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Estas noticias las tome de diferentes revistas y paginas web. Todas estan en ingles, me gustaria traducirlas todas, pero eso toma tiempo, y ahora no tengo mucho, pero espero poder hacerlo pronto. Mientras espero que disfruten leyendo lo que dicen de Roswell.
Roswell
Wednesdays, 9pm / WB
(premieres October 6)
THE DEAL: Combine three tablespoons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a cup of the X-Files, throw in a dash of 90210, bake for one hour in the arid climate of New Mexico, and you've got one tasty series. Serves anyone with a TV and an appetite for sci-fi. That's the recipe the WB must have followed to cook up Roswell, a new show about an eclectic bunch of friends who aren't just from different cliques, they're from different solar systems. It starts out with Max (Jason Behr) rescuing his crush Liz (Shiri Apppleby) after she's accidentally shot. He mysteriously saves her life with the touch of his hand, which Liz naturally finds creepy and baffling. Turns out Max, his sister (Katherine Heigl), and his best friend (Brendan Fehr) are all aliens who were separated from their clan after their spaceship crashed in 1947. Liz falls for Max, but things get sticky when her boyfriend's father -- the local sheriff -- suspects that Max is from another realm. FYI: Tom Hanks' son Colin co-stars as one of Liz's (human) friends.
HIGH POINTS: The setup might sound kitschy, but there's no trace of cheese here. You get the cool alien plotlines plus the juicy teen relationship stories all wrapped up in one pretty package. What more could we ask for? Once again, the WB did us right.
LOW POINTS: If you are vehemently opposed to intergalactic entertainment, this show won't float your boat.
ALIENATION: Jason Behr admits to CNN that the premise of Roswell is kind of weird. "It does sound funny when you first try to explain it: three alien teen-agers going to high school," he says. "In the wrong hands it could have been a very bad Saturday morning special." Jason also says he's taking his time deciding what to do while the show is on hiatus. "I want to be involved in telling a good story," he says. "If I fail because of that, I failed my way. If I succeed, it's going to be that much more rewarding." We can't wait to watch, either way.
SHORT TAKES:According to an exclusive report from People, Billy (Gil Bellows) will exit Ally McBeal in a coffin. Rumor has it that Bellows' character will die of a brain tumor. In typical Ally fashion, his character will reappear next season as a ghost.... As if the nets haven't been causing us enough confusion this season, starting April 9, the WB is moving Felicity from Sunday to Wendesdays at 9 pm. That means Roswell will be transferred to 9 pm on Mondays. Got that?.... Bruce Willis will guest star as the father of Ross' new girlfriend on three episodes of Friends. Not only will his appearances make us happy, but the philanthropic actor will donate his salary to charity.... HBO's ratings for last week's If These Walls Could Talk 2 were so impressive that the cable network will produce a third installment of the movie series.... A German company is reviving The Muppet Show. The new version will stick closely to the old format, with musical numbers, many of the same goofy characters and human celebs as guest stars.
December 2, 1999 -- Katherine Heigl is really into her character. Heigl plays Isabel, an extraterrestrial high schooler with magical powers, on Roswell,an X-Files-meets-Dawson's Creekdrama on The WB. "In a recent episode, Isabel waved her hand over a spot on her clothes and made it disappear," says Heigl. "I mean, how cool would that be? I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit."
Having, like, a whole new job on television is pretty cool too. After appearing in eight films, including Under Siege 2and Bride of Chucky,Heigl, 21, beat out a hundred young actresses at a Roswellaudition last year. "She's my best friend," says costar Majandra Delfino. "We hang out on weekends, watch Grease 2and make homemade face masks. We're just like little girls."
As a real little girl, Heigl grew up in New Canaan, Conn., where she modeled before segueing into movies. She dated Blossomactor Joey Lawrence, then 18, for three months in 1994. "I was on the East Coast. He was in L.A. It was mostly over the phone," she says. Nowadays she lives in her four-bedroom L.A. home with her manager-mom, Nancy, 56 (who was divorced from her dad, banker Paul, 58, in '96). Do aliens live on Earth? "I don't know,"she says. "But Dennis Rodman does make me wonder."
Roswell
"Okay, I'm still confused," human high-schooler Liz (Shiri Appleby) says to alien classmate Max (Jason Behr) in episode two of this drama series. "If you really crash-landed in 1947, are you really 16 or are you like 52 in a 16-year-old's body?" Max, an ostensible earthling who confided his extraterrestrial origin to Liz in the Oct. 6 pilot, replies with some nonsense about emerging from an incubation pod in Roswell, N.Mex., in 1989. But here's all the explanation anyone needs: Teen shows are the rage this season; it's handy to combine elements of The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer;and hey, logic is irrelevant.
Though it seems a product of calculation more than inspiration, Roswellhas appeal. There's a sweetness to the two-different-worlds romance of Liz and Max, and you'll appreciate the plight of Michael (Brendan Fehr), a less friendly teen alien stuck in a trailer park with a nasty human foster father. But Liz's voice-over diary entries are dispensable, and Majandra Delfino provides too little comic relief as Maria, her self-described "wacky friend."
