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| NAN DIBBLE'S HOTLINE UPDATE - 29th July 2001 |
This is the news for July 29 from Nan Dibble and Helpers' Network Hotline for
fans of Beauty and the Beast. To contact me by e-mail, post to ndibble@fuse.net.
To stop (or to begin) receiving updates as e-mail, notify me at the above e-mail
address. To reach me by phone (evenings/weekends), call (513) 961-4813.The
Helpers’ Network website is at http://home.fuse.net/helpnet.
Helper Gin Janssen of the BBTV group sent some convention-related sites you
may want to check out. The descriptions are hers:
http://www.geocities.com/mplny12/bbjournal.html
Mary of CABB_Connections wrote a journal - site down?
http://carden.50megs.com/
Jeff Carden of TD shares some of his pictures.
http://community.webshots.com/album/17868912GVgZHLmhti
Susan Howe of BBTV & CABB_Connections shares pictures.
http://y42.photos.yahoo.com/kayla_rigney
Kayla Rigney of BBTV & CABB_Connections obtained photos from
Merrie, and uploaded them for everyone's perusal. More are added as time is
found to share them.
http://users.skynet.be/Marina-BATBpage/index.html
Marina has promised to share her photos as soon as they become
available. Your best bet is to check out her page of most recent updates to
catch the actual link.
http://my.voyager.net/~terrie/cybercon2001.html
CyberCon 2001 - a venture by Kayla and Terrie of CABB_Connections
and CABB who asked for past fanfic, drawings, etc, and presented them in this
collection as a gift for stay-at-homes as the actual convention in NYC was
happening. (My personal favorite are the paper dolls!)
I'll be sure to share more URLs as pictures become developed and people
acclimate back to Real Life after the otherworldly atmosphere of the con
subsides.
In other news, BBTV was shut down sometime during the convention. Aurea Andino
has found it necessary to step back from this mailing list that she and her
RTChaos.com crew have maintained ever since it was created in the mid-90's. She
needs to focus on her health, and I am assured that this decision was not an
easy one at all for her to make. Other avenues of communication between its
members are being explored at this very moment, and once the fervor of the con
has calmed down and those avenues can be attended to, the list may come back as
its members know it. For now, BBTV has a message board at http://pub80.ezboard.com/fbbtvfrm1,
and many BBTVers are using it while the list is down. Many BBTVers are also
members of other mailing lists, including several hosted on Yahoo's Groups:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tunnels
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CABB_Connections
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TunnelDreams
Anyway, I wanted to share this because I'd like the BBTVers (and
all the other fans out there) to remain in contact with each other through any
means we can. The internet has afforded us some indispensable means to keep in
touch, and though BBTV itself may be gone for an indeterminate amount of time,
we do have other places to congregate and wax poetic about our favorite show.
Since BBTV is down, some of its members, now on other lists, have begun missing
your updates, and I've wondered if you could get yourself a Yahoo username (if
you haven't done so already) for the use of sending your updates to those lists
mentioned above. Or if you'd like someone else to pick up this practice.
Thanks, Nan!
Helper Gin of BBTV
Nan again. I do have a Yahoo username--atreus17--but I don't know what
that has to do with sending updates to websites. Sorry--just ignorance. If
individual BBTV members would like updates directly from me, they have only to
post (ndibble@fuse.net) and ask…or they
can check the Helpers' Network website. At least 4 weeks' worth of updates are
usually posted there for anyone to look at who wants to. Or if there is some
other, better way to include them in the weekly updates, I am open to any and
all suggestions.
I'm so sorry to hear that Aurea is having health troubles and congratulate her
the more because she was (apparently) able to tough it through until all the
parts of the convention were neatly tied into bows before retiring from the
scene. I hope those in closer contact with Aurea than I will convey my hope,
that I believe I share with many, that she's soon well again.
I imagine many of you know, as I do, that the father of Ellen Geer (Mary) was
Will Geer, who perhaps is best known for portraying Grandpa on The Waltons TV
series. However, I didn't know that he'd been a victim of the '50s blacklisting.
So I found an article of interest that mentioned his involvement. I've excerpted
only the most pertinent parts (it's rather long); if you'd care to read the
whole article, I've put it in this update on the Helpers' Network website.
Friday July 27 1:51 AM ET
Archerd: Hollywood prepares blacklist exhibit
By Army Archerd, Daily Variety Senior Columnist
…Now, the Academy's president Bob Rehme announces an upcoming exhibit to
“examine the history of the Hollywood blacklist''; Larry Ceplair, who curates
the exhibit, says it will include “the controversies which continue to this
day, as seen in the reactions to the Academy's decision in March 1999 to present
an honorary Academy Award to Elia Kazan.''
…Ceplair says there will be six [or] seven video stations with interviews of
children of blacklisted writers. So far: Michael Butler, son of Hugo and Jean
B.; Kate Lardner, daughter of Ring Lardner Jr.; Tim Hunter, son of Ian McClellan
Hunter; Ellen Geer, daughter of Will Geer; and Nichole Trumbo, daughter
of Dalton. And more to come. There will be artifacts in 14 visual areas. “It
will be a museum-type exhibition on both the fourth and main floor,'' Ceplair
said.
…It will open in February and run through the presentation of the 74th Academy
Awards, March 24.
From observant Helper and pal Gloria Handley, the news that the music for the
two-part TNT series "The Mists of Avalon" was done by B&B's Lee
Holdridge.[composer of the B&B main theme].The two part series was a
very well done adaptation of the novel.
Thanks, Gloria!
Helper Tom Witt notes that "if you go to the News section of the
Linda Hamilton Online Website [http://www.lhow.com],
they are having a contest where you can win a DVD copy of Linda's new film,
'Skeletons in the Closet,' that is signed by the director of the film, Wayne
Powers. The contest runs through November."
Thanks for the heads-up, Tom!
A fan is seeking B&B merchandise and would like to be contacted by anyone who has something suitable they're willing to part with. Her name is Diana Recker, and she comments, "I have been a fan since the beginning and [am] just now being able to find things since I got this computer. Would like t-shirts, and if possible autographed [as] Vincent by Ron Perlman. I had one a few years ago but it got destroyed." If you have a B&B T-shirt, with or without said autograph, or have something else you think Diana might like, you can contact her at DIANARECKER@aol.com.
Here are the Sightings through Sunday, August 5.
Monday, July 30
Nothing of interest found.
Tuesday, July 31
8:15 a
10 a
3 p
4 p
8 p
9 p
Wednesday, August 1
10 a
9 p
11 p
1 a
2:10 a
Thursday, August 2
11 a
12:30 p
2 p
9:30 p
Friday, August 3
6:30 a
8 a
8:30 a
9:35 a
2 p
2 p
8 p
8 p
5:15 a
5:30 a
Saturday, August 4
12 n
3 p
4 p
5:30 p
11:35 p
Sunday, August 5
7:30 a
5 p
6 p
1 a
If it's news and has to do with Beauty and the Beast, please think of the Hotline and relay. We're all in this together keeping the dream of Beauty and the Beast alive however we can. Beast wishes, be well, and goodbye.
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