HIGHLA-L Digest - 11 Aug 2001 to 13 Aug 2001 (#2001-237)
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There are 5 messages totalling 205 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. FW: [elizabethgracen] A message from Elizabeth
2. HL Endgame in Finland
3. Endgame in the UK
4. mdr
5. Vercingetorix - aka Druids
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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:58:24 -0400
From: Sandy Fields <diamonique@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: FW: [elizabethgracen] A message from Elizabeth
At 04:04 PM 08/10/01, KLZ wrote:
>I remember seeing some very unusual items - velvet decorated
>bags, for example, at her table at - um - Denver? G4? G3?
>Syndicon '97? (they say that the brain is the first thing to
>go...) I think it was Syndicon '97; it was when ~cats worked at
>EG's table for a while and there was the Hallway from Hell.
The Hallway from Hell as G2. I think the items you're talking about were
at Syndicon '97.... I think. They were beautiful, and I believe they were
handmade.
>ZK :::: imagining Sandy standing out on a street corner with a tin cup, a
>laptop, and a placard which reads "Will Work for Con Membership" ::::: (Or
>is it "Will work for battery"?) ::::: strolling away whistling innocently
>:::::
ROFL! Got it all covered... thanks to eBay!
-- Sandy
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:25:37 +2000
From: Narina <narina2@netti.fi>
Subject: HL Endgame in Finland
Hi!
I finally saw what you've been talking about for almost a
year now. Endgame never got to theaters but at least it has
been released on video. I wouldn't have known anything
about it if not my eldest son had told me it was at Filmtown
for rental.
I don't know which version this was but I liked it. I
watched it with my boys and they agreed that if they hadn't
seen the TV series they wouldn't have gotten the idea of
the film. Also it helped that I was there telling them what
was happennig and what was wrong according to the
canon.
So HL Endgame was releasred in theatres in Estonia but
never in Finland. And why is that? Because Finnish
people don't know about immortals or Highlander. About
ten years ago it was shown in TV and then again about
four? five? years ago but not anymore. Although I think
that all three movies were shown for a two or three years
ago... but so late at night that I think hardly anyone saw
them.
Anyway, I'm a happy camper now since I've seen the
fourth movie. Now my goal is to find and buy it, watch it
again few times, and get a 'grip' of it.
Hugs and love,
Narina
narina2@netti.fi
tuunar@utu.fi
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:31:13 -0400
From: Elaine Nicol <ElaineN@compuserve.com>
Subject: Endgame in the UK
Jette and I were at the Jim Byrnes gig on Friday night and we spent
Saturday shopping. I picked up the Endgame DVD, which has just been
released for sale in the UK apparently only at HMV. So all you Brits get
out there and grab it now it's worth it.
It's only a single disc, but it does have a Behind the scenes, the audio
commentary, deleted scenes, quiz and a game on there. As well as the
movie and some trailers for other movies.
Now that I have seen a proper version, and not just the VCD version I had,
which was certainly a rough version, I can actually pass some kind of
comment about the movie.
My first impression, I enjoyed it, yes I liked it. Maybe this was because
I was expecting nothing or maybe it's better than the version everyone
originally commented on, but I will certainly be watching it again and I am
glad I bought it.
Oh yes I can pick a few holes about timelines and stuff but I can do that
with a lot of the episodes too.<EG>
Elaine.
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:01:09 -0400
From: Johanne Briere <jojoann@videotron.ca>
Subject: mdr
Bonsoir everyone,
HL airs six days a week on the Z network, in French. Every Friday evening,
they broadcasted a double bill. This coming Friday it will be "Star
Crossed" and "Methos". I have not yet seen these in French and probably
won't have a chance this time around but will eventually. The promo-ads on
Z tells about the "Methos" episode in those words " Un immortel
vieillissant offre sa tete a McLeod pour lui procurer de la force " which
translated (roughly) (but close) as " An Immortal who is getting old offers
his head to McLeod to give him more strenght" ... not an old Immortal, mind
you. But an Immortal who is getting old ..... Well, it did raised my head
long enough to laugh out loud (MDR !) (Mort de rire) !
While I am typing on this list, I want to address a comment that was made
quite a while ago here .... it was during the discussion about morality and
all that ... when at one point the copying of tapes and sending them
around, either for cost or less or more also came around... and when
someone did pointed out the tapes were available to buy ....
Well, I meant to contradict that person and made a few statement about
this. The HL tapes are not available. Not easily available. Not cheaply
available. Not video stores available. When I shop around at Archambeault,
Coles, Chapter, Renaud-Bray ... I can buy all kind of merchandises, all
available right there , in cdn dollars, in either languages. Star Wars,
Star Trek, Lois & Clark, Hercules, Xena, to name a very small sample ...
are available in videos formats, books format, in French and in English;
XFiles in DVD of both languages, in books ... that is availability.
Lately, a question rose on Highlander-France ... there is absolutely no
merchandise whatsoever available , not even from that HL store, with
american dollars, requiring credit cards .... in French ... for French
people .... yet ..... the serie is still being broadcast in France, has
been co-produced in France, co-filmed in France, co-financed in France.
Which while I kept wondering why nothing could be available in Canada , in
stores, available, without fuss, without credit card, without paying in
exorbitant american dollars ..... I had forgotten about the France
co-partner .... and now, even now, HL airs in France in the province of
Quebec six times a week, in English five days a week.... this is available
to tape and to copy .... but not to buy.
And HL fics are on the rise in the French fandom btw .... no surprise ....
where else to read HL stories - unless one writes them.
And copying will keep being done. After all, that is all that is available
to have.
@+
JoAnne
jojoann@videotron.ca
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:40:45 -0400
From: Johanne Briere <jojoann@videotron.ca>
Subject: Vercingetorix - aka Druids
Bonsoir encore,
Vercingetorix opens on August 31st in Montreal. This movie which star CL as
Vercingetorix, king of gauls, did not have a good review in France when it
was release.
I intend to see it nevertheless as Vercingetorix, as historical character,
is someone I know since childhood and I am interested in him and his story.
Such an epic was an interesting idea in the first place.
But I think somehow , hilarious , that this movie opens on the very same
HL:Le dernier affront (French title of Endgame in Quebec) did last year. I
saw CL last year on the 31st ... and will see him again, same date. In
another movie thrashed by critic. Wondering if the date is precursor of a
bad omen :)
Have no idea if the movie will open anywhere else, as in English Canada ...
there is no promo for the movie. The trailer was seen with the French movie
"Le pacte des loups" and posters are in movies theatres lobbies (I see
plenty of movies in different theatres to have seen them all) but that is
about it.
Tracker .... well the Space network has put together a promo of its fall
new shows. I know Tracker will be broadcast there as one of the manager
post the information on their board. But it is not part of their, neat,
promo, for the fall schedule. Is there no footage yet ? or is there no hope ?
A+
JoAnne
jojoann@videotron.ca
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