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Xena - Lucy Lawless - Renee O'Connor
2005 Magazine and Newspaper Articles
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December
November
October
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The Tampa Tribune 30 October 2005 - The Bat Pack. Four
young Tampa area actors shoot pool with Lucy Lawless and
face Hurricane Katrina while filming the TV movie "Vampire
Bats."
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The Fresno Bee - 28 October 2005 'Xena' actress goes to bats Her crew got
a real-life jolt from Katrina. Forget blood-sucking vampire bats. It was Hurricane Katrina
that scared actress Lucy Lawless.
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Femme Fatales
September/October 2005 Issue. Looks at 25 of the Sexiest
Women on TV. Lucy comes in at #24.
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New York Vue - 30 October 2005 Blood Thirst - Lucy Lawless Stars in
"Vampire Bats" - Scans contributed by Victoria
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette 30 October 2005 Vampire Bats wing it to CBS
- Lucy Lawless stars as the crusading scientist and critter
hunter on the CBS made-for-tv movie Vampire Bats - Scan contributed by
Beth
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Toronto Star 30 October 2005 - Xena vs. Mother Nature
Locusts, mutant bats, a vast flood — these are the terrors that torment Lucy
Lawless - updated with scans from maRia
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Dallas Morning News 30 October 2005 'Locusts' conquered, Lawless puts bite
on bats - Scans contributed by Lisa
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Toronto Star 29 October 2005 - Lucy in the sky with... bats?
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Houston Chronicle 30 October 2005 Bats in New Orleans Besides
the cool title and seeing Xena's Lucy Lawless reprise her Locusts' role, there's another good reason to check out tonight's
Vampire Bats on CBS: the New Orleans scenery.
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Zap2It 29 October 2005 Lucy Lawless Faces 'Vampire Bats'
...As with Bruce Willis opposing terrorist after terrorist in the "Die Hard"
movies, could Lawless fight even more horrors in future CBS offerings? "Oh,
I don't know," she muses. "How many plagues are there? I'm really looking
forward to 'Head Lice.'"
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Entertainment Weekly - 28 October 2005 - Lucy Lawless on Vampire
Bats
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Boston Herald 28 October 2005 From ‘Bats’ to Baton Rouge: TV’s Xena
battles hurricane during filming of CBS movie
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Starlog
Magazine #350 November 2005.
Article about Marton Csokas (Borias on Xena Warrior Princess)Marton comments
on working on Xena and working with Lucy Lawless
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Cult Times #121 -
October 2005 Lucy Lawless Visits Galactica
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TV Guide Online 28 October 2005 Lucy Lawless: From Xena to Katrina. Lucy
Lawless really should go on Fear Factor. The former Xena: Warrior
Princess star had to fight off a swarm of gonzo grasshoppers earlier this
year in the CBS TV-movie Locusts, and now in the sequel, the imaginatively
titled Vampire Bats (Sunday at 9 pm/ET), she's battling a horde of... well,
you get the idea. But she also weathered far more real storms this year, as
you'll see in TVGuide.com's interview with the Kiwi.
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The Times-Picayune 28 October 2005 - Bats' just entertainment, Lucy Lawless
says. The cast and crew of "Vampire Bats" had about a week of shooting left
when Hurricane Katrina forced evacuation. Star Lucy Lawless waited until midmorning on Katrina Sunday to leave.
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New York Post - 28 October 2005 BAT-TY BOOP FRESH from their riveting roles in that TV movie classic, "Locusts," Dr.
Maddy Rierdon (Lucy Lawless, "Xena") and hubby Dan Dryer (Dylan Neal) are
back to battle more revolting creatures in a soon-to- be-classic,
"Vampire Bats."
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Hollywood Reporter 27 October 2005 - Review of Vampire Bats
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Press Enterprised 27 October 2005 - Lucy Lawless tackles "Vampire Bats"
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Variety Magazine 26 October 2005 - Review of Vampire Bats
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ET Online 26 October
2005 Lucy Lawless' Hurricane Scare
Kiwi powerhouse LUCY LAWLESS
was filming her new CBS TV movie "Vampire Bats" in New Orleans when
Hurricane Katrina hit. ET's KEVIN FRAZIER talked to the star about her new
thriller, and her terrifying encounter with the hurricane.
