THIS WEEK IN XENA  NEWS...  
TWXN 110
09/22/97
Montag

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. Due to a minor family emergency, I will not be able
to attend the San Francisco Convention. I was looking
forward to the convention and the opportunity to meet
many of my on-line acquaintances, but it looks like we
have been thwarted by those pesky Fates again. Maybe
next year!

2. I received some mail from "Kitchen Warrior". There
was no e-mail address notated so I am forced to
acknowledge receipt through here. Thanks KW, I got it. 

3. Congrats on the engagement of Tom Simpson of Tom's
Xena Page (http://xenafan.com) and Betsy Book of WHOOSH
(http://www.thirdstory.com). This means more that a
symbolic merging between the two largest non-commercial
fan based web sites. I am proud to have had WHOOSH be
the agent of their union. 

4. I had a walk down memory lane when an interview in
The Zocalo (#124, 09/21/97), an internet Babylon 5
newsletter (http://www.highfiber.com/~katana),
mentioned my past life as a rabid Star Trek fan. It
made me think about the last 10 years I have spent on-
line and in media fandom publishing. The last year and
a half have been rather Xena intensive and I tend to
forget about the other media fandoms out there. It is
easy to get caught up in our own little micro-universe.
It is good to think macrocosm periodically. But don't
worry; it was only a passing thought. I am back to
churning out these Xena-oid newsletters and what not.
Which reminds me, XMR #27 is late....


And now...the gnus:


[    ] 05-05-97
   CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Monday. Page N3. Sports. 450 words.
"Thomas Stresses Something's Still Lacking for Sox" By
Fred Mitchell
   COMMENTARY: Xena beats DARTH VADER in ranking with
who Chicago kids would like to be. What a plugging
opportunity! WHOOSH! The Journal of the International
Association of Xena Studies will have an article in its
October 1997 issue which expores the uncanny and
sometimes disturbing similiarities between Xena, the
warrior princess, and Darth Vader, the classic deadbeat
dad. 
   EXCERPT:
   ...Be like Oprah: According to a poll conducted by
Carvel ice cream, 37 percent of children living in
Chicago would like to be Oprah Winfrey, while only 8
percent would like to be Michael Jordan. And Jordan is
ranked fifth among people children nationwide wished
they could be on their birthday.  Ranking ahead of
Jordan in that category were 1) first daughter Chelsea
Clinton, 2) golf phenom Tiger Woods, 3) TV warrior
princess Xena and 4) movie villain Darth Vader. The
Cubs, by the way, are the No. 1 team adults wish would
win the World Series....


[    ] 05-05-97
   THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT (Norfolk, VA). Monday. Page E1.
813 words. "King of the Hill" Is Hip, and Other
Observations" By Larry Bonko
   COMMENTARY: Larry Bonko loves XENA so much that he
watched "Something So Right" ONLY BECAUSE of Lucy
Lawless' multi-second appearance on the show. IF THAT
AIN'T LOVE...what is?
   EXCERPT:
   ...I'm nuts about ''Xena, Warrior Princess,''
starring Lucy Lawless. If I weren't, I would never have
watched the dopey NBC sitcom ''Something So Right'' to
catch Lawless in a guest shot....


[    ] 05-05-97
   USA TODAY. Monday. Page 8D. 443 words. "Super sister
fights evil Warrior Nun is attracting comic-book
disciples" by Leslie Miller
   COMMENTARY: I have not seen this comic book yet, but
it is on my list of things to do in the next century. 
   EXCERPT:
   ...In the defiant world of bad-girl comic books, one
holy heroine is drawing a crowd.
   The Warrior Nun -- a cross between Xena and Joan of
Arc -- has attracted both male and female fans who now
follow the character, well, religiously....


[    ] 05-05-97
   THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR. Monday. Page E07. 369 words.
"New Zealander's baby blues catch 'Xena' viewer's eye"
By R.K. Shull
   COMMENTARY: LL is not naturally blond, but it is a
common misperception. I suppose it will be my lot in
life trying to educate the masses about this. Oh, how
great are the burdens we place upon ourselves.
   EXCERPT:
   Dear R.K. Shull: In Lucy Lawless' movies, how blue
are her eyes?  Once when I saw her, they were so blue I
thought she might be wearing blue contacts.  Are all
her movies made in New Zealand? - C.I.A.
   Dear Reader: I assume all this has to do with her
role as Xena: Warrior Princess, which is filmed in her
native New Zealand.  Lucy is naturally blond, which may
explain her blue, blue eyes....


