March 2010 Archives   30 March 2010 Message From Lucy About The Auction & Early Tallys Hi folks, I'm beyond stoked with the figures I was tallying last night. Beyond stoked. Here are the prelim figures for Starship & ROC Outreach Fund. Starship Foundation $ 11,917.74 NZD (that figure will rise with some late sales and some donations) ROC OutReach Fund $3,240.82 USD Lucy sent me a message about the wonderful support for the auction. Holy cow! My god, that is a lot of money! You can be sure that that will go right where it is vitally needed. Thank-you Friends, from the bottom of my heart!I have never worked on a show with a fanbase as giving as the XWP gang. I guess it was the nature of the show and its message that formed such a community. I am a day wiser today. I had a wonderful birthday and I just realised that that was truly a birthday present to me! Gosh, now I feel all redfaced. I know you all work so hard for every buck you make and I never want to cajole money out of my beloved fans for any reason. I appreciate all you have done for me in my life and career and I truly ask for nothing more from you. But you make these things happen anyway. On behalf of all my collegues at the Starship Foundation, our great love and thanks to you, dear Friends, dear Nutballs, old Pals! Thanks to Mary, Christa, Roger and team for making it all go. I am so touched. Love always and everywhere, Lucy     29 March 2010 2010 AUSXIP Charity Auction Update Hi folks, Well the auction has ended and I want to thank everyone, to those who bid and who won, for their support of this auction. It wouldn't be possible to achieve what we have achieved without your support. I'll have some figures for you as to how much we have raised for Starship, ROC Outreach Fund and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (Crystal Chappell) over the coming days. Since the auction software is somewhat new(ish), there were some glitches. Nothing major but some glitches. Thank you all for your patience in regards to this; it did make for an interesting end to the auction. For those that have won, you would have received an email to let you know how to pay for your item. For those who won items in the ROC OutReach Fund and Crystal Chappell items, you will be getting an invoice from our paypal account in the coming day/s. For those who won Starship items, please follow the directions in the FAQ on how to convert the US$ amount to NZ$ and proceed to payment on the Official Starship site. Starship will be letting me know towards the end of the week or early next week (as it's Good Friday this coming Friday and it's a public holiday in New Zealand) including Monday, as to payments received. Once I've received their list and matched it with ours, we will begin to mail out the items won. Payments for the ROC OutReach Fund and Crystal's items will be through paypal. Once payment has been received, the items will be shipped immediately. Once again it's been an exhilarating, rewarding experience to be a part of this auction and knowing it will make a difference. Oh behalf of myself and my hard working team (Christa and Roger), thank you for participating in this auction! MaryD     29 March 2010 2010 AUSXIP Charity Auction Ends Today! The 2010 AUSXIP Charity Auction is nearing the end. Today is the last day to bid on all the items! Check out the goodies. The auction ends between 5:30-6:30 pm US Pacific Standard Time. - Starship Foundation - Renee O'Connor Outreach Fund - Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (Crystal Chappell)     29 March 2010 Sydney In The Dark During Earth Hour This is Sydney in the dark. Cool sight. Sydney and the rest of the world plunged into darkness (or near darkness) as Earth Hour went around the world. Click here for more pics         20 March 2010 Welcome to the New Katrina Site I'm very pleased to announce the birth of a new site in the AUSXIP Network. AUSXIP Katrina Law News & Multimedia Katrina is the new cast member of Spartacus Blood and Sand (to be seen in tonight's episode of Spartacus called "Whore" as Lucretia's Number #2 slave Mira). On meeting Katrina last year, I had been very impressed by this talented actress. I'm sure you will all find her equally as fascinating and impressive (well I hope you do) once you get to read AUSXIP's latest interview with her. Check out the new site and the AUSXIP interview is located here     14 March 2010 Spartacus Episode 9 "Whore" Episode Video Preview Spartacus Episode 9 "Whore" Episode Preview Batiatus breaks the news that Spartacus is to service the richest woman in Rome and agrees to perform whatever duties necessary. Special note to Xena fans: Michael Hurst directed this episode. Read MaryD's Episode Preview Watch Episode Promo Video | View Episode Stills     7 March 2010 Season 1 Ep 8: Mark of Brotherhood Preview Season 1 Episode 8: Mark of Brotherhood Episode Preview by MaryD Batiatus purchases a fresh batch of slaves at an auction to be trained as gladiators and ponders the idea of selling Crixus. Illythia coaxes a new recruit to try to kill Spartacus. Special note to Xena fans: Michael Hurst directed this episode. Wowie. Um. Let's hope I can write something that won't break the spoiler rule. Okay I'll comment on matters already revealed in the logline. Wow. Batatius and Lucretia now run a brothel with a twist! Talk about surprising. I guess having the Champion of Capua and lots of coin isn't enough for them. The women of Rome want more than just to gaze upon the Gladatiors... Crixus and Naevia continue their secret love affair...one of these days they will get caught...it's just a matter of time. I fear for young Naevia when her Domina finds out...its going to be Mount Lucretia that will explode and it won't be pretty especially considering what happened in this episode between the two BFFs...you do NOT want to cross the Domina... Again the interaction between the two BFFs is on show...I never know what to make of Illythia - she finds herself in some very deep hot water...and there is a SPECTACULAR Lucretia eruption that is just amazing to watch. Lucy does mad, bad and absolutely twisted so well! Lucy in full flight is a joy to watch, had to rewind it several times to just savour it because it is fantastic. I've been waiting for this volcanic eruption for a while now. The ending once again surprising me! The last few frames of this episode are truly SCARY. I have no words to describe the look on Lucretia's face without giving away a major spoiler. I thought Batiatus was ruthless...his wife certainly matched him here and I thinks surpassed him. Those two are just perfect for each other. Memo to Illythia...DO NOT MESS WITH LUCRETIA and for those hoping to see Xena in this show...me thinks Bad Xena showed up and was in full flight. BAD BAD MAD Xena...REALLY bad Xena. So BAD it's absolutely awesome to watch Lucy transform. Rating: 9/10 Episode Stills | Video Promo | Official Episode Page | Credits     6 March 2010 2010 AUSXIP Charity Auction Coming Soon! Hi folks, We are 2 weeks away from the start of the 2010 AUSXIP Charity Auction to benefit The Starship Foundation (Lucy) and The Renee O'Connor Outreach Fund (Renee). The auction will start 22 March until 28 March 2010. This will be our 4th AUSXIP Charity Auction and the AUSXIP team (myself, Christa and Roger) hope to bring you some amazing goodies. This year we have got a ton of great autographed stuff specifically signed for this auction and non autographed stuff. There are a some VERY special items that I will go into more detail in the next few days that are just totally incredible. Two of the items are: a new ipod nano (16 gb) for Lucy (metallic blue) autographed by Lucy AND it includes a video to go with the ipod for the successful bidder which is extremely cute and very Lucy, a new ipod nano (16 gb) for Renee (metallic green) autographed with two Renee videos thanking the successful bidder. That's only 2 of the items in a huge swag of goodies. Other autographed Items are from: Lucy Lawless Renee O'Connor Adrienne Wilkinson Katherine Fugate Michael Hurst Jennifer Ward-Lealand Erin Cummings Lesley-Ann Brandt Katrina Law Rick Jacobson Steven L. Sears Hudson Leick Peter Mensah Steven DeKnight Brent Fletcher (Spartacus Writer) America Olivo Zoe Bell Kevin Sorbo Julia Voth Ron Melendez Manu Bennett and Crystal Chappell Stay tuned! MaryD     Read More Archives