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NZ Herald 26
October 2005 Lawless graduates from locusts
to vampire bats Actress Lucy Lawless is taking on vampire bats in her
latest role, rather than confronting the vengeful gods
of her former Xena: Warrior Princess series.
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SciFi.com Review -
Vampire Bats Review 26 October 2005 - After their
adventures in the CBS movie Locusts, professor Maddy Rierdon
(Lawless) and her husband, Dan Dryer (Neal), attempt to get
their bearings after moving to Louisiana with their two
daughters in search of a simpler life.
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TV Guide (US) - 24
October 2005 It's Xena! Vampire Bats (CBS, 9 pm)
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Associated Press 24
October 2005 - Lucy Lawless tackles "Vampire Bats"
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St Petersburg Times - 24 October
2005 - Among campy and classic on TV for Halloween is the
toothless Vampire Bats,
which nevertheless gives a local actor his big break.
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TV SMACKDOWN: Lucy Lawless is on the
job! - 21 October 2005
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St Petersburg Times blog 21
October 2005 Xena, Xena .. Las
Veggaaasssss ....
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Beacon TV 21 October 2005 - A
Few Minutes With Lucy Lawless
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Gannett News Service - 14
October 2005 - CBS uncloaks
'Vampire Bats'
"Vampire Bats" seems cozily
distant from the harshness
of realism and real life.
"It's good fun," says Lucy
Lawless, who stars in the
CBS movie on Halloween eve.
"Not everything has to be
deep and meaningful."
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National Ledger 7 October 2005 Lucy Lawless Thrilled with Real Life Planet Xena
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El Paso Times 2 October 2005 New 10th Planet Also Sports a Moon
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Xena Has Found Her Gabrielle - Los Angeles Times Moon Found Orbiting Suspected 10th Planet A recently discovered object that could be the solar system's 10th planet turns out to have a moon, Caltech scientists announced. The moon, nicknamed Gabrielle, is about 150 miles across. It was spotted Sept. 10 with the Keck II telescope in Hawaii by a team headed by Michael E. Brown, the Caltech astronomer who discovered the 10th planet, known
as Xena. Both objects are located beyond Neptune in what is known as the Kuiper Belt.
September
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Cult Times Special #35 September 2005 - The Power of the Press (Lucy on Battlestar Galactica).
Four years after she was last seen hacking away at various monsters, mythological and Human, as Xena, Lucy Lawless is back, and she's taking a trip to
Battlestar Galactica.
Click here to read more
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TV Highlights 22 September 2005 - Battlestar Xena. Article about Lucy's role on Battlestar Galactica and Vampire
Bats from the German magazine. In German.
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Chicago Tribune 9 September 2005. Xena, Space Princess? This time, Lawless' secret 'Galactica' weapon is her
accent.
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TV Week September 2005 - Q&A about Lucy appearing on BSG in Australia
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Cinescape Magazine 13 September 2005 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Final Cut On the record
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Entertainment Weekly 16 September 2005 Storm Surge: Entertainers respond as tragedy hits New Orleans
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Telesette Magazine September 2005 about the movie Locusts being shown on Italian TV
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Sorrisi e Canzoni TV" September 2005 about the movie Locusts on Italian TV
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"Italian TV Guide" September 2005
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Entertainment Weekly 9 September 2005 - a brief look at Lucy in Battlestar Galactica
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CFQ Magazine August/September 2005Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark - The Darkroom - Lucy's new movie The Darkroom
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Seattle Times - 9 September 2005 - Lawless is "Battlestar" Reporter
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Maxim Online 9 September 2005 - Lawless Nature The former warrior princess is heading to outer space. And before you
ask, no, she's not bringing her leather skirt along for the ride. -
Thanks Barbara
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SciFi.About.com 9
September 2005 Lawless Agendas on Battlestar Galactica's "Final Cut" -
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Daily News 9 September 2005 'Battlestar' in a state of Lawlessness.
