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1. Highlander the musical (7)
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:03:56 EDT
From: Bizarro7@aol.com
Subject: Re: Highlander the musical
In a message dated 4/16/02 9:42:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ElaineN@compuserve.com writes:
<< You have to bear in mind that John did an interview with him after the show
was completed. Often actors will say things then that they couldn't before
it. Sometimes they will say things privately which never get reported. I
know that I have heard as many as six different versions from various
sources of the reason for his leaving. Including hearing some of it for
myself. So I'd consider that John probably knows far more than any of us -
lucky b....r. <eg>
>>
We've also got contradictory information given out publicly by the producer
and the writer themselves, not to mention by MGM's publicity department and
the Sci-Fi Channel which is purchasing the show for Season 6. So it isn't
within the wherewithal of a professional journalist to decide exactly who is
lying, and in what area, based on two interviews.
Leah CWPack
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:28:41 +0100
From: "John Mosby (B)" <a.j.mosby@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Highlander the musical
> We've also got contradictory information given out publicly by the
producer
> and the writer themselves, not to mention by MGM's publicity department
and
> the Sci-Fi Channel which is purchasing the show for Season 6. So it isn't
> within the wherewithal of a professional journalist to decide exactly who
is
> lying, and in what area, based on two interviews.
>
> Leah CWPack
Which, if I recall correctly, is exactly what I said.
John
Wherwithalwolf.
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:30:11 -0400
From: Elaine Nicol <ElaineN@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Highlander the musical
>> So it isn't within the wherewithal of a professional journalist to
decide exactly who is lying, and in what area, based on two interviews. <<
Don't think I said that. All I was saying was that he had spoken with
Michael recently. I've also spoken with Michael recently. All I was
trying to say is that John probably has Michael's side of the story. As
always the truth of any situation probably lies somewhere in the middle of
what all the different parties say about it.
Elaine.
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:40:31 +0100
From: "John Mosby (B)" <a.j.mosby@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Highlander the musical
> Don't think I said that. All I was saying was that he had spoken with
> Michael recently. I've also spoken with Michael recently. All I was
> trying to say is that John probably has Michael's side of the story. As
> always the truth of any situation probably lies somewhere in the middle of
> what all the different parties say about it.
>
>
> Elaine.
What she said I said she said I said.
Or something.
:)
John
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:03:07 EDT
From: Ashton7@aol.com
Subject: Re: Highlander the musical
In a message dated 4/17/02 10:31:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ElaineN@compuserve.com writes:
<< All I was saying was that he had spoken with
Michael recently. I've also spoken with Michael recently. All I was
trying to say is that John probably has Michael's side of the story. As
always the truth of any situation probably lies somewhere in the middle of
what all the different parties say about it. >>
No doubt about that. I've spoken to Michael recently, too. In fact, right
around the same time as John did... I was in London at the exact same time.
Leah was there, too. So were lots of others. I saw Michael speak publically
and I did speak to him privately. I think everyone has "Michael's side of the
story." I wasn't even talking about that. I was talking about all the various
money people and producers and others involved in the whole sorry saga.
Annie
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:13:29 -0400
From: Elaine Nicol <ElaineN@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Highlander the musical
>>
What she said I said she said I said. <<
Yes exactly .....<gggg>
Elaine.
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:30:03 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Highlander the musical
Elaine (as to Marina wondering about the different reactions if Methos had
died rather than Richie)--
> It wouldn't have had the same impact on Duncan. Duncan liked Methos as a
> friend. Maybe didn't entirely trust him though.
Nor should he; talk about a guy w/ an agenda. Richie, on the other hand,
was always refreshingly agenda-free. He just wanted to have fun, see the
world a bit, do some good--& of course die rather than hurt his
friend/father figure.
> But Richie ah now Richie
> was a whole different thing - he was like a son in some ways an extension
> of himself so in killing Richie he was in fact killing a part of himself
> and that made it all the more dramatic.
That, & the fact Richie trusted him, looked up to him, wanted to be just
like him, etc., all so very much. The sheer guilt of that particular death
is staggering, regardless of Ahriman. And (or so I've read) that's largely
_why_ Richie died & died that way--because nothing else would shake up DM &
his world like that did.
> As from a fan point of view dearly though I love Methos if he had died I
> would have taken it as part of the Highlander universe.
It would have seemed a huge loss, in the way that it does when a brilliant &
accomplished mature person dies. One feels the world has lost something
irreplacable. As opposed to the different type of loss one feels when a
young person dies--loss of potential, perhaps, but it is less obvious--you
just wonder what could have been, for him & for others he would have
touched. Of course, in light of Methos' history, the world being "touched"
by him can be a good or a truly hideous thing....
> I was sad that
> Richie died but if none of us had cared about him then the whole thing
> would have been a bit pointless. Really if TV companies only killed3.
> characters we didn't like or care about then it would have no impact
> whatsoever.
Exactly. (Drama, again.) For instance, Joss Whedon had to work hard to
make Joyce likeable (not to mention more than a cliche) before killing her
off, or no one would have cared a bit & The Body would have been impossible.
As it is, that Buffy ep is one of the most talked about & acclaimed of the
entire series.
Nina
mac.westie@verizon.net
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