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- |1-X Files - Part II
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-
- By Pat Gonzales
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- |1-Deep Background-Chris Carter
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- Chris Carter, 37, began his career as a screenwriter in 1985 at The
- Walt Disney Studios. Previously, Carter had been working as a
- freelance journalist, writing and traveling extensively abroad. At
- Disney, Carter wrote and produced several television movies in
- addition to the television pilot Cameo by Night for NBC and The Nanny,
- a sitcom for The Disney Channel. He took a short leave of absence
- from Disney to co-produce the second season of the comedy series Rags
- to Riches, starring Joe Bologna, and returned in 1989 to create and
- executive produce "Brand New Life," a recurring comedy series which
- ran as part of a rotating schedule on Disney's Sunday night lineup.
- [Fox press packet for X Files]
-
- |1-Deep Background - David Duchovny
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- David Duchovny, 34, is probably best known for his memorable role as
- the transvestite detective Dennis/Denise in the television series
- "Twin Peaks." A native New Yorker, Duchovny graduated from Princeton
- University and then earned a graduate degree in English literature at
- Yale University, preparing for a career as a teacher. While at Yale,
- he began commuting to New York to study acting and was soon appearing
- in off-Broadway plays. In 1987, in the midst of his doctoral studies,
- he left Yale to pursue acting full time.
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- Duchovny (pronounced Doo-kuv'-nee), 6'1" tall, was born August 7,
- 1960. His parents, Amran (a publicist for the American Jewish
- Committee) and Margaret (an elementary school teacher) divorced when
- he was 11. He has one brother, Daniel, and a sister, Laurie. He has
- a girlfriend, actresss Perrey Reeves, and resides in Malibu, Calif.
- [Fox press packet for X Files and People magazine, April 18, 1994
- issue]
-
- *Filmography*
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- New Years Day 1988
- Working Girl 1988
- Bad Influence 1988, 1989
- Twin Peaks 1990
- The Rapture 1991
- Julia Has Two Lovers 1991
- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead 1991
- Denial 1991
- Venice/Venice 1992
- Ruby 1992
- Red Shoe Diaries 1992-present
- Chaplin 1992
- Beethoven 1992
- Baby Snatcher 1992
- Kalifornia 1993
- The X Files 1993-present
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- |1-Deep Background - Gillian Anderson
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- Gillian Anderson first gained recognition as an actresss for her
- off-Broadway performance in Alan Ayckbourne's "Absent Friends" at the
- Manhattan Theater Club, for which she won a Theatre World Award. Her
- love of theater began in high school where she participated in
- community theater. In college, Anderson studies with the National
- Theater of Great Britain at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and
- then at the Goodman Theater School at Chicago's DePaul University,
- where she obtained her BFA degree.
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- Anderson, 5' 2" tall, was born August 9, and lives in Los Angeles.
- [Fox press packet for X Files] She is married, and gave birth to a
- daughter, Piper, on Sept. 24, 1994 She is not related in any way to
- Jo Anderson who appeared as Diana in the television show Beauty and
- the Beast.
-
- *Filmography*
-
- Home Fires Burning 1992
- "The X Files" 1993-present
- "Exit to Eden" (audiotape) 1993
-
- |1-Merchandise
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- X Files shirts, mugs, and caps have made an appearance at various
- locations. Suncoast Videos are carrying the above items; look for the
- store in a city near you. :-) Starland is carrying three
- officially-licensedT-shirts and two officially-licensed hats. They
- can be reached at 1-800-733-8735 for an illustrated flyer.
-
- Delphi is also selling a different group of official X Files
- merchandise through their X Files Special Interest Group. A
- sweatshirt, t-shirt, mug, keychain, and letterjacket are available
- only through the SIG on Delphi.
