.) Personally, I wanted more cussin' but Ron's old-fashioned. Whatev. The pointy part being, we're just trying to get some traction from the non-you guys based fandoms. Where are the "Walker, Texas Ranger" pencils, for the love of heck?
Meanwhilst, December 7th approacheth. Just wanted to assure you guys that I'll be there -- even, if by some miracle, the strike is over. Fox is right across the street from a nice park so it'll either be the Mutant Enemy Picket or the Mutant Enemy Picnic. I'm banking on the former, hoping for the latter. But for them as made plane-y plans, I won't let you down. I may infect you with THE COLD THAT WILL NEVER GO AWAY, but I'll do it with verve and gusto. At some point I'm gonna have to figure out roughly how many of you all are coming, so I can let the WGA PTB know. Hmm.
And I talked today with Jaime Paglia about a Boston event, possibly the week after. We're still figuring that one out, but we sure do want to get people together outside of the NY-LA areas. (And if Boston goes well, next stop: Minsk!) There isn't necessarily a place to picket, so we're trying to configure the event. More soon.
Anyhoo, thanks for keeping the energy up. Now relax and have some turkey, or tofurkey for you vegetarians who aren't afraid of anonymous-meat-shaped food products. I have many blessings to sneeze thanks on, and you are amongst them.
xo -j.
If you want to get involved in the Mutant Enemey Strike day or just want some information on how you can help support the writers go to www.fans4writers.com.
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26 November 2007: James Marsters - Torchwood on BBC America
Season Two of Torchwood, which features James Marsters as a guest star, will premiere on BBC America on 26th January 2008.
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26 November 2007: Drew Goddard - Cloverfield Trailer
Drew Goddard has written a new movie which has been produced by J J Abrams called, Cloverfield. You can watch the trailer at www.empireonline.com
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18 November 2007: James Marsters - November Q&A Online
James Marsters has answered your questions for November and you can read them at www.jamesmarsters.com
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18 November 2007: Joss Whedon - May Have Some News
Day 10 of the Writers' strike and Joss Whedon finds the time to post on Whedonesque and he might have some news. Here's what he had to say:
More from Joss. I have news... that I might have news!
PURPLE PROSE: because you (meaning “I”) demanded it!
Friends, Echo, Bunnymen, lend me your ears. Well, eyeballs. It’s been a few days and I wanted to tell you what’s the what in me-land. Yes, I’m still sick (@#$&#!). Yes, I’m still striking… ly handsome! Zing! Still got it! I haven’t been on the front lines as much as I’d like but I do have some reports.
PICKETING WITH THE STARS! Unbelievable! An amazing experience. Wasn’t there.
PICKETING WITH THE WRITERS at Fox. Still a good experience, though starless. The oddest part of the strike to date: A man came up to us, expressing sympathy and wishing us success and handing out his card… for his jewelry store. I guess he thinks we’re gonna win big. Or maybe he was handing out his card to the wrong side. SO random.
(After picketing I went to an acupuncturist for the first time ever in order to help beat this terminator-like cold. A warning to the uninitiated: this is not like visiting a typical Western physician. Do you have any idea what goes on at an acupuncturist’s office? For the love of God, they PUNCTURE you with needles! They really ought to make that clearer in the name.)
But the big event of the day: got together with a bunch of showrunners whose fans have significant online presence. I won’t say which shows, as the meeting was tippety-top secret, but I will tell you – JUST BETWEEN US – that one of them rhymed with “Cattlecar Flalactica”. And one rhymed with “Gyureka.” And one sounds just a little bit like “Fritz Galway’s Bunny is Really Wealthier”. MORE I CANNOT SAY. And Jane and Marti were there. And a lot of others. There was no food.
The point of the meeting was that the WGA is aware of – and a little blown away by – the passion, tenacity, and organizational savvy of the online community. The “Jericho” nuts are the stuff of legend. Whedonesque and the creation of Fans4Writers were spoken of in awed whispers. I’m not kidding: one of the WGA workers asked me, “So, your fans. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?” I swear, having you guys in my corner is like being friends with Zorro. People in the community are amazed.
We met to see if there was some way for US to organize the way YOU have – to use the nettyweb to show the studios that there are no longer two sides to this struggle; there are three. The audience has a voice, and a right to be heard. We talked about different ideas that have been floated by fans to make some kind of nut-like show of unity and support. How can we do something so noticeable it might even get into the mainstream press? I’ll let you know when it’s worked out – should be within a day or so. Should be fun, too. Hell, it was fun just being in a room full of smart writers again, pitching ideas. (Also fun was typing “Hell”. Makes me sound butch.)
I also asked about a Mutant Enemy strike day, and the WGA peeps said they had no problem with that. We still don’t have a date (I still don’t have a lung) but I’ll be organizing that soon. Here’s the deal for whomever can come: Bring a sign, walk the line. (If you can’t make one there’ll probably be extras, but I think it’s more fun to make your own. Nothing rude, please.) I’ll get as many M.E. writers (and hopefully a few actors) as I can to walk outside one studio for a four hour shift alongside… well, any fan that carries the banner. More on that as it develops. Back to you, Bob.
Jaime Paglia of “Eureka” – I mean Flaime Flaglia of… florget it – talked about getting this movement into the non-California-or-New-York states, and I thought that was wisely wise. There are shows shooting in Boston, Rhode Island, Philadelphia – and there are fan-bases in EVERY state. We talked about getting some rallies going at local affiliates all over the country. I, of course, got to boast about the Browncoats and the “Serenity” screenings… The idea of people massing in different cities, whatever their fan-affiliation, is exciting, newsworthy, and let’s face it, fun. (Personally, I’d like to do a whistle-stop tour of the country, but right now that may be a bit ambitious for a man who can’t stand up for more than two hours.) (Still, standing at the back of a train, waving – and the WGA offered to provide bunting. Who doesn’t love bunting?)
The point is twofold. The first is that we expect this to take a long time. We want to make an impression NOW, but we also want to keep thinking of ways to spread awareness and keep you all engaged and, frankly, entertained. Because the second point is that there was no one in that room who didn’t understand that they were there BECAUSE OF YOU, because you guys have already proven yourselves not just dedicated fans but an active, forceful community. Take a moment to be all up in yourself. Now get over yourself. Now doubt yourself. Now hug yourself. Now touch your knee – Hah! Didn’t say “Simon says”. Like, ever. FOOLS! It’s you unauthorized-knee-touching fools who are proving that the internet is indeed the line in the sand (“…must be drawn Heah! This fah! No fuhther!”), for it’s the one medium the congloms don’t control. Televised news is largely ignoring us, the print media is eating Nick Counter’s astonishing lies like candy they get paid to eat, but you upon the ether… you haven’t been silent and you can’t be silenced. Go ahead. Touch that knee. Simon be damned.
It’s nice to blog sans rage for a change. Better for the immune system, too. Thanks, all, and keep watching the skies.
-j.
joss | Purple prose | 20:14 CET | 196 comments total | tags: bags, hags, flags
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18 November 2007: James Marsters - Dragonball
James Marsters has been cast as the villain in a live-action adaptation of the popular manga "Dragonball" which is scheduled for a summer release by Twentieth Century Fox. The story follows "an adult humanoid alien named Goku, who discovers that he was sent to Earth to blend in and destroy our population but instead elects to protect it from an oncoming alien onslaught bent on dominating the universe and controlling the mystical objects from which the film takes its name".
