THIS WEEK IN XENA  NEWS...  
TWXN 100
08/18/97

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:

I did not go to the Leno Show taping so the exciting
100th issue of TWXN goes out on Monday. Since I am in
town this Monday, that means XMR #25 will go out Monday
as well. And while I am plugging myself, we are only
two weeks away from the All-Amazon issue of WHOOSH! 


And here's the news:


[    ] 04-06-97
   THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL (Memphis, TN). Sunday. Page
B8. 454 words. "Young Musicians Play to Be Ranked" By
Michael Donahue (The Commercial Appeal)
   COMMENTARY: Great french horn music! Now XWP is
being used as a musical example as well.
   EXCERPT:
   Budding musicians mixed Mozart with Handel at the
West Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association
Solo and Ensemble Festival Saturday at Kingsbury High
School....
   ...Jimi Hayes, 42, a judge in the festival and a
French horn player in the Germantown Symphony
Orchestra, said a lot of the students had the
jitters....
   ...He also tried to make students comfortable by
asking about their schools and what positions they play
in the band. He asked them if they watch Hercules: The
Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess on TV
because they feature great French horn music....


[    ] 04-06-97
   ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE. Sunday. Page 4E. 738
words. "Deli food shore tastes good to Jersey girl" By
Lynn Chard-petrinjak, Arkansas Democrat-gazette
(petrinjak@adg.ardemgaz.com)
   EXCERPT:
   ...Networking
   Getting into techno babble, I've recently joined the
Internet at the office. In the name of research and on
request, I've explored some sites.  If you're bored,
wandering the Net can absorb hours before you even
realize it. Some things I've learned so far:
   Don't let your co-workers check out the Internet
from your desk if you've got a deadline to meet.
   Xena: Warrior Princess is more than just the top
syndicated TV show, she's also a hot Web topic. And
she's inappropriately named: according to one site
offering definitions of various names, Xena means
"welcoming, hospitable."...


[    ] 04-09-97
   THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT (Norfolk, VA). Wednesday. Page
E1. 988 words. "10 Favorite Shows That Give Me Guilty
Pleasure" by Larry Bonko
   EXCERPT:
   WITH THE arrival of ''Buffy, the Vampire Slayer'' on
the Warner Brothers network comes a change at the top
of my list of television's 10 best (or is it worst?)
guilty pleasures. Buffy is in, Xena is out. 
   ''Buffy, the Vampire Slayer'' has replaced ''Xena,
Warrior Princess'' as my No. 1 TV guilty pleasure.
Buffy is not only cooler and cuter than Xena, and just
as fearless, but she's also still in high school. Who
wouldn't want a daughter just like Buffy? My parade of
guilty pleasures: 
   1. ''Buffy, the Vampire Slayer,'' Monday night at 9,
WVBT - How's a girl to get her homework done when a
coven of vampires, a giant praying mantis and other
monsters charging through the gates of Hades threaten
her schoolmates? No time for term papers. Buffy has
beasts to vanquish, hence the wooden stakes in her
knapsack. Valley Girl Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy
hits the right note - serious about her mission but
never letting it get in the way of shopping at the Gap. 
   2. ''Xena, Warrior Princess,'' Saturday at 7 p.m.
WTVZ; Sunday at 1:30 a.m., WGN - Here's a series with
plenty to keep you from channel surfing: butt-kicking
action, fantasy, sensational stunts, beautiful babes in
leather, hunky guys, snappy one-liners and a little
blood lust. Is it any wonder ''Xena'' is the No. 1
syndicated drama?...


[    ] 04-09-97
   THE TIMES-PICAYUNE. Wednesday. Page E1. 927 words.
"Stars and Stripes. Celebrity Crowd Checks out Mixed
Messages in Fall. 
Collections" By Chris Bynum Fashion writer
   EXCERPT:
   ...Donatella Versace's Xena-does-New-York version of
fall was all about black leather, short skirts and
black, white and chrome yellow. Shoes had stainless
steel pointed toes and stiletto heels, and boot-like
fronts with cut-out backs for ankle straps. Slip
dresses were boudoir bold in black leather, and there
were more leather lingerie looks, such as bandeau-style
bras worn under cut-out dresses. Leather harnesses worn
like bandoliers accessorized tailored pantsuits. The
women outfitted in Versus would never need, nor would
they read, "The Rules."...


