X-Files
Australian Information Kiosk
July 2000

• From last Friday's Daily Telegraph:

  Mulder's New Look
  
  Los Angeles: Who will replace Fox Mulder?
  
  With the news that David Duchovny is expected to leave The X-Files shortly after the new season begins and resurface sometime around the 13th episode, rumours are flying as to who will step into his shoes.
  
  Creator-executive producer Chris Carter has auditioned four actors to play conspiracy-loving agent Fox Mulder to Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully on the Fox hit.
  
  Duchovny will close the case on his X-Files career after his part-time year to pursue feature films. He was last seen opposite Minnie Driver in the romantic comedy Return To Me.

• You can read the review of this week's episode from The Daily Telegraph mentioned below which is described as "easily one of the best episodes in a while" on my Hollywood AD page.
• The Vogue Return To Me movie pass giveaway (refer below) has caused quite a stir. In The Daily Telegraph last week there was a large story on the subject. Basically Vogue is currently running an advertising campaign thumbing it's nose at the other magazines who boost circulation by including giveaways and sundry freebies with various issues. At the same time, and unknown to the advertising agency, the Vogue editors decide to include the Return To Me tickets with their latest issue and before it was realised what was happening they had already hit the newstands! The tickets could become quite a collectors item.
• Return To Me has been getting some heavy advertising in The Daily Telegraph. You can win double passes to the movie by advertising in their Meeting Point classifieds. The ads include a small photo of David Duchovny with Minnie Driver.
• The X-Files was mentioned in two other media stories in The Daily Telegraph last week. One described the Cathy Freeman saga as having "bizarre X-Files dimensions" and the other discussed what channels 9 and 10 are doing to combat channel 7's Olympic coverage. It mentiondd that "The X-Files" was used by 10 to attract "younger viewers" during the Atlanta Olympics back in 1996.
• There's a review of Return To Me in the August issue of Australian Good Taste. It gets 3 and a half stars.
• The July issue of Netweek includes a quote from Gillian Anderson in their Yes, They Really Said That! column.

  Q. Gillian is there one material item that you can't live without?
  A: My daughter. I'd say she's material, LOL.

• Nicolas Lea (Krycek) can be seen in a trailer to his new Vertical Limit movie (filmed in New Zealand) at apple.com.
• The Official X-Files Website is having an X-Files contest called X-Props with the main prize a trip to the X-Files set. Unfortunately it's only open to US citizens. Boo hiss.
• From US People magazine last week.

  Gillian Aids Little Brother, Others "The X-Files" star Gillian Anderson was honored at a Senate lunch yesterday for her work in the fight against neurofibromatosis, a genetic order that affects 100,000 Americans, including her 19-year-old brother, Aaron. "It's a little-known but relatively common disease," Anderson, 31, told The Washington Post. "And it's often misdiagnosed." The disfiguring disorder causes tumors to grow on nerves all over the body, and her brother was diagnosed at the age of three. "Right now he seems to have one of the lighter cases," she said. "But the thing about NF is that it is a progressive disease." Anderson has raised about $250,000 for the nonprofit Neurofibromatosis Inc., reports the Post, mostly by auctioning off "X-Files" memorabilia on the Web.
  By Stephen M. Silverman

• The August issue of Cleo has a small negative review of Return To Me where it gets just 3/10.
• The September Soap News is a lot better with its review of Return to Me. In fact they have chosen it as the Pick of the Month. There is also a Star Birthday profile on David Duchovny. There is also an X-Filesarticle in its Primetime section where it reviews some series 6 episodes. My source wonders if Channel 10 is planning to repeat some X Files episodes after Requeim. That would be nice!
• The 10-year anniversary edition of (US mag) Entertainment Weekly is available in Australia and includes a small pic of Mulder and Scully on the cover.
• The Gold Coast Bulletin last Thursday had David Duchovny on the cover of its liftout TV magazine and a page article on Hollywood AD plus a little bit on DD.
• This year's Emmy nominations included the following X-Files nominations:
  
  OUTSTANDING MAKEUP FOR A SERIES:
  Cheri Montesanto Medcalf, Head Makeup Artist; Kevin Westmore, LaVerne Basham, Gregory Funk, Cindy Williams, Makeup Artists -- Theef
  
  OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)
  Mark Snow -- Theef
  
  OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A SERIES
  Thierry J. Couturier, Sound Supervisor; Cecilia Perna, Sound Effects Editor; Debby Ruby-Winsberg, Donna Beltz, Jay Levine, Ken Gladden, Mike Kimball, Stuart Calderon, Susan Welsh, Sound Editors; Jeff Charbonneau, Music Editor; Mike Salvetta, Sharon Michaels, Foley Artists -- First Person Shooter
  
  OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
  Steve Cantamessa, Production Mixer; David J. West, Harry Andronis, Ray O’Reilly, Re-Recording Mixers -- First Person Shooter
  
  OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS FOR A SERIES
  Bill Millar, Visual Effects Producer; Deena Burkett, Visual Effects Supervisor; Monique Klauer, Visual Effects Coordinator; Don Greenberg, Jeff Zaman, Steve Scott, Steve Strassburger, Visual Effects Compositors; Cory Strassburger, Visual Effects Animator -- First Person Shooter
  
  OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS FOR A SERIES
  Bill Millar, Visual Effects Producer; Deena Burkett, Visual Effects Supervisor; Monique Klauer, Visual Effects Coordinators; Don Greenberg, Visual Effects Compositor -- Rush
• The Australian premiere of Princess Mononoke [Gillian Anderson voices the part of Moro the wolf in the dubbed version] will be at 7:30pm on Wednesday August 23. For details check out dendy.com.
• Today's Courier Mail has an article confirming the new partner for Scully will be called John Doggett and Robert Patrick has been chosen for the part. There is a photo of him with the article. Last Friday's Courier Mail had an article listing the actors who auditioned for the role of John Doggett and it mentioned Robert Partick as being the favourite to get the part.
• The August Marie Claire has a Return to Me review.

• Next week's TV Week (out tomorrow) has a feature story on David Duchovny, which is about the upcoming Hollywood AD episode. There's a photo of David Duchovny & Tea Leoni and their daughter Madelaine on the inside back cover.
• This week's Who Weekly had all things as one of the weekly highlights and there was also a quote from David Duchovny about childbirth in their celebrity quotes section.
• The August For Me magazine has a photo of a smiling Gillian Anderson in the August Events section and the words "Scully's 32. Our favourite alien chaser, Gillian Anderson-aka Agent Scully from The X Files-celebrates her 32nd birthday today. Happy birthday, Scully! [August 9 by the way... my chihuahua Taco-Belle was born August 9 last year!]
• There's a review of all things is in the free Brisbane entertainment paper Time Off accompanied by a photo of Gillian.
• There is a short article on Requeim in the season finale section of the latest TV Hits magazine
• If you check your local Greater Union cinema you can pick up a promotional flyer for Return To Me The front is the same photo as in Vogue and the back of it has 6 photos from the movie with DD in 3 of them including one of him alone and a little information on the movie.
• Thursday's Courier Mail had a review of Brand X accompanied by a photo of David & Gillian from The X Files Movie.

Counter Culture- Wednesday's episode of The X-Files written and directed by Gillian Anderson.

Minutes before Anderson (Scully) bundles Duchovny (Mulder) out of the country leaving the action to her- 5.23
Assumed sightings of Mulder kissing Scully- 1
Examples of writer's block when Scully opens her mouth to speak but no words come out- 7
Outbreaks of scientific gobbledygook- 2
Flashes of blinding light- 2
Minutes of show remaining after Mulder's return- 1.23

TV Previews

Rating- Thumbs Up

This piece of self-indulgence was apparently written by Gillian Anderson, who also plays Agent Scully. We prayed for an alien to abduct Scully and Mulder (David Duchovny) , sparing the misery of watching this to the bitter end, but, alas, it just didn't happen. We can only suggest Anderson sticks to her day job.

Send either a blank CD-R or a blank VHS tape and include a stamped, (not metered) envelope so I can return the CD or tape to you via regular postal mail. Ship all to:

    Joe Masucci
    17A Old Hickory Dr. Apt 1A
    Albany, NY 12204

If you choose to see the episode on CD make sure that you are running a PC or Mac with at least a 400MHz processor and have the latest version of Quicktime (free download from www.apple.com installed.

There is a photo of Gillian Anderson at the top of article which reads:
The X Files will close this season when ..... [spoiler removed for Australian fans] Executive Producer Chris Carter managed to keep the cliffhanger a secret in the United States by writing the scene on the morning of filming.

He hand-delivered the last paragraph to the set. Carter is not the first Executive Producer to go to extraordinary lengths to keep a cliffhanger a secret. Spin City producers snipped scenes from reviewers preview tapes of the last episode which featured Michael J.Fox because they feared they revealed too much. And the makers of ER paid a skeleton crew an extra bonus when they brought George Clooney back to the show for a reunion with his former on-screen partner Juliana Margulies.

If anyone is interested in seeing an original X-Files episode (title "Graceland") written and produced by fans from upstate New York just email me for info on how to get your own FREE copy. Or check out a few posted clips from the episode at our Web site www.fountainheadpictures.com.

This is not a joke or some clever new spamming method, email David Swinney and ask him how he liked the episode.
Joe Masucci

For the record, I liked it very much. It comes highly recommended. - David Swinney.