(CNN) -- You may best know her as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on "The X-Files," but the hit television series transformed Gillian Anderson into something else: a Vancouverite.

The show was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, from 1993 to 1998, both as a cost-saving measure and because the city has a moody feel that was perfect for the dark series, Anderson said.

She lived in the city during that time, spending intense 16-hour days bringing Scully to life and enjoying Vancouver in her free time.

Anderson resided in the Caulfeild neighborhood of West Vancouver, her favorite part of the city, she said. The actress now lives in London, England, but she has a property on one of the islands in Vancouver and visits a couple of times a year.

Anderson talked with CNN about her favorite experiences in Vancouver as thousands of people prepare to descend on the city for the Winter Olympics. The following is an edited version of that interview.

CNN: What was your first impression of Vancouver?

Gillian Anderson: It felt very small at the time after living in Chicago and New York and having moved to Los Angeles ... but I grew to appreciate the smallness, because it feels very much like a big diverse neighborhood.

If you look on the map, bits of Vancouver are partitioned by waterways, so it feels like different neighborhoods but all part of the same place. It's got a very unique feel to it.

CNN: Various publications have picked Vancouver as one of the best cities in the world to live in. Do you agree with that?

Anderson: Yes, it appeals to a lot of people. It's so diverse: You have at your disposal beaches and snow-topped mountains and water and forests; there are great restaurants; it's safe to bring kids up. I think it checks a lot of the boxes of what families feel are important qualities.

It always felt very safe. For me, it was always a nice escape from the rest of the world, because it felt very much like I was going away to a private retreat.

CNN: When friends visited you in Vancouver, what were your favorite places to take them to?

Anderson: The first place that a lot of people start is Robson Street, which is a very popular, contemporary [shopping district].

What's beautiful about it is that you see the mountains on one side and the water on the other side of this long strip of shops and coffee shops and boutiques. They've got everything on that street, so that's kind of a fun thing to do.

There's a place called Granville Island, which is an island off of one of the inlets right in the middle of Vancouver. You can rent kayaks from there. There are lots of restaurants. You can walk around; there are shops, food markets; there's a lot of stores that sell Canadian and Native Canadian wares.

There's a seawall that you can ride bikes around in Stanley Park. It's a beautiful park that has a teahouse and walks and trails.

You can take a gondola up to Grouse Mountain, which is really beautiful up in the clouds. You can sit at the top and have hot chocolate or a stiff drink and enjoy the view of the city.

CNN: Are you an outdoors person? Do you like hiking and biking?

Anderson: Not generally. I'm a bit of a hermit, but I have friends who used to enjoy doing that stuff while I was working. [Laughs]

CNN: What are some of your favorite restaurants in Vancouver?

Anderson: There's a wonderful restaurant on Robson Street called Cin Cin. It's Italian and very good.

There's another fantastic restaurant that's Indian, called Vij's.

There's also a sushi restaurant called Tojo's, which is exceptional.

CNN: Do you miss Vancouver?

Anderson: I do. I miss spending time there. When I started thinking about talking to you about it, I started to get melancholy. It's a really lovely place.

CNN: Are you going to the Olympics?

Anderson: No. ... We're actually going to be in a very, very warm country at that time.

CNN: What are your favorite Winter Olympics events?

Anderson: My 3-year-old really likes ski jump, so we'll probably be watching some of that. I enjoy [less dangerous events] like ice skating rather than the things that can get you killed.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood stars Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Gillian Anderson were nominated on Monday for Laurence Olivier Awards, British theater's top accolades.

Anderson and Weisz are contesting the best actress category for their turns in A Doll's House and A Streetcar Named Desire respectively, and are up against Imelda Staunton (Entertaining Mr Sloane), Juliet Stevenson (Duet For One) and Lorraine Burroughs (The Mountaintop).

Knightley was nominated for a best supporting actress award for The Misanthrope, her West End debut.

In the best actor category, Law is shortlisted for his portrayal of the title role of Shakespeare's Hamlet, while James McAvoy, also best known for his films, is nominated for Three Days of Rain.

With six nominations apiece are Lucy Prebble's Enron, about the collapsed U.S. energy trading company, and Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth's portrayal of less-than-idyllic life in rural England.

The Royal Court Theater garnered the most nominations with 15, followed by the Donmar with 10 and the National Theater with nine.

London's West End enjoyed a bumper 2009, with attendances rising 5.5 percent to 14.3 million and revenues 7.6 percent higher than 2008 at 505 million pounds ($790 million).