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Relish Now 9 September 2005 Lucy Lawless gets to use own accent in guest role on
'Galactica'
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Brief mention in TV Guide Online - 9 September 2005
Battlestar Galactica[New]
10 pm/ET, SCIFI Xena as a blonde? Lucy Lawless adopts honeyed tresses for her role as an ambitious journalist filming a tell-all documentary aboard
the Galactica. She uses her native New Zealand accent to play muckraking D'Anna Biers, who, between interviews with the battlestar's
stressed-out crew, uncovers a juicy secret. — G.J. Donnelly
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TV Guide Online 8 September Lucy Lawless Raids the Galactica. Xena is back, and she's taking names. Well, OK, not exactly. Lucy
Lawless is back in the fantasy/sci-fi fold, playing D'Anna Friel, a pesky investigative journalist on Friday night's episode of Battlestar Galactica (airing at 10 pm/ET on Sci Fi Channel).
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The Detroit Free Press 7 September 2005 - Lawless is Exposed
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The Boston Herald 7 September 2005 Invasion of personal (outer) space
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Crave Online - Lucy Lawless on BSG - Interview with Lucy on her role as D'anna Biers on Battlestar Galactica
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Soap Opera Weekly 13 September 2005 - Lawless Stirs Up Trouble on Battlestar Galactica.
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Daily News 1 September 2005 No cheers in Hollywood as film rival flattened. "There is nothing I would love more than to film near my house in Los Angeles," Lawless said. "But if you have to go away, Louisiana is a wonderful place to be. It's such an evocative place, visually and culturally." Lawless said the hope is to resume shooting somewhere else as early as next week. "We're trying to regroup," she said. "We are very passionate about finishing and seeing the film through."
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New Zealand 4 September 2005 Young Kiwis make it out of New Orleans hellhole.
Lucy Lawless' mother Julie Ryan said her daughter felt grateful to have made it back safely to her home in Los Angeles to join her husband and three children after escaping the devastation.
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MTV 2 September 2005 Hurricane Shuts Down Movie Productions In Once-Busy Louisiana. ...Ask her the basic plot of the film, and she can barely work up enough
enthusiasm to mumble, "It's a Halloween, teen flick, really." Begrudgingly, she added that "for all intents and purposes, it is lost. We are going to shoot next week [with new sets and costumes] in Nova Scotia." "It's tough," she continued. "But who gives a sh-- if it's tough for us? It does not even compare to the difficulties facing those people there."
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Zap2It 1 September 2005 interview with Lucy bout her upcoming guest role in Battlestar Galactica. Lawless Live from
'Battlestar Galactica'
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The Bremerton Sun 31 August 2005 Lucy Lawless returns as space reporter
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NineMSN - National Nine News (Australia) 1 September 2005. US hurricane forces Lucy Lawless to flee
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Brief mention about
Vampire Bats being halted in Canada.com Entertainment Section
August
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ET Online
- 31 August 2005 - Lucy Lawless' Race To Escape Hurricane
Katrina
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New Zealand Woman's Weekly 31 August 2005 - Lucy Lawless Flees Hurricane
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Serial Magazine No 20 8-14 August 2005 Russian magazine, two page article on Lucy with images. Not translated.
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Variety Magazine 30 August 2005 Katrina's wake
Hurricane forces biz to rethink plans
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New York Daily News - 31 August 2005 Katrina foils 'Vampire' Hurricane Katrina has halted production on the October CBS movie "Vampire Bats," starring Lucy Lawless."Bats" was in production in New Orleans. A spokeswoman said the producers hoped to resume filming in a few
days, but exactly where has not been decided.
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Irish Examiner 31 August 2005
Movies abandoned as storm wreaks havoc
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Chicago Sun Times - 31 August 2005
KATRINA ZAPS FILMS: No question about it, Mother Nature is democratic when it comes to causing
havoc. Just like everyone else, movie stars and filmmakers were chased out of Louisiana by the fury of Hurricane Katrina. Meanwhile, the crew for
Lucy Lawless' upcoming CBS flick ''Vampire Bats'' (catchy
title, eh?) themselves are hunkered down in Baton Rouge -- having fled
their much more dangerous New Orleans filming locales.
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Fangoria Magazine - 30 August 2005 Lucy Lawless battles BATS, escapes hurricane
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Hollywood Reporter 30 August 2005 - Frank von Zerneck, who is producing "Vampire," said it would be at least a
week before his production could resume what would have been its last week of shooting. "Everyone is safe," von Zerneck said, "but now I'm dealing with things like, are the trucks flooded? Where is the equipment?
