JMS on Genie: August Messages
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Sat Sep 28 14:58:01 EDT 1996
Forwarded message to B5JMS list.
Originally From: dstrauss at aiscom.com (David Strauss)
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JMS on Genie
August 1996
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Message 416 Thu Aug 01, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 14:50 EDT
Congrats, Tom, great news.
RE: Electronic Arts...no, they do not have ANY rights to any B5
games
whatsoever. There was a deal in the works about 2 years ago, but it
fell
through. The area is wide open.
jms
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Message 294 Wed Aug 07, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 23:51 EDT
Actually, the jackets you generally see me and members of the
cast and
crew wearing are *only* for those folks, who've earned them in the
trenches.
We'll never license out anything just like them, in order to keep them
special
for the crew. We'd make a mint if we did...but that ain't what
matters here.
Technically, the first B5 related con I did was LosCon, where I
screened
about 15 seconds of animation for the project, and first went public
with the
name.
jms
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Message 517 Thu Aug 08, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:13 EDT
Yes, in the fairly near future we'll be spending some more time
back on
Mars.
Working title for #404: "Falling Toward Apotheosis."
jms
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Message 525 Thu Aug 08, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 16:33 EDT
Good, one should look up words, add to one's vocabulary. Who
does this
involve? Well, we'll see.
Yeah, I wrote the Scripts column for Writer's Digest for almost
exactly
10 years...definitely enough for a book, but since the new version of
my
writing book is coming out in October, no point to it, really.
Actually met Chris Roberts last year, when we were in some
preliminary
discussions about us doing a Wing Commander movie or series. He
definitely
wants to be a film-maker.
jms
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Message 547 Sat Aug 10, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 01:37 EDT
Virtually all food used is real, for health reasons. The liquid
drunk by
G'Kar and Arthur in "Avalon" is Yoo-Hoo; the mountain of stuff
Garibaldi's
eating in the Zocalo in first season is piled meatloaf; the spaghetti
and
bagna cauda was real; the only problem is that no matter what you do,
it's
going to get cold after 18 takes, even with reheating, and by the 17th
take...well, it's an ugly sight.
jms
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Message 302 Sat Aug 10, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 01:40 EDT
Michael is generally reserved, soft-spoken, very intelligent;
he reads
quite a great deal, and has a background in NY theater, so he's up on
all
kinds of plays. He's also very observant and a good listener. He
tends to
find the one person in the line who's been shoved back, and go to that
person
the most, or to the kid in the audience. He has a somewhat
philosophical bent
as well.
jms
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Message 568 Mon Aug 12, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 17:09 EDT
BTW, I should mention that Patricia Tallman (aka Lyta Alexander)
is
joining the cast as a regular character in year four, and will be
included in
the main title sequence.
jms
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Message 588 Tue Aug 13, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 14:42 EDT
Zrath: you're the first person to catch the subtext in that; one
is
falling toward something which is rising, therefore promising imminent
conflict.
jms
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Message 603 Wed Aug 14, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:53 EDT
Actually, we put the station site online so we could run some
final
tests at the site itself, and hadn't yet announced it online as being
up and
ready. That should be happening shortly, so it's still being
finalized a bit.
jms
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Message 639 Sat Aug 17, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 19:29 EDT
Pat's said she'd like to do her own stunts, but she constitutes a
valuable commodity, and I'm not sure I want to risk that.
jms
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Message 727 Wed Aug 21, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 23:13 EDT
Kris: no, it was an original TZ, I didn't write any remakes,
don't
believe in it.
Mike: yeah, might be impossible to do that on TV...then again,
maybe
not....
We picked our cast members because they were the best ones to
walk in the
room. Nothing much there to say.
jms
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Message 737 Thu Aug 22, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 15:13 EDT
It's real simple, Kwick. I sit in a chair in the office as
actors come
in to audition. Most times, an actor comes in, and an actor goes out.
Sometimes, on rare occasions, the actor comes in and the character
comes in
with him. You don't see the actor, you see the character. And that's
the one
you hire.
jms
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Message 441 Thu Aug 22, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 23:21 EDT
Don: some of it's deliberate, I'm not averse to using an actor's
background to inform something in the character (i.e., Jerry's
vehemently pro-
death penalty, so I used that in Garibaldi) to add verisimilitude to
the
personality at hand.
jms
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Message 366 Sat Aug 24, 1996
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 23:08 EDT
I have *no* idea why this should be...there's no reason why the
writers
can't contact me, unless Dell is telling them not to, and if that is
true
someone at Dell is going to be tarred and feathered. As Tim can
confirm, if
someone writing the B5 DC comic had a question, they just sent me an
email,
and if I could confirm it, I would.
Regarding Jeanne's specific story...when the spec outline came
in, I went
over it with a fine-toothed comb and made notations on certain
elements to
bring it into line with canon. The script she will be receiving will
answer
about 95% of the questions in this regard. It has nothing to do with
kindness; when Stephen Smith needed to finish the new card set from
Fleer, I
made sure he read the final 5 scripts so he'd know what to
include/exclude.
With Dell, after I approve the outlines, I rarely hear from the
writers
until the first draft comes in, and then I have to go over it with
little time
and try and correct it. It'd be better if they checked in with me
during the
process but I assumed they wanted to get it out first, then correct
what
needed correcting. If they're not being allowed to ask me questions,
if
somebody there is putting him- or herself in the way for reasons of
controlling information or preserving authority, somebody's going to
be in
*serious* dutch.
I will check on this on Monday.
jms
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