Following is a list of the main categories for the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, to be handed out in London on March 21.

Best Actress

- Gillian Anderson/A Doll's House

- Lorraine Burroughs/The Mountaintop

- Imelda Staunton/Entertaining Mr Sloane

- Juliet Stevenson/Duet For One

- Rachel Weisz/A Streetcar Named Desire

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Dear everybody -

I am sitting in the BA Lounge at LAX after a very productive and very short trip to LA. Got to see friends and take meetings and most of all raise a little something for charity - thank you everybody who showed up for that by the way - thank you for showing up and for donating and for buying and for everything related to anything that raises support and most importantly funds for the charities that I support.

I don't know how many of you know this but ANSA is just starting an auction and there are a few well signed XF items up for grabs but also they are in basic need of financial support right now to meet their fiscal responsibilities and so anything you can give would be awesome and go to such a good cause.

So I miss my boys. Five nights is about the limit of what I can do without them and I just can't stand it. On the phone Oscar says ‘Hello My Mommy’ and I just want to eat him up. Eyelashes, toenails, the whole lot. And then there's Felix, blond hair, blue eyes, a bulldozer with a wicked sense of humor even at one. Enough!

Anyhoo so here is LAX and on my way to the welcome drizzle of London before the welcome sunshine of somewhere else and time just flies and flies and I wish I could tell you what I'm doing next but I can't and Oh there was Moby Dick which was so much fun and such a great group of people not least of which was the director Michael Barker who is an angel of a man and Ethan (Hawke) and Charlie (Cox) and then William (Hurt) and oh my Donald Sutherland who I would give my left anything to properly work with again. It was blessed. Well, and cursed but I won't go into that.

And and what else can I say without saying anything at all...

Oh everybody has to see the movie Fish Tank when it comes out.

I wish I could say more but you know this isn't a blog.

That's all for this...year?

G.

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If you’re an X-Files fan, you’ll want to make your way to Los Angeles this November for a special charity event featuring Gillian Anderson (seen here at the recent “The Age of Stupid” event in NY) and executive producer and writer Frank Spotnitz.

The event, which is being run by IBG.Inc.  will feature a moderated Q&A panel with Frank Spotnitz, Gillian Anderson and other TBA members of “The X-Files” team*.

A limited number of VIP tickets, available for $125, can be purchased here beginning September 22, 2009: http://www.ibginc.org/tickets

VIP tickets to the event grant the holder front section seating, in-person autograph with participating panelists and admission to the VIP party (please note that panelists are invited, but not obligated/guaranteed to attend the VIP party).

In addition, “Meet and Greets” with Gillian Anderson will be auctioned on eBay with registration beginning September 22, 2009. “Meet and Greets” with Frank Spotnitz and TBA panelists will also be available for auction in the coming weeks.

Information on general seating ticket availability for the Q&A panel will be available at a later date. Please check the IBG website for more information on ticket availability, event schedule, participating charities and venue details: http://www.ibginc.org/events

Founded in late 2008, IBG established an official non-profit campaign focusing on utilizing the power of philanthropy through the arts to benefit a wide range of charities worldwide. IBG acts as a “fundraiser facilitator” for underfunded and start-up charities that would otherwise struggle with the logistics and costs associated with event fundraising.

Event Details:

Date: November 14, 2009
When: Q&A begins at 2:30pm with pre-event raffle scheduled at 2:15pm.
Tickets: http://www.ibginc.org/tickets

*Event talent subject to change due to availability.

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Shelburne County Today
September 21, 2009

Gillian Anderson, James Gilbert, Donald Sutherland added to MOBY DICK cast...

Popular X-Files actress Gillian Anderson and Nova Scotia actor James Gilbert (The Tudors) are reported to have joined the growing cast of MOBY DICK, being shot in Shelburne and Lunenburg, with water scenes shot in Malta.

Famed homeboy Donald Sutherland is being talked about as the pick for father Mapple, who delivers the passionate sermon from the nautical pulpit at the Whaleman's Chapel (set built on Shelburne waterfront). Sutherland is one of the most seasoned actors working, with almost 300 entries on his IMDB page.

Anderson will play Elizabeth, wife of Caption Ahab (William Hurt) and Gilbert is slated for the role of Steelkilt. Charlie Cox (Stardust, and Raoul Trujillo (In Plain Sight, The Unit) are set as well.

