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Date Posted: 12:37:13 12/07/01 Fri
Author: Shirleym
Subject: LCA Part 3

Correction from the last debriefing: Alan's name is VAN Sprang, not Von Sprang. Sorry about that. (:*

Saturday evening, after the inspiring efforts of all those stars selling their cans, Minuet, L and I decided to go for Chinese food and managed to find probably the worst Chinese Restaurant in all of Toronto. We searched through little, breaded pork balls in vain for tiny morsels of pork, politely chewed our way through half cooked noodles and generally put on our best "everything's fine" faces to get through it. Next time I'm calling Roy to find out where the good Chinese restaurant's are...
Or I guess I could just ask Jon Cassar... :P
Ok, I'll have *Zzoo* ask Jon Cassar since she seems to like men who look like handsome owls. *g*

I do have to say though, that the food in the hotel restaurant was very good; much better than I thought a Day's Inn's food would be. And the french fries - oh yummmmmm! They were absolutely *deeeeeeeelicious* there. So delicately crispy on the outside and so light on the inside. And the taste was out of this world. I'd go back sometime just for those.

Something I forgot to tell you about Saturday was that JC and the other directors were talking about how one of their most difficult jobs as directors is juggling the egos of the actors with things like who gets on set first when they're shooting a scene. I don't remember all the details, but it seems that nobody wants to be on set first because then they have to stand around waiting for everyone else, so a principal actor will be called on set, get there, see no one else has arrived yet and say, "nobody else is here yet, I'm going back to my dressing room". Then another principal will get there and be miffed because the first one's not there, and then it takes the first one forever to come back, etc., etc. But keeping people happy on set is important for getting good scenes, so they told us a few of the little tricks and techniques they use for solving these problems, but I can't remember what they were. It sounded a lot like how you take care of 4 year olds. (Madeline would have been proud.) *g* It was interesting to hear them say that usually, just directing the acting itself is not enough to do a director's job well.

So, on to Sunday and the cast of Mutant X, who came and answered questions from the audience and entertained us with their coke cans. John Shea, who played Lex Luthor on The Adventures of Lois and Clark and who plays "Adam" on Mutant X, was incredibly calm, kind and informative in his answers; holding his baby daughter , Miranda, through the whole thing. He explained to us how he does as much artistic work (stage, etc.) as he can until his money starts to get low and then he goes back to TV to make more. He said that most TV shows are contracted to make 13 episodes (if they're lucky) to start with and then have to see if they're picked up for more. That leaves the actors hanging, not knowing what's going to happen. But MX was contracted to make some unheard-of number of eps, like 44 episodes from the get go and so he said he accepted the role of Adam because it was such a sure thing financially and I think he also said that the people making it were all so good at what they did that he felt they'd do a good job with the show.

Victoria Pratt who plays "Shalimar" is a beautiful, bright woman with a kind and mischievous sense of humor, (none of which comes across in the show IMO). What a waste. She was absolutely delightful and is married to TJ Scott who did some directing on LFN (Noise, Third Party Ripoff). She was explaining that they were sitting around the table at a meeting early on and they were trying to decide what kind of device they (the mutants and Adam) should use to communicate with. They thought of and tossed out a lot of ideas for one reason or another - this one didn't look cool enough - that one would interfere with some of the costumes, etc. etc.. Then they thought of a ring, and she showed them her wedding ring (she and her husband had designed each others' rings) and said, "What about something like this?" She said before she knew it and to her surprise, they'd had rings made up for the cast EXACTLY like hers. She let the entire audience pass her ring around so we could all take a look at it up close.

When it got to Forbes March, who plays "Jesse" on the show, Jon Cassar asked him to introduce himself and describe his character. Now - FM had a hangover from drinking too much the night before and he was looking a little pale. He thought for a while and looked at us shyly from under the brim of his cap, trying to get his brains together. Finally he said something like, "Well....... my body can do this thing............. where I can get really really hard...?"

