Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Duchovny's sex addiction tops 2008 scandal list

David Duchovny's sex addiction scandal has been named the year's most surprising by readers of weekly magazine Parade.

More than 30 percent of voters selected the star's confession and subsequent rehab stint ahead of the outcome of the O.J. Simpson heist trial and Batman Christian Bale's domestic abuse arrest in London as 2008's Most Shocking Scandal.

The magazine's readers also named Angelina Jolie as the new celebrity mom with the best post-baby body, Halle Berry and George Clooney as the Most Attractive 40+ Stars and Tom Hanks as the Smartest Hollywood Star in the end-of-year honors and dishonors poll.

http://www.abc4.com/content/news/Entertainment/story/Duchovnys-sex-addiction-tops-2008-scandal-list/Q5M7EqgR5kix63y0PZ_7HQ.cspx

Saturday, July 12, 2008

David Duchovny on the return of The X Files

All that Californicating seems to have left David Duchovny happy to return to The X Files, says JEFF DAWSON

David Duchovny on the return of The X Files - Times Online

Deep in the bowels of a disused mental institution, a cadre of nuns shuffles down the corridor. This crumbling Victorian edifice on the outskirts of Vancouver - atmospherically chilled and, at 3am, Exorcist-eerie - has been dressed as the Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Hospital, a key night-shoot location for the film The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

“They’re not real nuns. I hope not,” quips David Duchovny, who is reprising his role as the FBI agent Fox Mulder. The wry grin says it all. Recently, before being pressed back into service in this new, feature-length spin-off from the six-years-dormant television series, Duchovny has enjoyed second-wind success in the libertine drama Californication. As Hank Moody, a washed-up LA writer and comically priapic midlifer, he had, in the very first episode, been accorded a special kind of devotion by a bride of Christ. The act drew predictable howls about sacrilege from conservative quarters. “I heard that, in Australia, there were some problems,” he says dismissively, typically deadpan. “But they’ve got to take it on the lips like everybody else.”

I wonder whether Duchovny’s reinvention as a compulsive copulator might be upping the level of expectation, this time round, for closer encounters between Mulder and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) - not all that unrequited, chaste stuff that characterised much of their television relationship. Even when the pair did eventually and enigmatically get it on, somewhere in the later stages of The X Files, they had to complicate things by spawning some kind of mutant sprog with paranormal powers, swiftly given up for adoption.

“Who knows?” he shrugs. “As a viewer of other actors, when I go into a film I don’t hold their other work up against them.” He is kidding himself here - as a slew of self-mocking cameos in everything from The Simpsons to Zoolander attests. If Duchovny were to be hit by a bus tomorrow (or, God forbid, abducted by aliens), it is unlikely the headline writers would desist from referring to him as anything other than the star of The X Files or, in the light of all that Californicating, The Sex Files. He concedes the point: “I’m not complaining. If I had to be associated with a TV character, you know, I’m happy that it’s those guys.”

With a quick, dry wit (Yale via Princeton and an elite Manhattan prep school, where he was a classmate of JFK Jr), Duchovny is a likeable sort. On the cusp of 48, he is wearing well, attributable to a strict diet, yoga and, it would appear, a just sub-Paul McCartney dollop of hair dye - all part of looking presentable if you’re going to have your backside in people’s living rooms every week. The most endearing thing about him is the perma-smirk plastered across his chops, which suggests, even at this ungodly hour, that what he really wants to do is drag you to one side and confide that this acting lark’s a load of old crock. “You know, action scenes and sex scenes are pretty silly, because you’re just faking,” he whispers. “Of course, everything in the movies is fake, but they’re even more fake.”

You can forgive the nonchalance. Several years into his career, back in the early 1990s, Duchovny had begun to accept his lot as a journeyman thesp. He was better known as a Clist lothario, a string of relationships with Hollywood lovelies including Winona Ryder and Sheryl Lee complemented by his continuing part as the narrator in the soft-porn television knees-up Red Shoe Diaries. He’s still an object of lustful attention. The indie songstress Bree Sharp penned a swooning valentine to him (“David Duchovny, why won’t you love me?”), which still racks up hits on YouTube. Dare one mention internet postings celebrating an early X Files episode in which he sports budgie-smuggler Speedos?

Fair play to Duchovny, he has always gone along with the joke, most notably in The Larry Sanders Show, where he had a recurring role as a guest with a man-love yen for Garry Shandling’s discomfited chat-show host. There was, too, the Steven Soderbergh movie Full Frontal, in which Duchovny petitioned for a $500 “extra” from a hard-up masseuse. But it is all tangential. In 1993 came The X Files, the little green men, the mysterious cigar-shaped objects and everything else. One minute, he was in a niche sci-fi pilot, a perceived leg-up to a few decent film roles; the next, that UFO-infatuated drama had exploded into one of the most successful television shows of all time, The Twilight Zone for a new generation. It was bigger than the Beatles, he joshed. Duchovny had sealed his place in showbiz history.