In a wiki site for entertainment figures, Anderson's X-Files character Dana Scully is said to have been Moby Dick by her father when she was a girl. They gave each other nicknames from the book. She called her father Ahab and he called her Starbuck.

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Hollywood Reporter
September 10, 2009

Based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel, the miniseries is being produced by Herbert Kloiber's Tele Munchen and is being called the most expensive project in the German company's 40-year history. The budget is clocking at $25 million.

Germany's RTL, Austria's ORF and Robert Halmi's RHI Entertainment have boarded as partners on the project. Further foreign sales of the mini should take place in Cannes during the upcoming Mipcom TV trade show. There is no U.S. deal in place.

Shooting begins in Lunenburg on the east coast of Canada in mid September and continues thereafter in Malta.

The project envisions CGI animation as well as action scenes on the high seas.

The mini will wrap in fall 2010.

"Moby Dick" is produced by Rikolt von Gagern, whose company Gate Film recently produced for Tele Munchen Jack London's "Sea Wolf" with Sebastian Koch, Tim Roth and Neve Campbell.

Also back on board for the screen adaptation of the Melville classic is "Sea Wolf" director Mike Barker and script writer Nigel Williams, who penned the TV series "Elizabeth I."

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Gillian Anderson from "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" beat out Cate Blanchett from "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" for Best Actress/Movie.

BEST ACTRESS/Movie
WINNER: Gillian Anderson, "The X-Files: I Want to Believe"
RUNNER-UP: Cate Blanchett, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

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'A Doll’s House’ at the Donmar Warehouse

Ibsen purists beware: This new revision of the Norwegian classic, by British playwright Zinnie Harris, transforms the domestic melodrama from 19th-centuryNorway to early-20th-century England, where Nora’s husband has been transformed from a banker to a member of the Cabinet. Some local critics have quibbled, but I found the changes clever and resonant: That little "mouse" Nora (Gillian Anderson) — whose desperate attempts to sustain her family after her husband (Toby Stephens) takes ill forces her to take a loan from a unscrupulous man (Christopher Eccleston, of 28 Days Later fame) — here emerges as someone akin to Hillary Clinton, the politician’s wife so accustomed to spinning the truth that she doesn’t realize when the world is collapsing all around her.

But even if you don’t love the changes wrought to the text, it’s hard not to be awed by Anderson, a vastly underrated actress who never got to show what she could do on the long-running The X-Files. She conveys Nora’s steady transformation from delicate flower to slick operator to liberated woman with extraordinary tenderness. And if you’ve never been to the Donmar Warehouse, all the more reason to check out this production: This 250-seat theater, with its modest stage so close that you can reach out and touch the players, makes you feel as if you’re watching classic theater unfold in your living room. Through July 18.

For more information: donmarwarehouse.com

Star-Telegram

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The Stars Are Aligned, and They’re Playing It Big

Gillian Anderson, who made her name as the skeptical and attack-ready Agent Scully in “The X-Files” on television, is now melting hearts as the docile, too-credulous heroine in Ibsen’s “Doll’s House” at the Donmar Warehouse.


Zinnie Harris’s new adaptation of “A Doll’s House” transplants its characters to Edwardian London from Norway and makes the heroine’s husband (Toby Stephens) a cabinet minister instead of a banker. These alterations, aside from summoning contemporary parallels to scandals in British politics, emphasize the melodrama in Ibsen’s story, which is like underlining italics. But Ms. Anderson, who proved herself at ease with an English accent and period costumes in the BBC production of “Bleak House,” cannily hints at the disturbed ripples of doubt beneath a socially imposed facade, and until the play’s final scene (when she becomes so glacially authoritative you get frostbite) she is genuinely moving.

NEW YORK TIMES

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David Duchovny is to renew his wedding vows with wife Tea Leoni.

The couple split last year when The X Files actor was treated for sex addiction, but according to the Daily Express, he is planning a second wedding in November.

A source told the newspaper: "They've been married for 12 years and like most of us have had their ups and downs."

The source added: "But they really want to put the past behind them and renew their vows. They want to draw a line under things and make a fresh start.

"They went through a tough time but have reignited that spark.

"David realises how close he came to losing it all so he especially wants to have their family and closest friends on hand to witness his second chance at happiness."

The couple have two children, Madeline, 10, and Kyd, six.

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*NOTE: False - Gillian has NO plans to appear in Dr. Who.

