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At times we just can't keep up with the oddments that get posted, the newest being an A&E interview that may never make it to their Horatio Hornblower site's front pages and a cute aside from Cherry Jones.

Media:

Play casting director with this online demo, or see how lousy "broadband theater" is with this trailer for The Thirty-Nine Steps. This bunch of Evil (and other) quotes from Time Bandits, posted by a Python fan, can only be played if you open them with Microsoft IE... If your computer can handle Quicktime, test its memory at this production company's trailer page.

Group Activities:

David Warner has never had a fan club (apparently so at his request), but that doesn't stop over-funded database monstrosities like CelebrityEmail from suckering people into thinking they can contact him online... A section of the A&E message boards devoted to their Hornblower series brings in a lot of new fans impressed with his portrayal of Captain Sawyer (one sadly overlooked by the Emmy noms this year). The regulars on the Voy board and in the BeSeen room are always welcoming to new visitors (they don't bite, promise)!

News You Can Use:

Guy's Tron page picked up on the Hollywood Reporter article announcing that Tron 2.0 is not only in the works, it's at 3rd draft stage!

Shakespeare:

Melissa Morgan K.'s Yahoo album includes page by page scans (cover, #1, #2, #3, #4) from a 1965 issue of Theatre World. Louise Hansen's reorganized tribute now boasts a stellar collection of production notes and press notices about some of Warner's most important early stage performances. The newest subsection on Hamlet comes from vintage source material courtesy of a naive E-Bay auctioneer! These sections are of interest to students of theater and history as well as fans.

Newest Finds:

Will Chancellor Gorkon reappear in yet another Star Trek vehicle? Keep watch...
MirrorPix sells 8X10s of stock newspaper photos, just do a name search!
Voice Chasers is a group devoted to performances in "toons" that posts news monthly, with pages on choice individuals of course.
IRA drama Shergar has had its world premiere.
TVNow finally took the hint to post his tv appearances on a monthly basis.

Pictures:

A collection of profiles of British 60s stars fits him in between Peter Ustinov and Carol White on its S-Z page. Sites devoted to individual films and series have tucked Warner away in subdirectories, like a Hamlet page somewhere at MIT. F'rinstance, this on-set pic is at the official Corbin Allred site, and there are a few images in a Total Recall 2070 gallery here and here. Wild Palms frame grabs begin here. One and another group shots from The Choir are both decent. His official Titanic portrait is a fairly grainy pic that's not as bad as this measly bit of business. He was in Privateer 2, a ROM game. A British site on Dedee Pfeiffer has a vidclip online, with a few seconds of Warner as the driver near the end. There's a summary of "Virtual Future" with some unflatteringly compressed photos. A picturebook of stills from the '68 film of A Midsummer Night's Dream was posted by someone who has been methodically collecting one autograph at a time from each of the principals - don't laugh, she's halfway done! Mike Dunn has a jpg of Warner's Twin Peaks character posted at his own dot-com, part of a tribute to David Lynch. Pictures from his Bab5 episode are posted in Finland (upwards of 102K each)! There's another photo of him and John Rhys-Davies in The Lost World at this German filmography entry. You can also see a portrait of his Klingon from Star Trek VI. Everyone's been tipped off about the Planet of the Apes remake considering how much junk is for sale at the auction sites, but where else will you find a still from Michael Kohlhaas but somewhere in Germany?

Reviews:

MJ Owens' candidate for the worst David Warner film ever made is The Felony, but lots of folks love to hate Dark At Noon! Other online movie reviews are linked from the Cinephilia site. You might also still find a small handful of bad reviews of the tv series Three, like Ultimate TV's, which cut Warner a better break than his costars!

Max Evan's book Sam Peckinpah, Master of Violence is reviewed by Louise Hansen, who's working on her own book chapter about the actor. You can email her if you have reviews or comments to contribute about Warner, his films, or any of her other subjects (British actors who came to fame in the 60s). She is writing first in French and translating to English, so French contributions are welcome but not required. There is no deadline set yet.

Old News:

That hacked publicity site for Paramount's series Three may be gone, but Julie Bowen told Michelle Erica Green for Mania Magazine online that, and we quote: She loved working with David Warner on Three, and adds that in general she prefers working with experienced actors. "The stories they tell during the down time, and what they bring to the scenes - they always seem to be doing nothing, and then you watch it and say, 'Oh my god, I look like the biggest hack over-actor and this guy's so subtle and so good!'"
Esotek's Tron Tribute devotes a page to him as well as the other actors, and stuff like this old (2/98) rumor about a Disney Interactive sequel.
The unofficial WB Network site is easier to find than any official one, and may still link to items on Three and its press tour gewgaws, like a typically choppy chat that does at least reveal Warner is a full-on Monty Python fan, isn't a method actor, and would prefer to be in a sitcom because he's never done one before!
Movie Mag International claims to have interviewed him but hasn't posted any permanent feature; while Movie Stars' site could only cough up a "device is not ready" error msg when we tried to connect. There's more meat in a "brush with fame" entry someone posted about an '86 encounter.
Warner's Spicer Lovejoy page at the official Titanic site (mis?)identifies him as a *founding* member of the RSC (!?!) and cites A Midsummer Night's Dream as his theatrical debut (!?!) without noting any date or director.

Fan Stuff:

UKAAS links to us as well as tons of sites about UK performers. A new wrinkle in fan art is this page of original (OK, quasi-original) recipes , along with the usual disclaimers about the use and abuse of alcohol! Crazy Rosie only thought she was alone... Now there's Daisy's Worship Corner - with a new bg pic, where are these coming from? Urban Space Girl's site for Warner mentions performances at the California Artists Radio Theatre among other bits of news, speculation, and personal revelations... Stephanie "I die! I faint! I fail!" Linz-Gould promises a mini-tribute at her site for those genteel sadists, all of whom seem to either work for or watch PBS religiously, known as TTT fans. Click through if you really want to know about "guys with hipbones like cheese graters" and the women who can't get enough of them (it's kinda scary!)...