As “Spooky” Mulder, the conspiracy-obsessed believer to Scully’s sceptic, he romped through most of the 200+ episodes, beating off supernatural forces and assorted monsters, indulging the central conceit that the American government is involved in a cover-up about extraterrestrials. In 1998 came a first film, The X Files Movie, since rebranded The X Files: Fight the Future. (Titles, evidently, are not the producers’ strongest suit.) It was a big hit.

At the franchise’s peak, however, Duchovny seemed to bite the hand that fed him. After the fifth season, tired of the relentless schedule of 10-months-a-year filming in Canada, he made the show relocate to LA to afford him time with his new bride, the actress Téa Leoni. Die-hard X-philes howled at the change in the feel of the programme, which had previously aped the drizzly forest atmospherics of the similarly Pacific Northwestern Twin Peaks. Duchovny had graced that show, too, as an FBI agent, albeit a cross-dressing one, an indicator of where his career had been heading.

Having destroyed a local industry, Duchovny then sued for $25m over royalties. Chris Carter, the snow-haired surfer dude who created the series and is back behind the camera for the new film, treads diplomatically round this. “The problem is, when you get successful, money enters the equation. And money changes everything, as the song lyric goes.” After the seventh series, a seemingly bored Duchovny opted out, ceding the legwork of the last two seasons to Anderson and incoming agents Doggett and Reyes (Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish), and appearing only sporadically. He did return for the underwhelming and strangely spiritual 2002 finale, which concluded with Mulder and Scully as fugitives, the point at which the new film picks up.

“Whatever disillusionment I had... disillusioned is the wrong word,” he says. “It was more like creative fatigue – not with the characters, franchise, Chris, Gillian or whomever, never anything like that.” He cites simply how a five-year gig became a six-year one, then seven, then eight. “There was always this receding finish line. At some point, I realised there was never gonna be a finish line unless I finished it for myself.”

Duchovny retreated to Malibu, raised a family and tried his hand at the odd film, either acting (Things We Lost in the Fire) or directing (House of D), but nothing had a fraction of the impact - until Californication, which this January won him a Golden Globe. The second series was recently rocked by the untimely death of the husband of co-star Natascha McElhone, but is set to return to our screens later this year.

Why, though, after all this time seeking a new direction, has he jumped back into The X Files? Especially as the new film is being shot in Vancouver, where the local media had conducted the equivalent of burning his effigy in the street. “To come back to it is not to go against any feeling I ever had,” he says. “It was only a case of, ‘I need to get away from this for a little while, if only to find out what I want to do.’” It was not a contractual obligation. “My desire in envisioning how I would get off the series was, ‘Let’s stop working so hard, let’s turn this into a movie franchise.’” More films are promised, though they had better be quick: according to the show’s “mytharc” (The X Files is cultish enough to have its own vernacular), the world will end in 2012, which doesn’t augur well for the London Olympics.

Making an X Files film this time around would seem a bigger risk without a television series to feed off. But, says Duchovny, this will assure it a greater cinematic worth. “My one stipulation was that it should be stand-alone. On the first movie, even though we went around doing press saying you didn’t have to know the TV show, that was pretty much a lie.” Mulder and Scully will need to be reintroduced, but Carter has done a good job, Duchovny stresses, of “setting up their points of view, yet not belabouring it so much you’ll go, ‘We already know all this crap’”.

A key factor is that, 15 years since Duchovny first suited up as Mulder, life has moved on for the agent. “If I try to play him exactly the same way, it would be like a 50-year-old stripper getting up there,” he sniggers. Mulder is still a man obsessed - “That’s what makes him a great hero, the fact he doesn’t stop searching,” - though for what, these days, is unclear, such is the three-line whip laid down by the producers, which renders discussion of the plot verboten. Such is the paranoia, the production office has set up its own ministry of misinformation, feeding false story lines to the internet. Only a few coded copies of the full script are in existence, all locked up in a safe at night. “I keep mine lying around,” Duchovny adds drolly.

Unless it is all an elaborate hoax - and how X Files if that were so - what has been witnessed would suggest a plot concerning demonic possession, with Billy Connolly as some kind of seer guiding the Feds. “A thriller in the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs,” Duchovny says, “A fun action movie.” The truth, you might say, is out there.

It is not just Mulder who has changed, of course, but the world. Not so long ago, the prospect of shadowy global networks and a new world order seemed a jolly dramatic wheeze, tapping into premillennial angst. A March 2001 episode of The Lone Gunmen, a short-lived X Files sister show, even had the American government deliberately crashing a passenger jet into New York City to propagate fear and strengthen its own hand. Post-9/11, such things seem facile. But Duchovny insists that we still need men like Mulder to ask big questions.

“He is the guy who’ll speak truth to the power,” the actor insists - no matter what the circumstances. Though it probably explains why the film is sticking to a fantasy theme.

So, does he, Duchovny, believe in, you know, Area 51, the flying saucers? “It seems unlikely we’re alone in the universe,” he muses. “Yet I’m fairly certain nobody’s hiding any contact we’ve had. The idea that the government could withhold that kind of information when they can’t even get gay sex in a bathroom without being followed [a reference to the Republican senator Larry Craig, copped last year]...”