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18 November 2007: Nicholas Brendon - New Audio Blog
Nicholas Brendon has updated his audio blog on his official website and you can listen (or read) to what he has to say at www.nickbrendon.com.
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18 November 2007: Brian Lynch - Angel: After the Fall Signing
Angel: After The Fall Issue #1 is released on 21st November 2007 and writer, Brian Lynch will be at Meltdown Comics, Sunset Blvd, L.A. from 12:00 to 14:00 signing autographs. He will also be bringing along some preview page from future issues.
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18 November 2007: Julie Benz - Punisher: War Zone
Julie Benz has been cast in the sequel to The Punisher, Punisher: War Zone. The film is being made by Lionsgate who were responsible for John Rambo which Julie also starred in.
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18 November 2007: Anthony Stewart Head - Horseshoe Auction
Anthony Stewart Head is offering for auction a horseshoe from Otto, the horse that featured in the Buffy episode, Lessons. The shoe was removed from Otto immediately after the Buffy shoot. The money raised will be used to help build an enclosure for rescued hedgehogs at Tiley farm. For more details and to place a bid go to www.anthonyhead.org.
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18 November 2007: David Boreanaz - Ghost Writer Trailer
Some time ago David Boreanaz filmed Suffering Man's Charity, a film written and directed by Alan Cumming who also stars in the film. The film is being distributed by American World Pictures and has been re-named Ghost Writer. Ghost Writer tells the story of a writer, Sebastian St. Germain (played by David), who is taken in and then murdered by John Vandermark (Alan Cumming). When John discovers his unfinished manuscript he completes it and sells it as his own, causing Sebastian to come back and haunt him. You can watch the trailer at www.americanworldpictures.com.
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18 November 2007: Adam Baldwin - Charity Shirt Auction
Adam Baldwin has teamed up with the California Browncoats to auction off 13 screen worn shirts that from Firefly and Serenity in aid of the Marine Corps - Law Enforcment Foundation. The auctions started on 14 November 2007 and will go on until all the shirts are sold. For details of the shirts, auction start dates and to make a bid, go to www.californiabrowncoats.org.
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18 November 2007: Joss Whedon - Strike Post on Day 5
Being unable to do any constructive writing, Joss Whedon just can't stop posting on Whedonesque, this is what he had to say after day Day 5 of the Strike:
Mom, He's Doing It Again... Reading! Rallying! Writing!
THE PURPLE PROSE OF CAIRO
Two very different experiences today that I’d like to share with y’all. Last one first: Entertainment Weekly joins the New York Times in fair and balanced writer-bashing. Their cover story on the strike kind of stunned me. They’ve always been really sweet about my shows and I’ve read a lot of interesting stuff in there but holy boy are they missing the point. Their reporter has fallen into every cliched journalistic trap the congloms have ever set. I realize his magazine is owned by one of them, but I expected better. Let’s go in for a closer look.
(By the way, I’m fully aware that I have turned into Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce at the end of the movie when he’s all strung out and not funny and just reading legal briefs during his stand-up, but further down I make this really awesome joke you’re gonna wanna tell all your friends, just wait.)
“Labor disputes in Hollywood may not inspire the sort of tingly feelings of fraternal solidarity with the common man associated with, say, an uprising of mill workers. Some of the writer’s demands – keeping their names on movie posters, for instance – wouldn’t lure Norma Rae to a picket line. But make no mistake: when the Writers Guild of America announced that its members would be folding up their laptops until further notice, they picked a fight with producers, studios, and TV networks that could turn this town inside out over the next several months. And perhaps even alter the balance of power of the entire entertainment industry.
“As always, the argument is over money. The writers want more.”You’re probably way ahead of me. We don’t do real work. We demand frivolous things. We picked a fight. We’re greedy. The article goes on to present both sides but that’s like letting a fight go four more rounds while one of the fighters is lying on the canvas. The damage is done.
Does anyone believe we picked a fight? That the AMPTP didn’t have months (or, truthfully, 19 years) to make an equitable deal with us? And does anyone believe it has anything to do with poster credits? (Which, by the way, is a serious issue in a town where name recognition is directly related to job offers and salaries. But we didn’t walk out on our jobs over it.) As for more money, has anyone not done the math on the massive downloading of ‘The Office’, wherein there is NO money? Hey, that reminds of a fun thing: theft! (Editor’s note: theft is not a fun thing, unless Catwoman or Cary Grant is doing it. Then it is legally sexy.)
At this point I uttered “Grrr”. “Arrgh” came on the next page. Let’s go to the videotype:
“…so far nobody in Hollywood has figured out how to get really rich on the internet. If the writers and producers agree on one thing, however, it’s that someday somebody WILL – and they both want to be there with their wallets open.”
Putting writers on a par with multibillion dollar companies is certainly an odd perspective. Their wallets are, shall we say, bigger. Than your house. (“Producers” is a misnomer in this case; most producers in television are writers. All television production is run through the studios now.) The sum total of the residuals being asked for in a year wouldn’t equal one of these moguls’ salaries – it wouldn’t even scratch the actual yearly profit of their company. The paragraph continues with the famous argument Nick Counter presents against giving us a decent fixed percentage: There’s no “business model” for the internet, so we don’t know how much money there is. Okay, class, all together: two and a half percent is two and half percent NO MATTER WHAT. It is never more. However much money there is, or isn’t, it still almost all goes to them.
Bored? I’d be, if I wasn’t so amazed. But I’ll move on the first event of the day – the rally at Fox plaza. Yeah, I schlepped out of bed to share my cold with some 4,000 writerly types and God I’m glad I did. I saw so many friends and comrades (plus two brothers and a sister-in-law), and got such a rush of genuine purpose and solidarity. How many events are gonna feature Rage Against the Machine, the Reverend Jesse Jackson AND Norman Lear? Twelve, tops. Much inspirational speechifying. (And a mom holding her little girl, who had sign that just said "Share.") Felt like hell going in, felt like hell-on-somewhat-wobbly-wheels coming out. (The only downside was that the rally was at the base of the Fox building, more commonly known as Nakatomi Plaza, and the overload of “Die Hard” jokes may have blown the grid for a few blocks. I’m as much at fault as anyone.)
I guess being at the heart of something and then seeing an outsider’s gross misapprehensions about it was too much of a rollercoaster for this sick boy (not to be confused with Sick Boy from “Trainspotting”, who is less phlegmy and more confusingly hot). So I rant, and you have to suffer for it. And I totally lied about that great joke. I got nothin’. But I can’t let this shoddy journalism go unanswered. They have turned me into a blogger. And that I do not forgive.
Let’s end with a list. Here are the films I WAS gonna write but now I’m on strike so America (and foreign territories) will never get to see them:
1) The Man With The Golden Thing
2) Seven Brides For Seven Draculas
3) Avenging Benji
4) Don’t Pick At It – Oh God, What’d I Just Say?
5) The Cars That Could Turn Into Robots But No, It’s Different
6) Wonder Woman
7) Cheese For FriedaThat’s right. I had ‘em all outlined. It was gonna be my mature period. Damn shame.
Thanks for logging on. I’ll behave from now on, I swear.
All the bestiness, your own Mr Sexy Brain of 2007.