Everything was boxed up and stored, but now the city is pretty much closed down."
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Washington Times - 29 August 2005 Stars flee Big Easy film
sets - Lucy evacuates from the set of Vampire Bats.
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United Press International 25 August 2005 Lucy Lawless takes on 'Vampire Bats'
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New York Post - 25 August 2005 Xena Turns Into Buffy
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Lesbianation 24 August 2005 Lucy Lawless wants to take Xena to the big screen. The 10th Anniversary DVD set
of Xena: Warrior Princess just hit the shelves, packed full of fan favorite episodes and a variety of extra goodies. Even with all of the crazed popularity of the series still going strong, Xena can't seem to get
to the big screen - no matter how much its star, Lucy Lawless, might wish it to be so.
Click here to read more
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San Francisco Examiner - 25 August 2005 Where's Xena: The Movie? Lucy Lawless, star of the cult favorite "Xena: Warrior Princess," says she's wanted to bring her character to the big screen for years. "I think a movie would be great, and I'd love
to do it," the actress told SciFiwire.com. The logistics of such a project are getting in the way of making Lawless' dream a reality — she says executives from the show disagree on
who owns the rights, and until those questions get answered, Xena will have to continue life in rerun Siberia.
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The Sun Newspaper - 24 August 2005 - Star's bid for Xena film.
CURVY Xena actress Lucy Lawless wants to make a movie version of the cult TV show.
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SciFi Wire - 22 August 2005 - Lawless Wants Reunion
Xena: Warrior Princess
star Lucy Lawless told SCI FI Wire that she
hopes her next film project will reunite some of her old pals from the cast, including Bruce Campbell (Autolycus), Ted Raimi (Joxer) and
Renee O'Connor (Gabrielle).
Click here to read more
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United Press International - 22 August 2005 'Xena' blasts off to 'Battlestar'
- New Zealand actress
Lucy Lawless says she's happy to guest star on "Battlestar Galactica,"
but she wouldn't mind revisiting "Xena: Warrior Princess."
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scifi.about.com 22 August 2005 - Interview with Lucy - Lucy Lawless Sheds Light on
Battlestar Galatica. Lucy reveals she was offered the role of Tigh's wife but chose not to accept it and what it was like working with the talented cast of BSG. A very good
interview that also touches on Xena and the movie Vampire Bats
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Softpedia News - 21 August 2005 - Lucy Lawless Thinks a "Xena" Movie Would Be Great. Article about the Xena Movie, Vampire
Bats and Battlestar Galactica
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SciFi Wire - 22 August 2005 Lawless Batty About Vampire Lucy Lawless, who stars in the upcoming CBS horror movie Vampire Bats, told SCI FI Wire she's reprising her role as a bug specialist and college professor from last year's telefilm
Locusts. The former Xena: Warrior Princess star played Dr. Maddy Rierdon in Locusts, which dealt with a town taken over by swarming bugs. Now, she's battling bloodthirsty bats,
Lawless said in an interview....
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TV Guide 21 August 2005 In the News: Xena - News about the Xena Movie
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FilmStew.com 19 August 2005 CBS Loads Up on Bats. Frank Von Zerneck and Robert Sertner
are producing the network's sequel to last season's Locusts.
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E! Online has brief mention of the
movie for the 15 August 2005 Movie News - Craig Ferguson has gone Bat-ty. The Late Late Show host is set to cameo in CBS' Vampire Bats, a sequel to last year's miniseries
Locusts. The telepic follows a group of scientists who link a breed of vampire bats to a series of bizarre murders. Lucy Lawless and Dylan Neal reprise their original roles in the
telepic. Brett Butler and Timothy Buttons also star. Shooting has already begun in New Orleans.
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The National Enquirier 18 August 2005 Xena Star Goes Batty
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SciFi Wire - 19 August 2005 Lawless Open To Cameo Roles Lucy Lawless told SCI FI Wire that she'd welcome future cameo roles in the upcoming Evil Dead movies or in the third Spider-Man movie, which are being produced by her husband, Rob
Tapert, and family friend Sam Raimi, but added that nothing's set yet.
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Sci Fi Wire - 18 August 2005. Xena Movie Still In Limbo Interview with Lucy about the movie.
