News from the Helpers' Network US for fans of Beauty and the Beast..

News from our resident detective, Darlene Sullivan, of the Helpers' Network US for fans of Beauty and the Beast...

Regarding the article in March 12, 2002 edition of "Variety" stating that Ron Perlman is co-producing a movie "Standing Room Only."

I contacted "Variety" asking they confirm or correct, in print, the article naming Ron Perlman, the actor, as the film's co-producer and perhaps the reporter meant to name Ron Perelman, the financier, as a backer.

Today I received this reply from the article's author, Dana L. Harris: "It is Ron Perelman, the executive, who is providing financing for the film. We will correct this."

Darlene Sullivan

Here's a reminder, if you're looking for a video of a convention or
particular episode, a 'zine, period article, or the perfect B&B
figurine for your collection, drop in at the auctions at
http://www.ebay.com or http://www.amazon.com . You never know what
you might find, like this just in from Marsha Young: "I have a
hand-made baby Vincent doll that I've got up on Ebay right now, for
the next 5 days, and thought your readers might be interested. I
don't know if there are any other versions of baby Vincent dolls out
in fandom or not, but I doubt it."

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1525951897 

News from Jackie Hunt of the Chesapeake Helpers for fans of Beauty and the Beast...

This is taken from a review of BLADE 2 by Stephen Hunter, Staff Writer,The Washington Post, Friday, March 22, 2002:

"It's also amazing how much an actor can contribute, even to an overabundantly effects-driven piece like this. I speak, yes, of Snipes, who is already so stylized he seems to have stepped from an Egyptian sarcophagus and then gotten a makeover from Aubrey Beardsley, but also of RON PERLMAN. He's Blade's primary antagonist on the ops team, and what a great performance!

Really, everyone in the movie looks like a Droog or a Druid, yet PERLMAN manages to give his fellow an extreme individuality. That you even "notice" him among the sets and the slaughter and the too many guys in leather jackets with bald, veiny heads and automatic shotguns is a miracle; that you like him (even though he's the bad guy) goes beyond the miraculous."

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