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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 22, 2004 18:46:59 GMT -5
Moderator's note: As I'm far too lazy to transfer all of these posts, I'm just gonna make this thread the start of a new category.
If it's about any of the people currently or formerly involved with the Jossverse, be it actors, writers, or directors, this is the place for it.www.spoilerslayer.com/archives/002821.phpSome very interesting stuff here, not ABSOLUTELY spoilery but since it is a link to a spoiler site I must, perforce, post it here. David Fury says Spike is Angel's superior, and had to write the end of " Destiny" because Steven DeKnight wanted Angel to win the fight (I might just find myself liking the guy after all)! Julia, link magpie at work again
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Post by Dev(Rob) on Feb 22, 2004 21:32:04 GMT -5
Interesting... can't believe Joss isn't doing the final episode
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Post by LadyDi on Feb 22, 2004 22:04:43 GMT -5
www.spoilerslayer.com/archives/002821.phpSome very interesting stuff here, not ABSOLUTELY spoilery but since it is a link to a spoiler site I must, perforce, post it here. David Fury says Spike is Angel's superior, and had to write the end of " Destiny" because Steven DeKnight wanted Angel to win the fight (I might just find myself liking the guy after all)! Julia, link magpie at work again makd sent me this link directly, and I laughed until I was gasping after reading Fury's comments - as for Spike being "morally superior" to Angel: [glow=red,2,300]DUH![/glow] Still, it's nice to get the validation.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 22, 2004 22:17:15 GMT -5
makd sent me this link directly, and I laughed until I was gasping after reading Fury's comments - as for Spike being "morally superior" to Angel: [glow=red,2,300]DUH![/glow] Still, it's nice to get the validation. Yeah, especially after some of the stuff he's said in the past, including intimations that Spike was still... not unevil... after he was reensouled. Julia, wondering about the puppet hole inhis back, a little
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Post by RAKSHA on Feb 23, 2004 4:04:38 GMT -5
Interesting... can't believe Joss isn't doing the final episode I'm very disappointed that JW isn't doing the series finale too. I think he owes the fans that much.
::)GAIL
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Post by RAKSHA on Feb 23, 2004 4:12:13 GMT -5
www.spoilerslayer.com/archives/002821.phpSome very interesting stuff here, not ABSOLUTELY spoilery but since it is a link to a spoiler site I must, perforce, post it here. David Fury says Spike is Angel's superior, and had to write the end of " Destiny" because Steven DeKnight wanted Angel to win the fight (I might just find myself liking the guy after all)! Julia, link magpie at work again According to this, Bell is writing the finale. He wrote THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF NUMERO CINCO. Since that was a very good but not great episode, I'm not jumping up and down with excitement over the end of ANGEL...Sigh. Perhaps JW is just giving up...
GAIL
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 23, 2004 10:45:44 GMT -5
According to this, Bell is writing the finale. He wrote THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF NUMERO CINCO. Since that was a very good but not great episode, I'm not jumping up and down with excitement over the end of ANGEL...Sigh. Perhaps JW is just giving up...
GAIL I dunno, I think Fury's description of the writing process for " Destiny" indicates he's very involved in the show, whether he's actually writing an episode or not. I'm willing to bet that he has some pretty strict limits on what is going to happen and how. What worries me a bit is rumors I've read on a couple of Farscape sites that the Firefly movie may start production in early May, which would put JW in a very busy kind of place when 5.22 is being polished and shot. Julia, these rumors have not been definitive enough for me to bring them here in any organized fashion
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Post by Cal on Feb 23, 2004 17:46:22 GMT -5
Some more comments from David Fury at this event are on Sci-Fi.com. The link is: www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-02/23/12.30.tvNot very encouraging, but they are only David Fury's opinion. At least he does confirm that talks are going ahead with UPN. Not particularly spoilery, but some comments are made about the SMG/Buffy situation. Cal
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Post by Sara on Mar 27, 2005 16:55:17 GMT -5
Posted by Betsy:
David Boreanaz, the star of Angel recently visited the UK for the David Boreanaz European Event.