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18 November 2007: Marc Blucas - After Sex
Marc Blucas stars in After Sex, an 'edgy, sexy character driven comedy that explores intimacy, vulnerability and the revelation of self that occurs in relationships'. You can watch the trailer at http://vids.myspace.com/
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18 November 2007: Christian Kane - Hide Trailer
Christian Kane stars in Hide and you can watch the trailer at http://vids.myspace.com/.
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18 November 2007: Joss Whedon - 5 Great Strike Movies
On day 4 of the Writers' strike, Joss Whedon is still sick and posts his top 5 Strike movies on Whedonesque. Here's what he said:
Still More Purple Prose: 5 Great Strike Movies. Joss cannot get out of bed. Neither can he shut up.
PURPLE PROSE – THE NEXT GENERATION
Hi campers (and people not currently camping)! Still phegmtastic, but wanted to say a quick thanks to Dreamlogic (I will not reveal her real name here, for I know she has many enemies) (which is weird ‘cause she seems nice enough) for bringing the sign and the food and the love yesterday. The place was mobbed, and in addition to Drew and Marti I got to hang with BKV, and Liz Craft and Sarah Fain (Women’s Murder Club – Catch it! When it comes back!) and many other fine folk. And yes, there was talk of a Buffy picket (or really a Mutant Enemy picket) being set up when I’m not sick and Tim’s not on jury duty.
Since I don’t have any real news and don’t feel like waxing poetical (can you bikini wax poetical?) (like short, painful prose that reads real smooth after?) I’ve decided to list my five (off the top of my congested head) favorite strike movies, to get us all in the proper frame of mind. Hopefully, none of them can be downloaded.
FIVE FAVORITE STRIKE MOVIES.
#5: BILLY ELLIOT. This is primarily about a boy who wants to dance, but the backdrop is the miner’s strike in Manchester in the 80’s, and it’s gritty and tough and depressing and uplifting. (Thatcher and Reagan really got the ball rolling on anti-unionism. Thanks, guys!)
#4: DAY OF THE DEAD. Okay, not a strike movie. And it’s a stretch as an allegory, but it’s not a stretch to find a critique of capitalism laid out in it. Expanding (as Romero always did) on ‘Dawn of the Dead’s themes of mindless consumerism and conformity (zombies outside the mall) and ‘living the American dream’ of pointless acquisition (people living IN the mall), Romero takes us here to the bleak end of that scenario, where the ‘haves’ (soldiers and scientists) are holed up in a cave with acres of trailers and boats and goodies – all of them useless – going completely insane while the ‘have-nots’ (zombies) are left outside or kept in a pen, the lucky few being fed the occasional dead person. The zombies are much more sympathetic than the humans, especially ‘Bub’ (the unforgettable Sherman Howard), who is being tested and showing signs of humanity, and who becomes the ‘voice’ of the starving (okay, for brains) masses. I myself am a capitalist, but like any system, taken to its extreme it’s unfair, untenable and results in the destruction of the system. And what is this fight about if not capitalism at its untenable extreme? How much money do these corporations need to take from us? Seriously. In what way can our basic rights actually damage them? Have they ever said “We can’t guarantee you fair residuals on all media because of such and such, because it will lead to this and that?” What, exactly, is their position besides “Nuh-uh”? The bile riseth. So I have no problem including a film with entrail-munching on my list.
#3: NORMA RAE. Duh. ‘Sides, Sally Field was on the picket lines yesterday. Yay her.
#2: NEWSIES. Oh, you knew this was coming. The wonderful irony of Disney making a children’s fable about the power of workers’ unions was lost on me when I first saw it (it was not lost on the L.A Weekly). The politics of this film are clear, intelligent and uplifting. And the songs are catchy. And Batman’s in it. (And hearing my children walking around the house singing “No one can make us give our rights away” makes all of this a lot easier.) Is it dorky? YOU’RE dorky! Dork.
#1: MATEWAN. This is one of my favorite movies, period. John Sayles captures a coal miners’ strike from the thirties with beauty and pain and extraordinary verite. He also captures Chris Cooper, Mary McDonnell and David Strathairn long before they were well known, in indelible performances. And you don’t know what contempt is until you’ve heard James Earl Jones use his James Earl Jones voice to spit out the word “scab”. A classic. (Fun fact: Kevin Tighe plays a heavy in this AND ‘Newsies’. Have a Kevin-Tighe-is-a-meanie double bill!)
There! Now you can makes some popcorn, cosy up on the couch and get all strikey! I’ll check back in when I’ve got actual news, or any leads on Dreamlogic’s many enemies. (Wait a minute… didn’t I see her talking heatedly with TrollLogic?) Let me know if there's any good movies I missed.
Parenthetically (seriously, what’s up with that?), –j.
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17 November 2007: Gina Torres - Durty Sexy Money
Gina Torres has landed a guest starring role in Dirty Sexy money. Gina will play the ex-wife of Simon Elder. The role was originally intented to be a recurring role, however, due to the ongoing writers' strike it looks like for now it will be a one episode guest spot.
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17 November 2007: Joss Whedon - More Strike Postings
On the second day of the WGA Writer's Strike, Joss, too poorly to picket, decided to post on Whedonesque instead. Here's what he had to say:
More Joss Strike Talk. IN WHICH Joss goes on again about all things Guildy.
And now it’s time for a little more PURPLE PROSE.
As I’m too sick to picket today, I feel I must make up for it, and thus I blog a mighty blog. And yes, I really do have to get my own webpage and stop mooching off you guys, but till then, I hope you don’t mind if I natter on.
STRIKE DRAGS ON FOR SECOND DAY! IS THIS THE END OF WRITTEN WORD?
Reporters are funny people. At least, some of the New York Times reporters are. Their story on the strike was the most dispiriting and inaccurate that I read. But it also contained one of my favorite phrases of the month.
“All the trappings of a union protest were there… …But instead of hard hats and work boots, those at the barricades wore arty glasses and fancy scarves.”
Oh my God. Arty glasses and fancy scarves. That is so cute! My head is aflame with images of writers in ruffled collars, silk pantaloons and ribbons upon their buckled shoes. A towering powdered wig upon David Fury’s head, and Drew Goddard in his yellow stockings (cross-gartered, needless to say). Such popinjays, we! The entire writers’ guild as Leslie Howard in The Scarlet Pimpernel. Delicious.
Except this is exactly the problem. The easiest tactic is for people to paint writers as namby pamby arty scarfy posers, because it’s what most people think even when we’re not striking. Writing is largely not considered work. Art in general is not considered work. Work is a thing you physically labor at, or at the very least, hate. Art is fun. (And Hollywood writers are overpaid, scarf-wearing dainties.) It’s an easy argument to make. And a hard one to dispute.
My son is almost five. He is just beginning to understand what I do as a concept. If I drove a construction crane he’d have understood it at birth. And he’d probably think I was King of all the Lands in my fine yellow crane. But writing – especially writing a movie or show, where people other than the writer are all saying things that they’re clearly (to an unschooled mind) making up right then – is something to get your head around.
And as work? Well, in the first place, it IS fun. When it’s going well, it’s the most fun I can imagine having. (Tim Minear might dispute that.) And when it’s not going well, it’s often not going well in the company of a bunch of funny, thoughtful people. So how is that work? You got no muscles to show for it (yes, the brain is a muscle, but if you show it to people it’s usually because part of your skull has been torn off and that doesn’t impress the ladies – unless the ladies are ZOMBIES! Where did this paragraph go?) Writing is enjoyable and ephemeral. And it’s hard work.
