X-Files
Australian Information Kiosk: April 2001

David Duchovny played dad with baby Madelaine in New York. Pink hat aside, the two-year-old's got up like a boy. A case of the uniseX-files?

THE CONTEST IS ON!

All right, you X-Files fans... we're pretty revved up about this contest! We're giving 2 lucky winners a chance to take home the COMPLETE X-Files on DVD, thanks to Fox Home Entertainment! That's right... you'll get Seasons 1 & 2, plus the new Season 3 box, AND the newly re-released X-Files: Fight the Future disc! The show is winding down to its last 5 episodes this season, but if you win, you can go back to where it all began. You'll have until 7 PM PDT (US time) on Monday April 30th to get your entries in. So click here to enter and remember... The Truth is in here!

1. What's the name (or nickname) of Mulder's cigarette-smoking arch nemesis?
2. Scully was kidnapped by a deranged alien abductee in Season 2. Name him.
3. What's the name of Mulder & Scully's boss at the FBI?
4. Who discovered the VERY first X-Files in FBI history?
5. In the X-Files movie, Mulder travelled to what continent to find Scully?

• There's a preview of Evolution including a color photo of David Duchovny and Orlando Jones in their orange biohazard suits.
• David Duchovny says: "If I had my way, it wouldn't have anything to do with aliens. But it was Ivan's movie. I wanted to work with him. It just happened to be about aliens.
• The film is a potential franchise for DreamWorks
• Ivan Reitman says the script was originally a sci-fi/horror project and went through "20 incarnations."
• David Duchovny says: "There are three or four major scenes where the humor revolves around the ass."
• David Duchovny says he and Orlando Jones constantly ad libbed
• Orlando Jones says: "I just go for it, and [Reitman] will say, 'Try something else.'" "Or," chuckles Duchovny, "'That was terrible.'"

Agent Doggett is investigating what appears to be the last case Mulder worked on before his disappearance. Phone records show that Mulder was in Pennsylvania just prior to disappearing and case records show he investigated a family there.Doggett arrives at their house and Doggett notices 3 gunshots plaster over in their wall. Doggett returns to Mulder's flat and an intensive search turns up a weapon with catridges missing. Doggett also discovers what appears to be false case reports giving him an alibi and also implicating Scully.

Sold Out Rock for Choice Concert Sends a Powerful Message: We Won’t Go Back!

Some of the industry’s top musicians, including Melissa Etheridge, Sarah McLachlan, and Paula Cole, played to an impassioned sold out crowd last Friday, April 6, at the Los Angeles Rock for Choice Concert to benefit the Feminist Majority’s Campaign to Save Roe. Emceed by X-Files star Gillian Anderson, the five-hour concert raised money and awareness of the possibility that President Bush could appoint as many as two anti-abortion Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court—a move that could overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which legalised abortion. “There are rumors Bush will soon appoint justices to the Supreme Court who will make abortion illegal. This is 2001. It’s unconscionable. Without reproductive control, we have no equality. We will not go back!” said Anderson.

The crowd, speckled with celebrities, including Ellen DeGeneres, Kathy Najimy, Helen Hunt and Portia de Rossi, cheered in support of every mention of protecting women’s rights and abortion rights. “Thank you for helping all women be able to make a choice!” said Paula Cole. “It seems absolutely bloody ridiculous we have this issue still in 2001,” McLachlan said of the fight against abortion restrictions. Concertgoers had the opportunity to sign petitions to Senator Daschle and Senator Leahy urging them to lead the Senate to oppose any anti-choice Justices nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court.

From Feminist Majority Foundation Online.

Yearning for the good old days when Fox Mulder was a key part of The X- Files? Heck, he was The X-Files! You can't afford to miss this week's offering on Fox 8. These are 2 classic episodes. In the first, we have Scully desperately searching for a way to reverse the process that caused Mulder and Morris Fletcher to swap identities. The next episode is called How the Ghosts Stole Christmas and we see Mulder and Scully trapped in a haunted house by two ghosts who seem to think they would like to have the FBI agents as permanent visitors. These are later episodes of the show and the second in particular is a little wacky.

David Duchovny gave a free concert to customers at Starbucks coffe shop in Malibu recently. The X-Files hunk was standing in line with Tea Leoni, holding his beautiful daughter Madelaine West, when for no apparent reason, the bub started bawling. So the patient papa sat down at a table with his pride and joy on his lap and proceeded to sing a lullabye. Five minutes or so later, her tears turned to joy - and David had achieved his best ever caffeine hit.

When The X-Files moved from Wednesday to Thursday nights, I thought, hooray, no more annoying midweek Tattslotto numbers rudely displayed over Dana Scully's (Gillian Anderson) face. But wouldn't you know - now its damn OZ Lotto numbers appearing over Scully's face. Granted green,yellow and blue all complement Scully's hair beautifully, but could Ten either move The X-Files to a night that doesn't have a damn lotto draw or put them over an ad where nobody cares about them anyway?

Thank heavens for Foxtel. You don't have to put up with this type of disrespect toward viewers by plastering irrelevant annoyances over the top of programmes.

• Eye See You starring Sylvester Stallone. No Australian release date for that yet;
• Backflash. No Australian release date for that yet; and
• Texas Rangers starring James Van Der Beek which will be released in Australia on May 31.

• Anthrax. No Australian release date for that yet;
• Mindstorm with Michael Ironside. It was released in Canada in February but has no Australian release date yet; and
• The Proposal, which was apparently released on video in Australia back in January. Can anybody confirm?

Everything comes to he (or she) who waits, and Gillian Anderson has every reason to be feeling pretty smug at the moment. The X Files star has campaigned for years to be given the same treatment and pay as her co-star David Duchovny. often to no avail. Duchovny, the producers said, was the lynchpin in the show. Now. of course, Duchovny is only appearing in a few episodes of the current season and Gillian is carrying the rest of the series, with help from former Terminator 2 star Robert Patrick.The result? Ratings are up by almost 10 per cent since Duchovny went part-time. That's an impressive turnaround for a show that many insiders had thought was past its peak. Now the word on the grapevine is that the producers are thinking of producing another season of The X Files without Duchovny altogether. Don't worry if you are a Duchovny fan, because the show's creator, Chris Carter, is also planning another X Files movie and fully intends to have Duchovny on board for that. But, in a pleasant turn of events, this time it's Gillian who'll get the better deal.