-
- Original novels are also in the works, to be written by award-winning
- horror writer Charles L. Grant and published by HarperPrism. Grant
- is one of the most respected writers and editors in the fields of
- horror and fantasy, a winner of two Nebula awards for science fiction
- writing, and three World Fantasy Awards, and the British Fantasy
- Society's Life Achievement award. Grant is perhaps best known for his
- editing of the Shadows and Greystone Bay series of anthologies. [Tor
- book biography] The first X Files book is expected in December.
-
- Topps Comics has announced that they have acquired the rights to do an
- X Files comic book, and are currently in production. The first issue
- is expected sometime in the new year. [Topps Copics is an arm of the
- baseball-card company, and currently produce comic books based on
- other TV and movie characters as well as the usual superheroes.]
-
- Also, there are rumours that Fox is tentatively considering a
- big-screen X Files movie, and an X Files spinoff.
-
- |1-Mailing List
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-
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- There is an Internet mailing list for The X Files, run by Reid
- Fishler. To sign up for the list, send mail to
- x-files-request@chaos.bsu.edu, subject: SUBSCRIBE. For the digest
- version (mail is sent after 15 "pieces"), send mail to
- x-files-digest-request@chaos.bsu.edu. To send mail to the list, mail
- to x-files@chaos.msu.edu. To reach list administrator Fishler, send
- to x-files-request@chaos.bsu.edu, subject: MANUAL.
-
- |1-Miscellaneous information
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-
-
- As a result of an informal poll conducted Spring 95, net.fans of the
- The X Files have chosen (with a 73% approval rating) to be called
- X-Philes. The name seems to have caught on in the media, with its use
- in many articles on the show and its online contacts.
-
- Weapons: Scully carries a Sig-Sauer P230. Mulder currently uses a
- Sig Sauer P220.
-
- So far Mulder has fired his gun four times (to scare away wolves
- [Conduit] to kill John Barnett [Young at Heart], at the shapeshifter
- creature [Shapes] and at a possible alien being [Little Green Men]
- though no shot actually left the gun), and Scully, three times (three
- shots to stop the air duct fan [Ghost in the Machine], once to wound
- Lucas Henry [Beyond the Sea], three shots, to kill [so we thought]
- Warren Dupre [Lazarus])
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- Both Mulder and Scully have been shot once (Mulder, critically, in the
- upper femur in Beyond the Sea; Scully, in the chest though wearing her
- protective vest, in Young at Heart).
-
- For the morbid: X Files' death toll to date: 74 [through
- Blood/second season]
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- Scully's FBI ID number is 2317-616, her home phone number is (202)
- 555-6431. [Ghost in the Machine.], and her cellular phone number is
- 555-3564.
-
- Scully and Mulder met for the first time on March 6, 1992 X.T. (X
- Files Time) [Pilot].
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- Mulder has a computer at home, and his password is TRUSTNO1. He was a
- fan of the television show "The Magician" as a child. [Little Green
- Men]
-
- Ten Thirteen's production crew has had cameos (names and bodies) in
- various episodes: First Assistant Director Tom Braidwood appeared as
- Lone Gunman photographer Frolicke in "E.B.E." and "Blood," and his
- name was used as the person taking over Howard Graves's parking spot
- in "Shadows" and as Mulder's alias to get into the secured government
- compound in Washington State in "E.B.E." Ken Kirzinger, stunt
- coordinator, appeared as Richter in "Ice." Hair Stylist Malcolm
- Marsden's name was used for the British PM in "Fire." Vladimir
- Stefoff, First Assistant Director, had his name (as Val Stefoff) used
- as Scully's alias to get into the compound in "E.B.E."
-
- Story ideas: The X Files, like almost all network TV shows, does not
- accept unsolicited scripts or story ideas. If you have them, you will
- need to get yourself an agent to submit them to the show. Story ideas
- or scripts sent to the show unagented will be returned or tossed in
- the trash. Ideas, scripts, and stories can be posted for other fans'
- enjoyment to the newsgroup alt.tv.x-files.creative.
-
- End
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