It’s always hard. Not just dealing with obtuse, intrusive studio execs, temperamental stars and family-prohibiting hours. Those are producer issues as much as anything else. Not just trying to get your first script sold, or seen, or finished, when nobody around believes you can/will/should… the ACT of writing is hard. When Buffy was flowing at its flowingest, David Greenwalt used to turn to me at some point during every torturous story-breaking session and say “Why is it still hard? When do we just get to be good at it?” I’ll only bore you with one theory: because every good story needs to be completely personal (so there are no guidelines) and completely universal (so it’s all been done). It’s just never simple.
It’s necessary, though. We’re talking about story-telling, the most basic human need. Food? That’s an animal need. Shelter? That’s a luxury item that leads to social grouping, which leads directly to fancy scarves. But human awareness is all about story-telling. The selective narrative of your memory. The story of why the Sky Bully throws lightning at you. From the first, stories, even unspoken, separated us from the other, cooler beasts. And now we’re talking about the stories that define our nation’s popular culture – a huge part of its identity. These are the people that think those up. Working writers.
“The trappings of a union protest…” You see how that works? Since we aren’t real workers, this isn’t a real union issue. (We’re just a guild!) And that’s where all my ‘what is a writer’ rambling becomes important. Because this IS a union issue, one that will affect not just artists but every member of a community that could find itself at the mercy of a machine that absolutely and unhesitatingly would dismantle every union, remove every benefit, turn every worker into a cowed wage-slave in the singular pursuit of profit. (There is a machine. Its program is ‘profit’. This is not a myth.) This is about a fair wage for our work. No different than any other union. The teamsters have recognized the importance of this strike, for which I’m deeply grateful. Hopefully the Times will too.
Thanks for letting me usurp the page again. I’ve linked you to a guild site that has a lot of clear, interesting writing in it (in particular, a great letter from a location scout [they’re part of the teamsters] on why he dislikes writers and why he won’t cross a picket line, and a rumor control Q&A that contains the funniest thing I’ve read since “fancy scarves”). I realize that I’m preaching to the choir here, but perhaps some other sites will pick this up. You guys are, after all, on the map. None of the writers – or anyone – I’ve spoken to have ever heard of fans organizing and supporting a strike the way you guys have. Supporting our right not to entertain you. Seriously, that’s rare. When I showed my wife the banner that went with the pizza scheme, she just said, “These people are gonna be running the world.” Man, I hope she’s right.
Shutting up now, -j.
joss | Purple prose | 00:42 CET | 194 comments total | tags: joss post, scarves, blather, joss, strike
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17 November 2007: Joss Whedon - Posts From The Front Lines of the WAG Strike
The Writers Guild of America Called Strike Action on Monday 5th November and Joss Whedon was among the screen writers picketing outside studios in LA and New York. Organised as ever, Whedonesquers took pizzas out to thgose striking outside Universal Studios and you can read about that at www.whedonesque.com.
Joss took the time to post on Whedonesque and tell us of his day. Here's what he said:
FROM THE FRONT LINES!
Sick as a dog but proud as a noble and much healthier dog, I made my way to the picket lines outside of Fox studios today. I’m really glad I did. In addition to carrying the banner, it was a chance to talk with other writers, get more perspectives and more information about what’s happening, and to see a surprising number of old friends. David Fury and Mere Smith were there, as well as many non-mutant enemies that I know. We were all caught in that giddy first burst of solidarity and fear. Nobody thinks this is going to be easy. But everybody there knows that, as things stand, it has to be.
A particularly gratifying and unexpected sight was that of Aly and Alexis, along with Cobie Smulders, marching shoulder to shoulder with the HIMYM scribes. Aly and Alexis even brought boxes of candy bars to hand out to the flagging marchers (actually, I was the only one who appeared to be flagging – even the pregnant writer outlasted me). Mere told me young Boreanaz had also been there earlier that day. I was really touched, but my actor-friends were very matter-of-fact about the whole thing. They understand that the issues at hand affect the future of the entire creative community here, and that the writers, by virtue of being first, will set a precedent that affects all the guilds. That is why we writers have to be firm, intractable and absolute in our dedication to getting a fair deal. And that’s all we’re talking about: a fair deal. For us, and for generations of artists to come.
Sounds pretty damn pompous, no? “Generations to come…”? Yeesh. But it’s true. Our culture, our government, our corporate structures have all gotten pretty used to taking care of ourselves at the expense of our children and their children. Part of this is simple greed, part is immediate practicality trumping long-view perspective, and part is perfectly understandable fear. It’s easier to take what you’e given, not protest, not make a fuss. A lot of people will suffer grievously if this strike isn’t quickly resolved, and the men and women who voted for it know that. But like so many things – our eco-system being the most obvious – if we don’t make it work now, what’s to come will be much worse.
Let me be clear on one point: I know I have it easy. I’ve done well, and I’m grateful that I can weather a long winter. Compared to what the studios have made off me my share is tiny and cute, but I’m in no position to complain. But take that differential, apply it to someone who’s just getting by when they deserve better. Now take it and… well, just take it, ‘cause when it comes to the internet and the emerging media there’s nothing there for the artists. There’s no precedent; these media didn’t exist the last time a contract was negotiated. We’re not just talking about an unfair deal, we’re talking about no deal at all. Four cents from the sale of a DVD (the standing WGA deal) sounds exactly as paltry as it is, but in a decade DVD may have gone the way of the eight-track. We have to protect the rights of the people who tell the stories, however they’re told. I’m never gonna be as articulate as Shawn or Brian (both of whom have been linked here, I believe), but I am just as committed. And a lot phlegmier.
I don’t think of the studio heads as a bunch of grinning tycoons sitting in a smoke-filled club and drumming their fingers like Montgomery Burns. I know some of those guys. I think they’re worried about the future as much as anyone. But they are beholden to their corporations, and that inevitably causes entrenchment and shortsightedness. They can’t afford that. This is an era of change, and for the giant conglomo-tainment empires, it will either be the Renaissance or the Ice Age. Because we will not stand down. Writers can be replaced, as we are constantly reminded. But so can companies. Power is on the move, and though in this town it’s been hoarded by very few, there are other companies with newer ideas about how to make money off of – or possibly, wonderfully, with – the story-tellers. Personally, I like things almost the way they are. I truly hope the executives negotiating for the AMPTP make the few simple concessions that will allow us to work with them again. I want to work. I have this idea, for a show about a girl… I even have the actress for it. And if we strike effectively, maybe she won’t have to.
I honestly started this post because of Aly and Alexis and their candy bars. But… well… there’s a lot going on. Huge props to the pizza people. Your support during this strike means more than I can express. (Note to self: picket near Jane.) I hope it won’t be long. I watched my Father strike, back in ’88. It was hard. But I was proud. I’m proud now.
Sincerely, -joss.
joss | November 06, 03:40 CET
There's more stuff about the strike and how you can help the cause coming up.
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17 November 2007: Sarah Michelle Gellar - Southland Tales Song
Sarah Michelle Gellar has recorded a song for her new film, Southland Tales, called Teen Horniness is Not a Crime. Well her character is a porn star! You can listen to it in all it's glory at www.perezhilton.com
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16 November 2007: Joss Whedon - The Women of Whedon
Joss Whedon recently told the L.A. times his top five favourite characters creations. Go to www.latimes.com to find out who they were.
