THIS WEEK IN XENA  NEWS...  
TWXN 115
10/11/97

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. XMR #28 has just been released. Go to
http://xenafan.com and check it out. Released in six
boffo parts! Covers the media action from 09/01/96 to
09/15/96 and annotations 461 to 501. FEATURES. "Attack
Of The 50-Foot Lesbians", "The Third Season Dawns",
"Spanking Lawyers", "From New Homes to New Loves: What
Life Online Does To Xenites". ARTICLES. Interviews:
Lucy Lawless, Robert Tapert, Kevin Smith, Renee
O'Connor, Anson Williams (director), Kevin Sorbo;
parody; comics; Stephen Papps (See'er on ORPHAN);
popular cultural references; tabloids; Battleground
Earth; airings of THE GREATER GOOD, CALLISTO; Ratings:
TIES THAT BIND; Meow Mix; New Zealand film economy;
singer Ralph Gean; and more!

2. TWXN is becoming sparser. At the beginning of the
summer I spent three days straight plowing through
articles and I have now come to the very last one of
them! And it is a stupid one. I must devote another
couple days straight and then TWXN can start coming out
in its usually manic ways for another three months or
so...but that time does not look like it will be
anytime in the near future. Oh well. At least I will go
down editing!

3. I am going to be at CyberSmiths in Palo Alto on Oct.
13th taping an episode of The Internet Cafe (Syndicated
PBS). Taping starts at 4pm. Be there or be square. 


And now...the stupid story:


[    ] 05-08-97
   THE TORONTO STAR. Thursday. Page H10. 1331 words.
"Pumped-up pose pro just says no Johnny Healthy wants
another bodybuilding title -- naturally" By Antonia
Zerbisias Toronto Star
   COMMENTARY: Hey!!! That is it. A very short TWXN!!!
Saints be praised!!! Hopefully next time you read a
TWXN it won't be this anemic. But I wanted to promote
XMR #28 and my Internet Cafe appearance, so I was
forced to release this substandard TWXN. Hope you enjoy
it regardless of this terrible breach of fan
obsessiveness. 
   EXCERPT:
   Johnny Healthy, a.k.a. John Siembida, is fit to be
tried.
   In fact, the former Mr. Canada and Mr. North America
says he's willing to pee in a cup - anytime! anywhere!
- and pay 10 grand to anybody who can prove he's
flexing the truth about being 100 per cent
steroid-free...
   ...A day-long event - the power lift-off is at 9
a.m. at the Metro Convention Centre's John Bassett
Theatre (255 Front St. W.) - this is the pro contest in
Canada.
   The best three bods not only pull down massive money
- including the $ 10,000 top prize - they also qualify
for next fall's Mr. Olympia, where Ah-nold made his
name and fortune.
   Winning the Canada Cup V could mean movie careers,
product endorsement contracts, all kinds of rewards for
bringing home the beefcake.
   But the contest isn't just for muscleheads.
   It also includes a competition for women, the
Phys-Fit Canada Fitness Cup, now in its second year,
where women like last year's winner, Melissa Mok, make
the popular TV Amazon Xena look like the Warrior Wuss.
   Of course, Xena would never pose in a bikini and
high heels - which these women will, much to the
obvious enjoyment of men in the audience.
   "This is the route women who work out doing aerobics
and gymnastics can take," says Toronto Pro promoter
Nimrod King, a former bodybuilding champ himself. "Some
of them don't want to go to the extreme as far as
looking too masculine. They want to look feminine."
   Women's workouts are nice but the meat of the matter
is the men's pro bodybuilding competition where top
contenders such as Canada's Anthony Williams, Henderson
Thorne, Jeff Poulin, Claude Groulx and Joe Spinello
will pop their pecs and other parts in the afternoon
International Federation of Body Builders judging.
   That's when Siembida plans to muscle his way on to
the stage, with his natural physique and shut down the
"roid-bot" look that many bodybuilders have....


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 regularly on the XenaVerse,
Hercules-Xena, and Chakram Mailing Lists (thank you
Lucia! I am greatly indebted to you); the forums: MCA
NetForum and the Xenite Message Center (thanks Angela);
and alt.tv.xena (thanks Tim). I also would like to
thank sirvin@law.wfu.edu for assistance in collecting
the newstories. For a free e-mail subscription to XMR
subscribe by e-mail to ktaborn@lightspeed.net by
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