[    ] 04-10-97
   THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. 629 words. "Digital
expansion, No. 1"
   EXCERPT:
   Flat Earth Productions Inc., a digital-effects house
best known for work on TV shows such as "Hercules: The
Legendary Journeys" and "Xena: Warrior Princess," has
added three digital artists and opened a second
facility offering quadrupled computer-rendering
capabilities.  Newly aboard at Flat Earth are effects
artists Everett Burrell, Bryan Blevins and John
Gibbons. Burrell, an Emmy winner along with former
creative and business partner John Vulich for effects
on sci-fi drama "Babylon 5," will serve as 3-D
supervisor at Flat Earth. The company's new Burbank
facility adds a second production site to its
continuing base at Universal City Studios....


[    ] 04-10-97
   THE DETROIT NEWS. Thursday. Page D8. 363 words. "TV
Briefs: ABC's 'Soul Man' creators pray Detroit will
equal success again" By Tom Kiska
   EXCERPT:
   ...Honors: Birmingham composer/producer Joseph
LoDuca, who scores his work from his home and sends it
electronically to Hollywood, will be honored this month
by the American Society of Composers and Publishers for
his work on the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess and
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys...


[    ]  04-11-97
   DAILY VARIETY. Friday. Page 2. 227 words. "U bowing
online chat site" By Katharine Stalter
   REPRINT:
   Universal Studios, one of the holdouts among the
majors when it comes to original-content Internet
initiatives, is launching a Hollywood chat program
featuring film and TV industry professionals who will
answer online questions.     
   The chat program will feature moderated and
unmoderated programming every evening Monday through
Friday. The series debuts this week with live
discussions with Tom Arnold, Carl Reiner and others.
Universal Chat also will incorporate open rooms where
online users can discuss Universal properties such as
"Hercules: The Legendary Journeys," "Xena: Warrior
Princess," "Law & Order," "New York Undercover,"
"Feds," "Sliders" and "The Burning Zone," among others. 
   Another area is the Backlot Cafe, where users can
visit forums such as Getting to Know the Hollywood
Business and Writer's Workshop. 
   Industry insiders called Universal's move shrewd.
Rather than jumping onto the "Websodic" bandwagon ---
which appears to have crashed --- or devising
less-than-challenging games to promote individual
films, the studio waited while the Internet market
shook out. To many observers, that appears to have been
a wise move.
   Universal Studios Online is a division of Universal
Studios New Media Group, which develops original
Internet content. 
   Universal Chat is located on the Universal Studios
Web site (www.universalstudios.com).


[    ] 04-11-97
   ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS. Friday. Page 11H. 516 words.
"Using the Force of Arthurian Legend. Kid Play" By
Donna Freedman (Daily News)
   COMMENTARY:
   EXCERPT:
   Picture a wise, wizardly man counseling a callow
youth. ''Fear can destroy the strongest man,'' he says
somberly. Then comes a dream sequence in which the
young man is forced to take up a sword to defend
himself against a faceless warrior.  
   When Alaska Theatre of Youth took a workshop
production of ''The Sword in the Stone'' to local
schools, kids made an immediate connection: They
thought it sounded a lot like ''Star Wars.''
   ''But actually, 'Star Wars' sounds like Arthurian
legend,'' says Sarah Barker, who's directing the piece
for ATY...
   ...Another kid-friendly touch is ATY's trademark
physical humor. The young Arthur (also played by Rider)
and his stepbrother, Kay (Rian Brooks as the youth),
have a scene of make-believe jousting that's just like
modern kids playing ''Power Rangers'' or ''Xena:
Warrior Princess.''...


[   ] 04-12-97
   REUTERS NORTH AMERICAN WIRE. Saturday. 944 words.
"Kevin Costner On Oregon Movie Set"
   COMMENTARY: Coverage of Friedman quote in
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (03-07-97) article on XWP. Took
them over a month for it to sink in!
   EXCERPT:
   ...Sexual Ambiguity
   The sexual ambiguity of the lead character "Xena:
Warrior Princess" appears to play a role in the
popularity of the television series. Entertainment
Weekly Online reports that while Xena, as portrayed by
Lucy Lawless, frequently is shown in the intimate
company of men, producer Liz Friedman acknowledges that
sexual ambiguity is a mainstay. Friedman tells
Entertainment Weekly, "I don't have any interest in
saying they're heterosexuals," referring to Xena and
her sidekick, Gabrielle, played by Renee O'Connor....


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
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