Lucy Lawless, who starred in six seasons of Xena: Warrior Princess, told SCI FI Wire that a proposed Xena movie remains caught in a legal haggle. "I think a movie would be great, and I'd love to do it," Lawless said in an
interivew. "I've been wanting to do it for years." But, she added: "Nobody can agree who owns the rights, and it's a big fat pain in the ass."
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CBS News release (via Futon Critic) 17 August 2005 - Lucy Lawless ("Zena: Warrior Princess," "Tarzan") and
Dylan Neal ("Dawson's Creek") reprise their roles as Dr. Maddy Rierdon and Dan Dryer from the highly-rated CBS Television Movie "Locusts" in VAMPIRE BATS, a new television movie that has begun production in New
Orleans for broadcast Sunday, Oct. 30 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Read more
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Insomniac Mania 17 August 2005 article Former Warrior Princess Lucy Lawless Brings A Touch Of
Glamour To Battlestar Galactica - August 17th 2005
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Sci-Fi Wire - 17 August 2005 - Lawless Invades Galactica
Lucy Lawless, who will guest-star in an upcoming episode of SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that footage she shot while playing a broadcast reporter actually makes it into the final cut,
which airs Sept. 9.
Read more...
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Variety Magazine 16 August 2005 CBS jazzes up telepix - Butler, Bottoms join
'Bats'. Article about the newest cast members for Vampire Bats
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The Chicago Tribune 14 August 2005 has a brief mention of Lucy's upcoming role on BSG - Lucy Lawless appears on Sci Fi's "Battlestar Galactica" Sept. 9. "In the episode, `Final Cut,' Lucy plays a filmmaker sent to Galactica to document life aboard the ship. And for
the first time ever, the actress uses her native New Zealand accent on film," according to Sci Fi.
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Now Playing Magazine - 11 August 2005 Xena Embarks on the Galactica. The Sci Fi Channel has
announced that Lucy Lawless, once known as Xena the Warrior Princess, will be dropping in on another beloved genre show: Battlestar Galactica...
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Dread Central - 4 August 2005 - Lawless Bats!
July
June May
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette - 31 May 2005 THE TV COLUMN : Beauties, geeks make for entertaining TV. Article is about the
upcoming show TV Land: Tickled Pink. Of Xena it says:
The show points out that Xena: Warrior Princess "was hugely popular with lesbians as they looked to her as someone who was strong on the outside but also sensitive and loving." In addition, the producers started
having lots of innuendo-filled fun with Xena’s relationship with Gabrielle, her faithful sidekick.
Click here to read full article
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The Boston Herald - 13 May 2005 - Stuntwomen film is `Double' the fun
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The Hollywood Reporter - 27 May 2005 - Independent Lens: Double Dare
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Talkin' Broadway 19 May 2005 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Sparkles in Concert at the 5th. Whether you preferred
Faith Prince's brassy, Broadway belting as Lorelei Lee, or co-headliner Lucy Lawless' jazz baby jubilance as her cohort Dorothy Shaw, or just reveled in the chance to see a rarely produced Broadway musical, The 5th
Avenue Theatre and Seattle Men's Chorus had just the ticket for you this past weekend....
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Seattle Gay News 23 May 2005 Xena: Warrior Massage Princess ...Lucy gets a massage from one of the Chorus guys...
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Desert News - 17 May 2005 Promoters crank up July 4th spectaculars. Ticket sales skyrocket. Lucy to attend
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Daily Herald 18 May 2005 - Ticket sales going strong for Stadium of Fire (Lucy Lawless set to attend this event)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer 13 May 2005 GREASE,' `GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES' MAKE IT A MUSICAL WEEKEND. Productions of two much-celebrated musicals open tonight and run
through Sunday. "Grease" will be playing at the Paramount Theatre. And the 5th Avenue Theatre hosts "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."...
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SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER 12 May 2005 'Xena' women talk about the show's impact - Interview with Lucy about Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the impact Xena had on the
masses.
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Sports Illustrated - Double Dare Under Review 9 May 2005 Lucy Lawless was the biggest, baddest woman on television, yet when Xena: the Warrior Princess needed to flip off her horse to take on male attackers, that feat would fall to a stunt double...
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Seattle Magazine - May 2005 - Article about Lucy in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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