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Forget the 'X-Files': Gillian Anderson, one-time ‘world’s sexiest woman’, is about to tackle Ibsen in a new West End production of 'A Doll's House'

The first surprise is Gillian Anderson’s accent. I have heard about how she can slip from English to American as effortlessly as silk runs through fingers. Indeed, by way of research, I have watched her being interviewed by Jay Leno (for whom she adopted an American accent) and Michael Parkinson (an English one). I even know how and why she does this – she lived here until she was 11, moved there until she was 35, then, five years ago, came back to live here. Still, nothing quite prepares you for sitting opposite FBI Special Agent Scully and hearing the head girl of Cheltenham Ladies’ College.




The second surprise is how insouciant and unguarded she is. She has a light and breathy laugh, more a catch in her voice, and a friendly and confiding manner, again in contrast to the humourless and sceptical Scully. This guilelessness is also unexpected because her relationship with the press has not always been cordial – the paparazzi in LA used to ram into her car deliberately so as she would have to get out and exchange insurance details. Yet here she is sitting in a London bar at eight o’clock at night telling me about where her 14-year-old daughter goes to school, how she has been enjoying taking the bus to rehearsals for her new play and, well, how she had to cajole her partner into having sex with her. No, really.



Also, I ought to describe her. She is much shorter than you imagine, 5ft 3in, and yet not short looking – in proportion, I mean. She has slightly sad, downturned eyes, a mole above her puffy top lip (one that they used to cover up on The X-Files) and a tattoo on the inner part of her wrist, Asian lettering that is something to do with yoga. With her long, blonde hair tumbling down against her black top (she is also wearing a black skirt and black calf-length boots which she tucks under herself as she sits) she looks immaculate – half a pint of velvety Guinness.

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In the category “Best Female Performance in a 2008 Science Fiction Film, TV-Movie, or Mini-Series”, the nominees are:
• Amanda Tapping, for “Stargate: Continuum”
• Claudia Black, also for “Stargate: Continuum”
• Gillian Anderson, for “The X-Files: I Want To Believe”
• Gwyneth Paltrow, for “Iron Man”
• Lina Leandersson, for “Let The Right One In”
• Rachel Bilson, for “Jumper”
• and Selma Blair, for “Hellboy 2: The Golden Army”

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We are going to post this blog incomplete, we don't have time to explain everything so we will do it later. But we needed to get these pictures posted before we move on. We were eating dinner at Basil's Bar in Mustique and who was stiiting next to us? David Duchovny and Tia Leoni (notice the tatooed rings on their hands...we think they are newly back together.) We literally danced two feet from them and stood behind them in the buffet dinner! This picture was taken without their knowing it, thanks to Keenan taking pictures of Keith and I (and Joan and Peter)dancing. We hurried to put this on for you and will finish our blogging later.

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Stephens and Ecclestone join Anderson in A Doll’s House

Published Friday 27 March 2009 at 11:46 by Matthew Hemley

Toby Stephens, Tara Fitzgerald and Christopher Eccleston are to join Gillian Anderson in the Donmar Warehouse’s forthcoming production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.

As revealed last year, Anderson, best known for playing Scully in TV’s The X Files, will take the role of Nora in the production, which is a new version of the play by Zinnie Harris.

Stephens will play Thomas, while Fitzgerald will take the part of Christine Lyle and Eccleston will play Neil Kelman.

Other cast members include Anton Lesser as Dr Rank and Maggie Wells as Annie.

The production is being directed by Kfir Yefet and designed by Anthony Ward.

It will run from May 14 to July 18.

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[...]Del 14 marzo è invece una lettera aperta firmata da Desmond Tutu (arcivescovo anglicano sudafricano) per denunciare il deterioramento della situazione dei diritti umani in Tibet, in difesa del Dalai Lama continuamente «nominato, accusato ed abusato verbalmente» dal regime. Il destinatario della missiva sarà il presidente cinese Hu Jintao, e tra i numerosi mittenti ci saranno personaggi del calibro di Elie Wiesel, John Hume, David Trimble, Jody Williams, F.W. de Klerk, Mairead Maguire, Betty Williams e Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Nobel per la Pace) e uomini di spettacolo come Harrison Ford, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashley Judd, Gillian Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Richard Gere, Graham Nash, Maria Bell, Melissa Mathieson, Mia Farrow, ecc. Una mobilitazione in grande stile che non potrà molto contro la retorica di un totalitarismo, ma che rivela anche agli occhi a mandorla del governo una qualche necessità di modificare l'atteggiamento tenuto dalla propaganda. [...]