Ooooooooookay, I don't think I need to tell you what happened after that. >;) What an uproar from the audience. I know *I* was certainly doing some woooooo hooooooooing and clapping myself. LOL The poor guy didn't have a clue what he'd said for a few seconds, but when he caught on (and when the clapping finally died down), he said, "But I get really *soft* too".
I guess mutants are just human too... ;-)

Victor Webster, the cutiepie who plays "Brennan", came with his dog, Buddah, who apparently goes wherever Victor goes and who JC said is one of the family on the set of MX now. He's a medium-small dog and has a lovely calm temperament, which probably accounts for the name. Victor was great, has a verrrrrrrrrrrrry nice body, is quite at ease in his own skin, and seems to be very down to earth and kind as well. He did a fight scene for us with John Shea that they'd just filmed a couple of days earlier. It was quite powerful with these two men using quite a bit of floor space for the mock fight and making all the grunting sounds of being punched and kicked. They really put everything into it for us.
When asked why he'd wanted to be in MX, Victor said that as a kid, he'd loved action comics and broke many a bone doing things like jumping of the roof with a towel for a cape, etc. etc.

When it came time to sell coke cans, John Shea stood on his head to sell his, and Victor... hmmmmm... I seem to remember him with his shirt off and a can of coke down his pants...
He also threw in a scene (that had just been aired before LCA so anyone watching the show had just seen it) that he'd done with Lauren Lee Smith ("Emma") that he offered to re-do with the lucky winner of his can and they'd get it on video tape too! That was fun to watch because it had been a subtle scene in a bar, but he played it up a bit with the winner, doing things like playing with her hair and other distracting things while she was trying to read her lines.

Two days on the set of Mutant X (among many other things) were auctioned off. I think they went for something like $2,000 and $4,000 and Jon Cassar commented that a day on the set of that show would probably never be that cheap again.

Although I turned out not to be a big fan of the show, I found the whole thing fascinating.

To be continued...
This thing just never ends, does it. :P

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Shirleym - *Thank you* for sharing your experience with us. You are such a talented wordsmith! It sure makes me wish I could have been there too...and makes me wish for CQS5! -- Paris7am, 23:41:40 12/07/01 Fri

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[> [> Thanks, Paris! Maybe I'll see you there next year. :D -- Shirleym, 01:15:59 12/10/01 Mon

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[> Whooo? Whoooo? Me? LOL. Thanks, Shirley. I always feel like I'm right beside you. -- Zzoo, 11:56:10 12/08/01 Sat

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[> [> LOL did anyone ever tell you you make a great ow- Hey... was that a squirrel??? -- Shirleym, 01:23:15 12/10/01 Mon

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[> It sounds like it was a lot of fun, Shirley, and I am loving all of the juicy details. I don't know about Chinese, but I found a terrific Vietnamese restaurant on my last day in Toronto. Some members of a production crew were lunching there as well, and I felt like telling them, be careful about what you say in public, because *there are spies everywhere*, lol. -- Susan W, 21:54:27 12/08/01 Sat

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[> [> Oh, you are sooooo right! LOL I hope we can all go next year. JC just makes it so much fun and so interesting. -- Shirleym, 01:26:56 12/10/01 Mon

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[> [> [> My recommendation for Chinese Food--The Green Onion on Yonge Street downtown. It's totally yummy and was two blocks away from where I lived. :-) -- atty2be, 00:15:32 12/11/01 Tue

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[> [> [> [> Lucky atty2be! In my fantasy life, I've always had a second apartment in Toronto. -- Susan W, 07:35:36 12/12/01 Wed

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[> [> [> [> [> Thanks for the recommendation, atty! I'm going to make a point of finding it next time... and Susan W, I'll go in with you on that imaginary Toronto apt. ;) You'll all have to excuse my long spaces between checking the board. We're packing up to move to a new house on Monday. Send in housekeeping, the medics and Chris the chef !!! :P -- Shirleym, 05:42:08 12/15/01 Sat

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