From gonza006@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 94 16:05:58 -0500
From: Pat Gonzales <gonza006@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
To: foxxmulder@aol.com, roland@cac.washington.edu, cls6@midway.uchicago.edu,
    jruchak@mtmis1.mis.semi.harris.com, mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu,
    SUE.S@genie.geis.com, tv-archive@cheers.demon.co.uk
Subject: X Files FAQ Part II

/Deep Background-Chris Carter/
Chris Carter, 37, began his career as a screenwriter in 1985 at The Walt Disney 
Studios. Previously, Carter had been working as a freelance journalist, writing 
and traveling extensively abroad. At Disney, Carter wrote and produced several 
television movies in addition to the television pilot _Cameo by Night_ for NBC 
and _The Nanny_, a sitcom for The Disney Channel. He took a short leave of 
absence from Disney to co-produce the second season of the comedy series _Rags 
to Riches_,  starring Joe Bologna, and returned in 1989 to create and executive 
produce "Brand New Life," a recurring comedy series which ran as part of a 
rotating schedule on Disney's Sunday night lineup. [Fox press packet for _X 
Files_]

/Deep Background - David Duchovny/
David Duchovny, 34, is probably best known for his memorable role as the 
transvestite detective Dennis/Denise in the television series "Twin Peaks." A 
native New Yorker, Duchovny graduated from Princeton University and then earned 
a graduate degr
ee in English literature at Yale University, preparing for a career as a 
teacher. While at Yale, he began commuting to New York to study acting and was 
soon appearing in off-Broadway plays. In 1987, in the midst of his doctoral 
studies, he left Yale to pursue acting full time.  
    Duchovny (pronounced Doo-kuv'-nee), 6'1" tall, was born August 7, 1960. His 
parents, Amran (a publicist for the American Jewish Committee) and Margaret (an 
elementary school teacher) divorced when he was 11. He has one brother, Daniel, 
and a sister, Laurie. He has a girlfriend, actresss Perrey Reeves, and resides 
in Malibu, Calif. [Fox press packet for _X Files_ and _People_ magaine, April 
18, 1994 issue]

*Filmography*
New Years Day					1988
Working Girl					1988
Bad Influence    					1988, 1989
"Twin Peaks"    					1990
The Rapture      					1991
Julia Has Two Lovers				1991
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead		1991
Denial						1991
Venice/Venice					1992
Ruby							1992
"Red Shoe Diaries"			1992--present
Chaplin						1992
Beet
hoven						1992
"Baby Snatcher"					1992
Kalifornia						1993
"The X Files"					1993

/Deep Background - Gillian Anderson/
Gillian Anderson first gained recognition as an actresss for her off-Broadway 
performance in Alan Ayckbourne's "Absent Friends" at the Manhattan Theater Club,
for which she won a Theatre World Award. Her love of theater began in high 
school where she participated in community theater. In college, Anderson studies
with the National Theater of Great Britain at Cornell University in Ithaca, 
N.Y., and then at the Goodman Theater School at Chicago's DePaul University, 
where she obtained her BFA degree. 
    Anderson, 5' 2" tall, was born August 9, and lives in Los Angeles.  [Fox 
press packet for _X Files_] She is married, and gave birth to a daughter, Piper,
on Sept. 24, 1994 She is not related in any way to Jo Anderson who appeared as 
Diana in the television show _Beauty and the Beast_.

*Filmography*
Home Fires Burning			1992
"The X Files"				1993
"Exit to Eden" (audiotape)			1993

/Merchand
ise/
X Files shirts, mugs, and caps have made an appearance at various locations. 
Suncoast Videos are carrying the above items; look for the store in a city near 
you. :-) Starland is carrying three officially-licensedT-shirts and two 
officially-licensed hats. They can be reached at 1-800-733-8735 for an 
illustrated flyer. 

Delphi is also selling a different group of official X Files merchandise through
their X Files Special Interest Group. A sweatshirt, t-shirt, mug, keychain, and 
letterjacket are available only through the SIG on Delphi.

Original novels are also in the works, to be written by award-winning horror 
writer Charles L. Grant and published by HarperPrism. Grant is one of the most 
respected writers and editors in the fields of horror and fantasy, a winner of 
two Nebula awards for science fiction writing, and three World Fantasy Awards, 
and the British Fantasy Society's Life Achievement award. Grant is perhaps best 
known for his editing of the _Shadows_ and _Greystone Bay_ series of 
anthologies. [
Tor book biography] The first X Files book is expected in December.

Topps Comics has announced that they have acquired the rights to do an _X Files_
comic book, and are currently in production. The first issue is expected 
sometime in the new year. [Topps Copics is an arm of the baseball-card company, 
and currently produce comic books based on other TV and movie characters as well
as the usual superheroes.]

Also, there are rumors that Fox is tentatively considering a big-screen X Files 
movie, and an _X Files_ spinoff.

/Mailing List/
There is an Internet mailing list for _The X Files_, run by Reid Fishler. To 
sign up for the list, send mail to x-files-request@chaos.bsu.edu, subject: 
SUBSCRIBE. For the digest version (mail is sent after 15 "pieces"), send mail to
x-files-digest-request@chaos.bsu.edu. To send mail to the list, mail to 
x-files@chaos.msu.edu. To reach list administrator Fishler, send to 
x-files-request@chaos.bsu.edu, subject: MANUAL.