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X-fileS voglio crederci
Thriller di culto
Torna la coppia di agenti dell’Fbi che indagano nella sfera del paranormale. Una serie di delitti e una caccia senza tregua all’assassino, nel film scritto e diretto da Chris Carter, il regista della celebre serie televisiva.

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LONDON - MARCH 08:  Gillian Anderson attends the cocktail reception ahead of The Laurence Olivier Awards, at The Grosvenor House Hotel on March 8, 2009 in London, England.

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London, Mar 6 (ANI): Dame Judi Dench and Dame Helen Mirren have been ranked among the 20 most powerful women in British theatre.

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The veteran actresses are among a clutch of stars including Rachel Weisz and Rosamund Pike to appear in the list compiled by Harper’’s Bazaar and the jeweller Tiffany & Co.

American actress Gillian Anderson, who has been described as an ”honorary Brit”, also made it to the list.

Ranked in no particular order, the list includes playwrights, theatre impresarios and stars of the stage.

“The 20 women on our list represent the diversity and brilliance found in this creative industry,” the Telegraph quoted Lucy Yeomans, editor of Harper’’s Bazaar, as saying

“As well as including actresses, our list also takes account of the incredible powerhouses who make the productions happen,” Yeomans added.

Here is the full Harper’’s Bazaar and Tiffany Women In Theatre Power List 2009:
* The New Voice - Bola Agbaje - playwright (27)
* The Honorary Brit - Gillian Anderson - actor (40)
* The Visionary - Miriam Buether - set and costume designer (39)
* The Radical - Caryl Churchill - playwright (70)
* The Illuminator - Paule Constable - lighting designer (42)
* The Queen Bee - Dame Judi Dench - actor (74)
* The New Leading Lady - Michelle Dockery - actor (27)
* The Mover - Maxine Doyle - choreographer and associate director, Punchdrunk (38)
* The Super-Producer - Sonia Friedman - producer (43)
* The Powerhouse - Sally Greene - impresario and producer (52)
* The Transformer - Kathryn Hunter - actor and director (52)
* The Casting Vote - Lisa Makin - casting agent and producer (43)
* The Eternal Siren - Dame Helen Mirren - actor (63)
* The Innovator - Katie Mitchell - director (44)
* The Beauty-And-Brains - Rosamund Pike - actor (30)
* The Breath Of Fresh Air - Emma Rice - artistic director, Kneehigh Theatre (41)
* The Double Threat - Fiona Shaw - actor and director (50)
* The Wunderkind - Polly Stenham - playwright (22)
* The Songbird - Summer Strallen - musical theatre actor (24)
* The Star Turn - Rachel Weisz - actor (38) (ANI)

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Dames Judi Dench and Helen Mirren have been named on a list of the UK's 20 most powerful women in theatre. Hollywood stars Gillian Anderson and Rachel Weisz also appear in the list complied by magazine Harper's Bazaar. It celebrates the playwrights, leading impresarios and rising stars of the British stage.

Harper's Bazaar editor Lucy Yeomans said: "The 20 women on our list represent the diversity and brilliance found in this creative industry."

She added that it was an especially strong year for women in theatre. "As well as including actresses, our list also takes account of the incredible powerhouses who make the productions happen," she said. "Sonia Friedman's staggering drive has helped make Boeing Boeing a success on Broadway and in London and Sally Greene's Billy Elliot is a phenomenal worldwide hit."

Also on list is playwright Bola Agbaje, 27, whose debut play Gone Too Far! won an Olivier Award, set and costume designer Miriam Buether, 39, and casting agent Lisa Makin, 43.

X Files and Bleak House actress Anderson, who is to appear in a production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Donmar Warehouse in London, was billed as the "honorary Brit" on the list. She said: "I have wanted to work on the British stage for most of my life. The opportunity to turn that lingering dream into a reality is the greatest reward. The challenge is to chase that opportunity, despite an equally passionate fear."

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This year’s star-studded Oliviers ceremony is hosted by James Nesbitt and at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane, with nominees, guest presenters and other VIPs confirmed to attend including: Lindsay Duncan, Penelope Wilton, Michael Gambon, Patrick Stewart, Derek Jacobi, Deanna Dunagan, David Bradley, Elena Roger, Ruthie Henshall, Denis Lawson, Douglas Hodge, Margaret Tyzack, Michael Grandage, Michael Boyd, Sonia Friedman, Sadie Frost, Imelda Staunton, Ian Lavender, Andrea Corr, Dominic Cooper, Sheridan Smith, David Hare, Pete Postlethwaite, Jason Donovan, Tom Chambers, Gareth Gates, Anton du Beke, Kevin Spacey, Jodie Prenger, Sian Phillips, Gillian Anderson, Rosalind Plowright, David MorrisseyLiza Goddard.