Here are some of the highlights from the question and answer session. Beware of spoilers for seasons four and five of Angel!
How will Cordelia's coma be dealt with?
I do know that at the beginning of this next season we address that issue. And [at] the fact that she's in a coma, we find that he's pretty disturbed, but at the same time moving on, and taking control of these [Wolfram and Hart] offices.
He doesn't really understand why he's all of a sudden got control of the kingdom, so there's something that's happening that's really going to be messed up. There's a lot of forces that are happening behind the back. It's just too good to be true.
I do think that the subtext of that will bother him all through the season. Same with his son Connor, he doesn't know what's happening there. No one has any memory about it. I know they're playing with an episode where he comes back, and he doesn't know who I am, which should be interesting.
How will Angel manage without Cordelia?
I have to say it will be very difficult, as far as the character is concerned. [It was] more of an attachment than love, I think. Somebody who [he] could identify with as a warrior, somebody who was very characterful and strong, confident.
Not as truly deep, I think, as love, but Cordelia, for Angel, was a pivotal part of his understanding of having a son, understanding who he is and his place in the world.
That relationship did kick off, but I think there's a misunderstanding between the two of them that's not been resolved. Where else it's going to go I don't know, she's in a coma. Joss Whedon, ha ha ha.
She'll be back.
How did they film the Angel/Angelus fight in Orpheus?
That was a probably one of my top five episodes, that one.
The filming was all split. They were using a double, but I did all of my dialogue back and forth to the double, with myself.
[To do] all of the angles it went through, I had to time out. The camera [would] move, I'd watch the movement of myself while doing it, and get that down, [so that] actually playing the other, Angelus part, [I'd] understand his movements.
There was a technical challenge to that aspect of it. It took a while. It was a hard episode to shoot.
If you could do an Angel film, what would it be like? Shooting a film version of Angel would be pretty amazing, the stuff you could do.
What I would like to see, actually, would be to do for Joss to do some sort of Angel/Buffy character thing. It would be interesting to see those characters somehow end up [together]. It would be tough to do, because his character didn't find Buffy until later on.
I would love to shoot it really deep. I'd love to go all over Europe. I think that would be great, with a great storyline. Talking about cast, well, I would leave that up to the casting director. [Laughs]
How did you get the job on Buffy?
I was out walking my dog one day, and my manager, Tom, spotted me. We were talking, I was looking for a manager, and before I knew it I was going in to see Marcia Schulman over at Twentieth Century Fox and [being given] a breakdown for this character.
It was only a set amount, twelve episodes sort of deal. They said [he was] something like a prize fighter, Joe Louis, get knocked down but keep getting back up [type of character], and I thought that was the coolest thing.
I talked to Marcia, and the whole conversation at our first meeting was about restaurants in New York city. We didn't talk about the character at all. We talked about pizza, zabaglione and pastas, New York.
Then I came back and read for David Greenwalt, Joss, Gail Berman and all the studio heads. It worked out fine.
It was a very bang-up, nerve-wracking audition for me. Because it was very early on, it's a very terrifying experience. I walked out saying, "I almost lost it." I didn't think I was going to get this part, and I could feel my body tensing up inside. You go through that and I was able to get it, and just to walk out on the first night of shooting was great.
What posters did you have on your wall as a kid?
Posters I had on my wall as a child? I had a Farah Fawcett poster. Classic seventies, on the Mexican rug in a bathing suit. That was great.
Let's see. Dorothy Hamil, the ice skater, [in her] short hair era. Starsky and Hutch, Planet of the Apes, I used to love that. The Six Million Dollar Man.
What was your most emotional episode to film?
(Finding out that it's the questioner's sixteenth birthday, David invites her to sit next to him on stage. Now that's a birthday surprise and a half.
My most emotional episode? There's two. I really enjoyed working with Vincent, Connor. I really think he's a great actor. So the one where he was in a sporting goods store and he was strapped [to explosives], that was really heavy for me.
Also where he was disrespecting me as a father, and we did this huge 360 degree [pan] which was really cool.
What are you really drinking in the blood-drinking scenes?
