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News - July 1999 Archive

May 1999 - June 1999
July 29th, 1999
  • The webmaster of An Angel's Soul mailed me a copy of Glen Quinn's biography which was forwarded to her by Glen's publicist!

    GLENN QUINN - Biography

    He is probably best known to American television audiences as the troubled but lovable Mark Healy of the long-running "Roseanne," but Glenn Quinn is about to make a whole new impression as one of the stars of "Angel," the WB's hotly anticipated "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" spin-off premiering this fall. Quinn plays David Boreanaz's spiritual mentor, an Irish guardian angel that everyone in the country – especially the girls – will wish were watching over them.

    Glenn moved to the States from his home town of Dublin, Ireland at the age of nineteen, and was soon spotted by casting director Johanna Ray ("Twin Peaks", Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart), who helped him get representation and before long, his audition for "Roseanne." Swallowing his Irish accent, he was so convincingly American that his "guest star" role lasted years – until the series ended in 1997.

    During the run of the sitcom, he was also tapped to star in the shortlived but critically acclaimed medieval drama, "Covington Cross." That series' early demise was mourned, but for Glenn, it was probably just as well, since doing two series at once is particularly torturous when they are produced on different continents.

    His feature credits include Shout, a coming-of-age movie in which he co-starred with John Travolta and shared a screen kiss with Gwyneth Paltrow; Dr. Giggles, Live Nude Girls and Men (a.k.a. Some Girls).

    Quinn currently resides in Los Angeles, close to the hot new nightclub GOLDFINGERS, which he co-owns with fellow Irishman and close friend Mark Leddy.