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EPISODIC DRAMA – any length – one airing time  

“Pilot” (Breaking Bad), Written by Vince Gilligan; AMC

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KIM'S MEMORIAL


Despite a forecast of rain, this was the view as hundreds of Kim's friends and family gathered to remember him in Ranchos Palos Verdes, California, on Saturday.
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Message from Gillian
Posted at 11:10 AM (PST) on Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Okay, so I know it's been a long time. Maybe the longest. And I have no excuses. Other than I have to be in the right frame of mind and somehow that frame has not found me until now. You know part of it is that if I am not careful I can get too comfortable and say too much and part of it is that sometimes around the time of giving birth all one's creative juices seem to be bubbling in one direction and it ain’t the head.

So I am in London and both kids were asleep and now, of course they are awake. Just at the moment my fingers start a typin. But, I have help. You know, one of the things I am the most amazed at in life is women who raise children without help. Yes some people are more built for it than others, higher levels of the patience hormone, but hell it is HARD! And how the hell do you clean the house and make the dinner and do the shopping? I know I am sounding like a complete idiot here but I’m telling you, every last one of you from the beginning of time should be given a medal, and free health insurance, and food coupons, and a government subsidized housekeeper that comes in one day a week per child. I don’t know, clearly I am rambling.

So we went to Brazil for Christmas. Well after Christmas, and had an extremely relaxing time - mostly for the fact that there is no body selfconsciousness in Brazil no matter how many bumps, rolls, extra chins one has, in Brazil it all hangs out, no judgment. Not even a sideways glance, and everyone is as friendly as a neighbor. A friendly neighbor. And the landscape is exquisite and the food is divine and well, I can’t wait to explore it more.

Now, on more serious notes. I have a son, a second one and his name is Felix and he looks more like Winston Churchill than any baby ever has or indeed than Winston Churchill himself or as Connie says, he looks like the future leader of the free world. Move over Obama. No, I’m kidding, but he’s lovely.

Back to seriousness, I would like to make a suggestion in regards to donations etc etc etc. The suggestion is that, as you may or may not know, I have five or more charities in Africa that I am involved with and, at any given time, one or the other of them is in greater need. So far, you guys have helped raise oodles of funds for Alinyiikira which is nothing less than extraordinary.

But I have another charity, for instance, which I have helped get off the ground for street kids in South Africa who have made their way into hostels but are about to be turned out on the streets again at 18 without the tools to be able to get a job or be self sufficient. The charity is in its early stages, just having been registered and is in the pilot stage so to speak of gathering information on the ground in order to find the best and most effective way forward. Eventually as the buildings are built or found and the children and young adults settle in, we can provide pictures of the progress so that all who are donating from around the world can see where their donations are being of service.

Anyway, I was wondering how you all felt about creating the Southern Africa Pot so that one group of say, Australians ;) who raise a couple thousand dollars for Alinyiikira, would know that eventually that exact amount would indeed reach that school but it may not be now because say, ANSA or Fezeka needed it more immediately. But also, a group might decide that they wanted to do a fund raiser just for the ‘Pot’ and not get specific about which individual charity it went to. But we would also keep it open so that if someone wanted to specifically donate say a years worth of school tuition for one student, it would go directly for that purpose. Am I making sense?

And have I used the word ‘say’ enough? Or should I say, use it one more time? On the same note though, we are looking for a web designer who would be willing to donate their services to design the website of the NGO (non-governmental organization) I was previously speaking about. If anyone would like to send examples of previous work to my website that would be great. Maybe write OTSK in the subject and I’ll tell you what that means later!!!!!

Okay what next? Starting rehearsals in April for Doll's House. Getting excited. Not scared yet. Things seem to be moving forward with Gellhorn but I am highly superstitious and will say less than nothing until its more than something. Books? Making my way through about six. I’m really bad. That’s the last thing I allow myself to do. I took at least six books with me to Brazil but ended up making playlists for my iPod for the first time!!!!! How lame is that? Lamest that I had never done it before and had to do it when I should have been reading. Oh the piles of things I drag from one side of my life to the other.