Fans may insist otherwise. One should never underestimate the zeal of the sci-fi devotee. I’m reminded of a story about Tom Baker, who, some years ago, attended a Doctor Who convention at which he strode onto the stage to be greeted by an audience that rose as one, chanting: “Take us with you.” Duchovny must get that sort of stuff all the time. He gives one of his trademark smirks: “Yeah. Even more now with Californication.”

The X-Files: I Want to Believe opens on August 1

Thursday, July 3, 2008

X-Files: I Want to Believe Soundtrack Details

X-Files: I Want to Believe Soundtrack Details - ShockTillYouDrop.com
X-Files: I Want to Believe Soundtrack Details
Source:Amazon
July 3, 2008


Head over to Amazon now and you'll get a diverse sampling of tracks from Mark Snow's score for The X-Files: I Want to Believe. The soundtrack hits stores on July 22nd, just a few days before the film, directed by Chris Carter, opens in theaters on July 25th.

ShockTillYouDrop.com recently visited the scoring stage where Mark Snow was recording music for this anticipated sequel, read all about that here and check out the part where producer Frank Spotnitz raises some concern that the track listing for the score may reveal potential spoilers.

Track listings:

1. Moonrise
2. No Cures/Looking For Fox
3. The Trip to DC
4. Father Joe
5. What If You're Wrong/Sister
6. Ybara The Strange/Waterboard
7. Can't Sleep/Ice Field
8. March and Dig/Girl In The Box
9. A Higher Conscious
10. The Surgery
11. Good Luck
12. Seizure/Attempted Escape
13. Foot Chase
14. Mountain Montage/The Plow
15. Photo Evidence
16. The Preparation
17. Tranquilized
18. The Axe Post
19. Box Them
20. Home Again

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Gillian Anderson to produce and star in Martha Gellhorn biopic

» Gillian Anderson to produce and star in Martha Gellhorn biopic - Thaindian News
Washington, July 2 (ANI): Gillian Anderson will soon be able to fulfil her dream of making and starring in a movie about legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.

The X-Files star has finally been able to secure funding for the movie, based on the biography Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life, and will now produce a movie about Ernest Hemingway’s ex-wife, who died in 1998.

A source tells British newspaper the Daily Express that the actress is extremely excited about making a movie on Gellhorn, reports Contactmusic.

“Gillian has been desperate to play this role. We were beginning to wonder whether it would ever happen. Gillian has rarely been so excited about a part,” said the source.

The movie will reportedly begin production next year (09).

First however, Anderson will be busy with another production she is set to give birth to her third child with husband Mark Griffiths. (ANI)

Monday, June 23, 2008

New X-Files trailer released

LIVENEWS.com.au > Entertainment > New X-Files trailer released
Ten years since the worldwide sensation of X-Files: The Movie, Mulder and Scully are back to get freaky in X-Files: I want to believe.

The film, directed by X-Files creator Chris Carter, takes place in the present time, six years after the end of the TV series.

Hampering the films production was a difficult lawsuit between Carter and 20th Century Fox, but Carter says this has now been resolved.

"It’s six years down the road, so we’re true to the passage of time, so Mulder and Scully would have lived six years since the show was over. It is from the original idea [we had years ago] – it’s the story we wanted to do.

"We went to the lengths of working out this board, and there was this lawsuit that got in the way. Years went by, then one day I got a call from lawyer who said “the lawsuit has been resolved,” I said “great,” and the other phone was ringing and Fox was like “let’s make a movie.” So I said, “get those cards back.” he said.

Along with cast regulars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, the second X-Files installment features legendary Scottish comedian Billy Connolly and rapper Xzibit.

Conscious of their dedicated fan base, but also aware of the need to make a stand alone movie, the creators feel they have arrived at a happy medium.

"We wanted the movie to work for non-fans as well as fans, but we wanted to honor all the work these guys did on the series and all the love people had for the show. So while this is not a mythology movie, this will be true to the show." Executive producer/writer Frank Spotnitz said.

X-Files: I want to believe hits American theatres July 25.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

David Duchovny’s NY move

David Duchovny’s NY move - 19-Jun-2008 - NZ Entertainment news
9 June 2008
David Duchovny and his wife Tea Leoni are moving to New York.

The ‘X Files’ star and the actress have put their house in Malibu, California, on the market and are said to be looking to move to Manhattan before their children - nine-year-old Madelaine and six-year-old Kyd – return to school later this year.

The couple reportedly believe there are better schools in New York than in Malibu.

David and Tea’s 6,578 sq ft Malibu property – which has an asking price of $12 million - features ocean-views, five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a gym, two swimming pools and a three-car garage.

The new owner will also receive membership in the La Costa Beach Club.

David and Tea aren’t the only celebrities who have recently decided to relocate to New York.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are planning to move there with their two-year-old daughter Suri while Katie stars in a Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Gillian Anderson pregnant, no aliens involved

Gillian Anderson pregnant, no aliens involved - New Zealand's source for entertainment news, gossip & music, movie & book reviews on Stuff.co.nz
Gillian Anderson is pregnant.

