Gish Talks X-FILES
Actress gives her take on the what's up with the series.

Regarding her newfound status on the series, Gish admits, "I'm a bit in shock." She's also said to be thrilled to be a part of it.

And being a part of the series right now is alos participating in its latest phase. In particular, Gish notes her co-star, Robert Patrick in reference to the program's evolution, saying, "I think it's a different phase, a new evolution mark for the show. He completely infused the show, gave it a new burst of energy,"

New York City gets a taste of The Life of Reilly. Charles Nelson Reilly, former Broadway star and current theatrical director, brings his one-man autobiographical piece, Save it for the Stage: The Life of Reilly, to Irish Repertory Theatre where it will open Oct. 3 for a limited run through Oct. 28.
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(Note from Rachael: If you can't remember, Charles Nelson Reilly played Jose Chung on THe X-Files and Millennium)

**Are you similar to your character?** He is much more of an amiable individual than I am. He's a good guy, with a lot of virtues and a code he lives by. It's something I'm trying to live up to in my own private life, but it's hard to do.

**Can you spill some secrets about the ninth season?** I'm going to be the babysitter! I'm the nanny for Scully's baby. You'll see more of what went on in Doggett's past. Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) and I are going to go out and do a lot of the case solving.

**Is Doggett going to get lucky next season?** I hope he does. I honestly believe Doggett loves Scully but he doesn't want to impose himself on her. But I also think he had something going on with Reyes. I'd like to see it where Doggett's got stuff going on with everybody! [He laughs.]

**Who did you want to be when you were growing up?** Captain Kirk because he was a leader and everyone looked up to him. But it wasn't all about science fiction. I was Daniel Boone running around the woods in Georgia, too.

**What superpower would you like to have?** Maybe I could stop time and go backward to fix things. Fix this recent presidential election.

**What do you think your costars will think of you being selected a sexy man of sci-fi?** I think they're going to laugh their asses off.


08/27/01
Aaliyah Dana Haughton
1979-2001

The season opens with a two-parter, both jointly written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz. The first show, entitled "Nothing Important Happened Today," is directed by Kim Manners and will air on Sunday, Nov. 4th. It will also feature the debut of the characters played by Cary Elwes and Lucy Lawless. Its conclusion, "Nothing Important Happened Today II," is directed by Tony Wharmby and will air on Nov. 11th.


08/26/01
The Haven has posted the transcript from the CC chat. To read it go here.
And here is my favorite part:

Question:Chris, your shows are fantastic! "Millennium" was truly the best show on television. Any chance that it (or any of your other wonderful shows) will be released of video or DVD? ~Laura E. Jordan
Chris Carter: They're talking about Millennium on DVD. Beyond that I wouldn't think there is much hope for Harsh Realm, or Lone Gunman. But, I think there are a lot of people asking for the Millennium DVD, so I think that will happen.

(Note from Rachael: I'd buy it the first day it came out! Millennium was the best show I've ever seen!)


08/06/01
Happy 21st birthday to Macaulay Culkin! He can drink now!

Check back with us by Thursday for the link to the chat room.

Greetings from Amazon.com.

We thought you'd like to know that we shipped your gift today, and that this completes your order.

What gift are they talking about you may ask! None other than the season 7 Episode Guide!

Though he recently made his final exit from the series, Duchovny's sexy FBI agent will live on in reruns and the X-Files movie. Offscreen, everyone knows Duchovny is crazy about his wife, actress Téa Leoni. She's about to be seen in her own summer bid to break the box office, Jurassic Park III. It's Téa and their two-year-old daughter, Madelaine, who have him longing to spend more time at home.
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The list of cult programs was complied by British media historian Jeff Evans for a new reference book, ``The Penguin Television Companion.'' Second on the list was ``Fawlty Towers,'' starring John Cleese, with ``Star Trek'' landing in third place. Other top shows included ``Monty Python's Flying Circus'' at No. 4, ``The Prisoner'' at five and ``The X-Files'' in sixth place. ``It is hard to define a cult but it is more than just getting good viewing figures,'' says Evans. ``They set fads and fashions, generate merchandise, inspire fan clubs and conventions or pervade the national consciousness


08/13/01
This is from the OS

"It's not just adding a terrific actor, it's adding somebody of a certain stature to the show," Carter said of Elwes. The producers' goal was to cast someone very different from Doggett. "(Follmer) is a guy who is a little more buttoned up, a little more polished; he represents a different kind of FBI," Carter said.