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16 November 2007: Camden Toy - Privateer
Camden Toy has been cast as Dominique Youx in Privateer. Privateer is set in 1812, New Orleans and shows both the brutal and elegant lifestyle of one of America's most infamous pirates, Jean Lafitte. The film is currently in development and will be shot on location primarily in Wilmington, North Carolina with second unit filming in Marion, Indiana.
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30 October 2007: DB Woodside - Grey's Anatomy
DB Woodside has filmed an episode of Grey's Anatomy which is due to be aired on ABC on 15th November 2007.
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30 October 2007: Summer Glau - Sarah Connor Chronicles Photo Shoot Video
The Terminator spin-off series starring Summer Glau, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, will premiere on Fox on 14th January 2008. The cast have been doing promotional photo shoots and you can watch a short behind the scenes video at spoilertv.blogspot.com.
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30 October 2007: Ron GLass - Audio Interview
US Radio Programme, The American Perspective recently interviewed, Ron Glass and you can hear the interview at www.newsblaze.com.
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27 October 2007: Anthony Stewart Head - Repo! The Genetic Opera Trailer
Anthony Stewart Head stars in horror musical, Repo! The Genetic Opera which opens 25th April 2008. You can watch the trailer for it at www.firstshowing.net.
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27 October 2007: Jewel Staite - Sci-Fi.com Video Q & A
Jewel Staite has answered questions from fans on the forum at www.scifi.com and you can watch the video at www.scifi.com.
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17 October 2007: Summer Glau - Sarah Connor Chronicles Premiere
The creator of new Terminator series, the Sarah Connor Chronicles, starring Summer Glau, has announced that the show will premeire 14th January at 8:00/7:00c on Fox. The show will premiere in the slot just before the third of the three episode premiere of 24's seventh season.
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16 October 2007: Amy Acker - Ghost Whisperer
Amy Acker has filmed a guest role in CBS' Ghost Whisperer. Amy plays Tessa in the episode, The Weight That Was that will air 26th October 2007.
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16 October 2007: James Marsters - October Q & A Online
James Marsters has answered more of his fans questions and you can view his replies at www.jamesmarsters.com
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16 October 2007: James Marsters - P.S. I Love You Premiere
Warner Bros., P.S. I Love You, featuring James Marsters, will premeire at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood on 10th December 2007. The film also stars Hilary Swank and Lisa Kudrow.
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16 October 2007: Amber Benson - Lovers, Liars & Lunatics Q & A Re-secheduled
Amber Benson's appearance at the showing of her film, Lovers, Liars and Lunatics at the Cinema Arts Centre, New York has had to be re-scheduled. The event will now be held on 24th October 2007. Got to www.cinemaartscentre for full details.
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14 October 2007: Seth Green - Grey's Anatomy
Seth Green has landed a two-episode guest starring role on ABC's popular Grey's Anatomy. Seth, who is a fan of the show, will play a patiant and said, "If you are going to get sick, Seattle Grace is the place to do it. Maybe they'll call mje McSicky?"
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13 October 2007: Alan Tudyk - NBC Pilot
Alan Tudyk has been cast in an as yet untitled pilot for NBC alongside Andrew Lincoln. This new 'legal thriller' revoloves around two lawyers based at a prestigious New York firm who are in love with the same woman. Alan's character, Charlie, is a 'slick, gregarious lawyer who wants to make it to the top'. The pilot will begin filming in New York on 22nd October 2007.
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3 October 2007: Amber Benson - Lovers, Liars and Lunatics Q & A
Amber Benson will be appearing at a showing of the film she wrote, directed and starred in, Lovers, Liars and Lunatics, at the Cinema Arts Centre, Long Island, on 10th October 2007. For more details and tickets go to www.cinemaartscentre.
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30 September 2007: Elisabeth Rohm - Big Shots
Elisabeth Rohm will join her fellow Angel alumni Charisma Carpenter in ABC's new drama Big Shots. Elisabeth will play a love interest Michael Varton's character.
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27 September 2007: James Marsters - Smallville
James Marsters is to reprise is role as Milton Fine (aka Brainiac) in the new season of Smallville. He will feature in four episodes of the show, starting from January 2008.
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27 September 2007: Mercedes McNab - Supernatural
Mercedes McNab has landed a guest starring role in Supernatural. Mercedes will play a girl who "picked up more than a hangover whilst clubbing" and the episode will air on 15th November 2007.
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27 September 2007: David Boreanaz - Video Interview
David Boreanaz talks about the new season on Bones and answers some fans questions in this video interview from Fox. You can watch it at www.myfoxny.com.
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27 September 2007: Seth Green - Ask Seth Updated
Seth Green has answered more of your questions on the Ask Seth section of his Official website. You can read them at www.sethgreenonline.com.
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26 September 2007: Nick Brendon - Criminal Minds
Nicholas Brendon has landed a guest spot in CBS drama Criminal Minds. Nick will play Kevin, a computer expert who is part of the investigative team. At the moment the character is only set to appear in one episode, but there is a chance he could return.
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25 September 2007: Charisma Carpenter - Big Shots
Charisma Carpenter has landed a recurring on role on new ABC drama, Big Shots. Charisma's character is being kept hush-hush, but her first episode will air on 1 November 2007. She will also guest star on Fox's, Back to You.
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25 September 2007: Christian Kane - Carrie Underwood Video
Christian Kane appears in the video for American Idol country singer, Carrie Underwood's, new single, So Small. You can watch the video at www.cmt.com.
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22 September 2007: James Marsters - P.S. I Love You Trailer
James Marsters appears in P.S. I Love You, a story about a woman who loses the love of her life to an illness, but finds that he has left her a stream of letters that will help to guide her through her grief. Watch the trailer at www.canmag.com.
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22 September 2007: Vincent Kartheiser/Christina Hendricks - Mad Men Renewed
AMC's Mad Men, starring Vincent Kartheiser and Christina Hendricks, has been renewed for a second season. Thirsteen new episodes have been ordered and it should begin airing in June 2008.
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22 September 2007: Amber Benson - Death's Daughter
Amber Benson has secured a three book deal with Penguin the first of which will be Death's Daughter, a story of a "young woman trying to make it as a young urban professional in NYC who slowly comes to realize that her father is actually the Grim Reaper and that she must rescue him after he's kidnapped by unknown forces in order to save her entire family (not to mention the world)".
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20 September 2007: Anthony Stewart Head - Paint 4 Poverty
Anthony Stewart Head has submitted a piece of his artwork to the Paint 4 Poverty Charity auction. You can view and bid on the piece at www.paint4poverty.com
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17 September 2007: Joss Whedon - Video Interview from Fearnet
Joss Whedon talks about Buffy: Season 8 in a short video interview with Fearnet. You can watch it at www.fearnet.com
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16 September 2007: James Marsters - September Q & A Online
James Marsters has answered your questions for September and, as usual, you can view them at www.jamesmarsters.com
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16 September 2007: Anthony Stewart Head - Amelia & Michael
Tiscali Film and TV have made Anthony Stewart Head's short film, Amelia And Michael availabe to watch on line. The film tells the story of a married couple who appear to have all the trappings of wealth, success and happiness, but both have secrets they are concealing from each other. You can watch it at www.tiscali.co.uk.
