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July 2001

• There was also a short David Duchovny article in NW last week.
• The Hobart 'paper The Sunday Tasmanian on July 15 had David Duchovny on the cover of its Entertainment liftout and an article inside plus a review of Evolution which was negative, giving it 2 stars.
• The Adelaide Advertiser on July 14 also had a negative review of Evolution, giving it just 1 star.
• There was a small colour photo of David Duchovny and Tea Leoni at the Jurassic Park 3 premiere in last Sunday's Brisbane Sunday Mail accompanied by the following:

  Tea Shapes Up
  Jurassic Park III star Tea Leoni says running from fake dinosurs did wonders for her figure. "I was not in shape at the beginning of this movie, which was a really stupid move on my part,' said Leoni,35. "You know, it's like 'Duh, I should have known that was coming. Let's see, Tea, you're doing a huge movie with dinosaurs and probably, you know, you're not going to be friends with them, and you're probably going to be runing, so, like, come on, you lug'."
  
  The T-Rex gave her a run for her money.
  
  "I was sore, and then I actually got in shape. I mean, that's the weirdest thing. This movie got me in shape."

• Also in last week's Who Weekly there is a photo of Tea Leoni accompanied by the following paragraph:

  Tea Leoni needed no preparation to play a mother hunting for her missing son in the dino sequel Jurassic Park III, opening Aug. 30. "They're naming my No.1 nightmare in this movie: what would happen if my child would go missing,"says Leoni, who has a daughter, Madelaine West, 2, with husband David Duchovny. "Of course, it's not likely my child would be off on an island with dinosaurs. I've thought more about,'What if I left her on top of the car at Starbuck's and drove off?'That's the fear." Leoni has another reason to stay close to her daughter. Madelaine doubles as Mums personal trainer. "I hate to work out," says Leoni, 35. "I like to play games. My daughter & I have the most intense games of hide & seek. Her counting is like,'1, 2,10!' You have to hightail it out of there. That works the glutes good."

• In overseas mags now available locally, the July 14 issue of the UK mag Now had 2 photos of Gillian Anderson while the July 24 issue of Hello also contains 2 Gillian Anderson photos. The June SFX magazine contains a 5 page Robert Patrick article while the next issue, due here in a just under a month's time, has Chris Carter and Gillian Anderson articles in it.
• The July 12 Adelaide Advertiser had the Evolution cast on the cover of its entertainment liftout.

• There is a photo of Gillian Anderson in this week's TV Week.
• There's also a photo of David Duchovny in NW and one of him and Tea Leoni in New Idea at the Jurassic Park III premiere in the US this week.
• There is a small paragraph on David Duchovny painting with his butt and raising $80,000 for charity in Woman's Day.
• For those students at UNSW in Sydney, this week's Blitz has Clare's article from the Evolution press conference as well as a review of House of Mirth.
• From last Sunday's Sun Herald was a brief story about celebrity fantasies, including the fact that David Duchovny would like to play basketball in front of 30,000 people.
• Evolution, roundly savaged by critics across the nation, missed out on taking the no. 1 spot at the box office in it's first week of release, coming in at no. 2 behind Shrek. In week number two it fell a massive 36% to rank at number 3 behind Shrek and Bridget Jones's Diary. Evolution hasn't been a major success, taking just over $36M at the box office in it's first month worldwide compared to it's $80M budget.
• Spy Kids, a huge success in the US, featuring Robert Patrick was supposed to open last month but has been pushed back to September 20.

LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- Chris Carter is sticking with "The X-Files" for a ninth season.

Carter, creator and executive producer of "The X-Files," has inked a new deal with 20th Century Fox TV to remain at the helm of the venerable Fox drama series next season. Carter will serve as showrunner and alongside his seasoned team of executive producers, Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan and John Shiban.

Carter is said to have wrestled with the decision on whether to commit to running the show or to segue into a consultant role. But after lengthy negotiations, 20th and Carter finalized a new one-season deal late last week.

"Chris has so many ideas for this show as we go forward," Fox Broadcasting Co. president of entertainment Gail Berman said. "Chris and Frank and John and Vince are the life and breath of this series. We are thrilled that he is coming back with his team in place."

"X-Files" underwent a major overhaul during the past season as David Duchovny scaled back his involvement in his final season, while Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish were recruited as new agents on the out-there beat.

Gillian Anderson has said publicly that she intends to leave the show when her contract expires at the end of next season, but Fox insiders said there will be an effort to make the coming season a kind of new beginning for the series to allow it to carry on with Patrick, Gish and other new actors should Anderson depart.

