THIS WEEK IN XENA  NEWS...  
TWXN 101
08/20/97
Wednesday

TWXN is the advance sheet of XENA MEDIA REVIEW (XMR):
http://xenafan.com/xmr

Excerpts from the following cites will appear in future
issues of XMR.


From the editor:

1. The excitement of the 100th issue was exhausting.
Now we can settle into the 100s. Maybe I might even get
caught up! Wouldn't that be amazing?

2. For those who might be interested, the Official
Danielle Cormack fan club is online! Feel free to visit
the extremely primitive but evolving website at:      
(http://members.aol.com/dancorfans/index.html). For
those without web access, you can get information by
sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to: The
Official Danielle Cormack Fan Club, 297 Boston Post
Road, Suite 141, Wayland, MA  01778. Danielle Cormack
will be making her first ever convention appearance at
WarriorCon in Washington D.C. September 12-14, and her
character "Ephiny" will be in both the new seasons of
XENA and HERCULES. We just received some productions
stills from her latest motion picture and will be
placing those on the fan club website soon.

3. Today we have an ecletic mix: Tom Arnold (remember
HIM?) finds himself in an article in the great white
north which uses the word "xena"; outback@primenet.com
gets a promo in Texas; Milwaukee runs a singles ad for
Xena (she needs to find those male one night stands
somewhere. Might as well be Milwaukee!); Gerry Jacobsen
(Ms. Lawless' stunt double) gets some publicity down
under; Larry Bonko of Virginia comes out as a
"Xenaphile" (someone has got to tell this guy the word
is Xenite!) and relays a sad tale from a Xenafan; and
last but not least, we read about how SOUL TRAIN has
been unwittingly used as a pawn by the ANTI-XENA
FORCES.

4. And what does the crystal ball show us this morning?
Friday, we have a very special treat: everything you
have ever wanted to know about Ngila (promounced Neela)
Dickson (XWP costume designer)! Monday we will have
another solo article about how the classics have become
the cutting edge of Hollywood. 


Here's the stories:

[    ] 04-13-97
   STAR TRIBUNE (Minneapolis, Mn). Page 4b. 1128 Words.
"Looks like a Case of Sex, Lies and an Erased Tape.
Tawdry Talk Snares Ks95 Star Chaser in a Credibility
Dispute with Tom Arnold"
   COMMENTARY: A cultural reference which pops up in a
bizarre news item about Tom Arnold from Minnesota.
   EXCERPT:
   ...Another Arnold, uh, fan
    Shannon Smith has taken to introducing herself as
"the big entertainment reporter for WMNN" since her
Planet Hollywood interview with Tom Arnold. Smith is
statuesque in that "Xena: Warrior Princess" way -
although she describes her 5-foot-10 physique as the
embodiment of "hearty Minnesota stock." Tom took stock:
Well, you're a BIG girl. You are the kind who can hold
on to a man and never let him go. He might wanna, but
he's not going anywhere. "If I offended the other woman
by saying that . . . I wasn't trying to be dirty," said
Arnold. He insisted that he intended nothing lascivious
about a guy not being able to get away. But then he
couldn't help interjecting: "Yeah! Probably couldn't!"
And he was doing so well on this path to contrition. "I
guess Tom would know something about women," Smith said
sarcastically. (His Roseanne period was well
chronicled.) Smith wasn't as offended by Arnold as
Grodnick - and she didn't have a picture taken on his
lap. "Didn't get anywhere near Tom Arnold's lap," said
Smith. "We did take some photos in some highchairs, and
I was seated next to him."...


[    ] 04-13-97
   THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS. Sunday. Page TV3. 646
words. "Q & A: Your Questions"
   COMMENTARY: Russell Wong starred in VANISHING SON,
which XWP was the Action Pack replacement for (another
coincidence in the Xenaverse that a question about VS
would appear along with a XWP question).
   EXCERPT:
   Q. What's become of actor Russell Wong?  He starred
in the action series Vanishing Son a few seasons back. 
I thought he was a great actor and hated to see him
vanish after the show was canceled. - W.V., Richardson,
Texas
   A. Mr. Wong (Joy Luck Club) will soon resurface in
CBS' pilot remake of the Hawaii Five-O series.  Mr.
Wong joins Gary Busey as the new leaders of the island
cop squad.  Original Five-O star Jack Lord will make an
appearance as Steve McGarrett, now the governor of
Hawaii.  An air date for the show has not been
announced....
   ...Q. Where can I write to my favorite actress, Lucy
Lawless of Xena: Warrior Princess?  I have heard that a
special two-hour movie of Hercules: The Legendary
Journeys and Xena is soon to be made for TV.  - A Fan
   A. A Xena publicist claims no knowledge of a
two-hour TV movie, but Ms. Lawless, a former opera
student, is singing her own songs in an upcoming Xena/
Hercules straight-to-video cartoon.  There is also a
new CD-Rom available with all sorts of information on
the two shows, which are tied for the top spot among
weekly, hourlong syndicated shows this season. 
Meanwhile, you can look forward to special "sweeps"
episodes of Xena and Hercules coming in May and a guest
shot by Lucy Lawless on NBC's Something So Right.  For
fan club information, send a self-addressed stamped
envelope to the Official Xena Fan Club or Official
Hercules Fan Club at 411 N. Central Ave. #300,
Glendale, Calif. 91203, or send e-mail to
outback@primenet.com....
   ...GRAPHIC: Lucy Lawless prevails in the hit action
series Xena: Warrior Princess.