Actually, it's a cup. They created a cup, it's like a spill cup, so it looks like there's stuff inside, but actually not really. So it's actually air. Tastes good.
They do have a thick syrup they use sometimes, for blood scenes.
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Post by Sara on Mar 27, 2005 16:57:06 GMT -5
Reply by Sandy-lparishPosted by Betsy:David Boreanaz, the star of Angel recently visited the UK for the David Boreanaz European Event. Here are some of the highlights from the question and answer session. Beware of spoilers for seasons four and five of Angel! <snip> I read either another interview or it may have been included in this one, I don't know, but it was at this same event...DB was asked about SMG and their kissing scenes. DB stated they were on the up and up (vaguely) and no tongues were involved. ok. I've thought about this for several days now and I want you to go look at S2, "I Only Have Eyes for You". The scene where DB and SMG are standing in the bandroom, under the etherial light where the two ghosts find resolution...that kiss...it looked pretty juicy to me. No tongues...huh?... ...ok...I can't help but smile as I write this... ;D
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Post by Sara on Mar 27, 2005 16:58:19 GMT -5
Posted by Betsy:
There Must be an Angel playing with Wolfram & Hart - Dreamwatch #110 November 2003 words by Ian Spelling – Transcribed by SETJE
Angel has been revamped in more ways than one for its fifth season, which sees the titular heroic vampire becoming head of the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart and sharing the limelight with another Buffy alumnus, Spike. Star, David Boreanaz, offers dreamwatch a preview of Angel's latest adventures.
What can viewers expect from Season five of Angel?
There are a lot of changes, internally and structurally. As far as character dynamics are concerned, things will change to a certain extent because we've lost two characters and got a couple of new ones. Cordelia [Charisma Carpenter] and Connor [Vincent Kartheiser] are gone. Those characters' storylines ran out, according to Joss [Whedon, series creator/executive producer]. We've now got Angel in charge of Wolfram & Hart offices in Los Angeles. He's been handed the keys, so to speak, to the paradise and he's a bit leery about that. He doesn't understand why that's happening and why everybody is on board for it so quickly. So he's fighting within himself and questioning a lot of the things that are happening around him.
The first episode of season five [Conviction] takes off from the last episode of season four [Home]. Joss directed the season opener and we'll meet some new characters. Sarah Thompson is playing a character named Eve, a new girl at Wolfram & Hart, who is the conduit between the senior partners and the group. She tells us what we need to do. Mercedes McNab is back as Harmony. She'll be playing a pivotal role, kind of working for Angel. And then we have Spike [James Marsters], of course, which is huge. We'll see Angel and Spike annoy each other. You'll see the two of them battle a little bit. "Why are you back? What are you doing here?" It'll be a lot of that kind of stuff.
Is the tone of the series going to be different this year?
I think it will be a little lighter, but not extremely different. I'm sure there will be some lighter moments, especially as far as stand-alone episodes are concerned. We won't be going into as much heavy, dark stuff as we did in season four. Season five will have a bright tone to it, and that goes for the look of the show too. We'll still be fighting downtown and a lot of the show will still take place at night, but it will be a little lighter because we'll be able to be at Wolfram & Hart during the daytime. I won't burn up because of the Necrotempered glass. So that enables us to lighten the show up a little bit.
Story-wise, we'll probably take on more clients' jobs on a stand-alone basis, rather than follow huge arcs. But we will have smaller arcs, like conflicts between Angel and Spike and the possibility of having Buffy come over for a couple of episodes.
What will Angel's relationship with Spike be in the new season? Are they allies? Reluctant allies? Or are they enemies?
Well, at first they're going to be questioning things. Angel will be saying things like, "Why are you here? I thought you'd died. You are annoying to me." Angel can't stand being around Spike, and there are a lot of reasons for that. They have some history, obviously. All of those things will unfold. Spike will be pretty much stuck in the spiritual world for a while. So a lot ot it is going to be funny. There's a lot of humour to it.
What was it like for you to go back to appear in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer series finale?
It was fun. It was a reunion of sorts between Sarah and I and some of the cast people that were still there and the crew members. It was stepping back into those shoes and seeing those two characters together again, which I'm sure the fans will really like. It's good to give them that which they've been asking for quite some time now. We had a good time. It was pretty painless.