The X-Files actress, who already has two children, and her boyfriend Mark Griffiths are expecting another child, Gillian's representative has confirmed.

The flame-haired star first sparked rumours she was pregnant after sporting what appeared to be a baby bump at the Cannes Film Festival in France last month.

It is not yet known when she is due to give birth.

Gillian and Mark have a 19-month-old son Oscar together.

The 39-year-old star also has a 13-year-old daughter, Piper, from her previous marriage to photojournalist and filmmaker Julian Ozanne.

Gillian's next big screen appearance sees her reprise her role as agent Dana Scully in The X-Files: I Want to Believe - the second big screen adaptation of the hit 90s US TV show.

The movie will be released worldwide next month.

In the television show which screened in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Scully fell pregnant after being abducted by aliens.

Monday, May 12, 2008

X Files: I Want to Believe

I have added the embed code at my website you can check out the trailer here:

X Files trailer Finally shows up

Timer at the new x files website didn't play the trailer on time, but it finally showed up at 2:18 am by my clock on my computer watched and was amazed! it was great, check it out now!

Sunday, May 11, 2008

"X-Files 2" Viral Videos


"X-Files 2" Viral Videos at WorstPreviews™
The trailer for the upcoming "X-Files: I Want to Believe" is set to appear online tonight at midnight, but until then, 20th Century Fox has released two videos of Agent Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Agent Mulder (David Duchovny) talking about each other.

Plot: When a group of women are abducted in the wintry hills of rural Virginia, the only clues to their disappearance are the grotesque human remains that begin to turn up in snow banks along the highway. With officials desperate for any lead, a disgraced priest's questionable "visions" send local police on a wild goose chase and straight to a bizarre secret medical experiment that may or may not be connected to the women's disappearance. It's a case right out of The X-Files. But the FBI closed down its investigations into the paranormal years ago. And the best team for the job is ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, who have no desire to revisit their dark past. Still, the truth of these horrific crimes is out there somewhere... and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it!

The Chris Carter-directed film is scheduled to hit theaters on July 25th.

IGN Exclusive X-Files Movie Trailer

See the world-premiere of the X-Files: I Want to Believe trailer, coming soon!


IGN: IGN Exclusive X-Files Movie Trailer
May 10, 2008 - Paranoid sky-watchers, "truthers" and conspiracy theorists rejoice--X-Files is returning to the silver screen once again--and IGN has the world exclusive premiere trailer. Check back on IGN on Monday, May 12 for your first glimpse of X-Files: I Want to Believe, which is slated for release in theaters on July 25th.

As you'd come to expect, the venerable FBI duo of Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) make a return, but Fox has remain tight-lipped with regards to plot specifics. The film will feature "a stand-alone story in the tradition of some of the show's most acclaimed and beloved episodes, and takes the complicated relationship between Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) in unexpected directions," according to a recent press release.

Is the truth out there? Stay tuned and come back on May 12th to find out!

X Files 2 Plot Revealed


X-Files 2 Plot Revealed | Palace of Horror | Your source for horror movies, scary reviews, horror dvd, clips, actors, actresses and news. You will find the top horror movies, reviews, and trailers. | News
Here it is, a plot for X-Files 2. It’s been under tight lips for awhile now, but with the movie coming out soon, those lips have loosened. Here you go:

Mulder and Scully are back in the thrilling novelization of the summer 2008 blockbuster movie based on the classic X-Files TV show! When a group of women are abducted in the wintry hills of rural Virginia, the only clues to their disappearance are the grotesque human remains that begin to turn up in snow banks along the highway. With officials desperate for any lead, a disgraced priest’s questionable “visions” send local police on a wild goose chase and straight to a bizarre secret medical experiment that may or may not be connected to the women’s disappearance.

It’s a case right out of The X-Files. But the FBI closed down its investigations into the paranormal years ago. And the best team for the job is ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, who have no desire to revisit their dark past. Still, the truth of these horrific crimes is out there somewhere…and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it!

Three New "X-Files 2" Shots


Three New "X-Files 2" Shots at WorstPreviews™
We now have three new shots from the upcoming "X-Files: I Want to Believe," which feature a look at Xzibit as an FBI agent working alongside Agent Mulder (David Duchovny) and Agent Scully (Gillian Anderson). One of the other shots, shows Mulder and Scully getting a bit close.

While, the plot is being kept a secret, the novelization of the film has revealed the basic story. "When a group of women are abducted in the wintry hills of rural Virginia, the only clues to their disappearance are the grotesque human remains that begin to turn up in snow banks along the highway. With officials desperate for any lead, a disgraced priest's questionable "visions" send local police on a wild goose chase and straight to a bizarre secret medical experiment that may or may not be connected to the women's disappearance. It's a case right out of The X-Files. But the FBI closed down its investigations into the paranormal years ago. And the best team for the job is ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, who have no desire to revisit their dark past. Still, the truth of these horrific crimes is out there somewhere... and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it!"

