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US
fans should rush and get a copy of the new issue of the official Star
Trek Communicator magazine - available from the Fanmedia.com
web site.
There's
a feature on Stewart and his role as Professor X in the up
coming X-Men movie, plus an interview with Trek boss Rick Berman
- who reveals the Trek X film script has now been written and awaits
approval from Paramount.
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In
case you hadn't noticed, the Fox marketing
machine has swung into top gear ready for the July 14th release
of X-Men in the US.
Premiere magazine recently ran 3 different cover versions featuring the various characters, a huge banner has appeared in Time Square in New York, and the official web site has just opened the X-Men Club - encouraging you to join in on July 4th which is 'Mutant Independence Day' Here's a run down of July's up coming X-Men events: 9/10th
- Press previews in NYC
Thanks
to Karen Rourk
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On July 9th members of Patrick's official US fan club - PSN will have a chance to talk to him at a benefit event for the Patrick Stewart Research Library | ||
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reports that Patrick's agent, Steve Dontanville is leaving his long time
employer International Creative Management for rivals William
Morris Agency.
Whether Stewart and
many of Dontanville's other clients will follow is unknown, but ICM have
recently been losing talent as fast as the England soccer team have been
losing matches in Euro 2000....
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Next
Monday 5th June, sees the UK release of the most recent Star Trek film
'Insurrection' on DVD. This
version contains some deleted scenes from the film on the widescreen version.
Also released on video the same day is 'Animal Farm', a recent US TV version which uses Jim Henson's wonderful animatronics to bring the animals of George Orwell's classic novel to life. Amongst a fine cast providing the voices is Stewart as the main protagonist - 'Napoleon' the pig. Thanks
to Claire Ridgeway of PSAS for this.
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you've been trekking across the wilderness for the last month (which is
what the webmaster will be doing for the next 2 weeks!), you can hardly
have failed to notice a lot of press surrounding the dispute between the
producers of 'The Ride Down Mt. Morgan'
and Patrick Stewart.
Following
their complaint to actors union Equity over Stewart's curtain call
speech, the decision should have been confidential and the matter resolved.
Unfortunately it seems that's not the case, and the PR vultures are
still determined to keep the whole thing going,,,,
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Whilst
we're on the subject of 'Mt. Morgan', you might be interested to
know that this site has received a number of e-mails from folk both in
the UK and US who have been to see the show.
Without exception every one has praised both the play and the performances, yet tellingly, several have commented on not seeing any major publicity for the show in NYC during their stay..... If
you want to see the show for yourself you can contact the Ambassador
box office on (212) 239 6200 or book directly online with
Tele-charge
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One
thing you can't say about the new X-Men movie is a lack of publicity
- as the US release of 14th July gets ever nearer, the 3rd trailer
is premiered today June 1st @ 8 pm PST (4 am GMT) at the
official x-men-the-movie.com
web site
You'll find all sorts of goodies on the site like wallpaper, photos, trailer downloads and cast chat transcripts. The UK site x-men-the-movie.co.uk
is not as up to date as the US one and Fox's
own UK site still only give the release date as August 2000
although
rumours are for an August 18th release.
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