How are you and James getting along?
Fine. There have been no problems whatsoever. It's good to have James back. I really enjoyed being around him during the time I was on Buffy, doing the show with James and spending time with him. So for me, this is a blast. He's always been very well prepared. He knows his material. He knows his character. I can't say enough about him. He's been great.
From the sound of it, it would seem that Eve is essentially replacing Lilah (Stephanie Romanov) and that Harmony is replacing Cordelia. Is that fair?
Well, that's not altogether correct. They're similar in nature, but also quite different.
Cordelia's character took off in a direction that was different from what anyone probably expected. Things got very dark with the love interest story between Angel and Cordelia and with the whole Cordelia-Connor storyline. Harmony will be a little bit more like Cordelia was at the beginning of Buffy than Cordelia on Angel. Harmony is there to spice things up a little. I think there's a bit more of an edge to Harmony as far as the type of character she is compared to Cordelia. Harmony is a vampire.
As for Eve, I think she's very different from Lilah. Lilah was harsher, more abrasive.
But you can definitely draw similarities between Cordelia and Harmony, and Lilah and Eve. The most important thing is that all four characters will and have brought such great things to the show.
You're going to make your directorial debut with an upcoming fifth season episode. How eager are you to get going on that?
I was originally going to direct episode seven, but now it's become episode 10. Episodes seven and eight have a big fighting arc between Spike and Angel, which is why they moved my directing a show to episode 10. They wanted me to direct an episode in which I could be a little lighter, and I guess that's episode 10, though I have no idea what the story is yet.
I'm excited. I watch all these directors come in. We work with all different types of directors. I've watched the shots they picked and how they directed. This year, of course, we're on some different sets, and that dictates new camera movements. Because we're in such a large office there's more room to have the cameras move around. So you're going to see more Steadicam shots in the Wolfram & Hart scenes. I'm excited about all of that, and about incorporating what I've learned and what I'd like to try.
As for my vision [of the show], I'm sure that will change depending on the type of script I get and the writer who wrote the script, and of course, on whatever key points Joss feels we need to hit. I'm excited and at the same time very much afraid, which is probably good. I'm just going to let it unfold. Let the nightmare begin. And I know in advance that there's light at the end of the tunnel, because after eight days, we've got to start another episode.
Angel narrowly escaped being cancelled at the end of its fourth season. Were you ready to move on if the show had not been picked up?
I would have been fine. I was focusing on The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which is a prequel to The Crow. I was working on that project. So I just look at it all as the next gig for me.
How was your experience playing one of the villains in the new Crow movie?
It was great. I had a blast working with Dennis Hopper, Tara Reid and Eddie Furlong. They're selling it as The Crow: Wicked Prayer and not The Crow 4, because it's a prequel. I had a great time.
It was a tough shoot. It was just 23 days. It was harder than my show. It was crazy. It was nuts. But I think the experience of having done four seasons of Angel helped me get through it. I wasn't so stressed on Wicked Prayer because I know what it's like to shoot fast.
Do you feel you're risking being typecast by shifting between Angel and The Crow: Wicked Prayer?
Well, they're both dark characters and they're both way out there, but Angel is so diverse and has so many facets to his personality. I look at Angel as a mini-cast of characters, and I'm looking forward to playing all of them in the future on the show. He's dark yet funny. Was there typecasting in the 1970s? Sure. Is there as much typecasting now? No, I don't think so. People from the film world come over and do television. People from the television world come over and do film. Both are pretty common now. And if there is typecasting now, I look forward to the challenge of overcoming it. I don't fear it.
Also, I have to think about filling my hiatus. It's not like, "Oh, I can choose between these different types of roles." I got an offer and had two months to do it, so I did Wicked Prayer. A couple of years ago I did a film called I'm With Lucy. That was a comedy. It was something very different. And I want to do more comedy, more everything. But right now, I don't consider myself pigeonholed.
