HIGHLA-L Digest - 7 Jul 2006 to 8 Jul 2006 (#2006-107)
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There are 4 messages totalling 151 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Hey, Wendy!!! Hey, Tarryn!! And a question for anyone. (2)
2. OT: Stargate alums on new TNT series "Saved"
3. spammer has been removed
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 22:51:20 EDT
From: Evelyn Duncan <BrandyKitt@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Hey, Wendy!!! Hey, Tarryn!! And a question for anyone.
In a message dated 7/7/2006 2:03:16 PM Central Daylight Time,
tmar@polka.co.za writes:
<<
> The Nashville Network
Thanks. Never heard of it, though I thought I had. Oh well!!
>>
Between being the Nashville Network and being Spike TV,
it was the National Network and played series such as
Newhart. When I heard that the owners wanted to change
the name to Spike TV, I wondered what Spike would do
with a network.
Evelyn Duncan
brandykitt@aol.com
If the kitty ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
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Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 07:35:21 +0200
From: T'Mar <tmar@polka.co.za>
Subject: Re: Hey, Wendy!!! Hey, Tarryn!! And a question for anyone.
>When I heard that the owners wanted to change the name to
>Spike TV, I wondered what Spike would do with a network
I still wonder that every time someone talks about "Spike" without
saying "network". And I'm like, "Spike is showing TV? Where? In
his crypt?" :)
- Marina.
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Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 09:38:36 -0500
From: Ginny Gibbs <red57metoo@yahoo.com>
Subject: OT: Stargate alums on new TNT series "Saved"
In honor of Debbie Douglas' return, I offer something almost completely
off topic, since there's not much new or interesting I could say about
things Highlander.
I caught up recently with the first four episodes of the new US cable TV
series, "Saved." It's on the TNT channel, the same night as their
excellent crime drama "The Closer." We set up TiVo to record the new
series to see if it was worth watching.
In a few words, it was and is. It's not as well-written or cast as "The
Closer," but it's got potential. The lead actor is Tom Everett Scott,
who plays a paramedic with an overachieving doctor father and a gambling
problem. In a lot of ways his character reminds me of the darker aspects
of Hawkeye Pierce of M*A*S*H, and his job is a lot like Hawkeye's, or
like one of the wartime medics out at an aid station; keep 'em alive
long enough to reach the "real" hospital. His boyish smile carries a lot
of pain with it.
It's a humorous show with a great deal of darkness, and is set in
"Portland," but of course we old HL hands can spot a Vancouver
production with two remotes tied behind our backs. Instead of shouting
"Highlander alum!"and naming the character they played and the episode
they appeared in, I keep seeing people from Cheyenne Mountain or the
Pegasus Galaxy. It seems that half the continuing characters from both
Stargate and Atlantis' repertory companies are getting work on "Saved."
It's very odd when you spot a former Jaffa playing a cop, speaking
dialogue in a normal tone, instead of theatrically hollering "jaffa, kri!"
For starters, the pilot featured Christopher Heyerdahl, who played a
street guy and madman nicknamed "John the Baptist," who is lured into
the ambulance when the main character warns him that Salome is roaming
the streets looking for him. He spends a lot of time running around
gleefully in a hospital gown, shot pretty much as you would expect for a
serio-comic medical show. This makes a big change from playing
"Halling," the very humorless leader of the Athosian contingent on the
main continent on the Atlantis planet. Still playing a spiritual guy,
though - just one that has a lot more fun. His big scene involves an
ambulance, its PA system, and the song, "Love Machine." This had me
rolling on the floor, and made me decide to watch the remaining episodes
that were queued up.
Others from the Stargate/Atlantis universe: the guy that played Harry
Maybourne seems to be playing the dispatcher, the guy with the
caterpiller-like eyebrows that played Anubis' First Prime showed up
playing a rather chubby and cranky cop, and various other people look
like they've played either Jaffa or oppressed villagers. In the previews
for next week, Don S. Davis, "Hammond of Texas," will be appearing.
I'll keep watching for now; "Saved" is pretty entertaining, although
derivative of shows like "Hill Street Blues" and movies like "Bringing
Out The Dead."
Welcome back, Debbie!! You were missed!
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Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:23:40 -0400
From: kageorge <kageorge1@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: spammer has been removed
Debra Douglass wrote:
>The spammer, J Ragaza <fin_newsl@yahoo.com>, has been removed -again-
>from the HIGHLA-L list. He changed his address to get back on.
>
>-Debbie
>
>BTW, I do not respond to email floods.
>
>
To our Long Absent Moderator:
Hey, I don't mean to be unkind or unfriendly, but I would really like to
know why it took years of silence, followed by spamming, followed by a
final, frustrated contact with the listserver to replace the moderator,
for the moderator to finally appear, and then to include a snippy "BTW,
I do not respond to email floods." The implication from your email is
that you've been there all along, but just didn't care or weren't paying
attention.
Isn't a moderator supposed to, you know.... moderate?
We have a couple of volunteers who actually are prepared to do the job.
Why don't you turn it over to one (or both) of them and save us (and
you) a lot of grief? I don't get why you would want to continue doing
something that you are so obviously not interested in doing.
MacGeorge (who doesn't really expect any reply, since I doubt our
so-called moderator is paying any attention.)
POSTSCRIPT QUERY: If I get any reply to my complaint to the listserver,
should I pursue getting a new moderator on the grounds that the present
moderator doesn't appear to be interested?
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