A bit of a non sequitur but actually relevant because I would like to end by expressing my huge huge sadness over the death of Kim Manners who passed away on Sunday. He was just about to retire. Had been talking about it since the series ended. Let that be a solemn lesson for us all. Make the very most out of this moment now, it’s all we’ve got. I need to learn it more than anybody. Busy busy busy.

Thank you for listening.

Gillian

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Kim had a blazing intensity that inspired everyone -- writers, producers, actors and crew. "Kick it in the ass!" he'd say to us. And "I love you," really meaning it. As long as he'd been a director, he never lost his passion for his work. Every time he got a script, he gave it his all. He was driven to execute what he saw in his mind's eye in the most powerful and beautiful way he could. On "The X-Files," the friendly sparring between Kim and Rob Bowman to see who could out-direct the other was a beautiful competition between two fiercely talented friends. Kim was an incredible force of life. It is hard for me to believe or accept that he is gone.

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"Everyone at Supernatural is walking around in a daze, shocked and absolutely devastated.  Kim was a brilliant director; more than that, he was a mentor and friend.  He was one of the patriarchs of the family, and we miss him desperately.  He gave so much to Supernatural, and everything we do on the show, now and forever, is in memory of him."

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Making of di X-files il film
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* Scene tagliate mai viste al cinema
* Commento audio del regista Chris Carter per tutta la durata del film
* Featurette: X-Files resterà un segreto?
* Chris Carter e l'approccio ecologico
* Effetti speciali di trucco
* Sequenza di gag
* Galleria fotografica
* Storyboard e concept art
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* Film in versione estesa
* Commento audio di Rob Bowman, Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz e Daniel Sackheim per tutta la durata del film
* Commento picture in picture
* Dietro le quinte di... X-Files: Voglio crederci
* Scene alternative
* Storyboard e concept art
* Sequenza di gag
* Making of... X-Files: Il film
* Musiche
* Effetti speciali
* Trailer cinematografico originale
* Galleria fotografica

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Berlino: the Simon Pegg starrer "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" took home the trophy for best international comedy at the 2008 German Comedy Awards.

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David Duchovny plans to sue Britain’s Daily Mail for claiming he cheated on wife Tea Leoni with 28-year-old tennis instructor Edit Pakay. The Mail alleged that Pakay admitted that, for the past six months, she had a “relationship” with the actor, who has gone through rehab for sex addiction. But Duchovny’s lawyer, Larry Stein, tells us Pakay yesterday swore in an affidavitthat she hasn’t seen the “Californication” star since last November and “never had a romantic or sexual relationship [with him].”

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X-Files star Gillian Anderson and boyfriend Mark Griffiths are parents of a baby boy, the actress's rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.

Felix Griffiths, weighing 6 lbs., 15 oz., was born Oct. 15 in London, says rep Kelly Bush.

Felix is the second child for Anderson, 40, with Griffiths, joining their 1-year-old son Oscar. Anderson also has a 13-year-old daughter, Piper, from a previous marriage.

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David Duchovny, who checked out of a rehabilitation center for sex addiction earlier this month, has been separated from wife Tea Leoni for several months, People reported.

"In light of continuous speculation over the lives and marriage of Tea Leoni and David Duchovny, the couple has confirmed that they have in fact been separated for several months," the statement, released by their reps, says. "The couple had hoped to keep this separation private for the sake of their children."

Duchonvny and Leoni have two children — daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd, 6 . The couple married in 1997.

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Duchovny, 48, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime's "Californication," has said he entered rehab voluntarily.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Pictures of Richard and Judy and Cheryl Cole were among the data sent into space today.

A competition in conjunction with social networking site Bebo found 501 messages to send, via a high-powered radio wave, to the planet Gliese 581c.

The messages were included in the digital time capsule called A Message From Earth. The capsule travelled at light speed, passing Mars in four minutes and leaving our own solar system within 20 hours.

It will reach its destination in the spring of 2029.

The missive includes images of landmarks such as the London Eye and Edinburgh Castle, along with pictures of famous faces including Hillary Clinton and TV duo Richard and Judy.

Sir Patrick Moore, Dragons' Den's Deborah Meaden and pop band McFly are among the celebrities involved with the project.

While X-Files star Gillian Anderson sent pictures of George W Bush and Barack Obama side by side to represent good and evil, pop act McFly took the chance to praise Cheryl Cole's "perfect body".

Other messages from Bebo users tackled the meaning of life and world peace.