Elwes was offered the part after he read with Annabeth Gish on Wednesday night. "All of us saw at the same time how he would be the best choice for the dynamic we were trying to create; we liked the energy between the two of them," Carter said.

The actor is known for his wide-ranging work in films, including 1987's The Princess Bride, 1990's Days of Thunder, 1993's Robin Hood: Men in Tights and, more recently, 1999's The Cradle Will Rock and last year's Shadow of the Vampire. He also appeared in the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.

While talking to the Hollywood Reporter, series creator Chris Carter revealed that on Wednesday, Elwes did a reading with Gish for the part. Carter says, "All of us saw at the same time how he would be the best choice for the dynamic we were trying to create; we liked the energy between the two of them." Regarding the character, Carter says, "(Follmer) is a guy who is a little more buttoned up, a little more polished; he represents a different kind of FBI [than agent Doggett]."

Elwes will first appear on the season nine opening episode. Previously, it had been reported that XENA star Lucy Lawless had also signed on to the program at least for the season's first two episodes. Lawless may also be returning for later episodes.


08/12/01
This is from Dark Horizons
The X-Files (TV): The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Cary Elwes has signed on as the new AD next season.

August 9: Happy 33rd birthday to Gillian Anderson! Our Goddess! I don't need to explain who she is! If you don't know you should be ashamed of yourself! We love you Gillian!!

Happy 17th birthday to Vanessa Morley! She played all the young Samanthas we've seen up to Closure, that wasn't a good Samantha but this is the one we've learned to know and love!

August 7: Happy 41st birthday to David Duchovny! We love you David!

Happy 46th birthday to Wayne Knight! He's never been in The X-Files but he did play Dennis Nedry in the original Jurassic Park.

August 6th: Happy 31st birthday to M. Night Shyamalan. I haven't seen his movies because he often has Bruce Willis in them, but I heard they were good and that he is a great director, so happy birthday!


08/11/01
This is from Dark Horizons
The X-Files (TV): Cary Elwes, Hart Bochner and Vincent Spano are all rumoured to be up for the role of FBI Asst. Director Brad Follmer, the AD who has a past with Reyes and will be a recurring character next season.
(Note from Rachael: In my personal opinion, which means nothing in the tv/film industry, I think Cary Elwes is the perfect choice! And he would bring up the ratings.)


08/11/01
This is from Scifiweekly.com

Details regarding the Lawless character are secret, the trade paper reported. "We're thrilled to have an opportunity to work with Lucy, whose work we've admired for a long time," X-Files executive producer Frank Spotnitz told Variety. "We think we've found an interesting and unexpected way to have her join the family." The show's season premiere is Nov. 4.


08/11/01
This is also from Scifiweekly

"We talked about it," Shiban told the site. "But we [ultimately decided] that it's the kind of baggage that we didn't want to deal with with this kind of character right now. We had other ideas that we were more excited about." Though the series implied that Reyes once had a romantic entanglement with Scully's partner, John Doggett (Robert Patrick), the series' season finale had Reyes telling Scully she looked "amazingly beautiful," TV Guide reported. Shiban said he sees how viwers may have misunderstood the remark. "I can see where they got that idea" that Reyes had switched teams, he said. Reyes "does have an affection for Scully that is deep and real, but our intention was that it is non-sexual." But, he added, "On The X-Files, anything can happen, so I don't want to discount anything. Life is complicated."
(Note from Rachael: Wow, I've been reading about this at the OS message boards for quite a few months but all this time I thought it was all just a rumour that got out of hand. I had no idea that it was real!)

