Trying to find the names of the non-Mark Snow songs in "Closure" and "all things?" Don't forget that you can find them in our very own episode guide on the Official Site. Just click on "Research Information."

Jurassic Park III star T�a Leoni told SCI FI Wire that she didn't have to think long about director Joe Johnston's offer of a lead role. "I love having enormous co-stars," she said in an interview. "I was once a co-star to a comet," she added, referring to her 1998 SF film, Deep Impact. And after hearing who her human co-stars would be--Sam Neill and William H. Macy--she recalled, "I thought, 'OK, I want to do this film.'" To read the rest of the article go here.

While I doubt that Mr. Duchovny feels the need to be defended on his life choices, let me do so, anyway. Watching The X-Files has given me many hours of pleasure over the years. I have enjoyed Mr. Duchovny's and Ms. Anderson's work immensely. It has been work for them, however, very hard work by all accounts. They have made difficult sacrifices to make us happy. Now, it seems Mr. Duchovny wants to pursue other roles. It is his right as an actor to stretch his talents. Basil Rathbone felt trapped in the role of Sherlock Holmes. No doubt Mr. Duchovny feels the same about Fox Mulder. Rathbone was a classically trained actor with a wide range. Mr. Duchovny wants to explore his range. He owes himself that. He owes Ms. Leoni the best life he can give her. He only owes us his best performance.

John E. Nolan
[email protected]

06/23/01
This is another letter to the editor

Patrick calls the film "a breathtakingly unfunny SF comedy that relies on monkey-brained bathroom jokes."

Unfunny? At last night's showing, I heard everyone in the theater laughing throughout the movie. Discounting one or two gag-me one-liners (which seem to be prevalent in the industry these days) the movie was fun, laugh-inspiring and more entertaining than a barrel of Woody Allens. And yes, Jones gets the majority of laughs, but the story appeared to have been written that way. Don't forget, in Men In Black, didn't Will Smith get more laughs than Tommy Lee Jones? Gee, the comedian got more laughter than the serious actor? Go figure.

I enjoyed the movie and plan to purchase a copy for my library when it's released.

Joe Castleberry
[email protected]

Duchovny added that he had very little warning that the season would end with a kiss. "They have this idea over at The X-Files that stuff might get stolen and put on the Internet," he said. "It pisses me off, because I'm an actor, and I'd like to have the scenes more than two hours before I play it. It's all a big mystery. I think it was written that Scully gives Mulder a kiss on the forehead. I was so confused at that point that I didn't trust my feelings about it. I have so many personal feelings about it; it was eight years of my life. I didn't know what would be an appropriate ending. [Director] Kim Manners and I were discussing it, and he said, 'We've done that a hundred times, the whole hand-holding and kiss on the forehead. We should do a real kiss.' And I thought, 'Yeah, that feels right. At least it's something different at the end.'"

And Duchovny left open the door for a reappearance on the show, though he has said he's through with it for good. "If they wrote a good X-Files script, I would look at it the way I look at any script, which is, I would really want it to be good," he said.

06/22/01
This is also from scifiweekly.com

Fandom's last telephone number in Santa Monica, Calif., has been disconnected; the Beverly Hills, Calif., public relations company that issued a press release for Fandom in April told SCI FI Wire that it is no longer speaking for the company.

In the meantime, Camron said in an interview that Cinescape has fired its entire staff, including himself. "We're waiting for a buyer," Camron said. "They're trying to sell. ... We're holding out and hoping. Right now, the staff is out of work and looking for work. We're trying to negotiate a deal to sell the publication and the sister publications as well." Those include Wicked magazine and licensed publications for The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "There are several interested parties," Camron added. "We are in final stages of negotiation."

Cinescape's last issue was the May/June edition, featuring Angelina Jolie on the cover.
(Note from Rachael: Thats too bad. The X-Files fan club was one of the best out there and I actually got alot of my updates for this page from Cinescape Online. It was a very good page.)

Duchovny plays a biology teacher who battles alien spores that develop at lightning pace, quickly evolving into life forms that threaten humanity. Julianne Moore and Orlando Jones co-star as members of his bumbling band of alien fighters.

Although he's not returning to the Fox series for the show's ninth season, Duchovny tells People magazine in its June 25 issue that he would happily return for a second ``X-Files'' movie.

The 1998 film had his Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, played by Gillian Anderson, searching for evidence of aliens on Earth.

But Duchovny doesn't believe there should be another movie until the TV series is off the air.

``It's my feeling that you should actually give the audience a chance to miss the show - and give me a chance to miss the show,'' the 40-year-old actor said.

We appreciate our fans and hope to rectify this situation as soon as possible. Thank you so much for your patience.

Despite a few blips in the schedule, reruns will air every Sunday. Plus, three episodes will air on Fridays in August. The network broadcast premiere of Fight the Future airs Sunday, Sept. 16th. Check our calendar for episodes and dates.
(Note from Rachael: Yes! I've been waiting for this so long! So all of you so called X-Philes who refused to see the movie you need to watch it now. The world as we know it depends on it!)