The target planet was discovered last year, and is the right distance from its parent star to potentially have water on its surface.

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On the fashion front line it has broken friendships and strained business loyalties. No issue divides models, designers and the celebrities who wear their clothes quite like fur.

Now, just weeks from giving birth to her third baby, X Files star and animal rights campaigner Gillian Anderson has upped the tempo by agreeing to spearhead a campaign against Italian genius Giorgio Armani.

She claims he has gone back on his word and incorporated rabbit and fox fur into his latest creations. Significantly, she has timed her attack to coincide with Milan Fashion Week.

Last year in Paris, Armani announced he would no longer use real fur after viewing a disturbing video made by Peta - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - whose high-profile supporters include Stella McCartney and Ricky Gervais.

Campaigners say Armani has abandoned his pledge because his ready-to-wear collection this season includes outfits featuring both rabbit and fox fur. What particularly upset Gillian is a new line of fur coats for toddlers and even a fur snow suit for babies.

This week, Gillian met Peta vice-president Dan Mathews in Soho, a day after he flew back from Milan having visited Armani executives. Over lemonade and apple crumble at the Groucho Club, she agreed to narrate a video of undercover footage taken inside rabbit fur farms.

She said she would have to make the film this week "because I'm virtually ready to pop".

The London-based actress tells me: "I am stunned that Armani has gone back on his word. I can't understand why anyone would want to use real fur, and especially rabbit because it is so easy to replicate as the pile is so short."

Says Mathews: "Gillian will be narrating our new video which shows our investigations in France and China from where we believe Armani gets his rabbit fur."

A spokesman for Armani insists they were honouring their commitment to Peta to refrain from future use of any animal furs other than humanely sourced rabbit fur, adding: "As a luxury fashion house which has always been attentive to this issue, we feel we are being unfairly targeted in comparison to our competitors."

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Incasso Totale*: € 1.156.000
*Ultima rilevazione: domenica 14 settembre 2008

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The release of Boogie Woogie has been pushed back to early 2009.

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As for what you can do, you have already been doing it -- seeing the movie, writing the studio, supporting the DVD release. Time will tell if that's enough to support a third film.

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Leoni Cancels Toronto Film Festival Appearances
August 30 2008
TEA LEONI has cancelled all her commitments at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival so she can support her husband DAVID DUCHOVNY as he battles sex addiction. The actor checked himself into rehab on Thursday (28Aug08) after struggling to control his sexual urges. There's no suggestion he has cheated on his wife of 11 years. And Leoni is supporting her husband by scaling down all of her planned promotional activity, including scrapping her appearance at next month's (Sep08) event in Canada.

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By Francesca Martin
The Guardian, UK

The contemporary art world had better brace itself - it's set to be lampooned this autumn in Boogie Woogie, a new film featuring a top-notch cast. Directed by the documentary maker Duncan Ward (husband to art curator Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst), the film takes a wry look at the machinations of a London-based art dealer and his cohorts, and looks certain to raise eyebrows in Cork Street and beyond.

Danny Huston, star of 30 Days of Night and The Kingdom, is Art Spindle, an art dealer who covets Piet Mondrian's abstract expressionist painting Broadway Boogie Woogie - owned in the film by the collector Alfred Rhinegold, played by Christopher Lee. Problems ensue when Rhinegold, who bought the painting from Mondrian himself, refuses to sell it. Other famous faces include Joanna Lumley, Charlotte Rampling, Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming, Heather Graham, Simon McBurney and Jaime Winstone.

Due to be released in November*, Boogie Woogie is based on the novel of the same name by Danny Moynihan, the writer, curator and friend of the artist Damien Hirst, who himself created a limited-edition cover for the book, featuring works by Sarah Lucas, Marc Quinn and Jeff Koons. Moynihan has written the screenplay and is also a producer on the film. Such are Moynihan's contemporary art connections that when the book was published in 2000, even the elusive dealer Charles Saatchi contributed a jacket comment, saying: "No sleep for you the night you open it!"

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hollywoodreporter.com - "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," raised its overseas cume to $39.6 million thanks to a $1.2 million weekend from 2,000 screens in 46 markets.

Total US Gross $20,707,728
International Gross $39,600,000
Worldwide Gross $60.307.728

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• Intervista a David Duchovny
  
  
  
• Aggiornamento sul box office:
  
  Total US Gross $20,524,796
  International Gross $32,600,000
  Worldwide Gross $53,124,796