[    ] 04-14-97
   MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL. Monday. Page CUE1. 136
words. "Hot prospects. TV characters bare their souls
for a date" By Sue Pierman
   COMMENTARY: A singles ad for Xena!
   REPRINT:
   Think that having a snazzy Melrose Place address, an
extra-snug Speedo and a classy car guarantees a date
every night? Not necessarily so. Even if you're hot,
hot, hot, your date book may be . . .  not.  
   But brainy, sensitive television characters need
someone to love, too. The question is, after a
harrowing day of exposing government cover-ups or
performing emergency brain surgery, how do you find
time to meet that special someone? The singles ads, of
course!
   And they might read something like this:...
   ...CALL ME NOW!!!
   Independent, assertive brunet warrior princess
looking for a man who is my match. Must be adept with
sword, steed and spear. Disappoint me and I will take
up arms against you. But if you are answering this ad,
you would probably enjoy that. I await your reply, you
sniveling dog. Xena. 
   GRAPHIC: LUCY LAWLESS


[    ] 04-15-97
   THE EVENING POST (Wellington). Page 12. 59 words.
"Features - Television Entertainment" 
   COMMENTARY: More local NZ television promotion of
the show. This time Ms. Lawless' stunt double gets some
publicity.
   REPRINT:
   CAPTION:
   THREE WARRIORS - Marc Ellis (left) and Matthew Ridge
learn the art of make-believe fighting from Lucy
Lawless's stunt double Gerry Jacobsen on the set of
Xena: Warrior Princess in Fresh Up In The Deep End,
tonight at 7.30 on TV3. The illusions theme continues
when the pair meets magician Tara Okan, and
pyrotechnics expert Jason Dury....


[    ] 04-16-97
   THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT (Norfolk, VA). Wednesday. Page
E1. 805 words. "WHRO Fund Drive Comes up Short.
$195,000 Was Raised, but Lack of a Big Attraction Kept
Public TV $ 60,000 from Goal" by Larry Bonko  
   COMMENTARY: Xenaphile? Larry, Larry, Larry. It's
Xenite. And Sarah Herne suffers from a common malady. 
   EXCERPT:
   ...From one Xenaphile to another. 
   Among the readers responding to my column about TV's
guilty pleasures, Thomas Mitchell Jr. in Chesapeake
suggested I expand the list to include professional
wrestling. Like Thomas, I have long been an admirer of
''Nature Boy'' Rich Flair and the other rasslin'
rowdies on TV. 
   Emily, 38, who lives in Virginia Beach, said she's
addicted to  watching ''Beverly Hills 90210.'' I didn't
publish her last name because Emily doesn't want her
11-year-old daughter to know she's hooked on ''90210.''
I haven't missed an episode, Emily. 
   Sarah Herne, 13, in Norfolk called with a sad story.
Like your humble columnist, she's devoted to ''Xena,''
but none of her classmates at Northside Middle School
shares her enthusiasm for the Warrior Princess. ''I'm
made fun of because I watch 'Xena.' I feel so weird,''
Sarah said. Weird? We Xenaphiles are nothing of the
sort. We know great fantasy TV when we see it. It's
time your MTV-addicted, Beavis-and-Butt-head-worshiping
friends realized that, Sarah....


[    ] 04-16-97
   THE TIMES-PICAYUNE. Wednesday. Page E1. 637 words.
"Xena Derailed. 'Soul Train' Rolls into the Warrior
Princess' Tuesday Time Slot" by Mark Lorando
   COMMENTARY: SOUL TRAIN replaces XENA!!!! Film at 11!
   EXCERPT:
   Scanning the dials . . .
   For fans of "Xena: Warrior Princess," having to file
a tax return before midnight was only the second-worst
thing that happened Tuesday.  
   The real shock occurred earlier in the evening, when
viewers who turned on Channel 38 for their weekly
serving of mythological cheesecake got an earful of
Snoop Doggy Dog instead.
   That's right, "Warrior Princess" party animals.
"Xena" is out and "Soul Train" is in at 7 p.m. Tuesdays
on Channel 38, as WNOL tries to duplicate elsewhere on
the schedule the same success it's had on Wednesday
nights with "It's Showtime at the Apollo."
   "Based on the tremendous hunger we've seen for
entertainment programming," station manager Madelyn
Bonnot said, "we wanted to give 'Soul Train' a try (in
prime-time)."
   "Showtime" is consistently the second or third most
popular program on New Orleans television at 9 p.m.
Wednesdays. Last week, Bonnot said, the syndicated
variety show edged out NBC's bulwark crime drama "Law &
Order" to finish No. 2 in the time period. "Soul
Train," a rap and rhythm-and-blues dance hour, would
seem to have considerably narrower appeal, but Bonnot
figures she has little to lose since "Xena" will
continue to air twice weekly, at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Saturdays....


Notices:

All back issues of XMR and TWXN are available at
(http://xenafan.com/xmr). We herein give praise and
thanks to Tom Simpson for the space he has graciously
donated from his spectacular, TOM'S XENA PAGE
(http://xenafan.com). If you have never been there, you
are **not** a xenafan!

TWXN is the advance sheet for XMR, an annotated world
press review of reports regarding the internationally
syndicated television show XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS (1995
- 2000+?) and the castmembers, Lucy Lawless and Renee
O'Connor. TWXN is not available for subscription,
however it is posted Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on
the XenaVerse, Hercules-Xena, and Chakram Mailing Lists
(thank you Lucia! I am greatly indebt to you), the MCA
NetForum, the Xenite Message Center, and alt.tv.xena. I
also would like to thank sirvin@law.wfu.edu for
assitance in collecting the newstories. For a free
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