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16 September 2007: Seth Green - Chris Crocker Parody
Seth Green has recorded a parody of Chris Crocker's 'Leave Britney Alone' YouTube video for The Soup and you can watch it a http://voids.myspace.com. If you didn't see Chris Crocker's video you can watch it here.
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16 September 2007: Sarah Michelle Gellar - CARE Video
Sarah Michelle Gellar recently visited education projects in Guatemala with the charity CARE of which she is an Ambassador. You can watch a short video clip of her experiences at www.care.org
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16 September 2007: Adam Baldwin - Chuck Pilot Free Download
US residents can download the pilot episode of Adam Baldwin's new show, Chuck, from Amazon Unbox. You can download to your PC or straight to your TiVo at www.amazon.com
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15 September 2007: David Boreanaz - Late Late Show
David Boreanaz will be appearing on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on 1st October 2007, you can get audience tickets at www.ocatv.com/latelate/
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15 September 2007: James Marsters - Chasing the Devil
James Marsters has filmed a cameo appearance in Lifetime TV Movie, Chasing the Devil in which he portrays serial killer Ted Bundy. The film will premiere next year.
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15 September 2007: Nathan Fillion - Waitress DVD
The late Adrienne Shelly's critically acclaimed film, Waitress, starring Nathan Fillion, is due to be released on Region 1 DVD on 31st October 2007 and should retail for around $28.98.
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15 September 2007: Anthony Stewart Head - Repo! The Genetic Opera
Anthony Stewart Head has landed the lead role in a new horror musical, Repo! The Genetic Opera. The Film is set in 2056 when a plague nearly destroys the human race and survival is dependant upon being able to finance a pricey organ transplant. Sarah Brightman and Paris Hilton are also in the cast.
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12 September 2007: James Marsters - Message to Fans
James Marsters has left a message on his official website to all the fans that attended Dragon*con to see him recently. Here 's what he said:
Hey everybody, good to see old faces and new at Dragon Con. What a crazy gig that was - in a good way. Got back and am super busy, looks like the end of the this year will be a good one. Lots of work! Getting into the recording studio this coming week to work on the new album - hope to have it out by the end of the year. I'm really excited about the new songs, I think it will be some of my best work yet. See some of you in October and November at the concerts.
- James
You can read the message at www.jamesmarsters.com and www.jamesmarsterlive.com.
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9 September 2007: Sarah Michelle Gellar - Possession Trailer
Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in Possession (formerly known as Addicted), the story of a women whose life is thron into chaos after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law into comas. You can watch the trailer at www.terrorfeed.com.
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7 September 2007: Michelle Trachentberg - The Circuit
Michelle Trachtenberg has just completed filming her latest TV movie for ABC, The Circuit. The Circuit tells the story of a father who reunites with his daughter (played by Michelle) to compete in a stock-car circuit. The film is due to air last year.
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6 September 2007: Seth Green - Hip-Hop RPG
Seth Green has teamed up with rapper Master P to develop a role playing game entitled Play the Industry. The game is being developed by Stoopid Monkey Productions and will centre around players earning fame and fortune as a musician, athlete or power broker. The aim is it for it to be available on as many platforms as possible and be due for release in 2009. If the game is successful there are plans in place for a motion picture, reality show and clothing line to be based on the game.
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5 September 2007: Sarah Michelle Gellar - Southland Tales Clips
Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as porn star and chat show host, Krista Now,in Southland Tales due to be released in US Theatres in November. You can watch three shot clips at www.twitchfilm.net
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30 August 2007: Adam Baldwin - Rent the Chuck Pilot
NBC are offering a New Fall Preview DVD for rental exclusively through Blockbuster Online and at participating Blackbuster stores. The DVD features three full shows, including Adam Baldwin's new show, Chuck, and a 2 minute preview. For more details go to www.blockbuster.com.
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30 August 2007: Brian Lynch - Open for Questions
Brian Lynch, who is writing the Angel Season 6 comic, After the Fall, has opened his MySpace up for your questions about the forthcoming comic and Brian will answer as many as he can in a future blog. You can pose your questions at www.myspace.com/brianisfairlyawesome.
Angel: After the Fall Issue #1 is now available for pre-order at www.tfaw.com for $3.19 and is scheduled for release on 28th November 2008.
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30 August 2007: Tim Minear - Miracle Man
Tim Minear has teamed up with Todd Holland (who previusly worked with Tim on Wonderfalls) to create a new drama, Miracle Man. The series tells the story of a disgraced former televangelist who has no faith but finds that God is using him to perform real micacles and change lives. Tim Minear said; "It's about losing everything and starting over and finding that there is a higher purpose in life. It's about a man who says, 'I don;t know how to be good, but I'll try to be better.'"
Miracle Man will be made by 20th Century Fox, where both Tim Minear and Tod Holldan have deals, but has a pilot commitment from ABC who won a bidding war with Fox for the series.
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29 August 2007: Eliza Dushku - Fox Deal
Eliza Dushku has signed a deal with Twentieth Century Fox TV and Fox, as part of the deal Eliza will star in a new project for the studio and network as well has having the cance to become more involved in the development process.
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29 August 2007: Alan Tudyk - 3:10 To Yuma Video Interview
Alan Tudyk appears in the forthcoming movie remake, 3:10 to Yuma, and you talks about his role in a video interview for Collider.com. You can watch it at www.collider.com (scroll down to see Alan's interview).
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28 August 2007: Brian Lynch - Podcast Interview
Brian Lynch, writer of the forthcoming Angel: Season 6 comics, After the Fall, talks about this and the Spike comics in an interview with Radio Askew and you can listen to it at www.radioaskew.com.
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27 August 2007: Nathan Filiion - Trucker
Nathan Fillion has been cast in a Plum Pictures independently-financed drama, Trucker. Trucker tells the story of a female truck driver who lives a careless life with no responsibility until she has to take in her estranged 11-year old son after his father is hospitalised.
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27 August 2007: Natha Filiion - One Life To Life Video Clip Interview
Nathan Fillion returns to Daytime Soap, One Life to Live for the 10,000th episode, to celebrate, he and some other returning cast members talk about their experiences on the show. You can watch them at http://soapnet.go.com/shows/onelifetolive/features/tenthousand/.
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27 August 2007: James Marsters - August Q & A
James Marsters has answered your questions for August on his Official Site and you can view them at www.jamesmarsters.com.
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27 August 2007: James Marsters - Without A Trace
James Marsters has landed a guest/recurring role in CBS drama, Without a Trace. James will play Detective Mars who is investigating what appears to be a ring of Human Trafficing.
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18 August 2007: Eliza Dushku - Nickelback Video
Eliza Dushku, along with a host of other celebrities, features in the new Nickelback video for Rockstar. You can watch it at www.roadrunnerrecords.com.
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18 August 2007: James Marsters - Video Interview from Amazon
To promote the Superman Doomsday (also starring Adam Baldwin) DVD in which he voices Lex Luther, James Marsters has given an short interview with Amazon.com, You can watch it at www.amazon.com.
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18 August 2007: Alexa Davalos - Defiance
Alexa Davalos has been cast alongside Daniel Craig and Jamie Bell in a World War Two resistance movie Defiance. The film revolves around 3 Jewish brothers living in Nazi-occupied Poland who escape into the Belarussian forest where they join Russian resistance fighters. Alexa will play Lilka, a Polish refugee.