More X-Files 2 Photos


More X-Files 2 Photos - HorrorMovies.ca
From FOX and Filmz.ru come new photos for X-Files 2. X-Files 2 is a stand-alone story in the tradition of some of the show’s most acclaimed and beloved episodes, and takes the complicated relationship between Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) in unexpected directions. Mulder continues his unshakable quest for the truth, and Scully, the passionate, ferociously intelligent physician, remains inextricably tied to Mulder’s pursuits. Click a thumbnail below for a larger version photo!


Sunday, April 20, 2008

X-Files sequel gets a title

The highly anticipated second film based on TV series The X-Files has finally got a title.
Twentieth Century Fox has confirmed that the title to the feature-length spinoff from the popular 1990s (oc)cult show is The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Variety reports.

The film is slated for a July 25 opening day and sees David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson return to their roles as paranormal investigating FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Series creator Chris Carter co-wrote the script with long-time X-Files producer Frank Spotnitz. Carter directed the film as well.

"It's a natural title," Carter told the Associated Press Tuesday. "It's a story that involves the difficulties in mediating faith and science. I Want to Believe -- It really does suggest Mulder's struggle with his faith."

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in The X-Files: I Want to Believe. (20th Century Fox)

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in The X-Files: I Want to Believe. (20th Century Fox)

The title is also a reference to the tagline of a well-known poster of a UFO seen on Agent Mulder's office wall throughout the show's long run.

Not much is known about the plot of the film except that it will be a stand-alone story rather than a return to the show's UFO/government conspiracy mythology. Internet rumours indicate that the film may involve werewolves but nothing has been confirmed.

"We went to almost comical lengths to keep the story a secret," Carter said. "That included allowing only the key crew members to read the script, and they had to read it in a room that had video cameras trained on them. It was a new experience."



The Gazette

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Friday, March 7, 2008

Black Holes paranormal



FOXNews.com - Scientists Create Artificial Black Hole in Lab - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
The mysterious properties of black holes can be recreated on a tabletop, scientists now reveal.

Solving mysteries concerning black holes could yield key clues toward a "theory of everything" that unites how we conceive of all the natural forces.

Black holes rank among the greatest enigmas of the universe. Scientists theorize black holes have gravitational pulls so powerful that nothing, including light, can escape after falling past a border known as the event horizon.

• Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Space Center.

Direct experiments with black holes are unlikely, due at the very least to the distance any are from Earth, not to mention how difficult these warps in space and time would be to work with.

Instead, researchers are searching for ways to create lab models of event horizons.

Now scientists have created an artificial event horizon on a tabletop using fiber optics.
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The researchers started by firing a stream of intense, brief laser pulses inside an optical fiber. These pulses acted like a current of flowing light.

Such intense, brief pulses "make physical effects visible that would also occur for much longer and weaker pulses, but are hard to detect there," explained researcher Ulf Leonhardt, a theoretical physicist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. "High intensity and short pulses are needed for seeing subtle effects and discriminating them from noise."

At the same time, the researchers fired a continuous beam of infrared light down the optical fiber. This beam created waves that got overtaken by the laser flow, resembling how light waves are overcome by the gravitational pull just past an event horizon.

"The most surprising aspect for me is how simple it actually is to create artificial event horizons," Leonhardt told LiveScience.

He and his colleagues detailed their findings in the March 7 issue of the journal Science.

Scientists had proposed other systems to mimic aspects of black holes. All those, however, needed moving parts — specifically, very fragile, ultra-cold blobs of matter — and none of them have yet successfully displayed phenomena resembling event horizons.

The artificial event horizons Leonhardt and his colleagues have devised could help researchers explore bizarre aspects of black holes, such as radiation they are supposed to emit.

Black holes are not entirely black. Physicist Stephen Hawking discovered that all black holes should instead evaporate at least a bit, leaking energy dubbed "Hawking radiation."

Scientists have not yet seen this mysterious energy — Hawking radiation from normal black holes is completely obscured by the cosmic microwave background, radiation left over from the Big Bang that pervades the entire universe.

However, Leonhardt suggests that with their new lab model, "we can create artificial event horizons that would generate enough Hawking radiation to be detectable."

A greater understanding of Hawking radiation could help unite our currently disparate theories of physics into one "theory of everything" that could conceive of all the natural forces.

So far scientists have not successfully united the field of general relativity, which explains how matter and energy behave at large scales and predicts the existence of black holes, with that of quantum mechanics, which helps explain how matter and energy act at atomic and subatomic levels and predicts the existence of Hawking radiation.

A better understanding of Hawking radiation could help bridge general relativity with quantum mechanics to understand how these "worlds are connected," Leonhardt explained.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Caprica is a Go on Scifi

Just found out that Caprica is a go on Scifi just found out the blog talk show DR and Mrs Who.....Caprica is a go on Scifi!!!

