For those who have been asking, the Official Xena Fan Club Newsletter #18
has started to ship.  I thought I'd give ya'll a peek at issue #19.

There were some interesting notes on the recent photo approval forms I sent
to Lucy and Renee that I thought you might enjoy.  I sent a batch of photos
from Hercules episodes where Lucy did crossovers.  Next to one of the
numbers was a smiley face.  When I looked up the matching photo, it turned
out to be from "Stranger In A Strange World."  It's a photo of Xena at the
end of the cake fight with Aphrodite.  Lucy said she just loved that shot.
Sure can't accuse her of only clearing photos where she looks perfect as so
often happens in Hollywood.  In fact, both Lucy and Renee have never had
any qualms about approving photos where they were messed up, dirty,
funny-looking or screaming in battle.

Renee wrote "Wow!" next to one from Hercules and the Lost Kingdom.  It is a
picture of Renee as Deianeira standing before a castle.  She thought the
composition of the photo was stunning with the castle in the background and
the flowing robes of her costume.

Renee happened to be in our office when the photos for the photo club
"comedies" month were ready to approve and she sat down at my desk and
began to look them over.  I heard her chuckling and went over to see what
was going on.  "When I got into this business, I never thought I'd have to
make a note like this," she said, laughing and pointing at what she'd
written.  This is what was on the approval form, "Please crop out pasties."
It was a photo of one of the naked dancing Gabrielles from "The Quill Is
Mightier."  You can check out the pic from February 2002
(www.creationent.com/outback/xpc/02/feb02/Feb2002.html) and see how we did.

The DVD for the finale had just been released when I interviewed Lucy for
issue #19.  I listened to the commentary done by her, Renee and Rob and
asked follow-up questions to things mentioned on the DVD.  In her
interview, Lucy talks about playing Young Xena, doing cartwheels, Xena's
relationship with the young women in her life and Xena's choice to save the
40,000 villagers of Higuchi rather than staying with Gabrielle.  Guess
which character from the show she misses most.

For her interview, Renee gives us a look into her life as a student
studying Shakespeare at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum.  We learn her
thoughts about Gabrielle taking a fencing class, being given a scene where
she finds a headless body for the second time in her acting career and the
joys of scansion.  Wait till you read who turned up in her Shakespeare
class!  Her thoughts on Lucy being "loopy."  And we find out which
character from the series Renee misses  most.

You can see the photos Lucy and Renee liked on the fan club page at
www.creationent.com/outback/fanclubs

Sharon
Official Xena Fan Club

As a follow up to the question about photos Sharon said:

Some of the pics Lucy and Renee cleared were for the Feb 02 Xena Photo Club
crossover month.  And some will be released as catalog pics.

Sharon