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18 August 2007: Seth Green - Audio Interview From NPR
Seth Green and Matthew Senreich talk Robot Chicken and particularly their Star Wars special with NPR. You can listen to it at www.npr.org.
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16 August 2007: Joss Whedon - Robot Chicken
Joss Whedon will be a guest voice on Season 3 of Seth Green's animated series for Adult Swim, Robot Chicken.
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16 August 2007: Joss Whedon - Audio Interview From Amazon
With the release of the Serenity Special Edition DVD, Amazon.com have interviewed Joss Whedon and you can listen to it at www.amazon.com
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8 August 2007: Joss Whedon - Video Interview From Geekscape
Geekscape recenrly caught up with Joss Whedon at Conic-Con and grabbed a quick video interview. You can watch at www.youtube.com.
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8 August 2007: James Marsters - Bonus Q & A
James Marsters has answered a couple more of fans questions on his official website prior to the regular feature on 15th August. You can read them at www.jamesmarsters.com. Scroll down the page for the questions and answers.
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8 August 2007: J August Richards - New Legal Drama
J August Richards has been cast in a new legal drama for TNT. The show will revolve around young lawyers who have been friends since law school but now work on opposing sides. The project is as yet untitled.
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7 August 2007: Jewel Staite - Geek Beat Video Interview
Jewel Staite recently attended the San Diego ComicCon and whilst there gave an interview to The Geek Beat. You can watch the interview at www.thegeekbeat.com.
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7 August 2007: Charisma Carpenter - Greek
Charisma Carpenter will guest star in the season finale of ABC Family's new series, Greek. Charisma will play a national sorority representative who shows up to investigate a big, juicy scandal. The episode is due to be aired in mid-September and should the series get renewed series creator Sean Smith would "love to have her back"
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7 August 2007: Nathan Fillion - Super Secret Thingy Part 2.5
The third (or second and a half) part of Martin Firrell's Hero project featuring Nathan Fillion is now available online and you can view it at www.martinfirrell.com.
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6 August 2007: Nathan Fillion: Misquoted ON Joss Whedon Project
Nathan Fillion has spoken out on MySpace about the recent news article feature in IGN (and reporoduced on various sites including Whedon's World) that he may be involved in a new Western porject along with Joss Whedon. This is what he had to say:
Misquoted at the TCA's re: Joss project
Current mood: embarrassedDid I write out two wee scenarios for a western and send them to Joss? Yeah. It was cool.
Is said western (already a property and not mine) in development? Yes. But not by Joss or myself.
Would I like to be involved? Yes, if they don't sue me for being quoted as developing it myself.
IGN? You're killin' me.Return to your day, and thank you.
Nathan
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28 July 2007: Mercedes McNab/Sarah Thompson - Pink Conspiracy
Mercedes McNab and Sarah Thompson star in new movie, The Pink Conspiracy about a man who believes his girlfriend is cheating on him but discovers she is actually the leader of a conspirational group of ex-girlfriends whose sole purpose is to torment him and ruin his life. You can watch the trailer at www.multivisionnaire.com>
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28 July 2007: James Marsters - The Many Moods of Marsters
James Marsters fan site, Marsters Mobsters are working on a project to make a phot book featuring the many moods of James Marsters. They are looking for submissions for this photo book which will be presented to James at Dragon*Con. For full details and to submit your photo go to http://www.marsters-mobsters.com.
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27 July 2007: Sarah Michelle Gellar - Souhtland Tales Release Date
Sarah Michelle Gellar's long awaited movie, Southland Tales, has finally been give a US Theater release date of 9th November 2007.
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27 July 2007: Nathan Fillion - Super Secret Thingy Part 2
The second part of Nathan Fillion's public art project with Martin Firrell is now available online. This time the video image features words submitted my normal people the world over, you can view it at www.martinfirrell.com/supersecretthingy2.html. You can add your words to the project at http://supersecretthingy.blogspot.com/.
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27 July 2007: Nathan Fillion - Drive Emmy Nomination
Tim Minear's short-lived series, Drive, starring Nathan Fillion, has made Emmy history by being the first ever Primtime Emmy broadband niminee. The three minute clip, The Starting Line, which introduces each character as they race down a busy freeway, was only ever shown in full on Fox.com
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27 July 2007: Mark Sheppard - Bionic Woman
Mark Sheppard recently told fans via his MySpace that he had landed a regular role on the new NBC Bionic Woman series. The series stars former EastEnders actress Michelle Ryan in the leading role and will premiere on 26 September 2007.
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27 July 2007: Eliza Dushku - Bottle Shock
Eliza Dushku has been cast in a new film, Bottle Shock alongside Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman. The film is set in the '70s and based on the true story of the Montelena Winery which won an international wine-tasting competition and put the California region on the vino map. Eliza plays a local bartender.
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19 July 2007: Amber Benson - Girltrash!
Amber Benson will appear in web series, Girltrash! about five ass-kicking girls who get by any way they can. Amber will play Svetlana 'Lana' Dragovich. You can watch the 3 to 4 minute episodes at www.ourchart.com/girltrash.
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19 July 2007: Amber Benson - Race You to the Bottom DVD
Amber Benson's film, Race You to the Bottom, about a bisexual travel writer and his straight female friend who have an affair whilst they travel through California's wine country on assignment, is now availbale on Region 1 DVD. You can buy it from amazon.com for $16.99.
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19 July 2007: Vincent Kartheiser/Christina Hendricks - Trailers and Clips from Mad Men
Vincent Kartheiser and Christina Hendricks star in news series about a 1960s advertising agency, Mad Men which premieres tonight on AMCTV. You can watch trailers and clips as well as a 'Making Of' at www.amctv.com.
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19 July 2007: James Marsters - July Q & A Online
James Marsters has answered your questions for July and you can view them at www.jamesmarsters.com.
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19 July 2007: Joss Whedon - The Office
Speaking to iF Magazine, The Office excecutive producer Greg Daniels confirmed that Joss Whedon will be back to direct another episode of the comedy for Season 4.
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19 July 2007: Nathan Fillion - Final Drive Episodes Online
Fox recently cancelled the airing of the last two episodes of Tim Minear's show Drive, starring Nathan Fillion, but have finally made them available to US viewers online. You can view them at www.myspace.com/driveonfox.
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18 July 2007: Alexa Davalos - Feast of Love
Alexa Davalos stars alongside Morgan Freeman in new rom-com Feast of Love. The film opens 28th September 2007 and you can watch the trailer at www.apple.com.
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18 July 2007: James Marsters - Torchwood
The BBC have confirmed that James Marsters will guest star on the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who spin-off, Torchwood. All James would reveal of his character is that "he is naughty and a bit of a psychopath". The episode is currently being filmed in Cardiff., Wales
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18 July 2007: Seth Green - Old Dogs
Seth Green has joined the cast of Old Dogs, a comedy, starring John Travolta, Robin Williams and Matt Dillon, about two friends and business partners find their lives turned upside down when strange circumstances lead to them taking care of 7 year old twins. The film is set for release in 2008.
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17 July 2007: Marc Blucas - Jane Austen Book Club Trailer
Marc Blucas stars in The Jane Austen Bookclub due for theatrical release 21st September 2007 and you can watch the trailer at www.sonyclassics.com/thejaneaustenbookclub/.