The actress, 43 years old, who goes to court to get 15 million dollars for "Basic Instict 2" (not bad for any day!), will play the disloyal wife of David Duchovny in "In the Lake."

It's the actor Ray Liotta who plays the role of her lover, in the film which is being directed by Jon Amiel.


08/05/01
This is from the OS

Former X-Files icon Duchovny will play Stone's doting husband, with Ray Liotta likely to play the third part of the love triangle.

Jon Amiel, who made Entrapment, will direct the drama from a script by Sam Montgomery.

The movie will go into production in late autumn.


08/05/01
Nick Lea's movie Ignition, which comes out this year... I guess... isn't coming to the theaters. It's going straight to video. Thats kind of sad. Bill Pullman is in it too! I would have thought that because of Pullman it could have gotten to the theaters but I guess not. Common Nick Lea! Get into a good movie!

"This is a very unusual thing to do," said Jones, a veteran location manager. "It has really recharged my batteries. The scale and nature of the stories places a huge importance on locations. The prep work can be very intense. This is my chance to see things in advance and stay that much further ahead." The production crew on "X-Files" often compares the 20-episode season with working on 20 features in one year -- a hectic schedule from July to May. Jones was able to build up his library significantly during his first scouting trip, enabling the show to use about 20-30 locations from his trip throughout the season. This significantly eased the pressure to put together entire locations in aneight-day period.

His favorite example is the use of an oil rig off the coast of Santa Barbara that served as the Galpex Petroleum Orpheus oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico shot for "Vienen." Once the writers confirmed with Jones and production designer Corey Kaplan that the location was indeed being used, the team had about six weeks to put the shoot together -- a far cry from the two weeks the production staff usually receives for a location shoot. Kaplan spent almost as much time re-creating a control room, a mess hall and some operational sections of the oil platform onstage. "She either magnified or amended what was there to make itphotogenic,"

Jones said. "It all matched. It was great design on her part." The team also brought to life the closed down CENCO Refinery in Santa Fe Springs to complete the shoot. "This was a brilliant piece of synergy between all the departments," Kaplan said. "This way, we could quietly start preparing the episode and the location. We had the time to re-create it into the scope of the budget. If this was a rush job, it would have been much more expensive." While no figures have been given as to the amount of money they have saved the show, it's clear that all parties have benefited from Jones' trips. In fact, Kaplan and Jones wereeven able to visit Washington this break to get a firsthand look at the Hoover building and the Quantico, Va., FBI training academy.

While they claimed that the trip was to increase their personal knowledge of the area, which is often featured in the show, "X-Files" fans might want to expect a re-creation of the Quantico facility during the upcoming season. Other Southern California locations that might find their way into the season are a former Boeing/NASA facility in Downey that Jones called "militaristic," a weird brick mansion in South Pasadena and a gothic-looking water filtration plant in La Verne. No details have been revealed as to what will or will not be used, but with a plethora of potential new locations, the results should be interesting.

Commenting on the casting of Lawless, Frank Spotnitz said, "We're thrilled to have an opportunity to work with Lucy, whose work we've admired for a long time. We think we've found an interesting and unexpected way to have her join The X-Files family." Details regarding Lawless' character are being closely kept under wraps.

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08/03/01
This is from the LA Times

Though he avoids being specific about what or who Lawless' character on the series will be, Spotnitz reveals what he can, saying, "In typical X-FILES fashion, she's going to be one of those characters where you're not sure whether she's good or bad. "She'll have a lot of levels to her."

Lawless will appear on the program's first two episodes of its ninth season. She may well be returning later in the season, too.

Meanwhile, while talking to Variety, X-FILES executive producer Frank Spotnitz spoke of acquiring Lawless, saying, "We're thrilled to have an opportunity to work with Lucy, whose work we've admired for a long time. We think we've found an interesting and unexpected way to have her join the family." THE X-FILES' ninth season starts on November 4th.


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