You also have to realise that Angel has been under the radar. Buffy was a phenomenon, but Angel hasn't been an over-the-top, huge ratings success. It's been consistent, but a lot of people don't know the show or what it's all about. That may help me later on.
Has working on Angel these past four years been everything you hoped it would be?
Well, I didn't go into Angel saying, "I want this to be this or that." But, for me, as far as the work is concerned, it's been a great experience. I so enjoy playing this character because of his dimension and depth.
The show has gone through many changes. It's been pushed around from night to night. It's been frustrating being put on a certain night and then being told you're going to be on another night. But you take it for what it is and you just go with it.
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Post by Sara on Mar 27, 2005 16:59:43 GMT -5
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Post by Sara on Mar 27, 2005 17:00:49 GMT -5
Posted by Betsy:
FURY ROAD Dreamwatch 110 – November 2003
Co-executive producer DAVID FURY takes Dreamwatch behind the scenes of Angel’s fifth season, and reveals what viewers can expect from the heroic vampire’s latest adventures. Words : Tara DiLullo
Transcribed by Setje
“What Angel and Spike essentially represent are Two Sides of the Same Coin. Spike is the Younger Brother to Angel. There is an interesting dynamic of two brothers trying to Live With One Another…”
After helping Buffy the Vampire Slayer claim a place in TV history, co-executive producer David Fury has made himself a permanent home on Angel. Although he acted as a consulting producer and writer on the Buffy spin-off show from its very beginning. Fury now serves as Show-runner Jeffrey Bell’s right-hand man on the series. Despite his many years of service with the Buffy franchise, Fury tells Dreamwatch that he is facing some of the most exciting and creative challenges he’s ever seen during the making of Angel’s fifth season.
Dreamwatch : Has it been difficult establishing Angel’s new approach in season five?
It’s been trickier mostly because of the new Wolfram & Hart environment. To see the show in a corporate environment daily is interesting. The characters are tying to adjust to it as much as we are, so we are using that quite a bit.
The episodes have been much more ‘stand-alone’. While we are trying to do that as best we can, there are elements that are going to arc for the season. We can’t help ourselves. It is so much a part of this universe that we can’t wholly contain information and resolve everything. The first episode that Joss did (Conviction) ends with the return of Spike, so it already plays very much like a two-parter.
As we get deeper into the season, we’ve concocted an arc that we think is worth playing out, although we can do many stand-alones within it. New viewers should be able to catch up pretty quickly. We talked about it with Joss and we just decided that’s what the show is and we can’t be afraid of it. If we haven’t grabbed the viewers within the first five episodes, we probably aren’t getting new viewers anyway and the rest of the audience will hopefully enjoy the arc.
Spike returns as a ghost in Conviction, but will he regain corporeal form as the season develops?
Just for the record, he is not strictly a ghost. He is something ghost-like. He is non-corporeal, but it’s not simply that he died, came back and he is haunting. Somebody has stored his essence, but for all intents and purposes, he is a ghost and he feels himself slipping into Hell. He knows that is where he is going. So, he is like, “Angel get all this and I get to go to Hell!” We address all of that very nicely in episodes three and four.
James Marsters is scheduled to shoot a film in-between working on Angel, so have you figured out how that will influence Spike’s involvement in the storyline?
Spike is going to have to go away (for a while), but we are going to try and keep him alive for those episodes by shooting some second unit footage of him. It will be like when Spike went to Africa (in Buffy’s sixth season) to get his soul back, and that’s all you’ll get to see of him for a couple of episodes. He is kind of out of the story.
I feel that is the only way we are going to be able to do it with our budget and time constraints. But his story and whatever quest he is on will be very important to the arc of the show.
What are the overall themes of the season ?
The theme that I am interested in and that I think we are essentially doing is that this is a show about brothers. You now have tow vampires with souls – heroes on the show.
How do you do that without diminishing Angel by having another one ?
What Angel and Spike essentially represent are two sides of the same coin. Spike is the younger brother to Angel. He is the younger brother who feels the older brother gets everything. “you get the sparkly new offices, the penthouse apartments, the cool cars and get to be the hero. I saved the world and I get nothing. I don’t even get Buffy.”