06/17/01
This is also from the OSscifiweekly.com
This is an interview with the director and some of the cast (including Duchovny)
Director Ivan Reitman--who turned the supernatural into genre-bending comedy with 1984's Ghostbusters--attempts a similar alchemy with science fiction in Evolution. This time around, he has the help of The X-Files' David Duchovny and two-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore, who join up-and-coming comic star Orlando Jones and teen-film staple Seann William Scott.

Evolution, based on an original idea by writer Don Jakoby and a script by Jakoby, David Diamond and David Weissman, tells the story of two small-town community college professors (Duchovny and Jones) who stumble upon the greatest discovery ever: a meteorite with alien life.

But what starts out as a ticket to fame and glory morphs, quite literally, into a planet-threatening nightmare, as the extraterrestrial microbes rapidly evolve into larger and more dangerous creatures. In steps the military and a no-nonsense scientist (Moore) to try to stop the alien threat from destroying all life on Earth.

Reitman, Duchovny and Moore took a moment recently to talk with Science Fiction Weekly about Evolution, which opened June 8.

To read the interview go here.

06/15/01
This is a letter to the editor

I had my eyes opened recently while hanging with my three-year-old sister in front of the tube. She wanted to watch The Power Puff Girls. But, then she changed her mind and decided she wanted to watch the The X-Files instead. I asked her why, and her answer was of epiphanic proportions. She said, "I like Scully, she's strong."

And that was when I realized how far women have come in television. The scifi/horror/fantasy genres were once strongly dominated by men. But now, I see that women have brought something fresh, intelligent and meaningful to these tales of alien invasions and time warps and space flight fantasies. We have Buffy, Xena, Agent Dana K. Scully, Dark Angel, Seven of Nine and the new Charlie's Angels (to name a few).

I have three small sisters and I am very proud of television's new uprising. When my little sisters sit in front of the tube, they are looking for female heroes to emulate, and not stereotypical female leads who demean or degrade women. TV has become an excellent educational tool with its educational channels (TLC and Discovery) and now to see little girls learning from some fictional bad-a$$ female characters is more than enough education for the future female leaders of this world. Here's to Girl Power!

Diana Crince
[email protected]

We have learned from our supplier that the title of the following item has changed:
Marc Shapiro "X-Files Episode Guide"
Title: "All Things: The Official Guide to the X Files, Vol. 6"

TV Guide online spoke with Chris Carter and you can read the interview here.

There's more than a touch of irony in the fact that David Duchovny is back fighting aliens in his latest film, Evolution. So what is with the former X-Filer and aliens? "I really don't know", he says smilingly. What he DOES know, is that he wanted "to do a broad comedy" and circumstances allowed him to get involved. "I was able to take a year off from X-Files, pretty much to do a big comedy with Ivan Reitman".
To read the rest of the article go here.

06/08/01
There is a Q&A with David Duchovny about X-Files, his daughter and Evolution at E! Online. And he says again, that he is completly done with The X-Files. To read go here.

German Phantastik Nominees Named
The German Phantastik.de SF Web site reported that fans have nominated finalists for the German Phantastik Awards 2001, recognizing German-language works. Winners will be announced at the Buchmesse Convention, Oct. 13 in Dreieich-Buchschlag, Germany, which is near Frankfurt. A complete list of nominations follows.

Best Actress
�Gillian Anderson (Scully/X-Files)
�Claudia Black (Aeryn Sun/Farscape)
�Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy/Buffy)
�Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina/Sabrina)
�Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine/Star Trek: Voyager)

Special Flop Award
�David Duchovny (X-Files)
�Star Trek: Voyager
�Verlag Marxmuehle (publisher)
�John Sinclair
�Der Herr der Ringe, new translation of The Lord of the Rings by Wolfgang Krege

06/07/01
This is also from Scifi Weekly.com
How Evolution Evolved
Don Jakoby, who created the story and co-wrote the script for Ivan Reitman's upcoming Evolution film, told The Hollywood Reporter's Martin Grove that he originally intended the film to be serious. "I wrote the screenplay called Evolution, which was a serious, dramatic science-fiction set piece, a big movie, and it came into Ivan's hands through [producer] Tom Pollock," Jakoby said.

Jakoby added, "I guess in Ivan's mind, the light bulb went on, and it said Ghostbusters 2001. We had a big meeting with Tom and Ivan and all of their people--Joe Medjuck and all of Ivan's producers. And they brought me into the room and said, 'Look, we love this script. Here's the thing, we want to'--and then [Reitman] made a sort of a tilting motion--'we want to camp this thing 20 or 30 degrees. We just want to take it slightly off center.' And I said, 'You mean, Ghostbusters 2001.' He said, 'Yup. Do you mind selling it to us and letting us do that and helping us do that?'"

Jakoby said he had no problem with the suggestion. "I knew Ivan was capable of doing that kind of a movie, certainly. I happen to think Ghostbusters is one of the best movies of the last 20 years." Evolution, starring David Duchovny, Julianne Moore and Orlando Jones, opens June 8.