[    ] 05-05-97
   ABC NEWS. ABC GOOD MORNING AMERICA (7:00 am ET).
1206 words. "Most Beautiful People" Guests: Susan
Toepfer. By Joan Lunden
   COMMENTARY: A fleeting yet intriguing reaction to
LL's appearance in the annual People magazine's list of
the 50 Most Beautiful People. It is things like this
that make me want to move to Africa. 
   EXCERPT:
   JOAN LUNDEN, Host: Well, in case you didn t
recognize the brooding stranger we showed you before
the commercial, it is Jim Carrey, more famous for being
funny than being beautiful.  But nevertheless, he has
been chosen as one of "People" magazine s 50 most
beautiful people in the world. And joining me right now
with the inside scoop is -- on the list is Susan
Toepfer, executive editor of special issues for
"People." Good to have you back here....
   ...JOAN LUNDEN: "One Life to Live," yes, here on
ABC.  And the next person was just on our program. 
This is Xena. 
   SUSAN TOEPFER: Lucy Lawless, this great, strong
beauty.  She did admit, though, that that is not her
hair.  Xena s hair is imported from... 
   JOAN LUNDEN: That s not her hair? 
   SUSAN TOEPFER:... Spain, yes. 
   JOAN LUNDEN: Really? 
   SUSAN TOEPFER: So we can t be that jealous. 
   JOAN LUNDEN: So that s a wig? 
   SUSAN TOEPFER: Sort of, yes. 
   JOAN LUNDEN: Or a fall. 
   SUSAN TOEPFER: A fall or extension. 
   JOAN LUNDEN: She was just on our show last week. 
She was showing Charlie how to do some of those fake
falls and fake hits...
 

[    ] 05-06-97
   CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Tuesday. Kidnews. Page 7. 68 words.
"Most Bizarre"
   COMMENTARY: The woman is a true role model: she
insisted upon Xena's hair being black and now we know
about her preferences for the letter "X". Personally,
my letter preference gravitates towards "W" but only
because I was exposed to Elmer Fudd at a tender age. 
   REPRINT:
   That's what Gillian Anderson of The X-Files" was
voted by her high school classmates. The
now-28-year-old pierced her nose in high school, wore
thrift-shop designs and cut tons of her hair off at a
time when kids just didn't do that.  
   'I remember so clearly being a kid and thinking that
X's were really attractive.'Lucy Lawless, Xena Warrior
Princess, when asked why Xena is spelled with an X....


[    a] 05-06-97
   THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Entertainment News. 768 words.
"'Highlander' star changes look for summer, heads for
convention" By Jennifer Bowles, AP Television Writer
   COMMENTARY: Hey!!! HIGHLANDER is for the cerebral
crowd. This is truly news. I wonder why I don't see
hundreds of articles about HIGHLANDER and its place in
society, popular culture, literary traditions, and its
subtext? Maybe I am just not looking in the right
places. I bet they get it in Terre Haute!
   EXCERPT:
   ..."Highlander" (usually rated TV-14) has spawned a
cult-like following not unlike the "Star Trek" series,
"Babylon 5" or "The X-Files."
   And it was the first among the recent spate of
heroic fantasy shows, including "Xena: Warrior
Princess," and "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys." A
new series "Roar," described as a mix of the films
"Braveheart" and "Excalibur," is coming out this summer
on Fox.
   "I don't liken 'Highlander' to 'Xena' or 'Hercules'
because I think 'Highlander' is a little bit more
cerebral than those shows are," Paul says.
   "I think it has a little more class than those shows
do. That's my personal opinion. I'm not knocking them,
I think they're great for what they are."...


[    ] 05-07-97
   THE TIMES UNION (Albany, NY). Wednesday. Page A2.
170 words. "Westchester County DA a beauty, says
'People'"
   COMMENTARY: More on the People Magazine spread. A DA
got into it; but then the Spice Girls did too. Is this
supposed to be an honor or something????
   EXCERPT:
   There she is, right between Xena the warrior
princess and Drew Barrymore, in People magazine's
annual picks of the world's most beautiful people:
Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro....
   ...Among the others on the magazine's list are Cuba
Gooding Jr., Lauren Bacall, the Spice Girls, ''Xena's''
Lucy Lawless and Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter.


[   a] 05-08-97
   CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Thursday. Sports. Page 2.
"Quotable" By Steve Rosenbloom
   COMMENTARY: This appears to be the very first print
media coverage of "the incident". I will be running all
of the significant coverage because that is what TWXN
and XMR does. 
   EXCERPT:
   ...That's entertainment
   Xena, the Warrior Princess, put on quite a show for
the Disney people the other night.
   Lucy Lawless, the actress who portrays Xena, stepped
on the ice to sing the anthem before the Mighty
Ducks-Red Wings game at the Pond in Anaheim Tuesday
night and stripped off her blazer to reveal a red vest.
   Then, in her exuberance at the end of the anthem,
she threw her arms up and, uh, well, Lucy Lawless
became Lucy topless. 
   Well, they always did call Disneyland "the happiest
place on Earth."...


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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