From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #22 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Wednesday, January 25 2006 Volume 06 : Number 022 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] New Xena Scripts? ["ribaud" ] Re: [chakram-refugees] New Xena Scripts? ["Creation (Sharon Delaney)" Subject: [chakram-refugees] New Xena Scripts? In the past, Creation has released more scripts at the annual LA con. Can anyone tell me if any more (past #79, Intimate Stranger) were released this year? Thanks! Lynn Ribaud ribaud@anl.gov ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:52:57 -0800 From: "Creation (Sharon Delaney)" Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] New Xena Scripts? Royal Couple of Thieves Fistful of Dinars Sharon Official Xena Fan Club > In the past, Creation has released more scripts at the annual LA >con. Can anyone tell me if any more (past #79, Intimate Stranger) were >released this year? Thanks! > >Lynn Ribaud >ribaud@anl.gov ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:14:41 -0900 (AKST) From: KTL Subject: [chakram-refugees] Con 06 Juicy Lucy Lawless Part four ACK! Was in a place where I couldn't get online for a few days. (And I mean that literally--I ain't speaking head place. I ain't that kind of grrl. . . ) Someone asked about the story we'd heard when Lucy worked on Battlestar, "Who was the first to call you Xena?" "Nobody did." She said that she might have said something herself referring to Xena. "You go on somebody else's show. Your character can't grandstand." She talked about how they'd be discussing a scene and she'd say (or want to say?), "Oh-how about I do this?", making suggestions about the bit. "Then I'd realize, I can't. This is not Xena." She did a little byplay of someone replying to her possible suggestions with, "Excuse me? You did what in the 90's? Is that Zed ee en a? I think it was at this point that she began to play around and say things like, "You got a planet named after your character? You got a costume in the Smithsonian?" We were all laughing so hard over that that I didn't get it written down. But I do remember lots of people joking about it later. Saying things like, "Planet, Check. Smithsonian, Check." And it seems to fit here. . .Lucy ended by saying, "It only matters that you spread the joy." She used this again at some point, shorthanding it to, "Planet! Smithsonian!" Even she laughed at herself as she said it. Big goof. Question: "When are you going to do a photo op in a Xena costume?" I think my heart stopped at that moment. I remember once a woman named Jo from England came to the con dressed as Xena in her armor from FIN. And Jo was the absolute BEST Xena I'd ever seen at a con. Heck, she was the absolute best non-Lucy Xena I'd ever seen anywhere. She would have been a perfect body double for Luce. I remember walking into the hall, looking around and spotting her and literally doing a double take-for one glorious moment, it appeared that Xena had come to the con to be with us. No one else has ever come anywhere near making me actually think, if only for a moment that Xena was among us. But Jo did. And I remember feeling such a sense of longing when I realized it wasn't Lucy. Laugh, there's no other word for it but "longing". I know the stars don't do that, but just once, when Lucy had her black hair, I wish with all my heart that she had come and been with us as Xena. *sigh* Anyway, Lucy's reply was, "It's in Washington, D.C. I do 'em for free, man for people who come see me." A fan screamed out, "How about now?" Lucy continued (not sure if she heard the screamer or not), "At the very first Xena con-I signed for everybody. I was the last person to leave the place. All the fans were like, 'Bye, bye Lucy' waving as they left. I'm turning off the mikes, turning out the lights." She put on her goofy fan voice again and acted all excited and thrilled that she could, "Sign, sign." This is hilarious. I remember being on a secret girl's list (don't ask) and reading the people on there brag about how they had gotten back on line two, even three times for yet another autograph and another few moments with Lucy. It didn't matter to them that the poor woman was there for six hours, signing and re-signing for some of the more selfish fans. So I'm glad that she sees it as something she didn't want to end. However, she never did sign again at a con. Question: What's the most important thing about being a mother? "The most important thing about being a mother, a human being--be an anchor to good behavior. You want your kids to grow up to be socially conscious and to care. Just to spread the joy again, all the time." She was asked about ageism in the industry. She said it's there all the time. That the prime age is 18 to 24. "There's no need to be a victim about it. That's just how it is. It's very hard to realize you're not the hottest thing any more." She mentioned Paris Hilton. "Imagine when she wakes up one day and says, (and here Lucy put her hands on her cheeks and pulled her face tightly back, mimicking old people with face lifts), 'Holy shit! I'm old!" We all found this hilarious. Someone in the front row asked a question. Lucy looked down and said, "Yes, potty mouth?" Then we had another round of "Who's yo momma!?" This time I heard the more sedate, "You are" in reply. (Rather than "Youse are".) Lucy to potty mouth, "C'mere. C'mere. I can tell this is going to be a long one." The woman got up and walked up to the stage to talk into the microphone as Lucy leant over and held it for her. "Are your parents aware of Juicy Lawless?" Lucy repeated, "My parents. . .You know, the proudest moment of my life was when my father came to see me in the Vagina Monologues. I had performed this pornographic lesbian sex scene. Well, it wasn't that it was lesbian, that didn't matter. But it was pornographic. And my dad stood outside the theater. Stood there proud of me." Then she laughed and said, "Even though he was probably dying inside." Then she flashed us a very sweet, happy and proud smile and said, "I never felt so loved as that moment." She explained that "The other girls went through the script, I'm