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Sports Geeks

Hi everyone Sports Geeks has created Baseball Fantasy League this year
and we will be giving away prizes, if you would like to join, please
email us at

sportsgeeksradio@gmail.com

and we will mail you the information to join

1st place is Jericho Season 1 on DVD

2nd place is a dvd

if it becomes that me or nibbers come in first or second the prizes will be given to the third and fourth winners

Live draft begins 2/29/2008 at 10pm central 11pm Eastern

have a great day

Sports Geeks

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Nice article about X Files



The X-Files Return - Steve Duin - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
For my money, the big film news out of WonderCon Saturday was the report that the Coen Brothers' follow-up to No Country For Old Men -- the favorite to win Oscar Sunday -- will be Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

But the event that drew a crowd easily topping 5,000 to Hall A at the Moscone Center was the appearance of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson to promote The X-Files 2, which will hit theaters on July 25.

Six years after the first movie and 10 years after the television series wrapped up, Duchovny and Anderson flew into San Francisco Saturday with writer/director Chris Carter and writer/producer Frank Spotnitz. Responding to a curious opening question from the 20th Century Fox moderator as to why the film was worth the wait, Carter said, "Because it will scare the pants off you. Because you'll get to see Muldur and Scully again in a whole new way. That's why."

Both Anderson and Duchovny -- who were filming in Vancouver as late as Friday night -- admitted they had a tough time regaining their balance in their famous roles as FBI agents investigating the paranormal. "I thought it would be easy to step back into it," Anderson said, admitting she was much too cavalier when she arrived on set. "But I just sucked. I sucked for 48 hours."

"It was odd," Duchovny added. "Time has passed for these two people and we wanted to honor the changes they've gone through as well as what keeps them the same people."

Part of her problem, Anderson said, is that she has always had an intuitive grasp of Scully's character, but that since the TV series ended in May 2002, she has purposefully sought acting jobs that won't remind viewers of the character. Thus, when she got on set, Anderson said, "My brain kept saying, 'Stop, stop, you're sounding like Scully.' That's something I didn't anticipate."

The X-Files 2 will also star Amanda Peet and Billy Connolly.

Carter and Spotnitz were also asked about The Lone Gunmen, the X-Files spin-off that premiered on March 4, 2001 and featured a terrorist plot to fly a hijacked airplane into the World Trade Center. "I was disturbed," Spotnitz said, "that if we could imagine it that our government ... didn't."

Carter later talked about imagination and horror in the post-9-11 world: "I can't think of anything off-hand that we didn't do that we wanted to do (in the series). We ended X-Files at the right time. There was a big change in the country after 9-11. I hope it's coming back at the right time. I hope the mood is right."

And when he asked about the recurring spiritual themes in the series, Carter noted, "I always thought of X-Files as a search for God. That's a big part of the inspiration. I want to believe the poster on Muldur and Scully's wall really says it all."

You do remember the poster, don't you?

To warm up the crowd for Duchovny and Anderson, 20th Century Fox also brought out Rachael Taylor (Transformers) and James Kyson Lee ("Heroes"), the stars of the upcoming horror/thriller Shutter, which is due out in March (click here for the trailer). Taylor and Joshua Jackson are newlyweds vacationing in Japan who stumble into the realm of "spirit photography," in which images of the dead are caught on film.

The crowd was asked if it believed in ghosts, an intriguing question given that a fair percentage was dressed up as characters from Star Wars. The better question was, "Do you believe in illusions?" and both Taylor and Lee did their workmanlike best to maintain the illusion that there may be something to these spirit photos.

"You've always heard the camera doesn't lie, and we're getting to the truth of that," Lee said.

Taylor, who grew up in Tasmania, had one of the better moments of the afternoon when she was asked how it felt to have a role in Transformers, given its prominence in pop culture. "I'm a bit of a dork," Taylor said. "I don't keep much of an eye on pop culture. I don't have a television."

The remake of a 2004 Thai film, Shutter is directed by Masayuki Ochiai.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

DD article

Nice article about DD, isn't he great...hehe

David Duchovny gets real life on Californication | Entertainment | Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For former "The X-Files" star David Duchovny, the television show's slogan "The Truth Is Out There" had extra meaning during his final year on the Fox network playing an FBI agent tracking space aliens on Earth.

"The truth" meant finding an opportunity to portray a character grounded in real life, while "out there" meant the realm of cable television, where Duchovny's new program, "Californication," airs on Showtime.

This Sunday "Californication" will compete for a Golden Globe award for best television comedy or musical after just one season on the air, and Duchovny is up for best actor in a comedy or musical.

"I was really happy for the show and everyone involved," Duchovny, 47, told Reuters. "The thing about any award show is it's about exposure bringing new people to our program."

"Californication" tells of the everyday life of novelist Hank Moody (Duchovny), who lives in Los Angeles and is divorced from his wife. Yet, Moody remains in love with her and they share duties raising a teen-age daughter.

In its first season, Moody was in a writer's funk because his best-selling book had been turned into a silly Hollywood movie that became a hit. He finally produces a new novel only to have it stolen by a young girl who seduced him.

Not surprisingly, "Californication" covers sexual material, shows nudity and uses obscenities, all of which can be done on cable networks but not broadcasters like Fox that are held to stricter content standards on public airwaves.