July 27th, 1999
  • From Cinescape:
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer's bloodsucking nemesis Spike is certainly one of the coolest villains on TV, and apparently fans of both Buffy and its spinoff show Angel can expect to see a whole lot more of him. According to Mania, James Marsters, the actor behind Spike, told audiences at the Visions '99 convention in Boston this weekend that, "They're going to put me in on episode three of Buffy and also a cross-over with Angel later at 9:00 that night. So, I'm going to come in and screw with Buffy at 8:00 that night and then I'm going to, hopefully, make life miserable for Angel."
    Marsters also revealed that he has been signed for the next two years and that he hopes to see his character's body count rise quite a bit before that contract expires.
July 26th, 1999
  • From Mr.Showbiz:
    Don't cry for Angel, the brooding loner vampire-with-a-heart-of-gold. After leaving his mortal love Buffy (and her TV series) behind, he's on to his own new show, new digs (L.A.), and — a new love?
    GIST reports that the WB series has signed Elisabeth Rohm to star as Kate, someone who will be "a very strong woman who's going to get seriously into Angel's life," according to series creator and executive producer Joss Whedon.
    The 26-year-old Rohm is best known for her five-month 1997-1998 stint on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, in which she played Dorothy Hayes. (Before you scoff, remember, Sarah Michelle Gellar got her start and netted an Emmy on another soap, All My Children.)
    Rohm's other credits include the NBC miniseries The '60s and a guest spot on the short-lived CBS police drama Turks.
    The actress, who was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, grew up and went to school in New York.
    She'll be joining Charisma Carpenter (the self-involved Cordelia, also late of Buffy, who relocates to L.A. in hopes of becoming an actress) and Glenn Quinn (Mark Healy on Roseanne), as Doyle, whom the WB says is "a disreputable spiritual mentor" who's half human, half ... not.
    Expect a darker, more adult tone for Angel, Whedon tells the New York Daily News.
    The series premise has the vampire relocating to the City of Angels, where he tries to save lost souls to make up for 400-odd years of being a vampire.
    Sounds like there'll be no shortage of angst for Angel, however. "He's a good vampire, a good guy," Whedon tells the Daily News. "He doesn't bite people anymore. But the fact that he's a vampire informs the show enormously. … He's trying to redeem himself, he's trying to reclaim his humanity, he's trying to become a person, even though at some level, he's not."
    Assuring viewers that the show won't be a bleak-o-rama along the lines of Fox's now dead Millennium, Whedon adds, "[Angel] will have the same kind of humor Buffy has. … You know, it will be the same kind of all-over-the-place, transcending-genre kind of thing we do with Buffy, hopefully. But at the same time, it will definitely distinguish itself."
    In a rare case of perfect programming, Angel will air Tuesdays at 9 p.m., right after Buffy, which hangs onto its 8 p.m. timeslot. A premiere date has not yet been set for the new series, but a WB spokesperson says it will likely debut in September or October.
July 24th, 1999
  • This isn't really related to Angel but it is pretty interesting: (from Entertainment Weekly):
    While talking about any the future of the Batman movie franchise, EW mentions, "Bonus points if Warner Bros. gets David Boreanaz to fill Clooney's codpiece."
    Comments: Sounds like a match made in heaven to me! David as the Dark Knight? As Angel, he already has the brooding crime fighter down cold!! IMHO, David would be perfect for the part!
  • From the Canoe.ca Website article "An Angel With The Devil's Desire":
    HOLLYWOOD -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer spinoff Angel will take wing with a prayer of some vampire Viagra. Just a whiff.
    It's a dilemma, after all, having a show rely on a sexy hunk who, should he ever do the deed -- experience 'true happiness,' in Buffy-speak -- will have the Devil to pay.
    Back on Buffy, romantic consummation between the vampire fighter and her vampire boyfriend led to Angel's losing his soul, her killing him with a sword through the heart to save the world and him heading to Hell for hundreds of years of torture and insanity.
    Yikes. Suddenly celibacy didn't seem like such a bad thing.
    Except perhaps to viewers of the upcoming Angel who will be stuck wondering whether all of his intense smouldering has any hope of ignition.
    "Yeah, eventually it's like (Frasier's) Niles and Daphne. 'Just do something already!' " agrees Joss Whedon, creator and executive producer of both shows. "Obviously it's going to be an issue but right now, you know, no loopholes. Not for a while."
    Angel finds David Boreanaz's character relocated in L.A. where he'll further try to redeem his bloodsucking past by helping people who have lost their souls, both literally and figuratively. But don't expect it to play out all soft and sentimental like some sort of Touched By An Angel.
    Whedon says Angel will have a darker, more adult tone than Buffy and Boreanaz warns that his brooding boy won't be lightening up to any happy-go-lucky level anytime soon.
    "He has a tortured soul and a guilty conscience," Boreanaz explains.
    "In the beginning, he sure is going to feel a lot of pain and he'll be suffering. But it will be humorous pain."
    One humorous pain along with Angel in L.A. is Buffy's snarky ice princess Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), who has left Sunnydale to try to become an actress. New character Doyle (Roseanne's Glenn Quinn, finally getting to use his own Irish accent) is a half-demon, half-human whose visions guide Angel to where he's needed.
    The show will follow Buffy Tuesday nights on WB stations this fall and has also been bought by Barrie's VR, the station that reigns as a hero in Buffydom for going ahead and airing this spring's season finale despite WB's lame, Columbine-linked delay.
    Expect Buffy to visit the show she spawned sometime in November. Seth Green's Oz will cross over earlier. Angel has a 13-episode order and is shooting Monday to Friday. Buffy has a full-season order and is shooting Tuesday to Saturday. Which means what's shooting through Whedon is adrenalin and anxiety.
    "We're terrified pretty much 24/7," he says. "We just keep working and working."
    Meanwhile, back at Buffy, Sarah Michelle Gellar declined to make a movie during this year's production hiatus and took her first vacation longer than 10 days in the past three years. Sort of work-play, actually, including travelling to Europe and the U.K. to promote her movie Cruel Intentions there, taking a pile of friends to VH-1's Divas concert in New York to celebrate her 22nd birthday, and building houses in the Dominican Republic for a week for the charity Habitat For Humanity.
    "I've learned how to lay floor. I've mixed a ton of cement. I've never had calluses like that on my hands," she says.
    "I guess I'd never done an honest day's labour in my life, apparently."
July 15th, 1999
  • Got some new images!!! Click HERE to see stills from the trailer.
July 14th, 1999
  • From the July 16th issue of Entertainment Weekly:
  • Spin-Off City Alas, the Malcolm & Eddie offspring starring Coolio didn't make the schedule, but plenty of old characters will get new homes. Most prominently, there's The WB's Angel , in which ex-Buffy babe David Boreanaz starts a new life as a vampire private eye...What's with all the recycling? Familiarity, of course, breeds higher ratings. "With all the new shows, a viewer can be overwhelmed," says Time cocreator (and Party exec producer) Amy Lippman. A spinoff, says Lippman, "is like going to a cocktail party where you're already good friends with someone who's there."
  • Image from article (click on it for a bigger version):
  • Wanna check out the Angel series trailer? Head over to Slayme.com and download it!
July 13th, 1999
  • A minor update only this time round...
  • It occurred to me that since James Marsters will be a regular on Buffy next year as Spike, it means he will not be a regular on Angel. I know this is pretty obvious but I thought I'd mention it anywaz.
  • I'ved added a link to Buffy Crawler search engine from the Buffy.net website. This site is listed in their "Angel" category.