taking this, this, THIS one I'm not touching with a large pole. (Large pole? Barge pole?) I was pregnant had this large belly, (Lucy put on her goofy voice) 'I'll do it! So I got all the ones that were not funny. And the pornographic ones. When you're pregnant, your head is filled with cotton wool. I see it in season five. You're non compos mentis." She went on to apologize for her acting choices in season five. She said essentially that she thought she knew what she was doing when she made some suggestions. And now when she looks at what she did, well, I repeat, she apologized for her work while pregnant. That was funny. A fan came up to the mike and said, "I know your Mom's here but thanks for wearing those boots." She had on knee high boots with stiletto heels. Which actually I was thinking about last night-how I personally almost never see women in stiletto heels anymore. And they used to be very common. Now I think I only see them when I'm looking at the television guide on cable TV and they have bits of award shows. And all them Hollywood women are wearing stilettos. Not sure how it came up but Lucy said, "I'd rather be a small fish in a very large pond than a large fish in a very small pond. When I'm there (New Zealand), everybody knows I'm there. They ask me to come to everything (openings, I think she meant among other things), small shows. Come to my grandmother's! I have no problem making friends here, in Vancouver. There are fine human beings everywhere." That's a great attitude, eh? Someone asked her about World Vision which she had made the video for last year that Sharon showed us at the con. She said she has sponsored two children through them (I think through them.) The person who asked the question talked about sending a goat to a village. Lucy added that everybody in the world plays soccer (and yeah, she said soccer, not football). And she had sent 100 soccer balls to World Vision. She said that soccer balls are cheap, maybe $15 and yet each one benefits a lot of people. The kids want to play soccer so badly that they will make their own balls out of bags or rags or whatever. A real ball is very special. "For 15 bucks, 100 kids get hours and hours of pleasure." She continued, "These are Christian agencies but they don't proselytize. I've really learned how to do it-you can't just give people resources. Teach them how to do things." Someone asked her if she was in training for a Xena move. And they mentioned that the fans would be writing in to Universal for one. Lucy said, "Yeah baby, bring it on!" In answer to another question, Lucy said, "I'm so lucky, so many things bring me joy. In Seattle, at the Factory". She talked about things she'd done I think on Xena but also in the past, "They've thrown me out of planes-but none of it's such a rush as live performing." Question: "Where's your next gig?" Lucy: "Your house, baby!" Then she said there was a possibility of her going to the Dinah Shore golf thing. Wild cheering from the audience. And that she hadn't gotten back to them as quickly as they'd hoped and so they had asked Carmen Electra instead. She stood there and did the one hand then the other balance thing, saying in an assessing tone, "Lucyyy--Carmen Electra? Lucyyy/Carmen Electra. Can't have both." (Or maybe she said she didn't know why you "can't have both". Not sure.) Someone asked how hard it had been for Lucy to act with an actor whom you're not supposed to be able to see. (Referring to Six on Battlestar who is a figment of the VP's mind and so invisible to everyone else.) Lucy said, "There was some story about having to redo something because I saw her. I don't remember that. It's no harder to not see her than to pretend (on Xena) that a three headed something is going to suck us in." Now the next part was a little confusing. I asked a number of people what they heard and got sometimes differing answers. But I and a number of other people think what Lucy said was that she can easily pretend about things, whereas Renee has always said, "Be real" .So they'd both be acting at times against a blue/green screen, facing a tennis ball on a stick. And Renee is seeing the tennis ball while Lucy is ignoring the tennis ball and so seeing the monster it represents. And then Lucy added, "It's a tennis ball either way. Same thing, different version." Grin. She said that when Renee would talk about the way she approached this, Lucy would say (and again, she put on her goofy, "I so don't understand" voice), "Are you speaking another language?" because it was so incomprehensible to Lucy to do it that way. Then she said that now she's tending to look for the actual reality and so is getting more like Renee. Now, let's all watch the DVD when it comes and see just what exactly she did say and what she possibly meant by it. She was asked about Tilly. (Tilly was the Argo that Lucy usually rode.) I have the statement in my notes, "Tilly's half-American." And doing fine. And then Lucy got a kind of surprised, "Oh, that's right!" look on her gace and said, "She had a foal. Oh my goodness, I'll have to check on that." My impression was that Lucy suddenly realized that Tilly's gestation period was over and so she had probably had a foal. "She had trouble. She had a miscarriage before." A woman came up to the microphone and talked about I think that someone sent a toilet in her name to Bangladesh. A "Totsy Toilet". (So this was kind of like sending a goat to a poor community-same concept.) I think Lucy said that "There's nothing to hook it up to. In Bangladesh, you have to travel a long way when you need to go. Toilets come in handy. The frequency of me is WAY up there." (I believe that's a comment on her bladder.) A fan asked, "How do we nominate you for an award and a star on the Walk of Fame?" Massive applause of course. Lucy ducked her head and gave one of her "grateful and pleased but somewhat embarrassed" smiles while waiting for the applause and hooting "Yeah!s" to die down. "Bless you. I don't feel like I need one." Damn! NOT done Lucy yet. Okay, one more coming at least. KT ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. 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