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17 July 2007: Anthony Head - Sold
Anthony Stewart Head will star alongside Kris Marshall in ITV1 comedy-drama Sold which is set in an estate agents. Sold will air sometime in the autumn.
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17 July 2007: Adam Baldwin/Morena Baccarin
Adam Baldwin and Morena Baccarin both star in a new Sci-Fi Original Movie, Sands Of Oblivion which tells the story of archeologists looking for a lost peice of hollywood history who actually find a deadly curse and an Egyption god out for revenge. Sands of Oblivion premieres on the Us SCi-Fi Channel on 28th July 2007.
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17 July 2007: Bianca Lawson - Supergator
Bianca Lawson stars in new SCI FI original movie, Supergator, about a Hawaiian village is threatened by both a volcano that's about to erupt and a voracious, giant mutant alligator that's escaped the lab where it was created. Bianca Lawson plays Carla, a newspapaer reporter who teams up with her former tecaher, a scientist and an alligator hunter in an effort to save the day. Supergator will premiered on the US Sci Fi Channel on 14th July 2007 and can be seen on SCi-Fi Saturdays.
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17 July 2007: Joss Whedon - My Dinner With Joss Raises Over $52,000
The My Dinner With Joss Charity Auction ended on the 12 July 2007 with 4 winners splashing out a total of $52,100 for the 5 seats averaging out at $10,422 a seat. A further $9,606 was raised from the auction of other items making a total of $61,706. Here's Joss's reaction to the news as posted on Whedonesque:
$61716.84
OMG!
lol
$$$! (?)
:)
WTF?
rotfl
I NV U 4 U R A QT
AFL-CIO!
Also, wow.
-j.
joss | July 13, 13:10 CET
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17 July 2007: Drew Goddard - Cloverfield Trailer
Drew Goddard has penned a new film for J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost) which has the working title of Cloverfield, you can view the trailer at www.apple.com.
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7 July 2007: Alyson Hannigan - How I Met Your Mother Season 2 DVD
The second series of Alyson Hannigan's comedy show, How I Met Your Mother, is due for release on Region 1 DVD 2nd October 2007.
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7 July 2007: Joss Whedon - MySpace Comic Books Video
Joss Whedon has answered questions from visitors to MySpace Comic Books, including a little news on Fray. You can watch the video at http://vids.myspace.com.
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7 July 2007: Emma Caulfield - Internet Radio Show
Emma Caulfield will host the Dark Matters program on KarmaAir.com this Sunday (8 July 2007) and is soon to be a regular co-host of the program. You can listen to Dark Matters at www.karmaair.com
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7 July 2007: Nathan Fillion - Desperate Housewives
Nathan Fillion is reportedly in talks with ABC to join the cast of Desperate Housewives as a regular from next season. Nathan would play a man married to an older woman who moves to Wisteria Lane with his wife and daughter.
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6 July 2007: Nicholas Brendon - Unholy Showing in New York
Nick Brendon's film, Unholy will be showing at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater in New York from 13th August 2007. You can buy tickets now at http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer/.
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6 July 2007: Joss Whedon - Whedonesque Post
Joss Whedon recently posted on Whedonesque about his My Dinner With Me Charity Auction. Here's what he said:
Me Links to Me! In Which Joss Brings Up A Certain Auction, Among Other Things
Hey Peeps. I know you?ve been linked here before, but as the dread hour approaches (it?s just like that really tense sequence in ?Far and Away? right before the Oklahoma Land Rush where Criminal Minds Guy totally disses Tom Cruise?s gnarly horse except there?s no sad Native Americans and I just lost many many potential bidders with my ?Far and Away? love, didn?t I?) I cannot help but nudge. And, by way of compensation for said nudging, check in with my e-peeps. Answer some R.A.Q.s (recently asked questions.)
First of all, why the auction? Because I believe the chance to sit next to me, with my distinctive yet unsettling odor, will cause people to give Equality now Eleventy Kabillion Dollars. Each. I might have numbers slightly wrong. In fact I might be dining alone. But the fact is, when Kai and I said to each other that it was time to stop talking about the problems and start doing something, this was the first thing I thought of. It had been on my mind for a while, not just as a chance to help a cause, but to create a really memorable, uncommon fan experience. Uncommon not just for them but for me. Hear people talk. Dive in, get silly. The cause is deadly serious, but mixing the serious and the silly is more than my stock-in-trade: it?s almost a mission.
I have read your words (not the long ones with many syllables, but a lot of them) and the question ?Why not a raffle?? has been broached. In truth, I?d thought of doing both, but this being my maiden voyage, pared it down. Maybe I made the less awesome choice (see above re: dining alone) but it will, at the very least, get the name Equality Now into a few more eardrums, which is not nothing. I?ve heard some Browncoats might be pooling a raffle into a bid, which I think is perfect. I hope that flies.
Why all the background checks and ?right to refuse?? To protect against false bids and scary people. The latter was designed more for actor-types than people like me ? I have seen some wildly creepy fandom around my actroid buds ? but it?s standard and it?s safe and there it is. It does make the process less giddy, but it?s practical, which we have to be right up until we start ordering appetizers. (Hmmmmm, appetizers?)
Will the evening be awesome? The evening will be scumptralescently awesome, as long as the following subjects are avoided:
Art
Politics
Feminism
Buffy
Buffy Actors
Buffy Key Grips
My Face
The War of the Roses (the war, not the movie)
Food
Odors, Mine
Hammacher Schlemmer
LionsSo there you have it. I can?t wait. And let me bring you all up to speed on some other stuff as well. Par examplar: Comiccon. Panel? Why yes, thank you for asking. Saturday afternoon (mere minutes after waking from that fabulous, non-lion-mentioning evening) I?m doing a ?Darkhorse Presents: Me? panel. Slightly less intimate than the dinner, but I?ll try to keep it lively. Really lively would be announcing that I?m actually moving ahead on a greenlit filmed entertainment. Dontchya think? Pretty sure that?s not gonna happen by then, but know that I am working around the clock (well, near a clock) to put together a number of drool-worthy projects. I?m tired of down-time. I?ll keep you posted, either at the con or here on this very webular page. Be like Xander in ?The Zeppo?: Have Faith (Oh, ZING!) (I?m so over.) I know the Con will bring knowledge of at least one thing new ? a small thing, but it grins me to think on.
That?s enough for now. Let the auction commence! (at the appointed time.) Have a great 4th of July ? something totally historical happened then! And thanks to all the peeps at the Singalong. Marty and I had a crazy good time, even if we felt bad for poor defenseless Dawnie. (Every time you tell her to shut up, remember who wrote what she?s saying.) (That?s right. The kid?s with me.) And huge props not only to Mr McClung but to the video making peeps. I was particularly happy to see Kristine Sutherland getting the love. Long overdue.
And so?I vanish!
-j.
joss | Fandom&Fun | 23:47 CET | 170 comments total | tags: joss post, joss, auction, doe, a deer, a female deer, comiccon, that weird rash
You can view the full thread at www.whedonesque.com. View and bid on the auction at www.ebay.com.
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3 July 2007: Nathan Fillion - Drive Final Episodes
Fox has delayed the airing of the final two episodes of Tim Minear's Drive, starring Nathan Fillion. The episodes will now be shown on 13th July 2007.
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30 June 2007: Joss Whedon - New Zealand Radio Podcast