Duchovny said that toward the end of the ninth and final season of "X-Files" in 2002, he had grown tired of hearing critics laud cable shows such as "The Sopranos" because of their use of street language and real-life situations.

"SOPRANOS" CHEATED

"I used to kind of bemoan the fact they were cheating. They had the richness of the English language and we did not. Now that I get to, it's fun," Duchovny said.

Duchovny shot to stardom in the early 1990s as Fox Mulder, the plain-spoken FBI agent who probed strange cases of aliens visiting Earth. It was a huge hit, earning many awards and nominations for the show and Duchovny.

When it ended, Duchovny kept working but not on network television, as might have been expected from an A-list star.

He took a small role in HBO's "Sex and the City," worked in some low-budget and art movies such as Steven Soderbergh's "Full Frontal" and wrote and directed "House of D," a coming-of-age story about a boy living in New York City.

"The fact that I was in a very mainstream (television) hit was never by design in any way," he said.

Before "X-Files," he won acclaim for offbeat roles such as a transvestite on the television series "Twin Peaks." He also was the narrator for erotic series, "Red Shoes Diaries," and in two decades as an actor, he has shown his talent in a variety of dramas and comedies.

He said Moody appealed to him because the character has a dual nature as a deeply flawed man who also is charming, likable and armed with a sharp wit.

"I've been saying for years, 'I'm funny,'" Duchovny said.


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X-Files Improv with Dean Haglund

I've always liked him....I wish he was in the new movie....

X-Files Improv with Dean Haglund - Times Online
The Canadian comedian Dean Haglund is the nerd’s nerd: a man who makes other nerds look like fresh-air-loving fraudsters. Playing a computer wizard called Langley, he helped agents Mulder and Scully to battle alien and government conspiracies in The X-Files. He even took his Wayne’s World dress sense to his own spin-off series, The Lone Gunmen. After The X-Files, he went on to invent – and I’m not making this up – the Chill Pak, a freezable cooler unit that keeps your laptop working in hot conditions. And, oh yes, he performs hour-long improvised comedy shows, creating imaginary episodes of X-Files from audience suggestions.

Thankfully, the end result is a happy, inclusive affair that is not just for those who know their Smoking Man from their, er – can anyone actually remember anything else about The X-Files other than the Smoking Man? Anyway, the point is that Haglund’s show is improv first, parody second. You’ll recognise more games from Whose Line is it Anyway? than you will characters from The X-Files.

Short-haired and Viking-featured, Haglund fleshes out each of his four scenes with a volunteer from the crowd. He gets an IT man to provide some hilariously hesitant sound effects as Haglund acts out his morning routine – which ends, as an X-Files opening scene must, in his mysterious death. A lippy geoscience student provides Haglund’s hand gestures while he plays a government scientist trying to poo-poo press concerns over the death. Moment by moment, this is quick-witted, gregarious improvising. He’s so relaxed on stage that he gets big laughs from rolling with whatever comes his way. But this also means that his humour tends to come from debunking his own scenarios rather than letting them build. A scene between Langley and Mulder (played by another volunteer) goes on way too long when there’s no narrative function to underpin it.

We’ve been set up for a mock alien-fighting adventure, so it’s disappointing when the pastiche plot turns out to be quite so beside the point. There are no in-jokes that will lose anyone, but there’s no real story that anyone will get lost in either. I’m a nerd, I admit it. But I long for a bit more babbled pseudoscience and a bit more pouting scepticism to make X-Files Improv do exactly what it says on the tin.


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The X-Files jokes are out there ...

Wow never knew this...

The X-Files jokes are out there ... | Comedy | This is London
It might be nearly six years since Mulder and Scully were last in action but the sci-fi phenomenon that was The X-Files will not die. A new movie is due for release this summer, and for fans who cannot wait - and have a sense of humour - this live, improvised solo comic version starring cast member Dean Haglund plugs the gap.

In the long-running series the lean, blond actor played straggly-haired, bespectacled computer hacker Langly. These days he looks less like Garth from Wayne's World and more like a new-age Kirk Douglas, yet he is still very much the king of the nerds, devising nightly fresh episodes out of thin air, based on nothing more than his quickfire wit and audience suggestions. "My mind is completely blank," he says, which is no drawback when there is no script to learn.

Last night - and probably every night in different ways - the emphasis was on pure silliness. A giraffe-badger-monkey mutant was on a killing spree and had to be tracked down. Haglund enlisted the help of various fans to play his supporting cast and provide sound effects. IT expert Leon from Canary Wharf was a particularly effective creaky door.

Anyone who remembers Channel 4's pioneering Whose Line Is It Anyway? will immediately recognise the beautiful unpredictability of the format. Random lines scribbled on paper and handed over, such as: "Do you know you are not a cockroach?" and "the cat keeps being sick", slotted neatly into a freewheeling plot that was often more potty than paranormal. Somehow I cannot imagine Gillian Anderson's Scully coming out with: "We exhumed your potato."