/Fan Club**Fanzines**Convention Appearances/
*Fan Club*
The X
-Files Fan Club was formed with the sanction of 20th Century Fox and Ten 
Thirteen Productions in March 1994. A year's subscription is $20 ($30 Canadian).
The fan club, a nonprofit organization, plans to produce a newsletter/magazine 
every two months, containing news, interviews, pictures, episode guides, 
bibliographic information, more information on topics brought up in the show, 
and other items. Although net-fandom will be well represented (one section of 
the newsletter will be called "The Buzz from the Net"), the newsletter is 
targeted at general fandom. 
    Submissions are welcome! Electronic newsletter submissions may be sent to 
x-files@info.rutgers.edu. A postscript version of the fan club membership 
application may be ftp'd from ftp.rutgers.edu; the file is  
pub/x-files/membership/flier.ps.
    For more information, send a SASE to:
    X Files Fan Club, P.O. Box 3138, Nashau, NH 03061-3138  or
    X Files Fan Club, c/o S. Bartle, 4404 Perry St., Vancouver, BC Canada V5N 
3X5

*Fanzines*
Deb Walsh (debw
alsh@delphi.com or deb walsh@aol.com; 2 Spring Hill Terrace, Somerville, MA 
02143) publishes a fanzine called _The Manifest_ which deals with various  
paranormal-oriented television shows, including _The X Files_.  Issue #2, with 
two long X Files stories, is now available. E-mail or send a SASE for more 
information.

_Incident UXP_ is an _X Files_ fanzine being published by Debbie Roberts of  
Hangar X Publishing, 2419 N. Tejon St., Colorado Springs, CO 80907. Issue #1 is 
now available. Send a SASE for more information.

OtherWhen Press is planning a crossover fanzine (characters meet characters from
other media universes) called Crossfiles, which will include crossovers with the
_X Files_ universe. One confirmed story is an X Files/Real Ghostbusters story. 
Planned publication date is May 95. For information (send a SASE) or to reserve 
a copy ($5 and a SASE) write to OtherWhen Press, 722 Brownstone Rd., Larimer, PA
15647

Mary Wardell is planning an _X Files_ fanzine called "The X-Philes." For more 
details and
/or submission guidelines send an SASE to Prime Time Press, c/o Mary F. Wardell,
2104 SE 28th Place, Portland, OR 97214

Betsy Vera is planning an _X Files_ fanzine called "X-treme Possibilities." For 
more information or submissions guidelines, send a SASE to: Bentley Press, c/o 
Betsy Vera, 1207 South State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104, or e-mail her at 
betsy.vera@mailgw.uprod.music.umich.edu.

"Wrapped in Plastic" (a Twin Peaks fanzine) devoted a full issue to the X Files 
in August.  The 40-page issue contained a complete episode guide with commentary
and analysis, map of the U.S. showing where each episode took place, and an 
interview with Gillian Anderson.
    The first printing sold out, and a second printing was done. WIP #12 is 
available from: Win-Mill Productions, 1912 E. Timberview Lane, Arlington, TX 
76014. Cost is $6 ($5 plus $1 postage).

*Convention appearances*
Gillian Anderson had to cancel her appearance at Tri-Con Oct. 1-2 in Saratoga 
Springs, NY.

/X-Files Episode Survey/
Gary Dontzig, a writer on
 _Murphy_Brown_, says, "I have a theory that out of 25 episodes, if you do five 
that are spectacular, you're in the big leagues." That's a batting average of 
200.
    An online survey of favorite episodes for first season was conducted by 
Charles McGrew. The results are below. How did your favorite episodes/writers 
rate?

Rating Scheme of 1 (Mediocre) to 4 (Spectacular):
Total number of Ballots received: 116

Episode Title -- Ave. Vote -- #of Votes/ "4" Votes 
----------------  ----    ---------  -------------------- 
----    ---------
Erlenmeyer Flask -- 3.74 -- 102/78    
Tooms  -- 3.60 -- 93/62    
Squeeze -- 3.56 -- 95/57
Beyond the Sea -- 3.52 -- 112/72
Ice -- 3.45 -- 108/60    
E.B.E.  -- 3.44 -- 90/54 
Deep Throat -- 3.43 -- 89/48   
Eve -- 3.36 -- 107/57    
The X-Files -- 3.36 -- 94/39    
Fire -- 3.02 -- 111/25    
Darkness Falls -- 3.01 -- 100/30    
Conduit -- 2.99 -- 91/23
Gender Bender -- 2.91 -- 106/25
Roland -- 2.86 -- 100/19
Lazarus -- 2.74 -- 99/9
Shadows  -- 2.74 -- 102/16
Young at Heart -
- 2.64 -- 88/8
Miracle Man -- 2.58 -- 101/11
Born Again -- 2.53 -- 97/7
The Jersey Devi -- 94/8
Ghost in the Machine -- 1.99 -- 102/6
Space -- 1.72 -- 106/3

Total Show Average is 2.97

/Miscellaneous information/

As a result of an informal poll conducted Spring 94, net.fans of the _The X 
Files_ have chosen (with a 73% approval rating) to be called X-Philes. The name 
seems to have caught on in the media, with its use in many articles on the show 
and its online contacts.

