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On the set of The X-Files in North Vancouver, British Columbia, show creator Chris Carter emerges from an alien space vehicle. Before the TV series kept him busy, Carter was a writer for a surfing magazine. (Photograph by Ward Perrin)
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t's 10:00 on Friday night, and the final credits of The X-Files scroll up the television screen. By 10:01, on computers across the country and all over the world, fans who call themselves "X-Philes" log on to America Online and the Internet to begin a weekly dissection of plots, aliens, the FBI, conspiracy theories, and the various attributes of X-Files stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. One fan writes: "Is it me, or is David the most attractive man ever?" "You don't have to wait for fan mail anymore," observes X-Files creator Chris Carter, who says he scans through the most thoughtful of the online critiques. "You know immediately what your hard-core fans think. It's revolutionized television producing." The kind of viewer involvement associated with Net-based fans is a dream for those charged with that eternal Hollywood preoccupation: creating a buzz about a show.
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In his Santa Monica office, Academy Award-winning writer/director/producer Oliver Stone logs on to answer questions from fans about his latest film, Nixon. (Photograph by Jim McHugh)
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Director John Carpenter pauses for a moment on the set of Escape from LA. The movie predicts the destruction of all technology, as technology itself falls into the wrong hands. (Photograph by Jim McHugh)
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At Planet Hollywood in Beverly Hills, Wing Commander 4, an interactive CD-ROM movie/game, is launched. From left to right: Tom Wilson, Chris Roberts, Mark Hammill, and Malcolm McDowell look over the creation. (Photograph by Jim McHugh)
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