I think there is an interesting dynamic of two brothers trying to find a way to live with one another and realise what they gain from each another.
Did you take the opportunity to explore the Angel-Spike dynamic with your first script for the season, Just Rewards ?
Yes, episode two is all Spike and Angel. Their chemistry is just great. You watch them and go, “Dear God, this is great. What a cool show!”
There are plans for Sarah Michelle Gellar to appear in Angel this season. Is it difficult to incorporate Buffy characters into the series?
It challenges and hampers us quite a lot in the same way that Charisma Carpenter’s pregnancy hampered us last season, but I think we rose to the challenge by tying it into the arc of the season. In much the same way, if Sarah (Michelle Gellar) does the show we will be able to ply out the romantic triangle – the resentment between Spike and Angel will be a lot more pointed should she be there.
Should she not be there, I think there is still an opportunity to play it out. We just have to find ways to do it where the emotions are running high enough for them to get to the place of going. “You slept with my girlfriend!” But, I think ultimately we should all know that it’s never going to be resolved between them. It will always be an issue. Plus, there re a lot of issues between them besides Buffy.
Are you planning more flashbacks to Angel and Spike’s pasts this season?
We will try. Certainly flashbacks would be the most dramatic way of dramatising their relationship, but if budget constraints say we can’t then they are going to be in a bar drinking and talking about their pasts ! (laughs)
We are spending a lot of time in our new environment, Wolfram & Hart, primarily because we can’t afford to go anywhere else.
We are doing the show for much less money, so we are struggling to tell stories that are much smaller and we are hoping not to undermine the coolness of what Angel is.
Hopefully no one will notice, but we are going back almost to Buffy :Year One in terms of our budget ! There were a lot of cool things done on Buffy : Year One, but it’s very hard when you’ve had a Rain of Fire !(laughs)
Which characters are you most excited about writing for this year?
I have my favourites and they include, always, Spike and Harmony (Mercedes McNab). I usually enjoy writing the characters that get to say the fun stuff, and they are two right off the bat.
Lorne (Andy Hallett) is another and Ben Edlund has written a tremendous episodes five, which features Lorne much like I got to do in the Vegas episode (The House Always Wins) last year.
I love writing for Alexis (Denisof) and again it’s tricky in our new environment to find Wesley. He’s not the lone, scarred, angry guy that he was last year. We know what we are doing with him but we want to at least take him to where he was and find a place to do that. Episode seven, which we are breaking right now with Drew Goddard, will hopefully get him so that place again. He does some cool things in it.
Will you be directing an episode this season like you used to do on Buffy ?
Right now, I will write episode eight and then I will write and direct episode 12 (the show’s 100the episode). I have ideas for 12 but they are contingent on certain cast availability as well as where the characters are going to be at that point, of which we are not 100 per cent sure.
Angel was picked up for a fifth season at the eleventh hour. What effect did the show’s possible cncellation have on the development of season five?
We usually plan ahead a little bit but since Angel was kind of up in the air, we neglected to do that this year. When we got back, we had to scramble to decide what were going to do for the first episodes.
Will season five definitely run for 22 episodes ?
We are promised the 22, but it always contingent upon if it makes business sense for the (the WB). If they choose to pull us before 22 they could, but I don’t believe they will. I think they recognise the quality of our show and that they have a show that is well regarded and respected. They are not going to treat us or Joss badly.
I can say when we end this season, regardless of whether we come back, I would like to think we are going to end it very satisfactorily. It will end in a way I think people will appreciate.
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Post by Sara on Mar 27, 2005 17:01:56 GMT -5
Posted by makd:Follow this link to David Fury's most recent interview: www.tnmc.org/dp/1016031.shtmlHint: Lorne has testosterone! well, lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!
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Post by Sara on Mar 27, 2005 17:03:02 GMT -5
Posted by LeeHollins:
Follow this link to David Fury's most recent interview: www.tnmc.org/dp/1016031.shtmlHint: Lorne has testosterone! well, lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! My favorite line: And have you SEEN Lorne?!... You can't tell me there's testosterone in there.[/color] HA HA HA!!!!
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