There is a list of Mulderisms and Scullyisms being kept by Samuel Ziegler at 
ziegler@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu. The list will be posted to alt.tv.x-files regularly 
once the new season has started. 

Weapons:  Scully carries a Sig-Sauer P230.  Mulder currently uses a Sig Sauer 
P220. 

So far Mulder has fired his gun four times (to scare away wolves [Conduit] to 
kill John Barnett [Young at Heart], at the shapeshifter creature [Shapes] and at
a possible alien being [Little Green Men] though no shot actually left the gun),
and Scully, three times (thre
e shots to stop the air duct fan [Ghost in the Machine], once to wound Lucas 
Henry [Beyond the Sea], three shots, to kill [so we thought] Warren Dupre 
[Lazarus])

Both Mulder and Scully have been shot once (Mulder, critically, in the upper 
femur in Beyond the Sea; Scully, in the chest though wearing her protective 
vest, in Young at Heart).

For the morbid: X Files' death toll to date: 74 [through Blood/second season]

Scully's FBI ID number is 2317-616, her home phone number is (202) 555-6431. 
[Ghost in the Machine.], and her cellular phone number is 555-3564.

Scully and Mulder met for the first time on March 6, 1992 X.T. (X Files Time) 
[Pilot].

Mulder has a computer at home, and his password is TRUSTNO1. He was a fan of the
television show "The Magician" as a child. [Little Green Men]

Ten Thirteen's production crew has had cameos (names and bodies) in various 
episodes: First Assistant Director Tom Braidwood appeared as _Lone Gunman_ 
photographer Frolicke in "E.B.E." and "Blood," and his name was used as t
he person taking over Howard Graves's parking spot in "Shadows" and as Mulder's 
alias to get into the secured government compound in
Washington State in "E.B.E." Ken Kirzinger, stunt coordinator, appeared as 
Richter in "Ice." Hair Stylist Malcolm Marsden's name was used for the British 
PM in "Fire." Vladimir Stefoff, First Assistant Director, had his name (as Val 
Stefoff) used as Scully's alias to get into the compound in "E.B.E."

Story ideas: _The X Files_, like almost all network TV shows, does not accept 
unsolicited scripts or story ideas. If you have them, you will need to get 
yourself an agent to submit them to the show. Story ideas or scripts sent to the
show unagented will be returned or tossed in the trash. Ideas, scripts, and 
stories can be posted for other fans' enjoyment to the newsgroup 
alt.tv.x-files.creative.

/X Files FTP Sites/
Cory L. Scott (cls6@midway.uchicago.edu) runs a Macintosh FTP site at 
cybercow.rh.uchicago.edu .The opening theme has been digitized as .iff and .snd 
(mac) formats.The
 directory path is /pub/Xfiles. The opening music is in /pub/Xfiles/Song. 
Special Agent Scott also has other _X Files_ sounds for the Macintosh, this FAQ,
the current Episode Guide and Deep Throat FAQ, and GIFs and JPEGs as well.

John A. Ruchak (jruchak@mtmis1.mis.semi.harris.com) runs an IBM-PC/Unix/VMS site
at mtp034.mis.semi.harris.com (132.158.127.164) [directory path /pub/Xfiles]. 
The site will be home primarily for non-Macintosh type binary files such as .GIF
graphics, .WAV and .AU sound files, etc., as well as text files that anyone can 
use. This site also has a "creative" section archiving the stories that have 
appeared. Individuals who submit stories to alt.tv.x-files.creative should also 
upload a copy of the story to the server or e-mail them to Ruchak, as he does 
not get the XF creative newsgroup.

Another FTP site is at ftp.rutgers.edu (/pub/x-files).

The _X Files_ "creative" site at vorlon.mankato.msus.edu is currently disabled. 
Individuals are currently working to establish another site.

Char
les Mcgrew (mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu) has established an http server which 
contains an X Files mosaic page. This page includes the theme music, 
miscellaneous sound bites, this FAQ, Episode Guide, DT FAQ, pictures of the 
cast, and links to other FTP areas, among other things. The path is: 
http://www.rutgers.edu/x-files.html.

Liam Bahneman (roland@cac.washington.edu) also has an X Files web server. Its 
menu is available at http://goren1.u.washington.edu/~roland/x-files/x-files.h 
ml.

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Team Leader:  Special Agent Pat Gonzales, gonza006@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Internet) 
or LauraHolt@aol.com (America Online)

Team members: Tonya Yount, Cliff Chen, Kristin Jones, James Drentner, Cory 
Scott, Angelia Derrick, Laura F. Jenkins, Gerry Jones, Charmaine Lazaro, John 
Anthony Ruchak, Jeff Gostin, Charles Mcgrew, Andrew Waite, Paula J. Vitaris. 
Michael A. Chary, Manuel A. Quesada
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