This is the kind of comedy that demands full commitment from everyone, and all those involved gave 100 per cent even if they had turned up expecting a quiet night in the stalls rather than a busy one in the limelight. The besuited volunteer enlisted to play Mulder at a moment's notice very nearly upstaged Haglund with his deadpan delivery, despite looking more like David Brent than David Duchovny.

The experienced star's slick professionalism held things together throughout, keeping spirits up with a combination of high-energy humour and gung-ho enthusiasm. This is a man who could talk for his country, although he was briefly flummoxed by a rather scary devotee whose references to a character called Manhammer and a talking monkey suggested he knew more about the cult series than was healthy.

Haglund left everyone wanting more. If there was a quibble it was that proceedings ended abruptly. Asking the crowd if they were "all laughed out" the audience shouted "no", expecting an encore that did not come. X-Files-type conspiracy theorists might suspect the star had been using a script all along. The answer is simpler. Improvising for an hour is extremely demanding. He probably needed a rest.


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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Nice X Files Video Game Review



IGN: Reader Review of: The X-Files: Resist or Serve
The X-Files: Resist or Serve
Better Than The Bargain Bin!
by patrickiscool
This Review's Trust Rating: 0 0

January 1, 2008 - An X-Files game? In theory - Classic. I mean, what better things are there to do in life other than investigating mysteries and shooting up your foes?! Well, the game pulls it off rather nicely.

As a big fan of the show, i decided to pick the game up, after seeing it cheap in a local games shop. The fact that it was cheap didn't give me an awful lot of hope, but i thought i'd give it a go either way. The packaging and boxart is decent, so i take a look at the back of the case. There's a gory picture of Agent Dana Scully's hands devouring a dead guys innards (an autopsy in other words). I got the feeling that the game could be made over-gory, in the hopes to draw in the gamers, when all we really need is it to be put in the right places, and not gung-ho, so to speak.


Anyway, back to the game. The opening scene of the game explains the storyline. Agents Mulder and Scully travel to the fictional town of Rocky Mountain, where two teenagers are being tried for witchcraft. The car stops as the duo see a man lying on the pavement. They get out to investigate. You choose to play as either Agent Scully or Mulder, with myself opting to play as Scully.

As Mulder departs to check in a nearby "restaurant" for a phone, Scully is left to attend the man. As she kneels beside him, looking for a response, he suddenly launches at her, pushing her a ridulous distance in the air, and the falls with a thump to the ground. As she regains her footing, we see the man's complection is all too familiar to horror gaming fans. Zombie Time! The man staggers towards Scully, as she pulls a basic handgun from her pocket. You now take control.

The controls feel a little laggy at first, and the strange "Hold R1+X to Fire" combination does take a bit of getting used to. The character animation leaves a little to be desired, as the characters look overly bored and uninterested in the situation, as they seem to almost glide when a basic walk is all that's desired.

The storyline soon escalates, as Scully and Mulder are separated, and need to find each other. Anyway, i shaln't spoil any more of the story for you, but some memorable moments include Mulder's trippy experience in his appartment, the exploration of 3 wide levels, and the boss battles all stay in my mind.


Graphics vary in the game, with the cutscenes and locations looking decent, but the enemies and well known characters leaving a bit to be desired. There were moments with Scully where she seemed to imitate the internet phenomena that is the "O RLY?" owl. Speaking of well known characters, the lovable Lone Gunmen make a comedic appearance in the game, one to look for. The locations are impressive, as Mulder's Flat and the X-Files office are well replicated, and Rocky Mountain is of a good size, and is fully explorable. Some character faces look a little bland and emotionless at times, but they're fairly decent on the whole. The formentioned autopsies can be tough to look at for the weak at heart!

The sound has always been an important feature for the X-Files TV series, with the eerie tones sending shivers down spines. This is brilliantly replicated in the game, with tension music put just where needed, adding great effect. The voice acting, thankfully, is done by the real cast, with David Duchovny (Mulder), Gillian Anderson (Scully) and Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek)
among others putting in impressive performaces. There are a few funny clips of the voice recorings of the Lone Gunmen in the Extra Features, which bring a smile to your face.

The gameplay is OK, but seems all to similar to the early Resident Evil games, and with the X-Files and Resident Evil games being two respective options for a player looking for a survival horror experience, it is likely that the latter may be chosen. However, the gameplay is still enjoying, but is often halted by the confusing and frustrating camera angles throughout, but you can usually get over this after a while. The variety of weapons is fairly slim, with the standard handgun, typical shotgun and average rifle being included.

As for lasting appeal and reason to replay the game, you can always choose to play as the second character, the one who you did not pick at the start of the game, and the experiences really do differ with the playing of each character. The game itself was fairly lengthy, lasting in excess of 14 hours to complete. The special features are interesting and worth a look, though there aren't exactly hundreds of things to do once you've finished.

Overall, a game that i had little hope for, proved me wrong, as i thoroughly enjoyed it throughout. Understandably a little dissapointing when compared to the Resident Evil experiences, but come on, it's a TV adaption, how good do you expect it to be


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Watch X Files for free

http://watchxfiles.blogspot.com

Check out this website and you can watch entire seasons of x files online...nice job.


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