| NAN DIBBLE'S HOTLINE UPDATE - HANDOVER UPDATE: 25th December 2001 |
This is the news from Nan Dibble and Helpers' Network US for December 25, 2001, for fans of Beauty and the Beast.
I have excellent news: a volunteer--and WHAT a volunteer!--has come forward to take over the update function of Helpers' Network. None other than Stephanie Wiltse, who founded and ran Pipeline, the premier hard copy newsletter in the Beauty and the Beast fandom, will hereafter be doing the updates. She will do them on an occasional, rather than a weekly, basis--whenever reportable news comes to her in this exciting time when there's talk that our beloved series may be resumed and continued. I will then post such updates on the Helpers' Network website.
Who'd have thunk it: a partnership between Helpers' Network and Pipeline! What could be more appropriate?
I've sent Stephanie my current distribution list of e-mail addresses for her updates. Those many invaluable Helpers who have, from time to time, sent me news or items of interest to the fandom at large should now send them to pipeline@cinemind.com. Please make a note of this e-mail address for future reference. The URL of the website of Helpers' Network US remains what it's always been:
http://home.fuse.net/helpnet. But hereafter, you should send info on any change in e-mail address--remember to include both what it's changing FROM and what it's changing TO-- pipeline@cinemind.com, not to me. I will only be updating the website. It's Steff who will be keeping and maintaining the update distribution list from here on out.I was delighted to accept Stephanie's offer. She's judicious, objective, literate, and knows more about computers than I do. She's Original Fandom and has an excellent track record in reporting B&B news, having just about bankrupted herself in her fannish determination to make Pipeline as thorough, and as beautiful, as possible even after the money ran out. (Fortunately, e-mail is both quicker and cheaper, so she need not fear any repetition of that aspect of her previous experience.) She grinds no axes and is used to all the flavors and factions of this lively and perpetually contentious fandom: she will neither take sides nor be meekly browbeaten by those who do. Moreover, Steff had, from before cancellation, contacts with The Powers That Be--Witt-Thomas, Ron Koslow--and with several primary members the series' original cast and production staff that we hope she can renew to get timely news on developments series-ward before they belatedly trickle down to us through the pro media. I never have had such contacts, and I'm sure Stephanie is the perfect person to preside over the reporting of whatever comes in the reawakening of The Dream. And last but by no means least, at the first South of Oz, she gave me my first Official Fandom Hug--something I will always remember.
I invite you to join me in welcoming Steff back to active participation in the fandom, which action goes to prove that we're all gluttons for punishment and don't necessarily get any smarter as we get older. (Imagine here an emoticon with tongue stuck out!)
I wish you all splendid holidays and a coming year full of happy excitement and new imaginings.
Beast wishes always,
Nan Dibble
http://home.fuse.net/helpnet