• This week's TV Week has a David Duchovny article with a small pic on the cover. There's also an Evolution review and a short article on Gillian Anderson titled Scully Fights Back.
• The TV Week Online website has a small Gillian Anderson story titled Gillian swaps UFOs for the West End.
• This week's New Idea has a photo of David Duchovny and two of Tea Leoni and daughter Madelaine West Duchovny.
• An early Tea Leoni movie called The Counterfeit Contessa is on channel 7 at midday tomorrow.
• William B Davis appears in the John Travolta movie Look Who's Talking on Saturday at 8:30pm on channel 10.
• There are a couple of photos of David Duchovny with his family in this week's Woman's Day.
• NW has a review of Evolution. There is also a half page article on Gillian Anderson titled Five Minutes with Gillian Anderson.
• The free Brisbane Entertainment and Rave magazines have Evolution reviews.
• In this weeks TV Soap (cover dated September 2001) there is a little pic of David Duchovny with Jackie O, and a whole page of DD at the Evolution conference.
• Last Sunday's Sun-Herald had a damning review of Evolution, written by X-Files hater Rob Lowing.
• This week's Who Weekly has another scathing Evolution review, giving it a C. The general consensus of reviews are negative.
• Last Sunday's Brisbane Sunday Mail had an Evolution review while its TV Scene had 3 brief articles on David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Tea Leoni with a photo accompanying each article respectivley.
• This month's Smash Hits came with a free Evolution sticker.
• Last Saturday's Courier Mail had a review of Evolution.
• The Gold Cost Bulletin had a review of Evolution in last Thursday's issue.
• Last Thursday's Townsville Bulletin TV Guide had a David Duchovny article which was identical to the Herald Sun article the same day.
• There was a David Duchovny article in last Thursday's Adelaide Advertiser.
• There is a one page article on Evolution in the August Australian Empire.
• New Idea two week's ago had a photo of Gillian Anderson next to Nicole Kidman.
• The latest Juice magazine has an Evolution review.
• There is a House of Mirth review in the IF Film magazine.
• There was a review of Evolution in the Sydney Morning Herald last Friday.
• Other teen magazines with brief Evolution reviews are the August Girlfriend, TV Hits and The Big Hit.

• Evolution started screening nationally today.
• Today's newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, The Age and The Courier Mail all had Evolution as did country papers, The Western Advocate (Bathurst) and The Central Western Daily (Orange).
  
  There is also an old Evolution review that has been on the news.com site since DD'd visit last month.
• There was also an Evolution article in The Age last Sunday.
• The Brisbane free entertainment papers Time Off and Scene both have Evolution reviews this week with Time Off giving it 3 stars. There is also a full page advertisement for Evolution in it.
  
  Time Off has also issued a warning that transcripts of their stories can't be posted to websites, so it looks like I won't be posting their Evolution or House Of Mirth articles.
• The Rave Magazine has a full page advertisement for Evolution as well.
• Urban Cinefile has a series of three reviews of Evolution, with this teaser in their latest newsletter:

  EVOLUTION
  
  Reviewed by Shannon J Harvey, Richard Kuipers, Andrew L. Urban.
  
  Stars David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Ted Levine, Ty Burrell, Dan Aykroyd.
  
  "Evolution is actually a disaster movie. Rather, a movie disaster." Says Andrew. Richard concurs "I found this dull after 10 minutes and intolerable by the half way point"

• The latest Cinebuzz newsletter mentions an Evolution review at the Greater Union website:

  Yes, there is a funny side to alien invasion as David Duchovny and pals show us in Evolution, a close encounter of the weird kind involving a quick-changing life form that the Men In Black conveniently failed to mention.

• This also from the same Cinebuzz newsletter

  Something we thought we would share with you. It appears that Evolution star, David Duchovny, with hands-on help from wife, Tea Leoni, has been creating works of art with his bum! We knew some peoples' tastes were in that part of their anatomy, but how can we argue when Duchovny's paintings a la posterior have been helping charities and have sold for as much as $3,500?

• There was a David Duchovny article in the free magazine 9 to 5 this week. You can read the article on their website.
• The AMV website made Evolution their movie of the week.
• There is a David Duchovny article in this week's NW magazine [Lucy's transcript to be added soon] and there will also be an article in next week's issue of TV Week.
• The novel of Evolution is now available at most book stores and some large newsagents. It contains 8 pages of colour photos from the movie in the middle and there is a photo of the cast on the cover and back as well.
• There was a photo of Gillian Anderson in last weekend's Sun Herald newspaper in the Metro section.
• The free publication Revolver (issue 189) has David Duchovny on the cover. Inside there is a 2 page feature article, and a bonus is that there is a full page colour advertisement for Evolution too.
• There is a David Duchovny article at the Who Weekly website.
• There is a House Of Mirth review in the current Cream magazine.
• There were David Duchovny articles in the Sunday Telegraph on July 1 and the Herald Sun on July 5.
• There was a photo of Gillian Anderson and a short article on her leaving The X-Files at the end of series 9 in the Courier Mail on 4 July.
• Last week's TV Week had a photo of David Duchovny with all the recent TV Week competition winners and friends.
• The June issue of the UK X-Files Magazine (no 57) has now arrived. It appears issue no 56 didn't make it to local.
• The air-freighted June 29 issue of the UK magazine OK has an Evolution review giving it 4 stars and a 2 page David Duchovny article including one full page photo of him.

• There's a very negative review of Evolution in the latest issue of Sain - free from your local Sanity store. (Issue #37, July)
• I guess no-one needs reminding that Evolution starts screening around Australia this coming Thursday (July 12).
• There's a stack of other news (Evolution reviews etc) that I'll try and add over the next day or so.

David Duchovny passed this tale along to cast members on his new film, Evolution. A police officer stops a young woman for speeding and asks her nicely if she'll show him her driving licence. Huffily, she replies,"I wish you guys would make up your mind. Just yesterday, you take away my licence, then today you expect me to show it to you!".