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JMS Usenet messages for February 1999.
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Date: 1 Feb 1999 23:09:04 -0700
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Subject: Re: Attn: JMS - Directors for Crusade
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Yes, Goran has been slated for a Crusade episode.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 1 Feb 1999 23:09:04 -0700
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Star Trek style shuttle/fighter bays and TNT
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> One part of it
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>that caught my attention is a reference to the shuttle and fighter bays
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>being pressurized, but having them open to space, the atmosphere being
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>kept in by a 'magnetic' shield or some technowizzit.
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No, there is a definite (and very large) airlock door that closes after ships
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enter the flight deck, so it can then be pressurized.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 1 Feb 1999 23:11:15 -0700
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Subject: Re: The A Call To Arms Poster
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It's a typo. The folks who did the poster never checked with us before they
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printed it.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 6 Feb 1999 18:46:49 -0700
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Subject: Re: ATTN jms: Sleeping in Light Novelization
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> Have you ever thought of making a novelization of
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>"Sleeping in Light"? Either writing it yourself or assigning it to
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>another author?
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No, not really. Not sure I'd want it done that way. Let the internal
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thoughts/monologue stay internal.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 8 Feb 1999 14:46:50 -0700
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Is "War Zone" History?
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>will you be reverting back to your
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>original plan and air "Racing the Night" first? I ask since you stated that
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>TNT
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>requested you reshuffle your story and make an introductory episode, titled
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>"War Zone".
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No, because the season was structured in such a way as to make that impossible.
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You'll understand when you see what was done.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 8 Feb 1999 14:47:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: SIL Clip in B5 CD-ROM
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Yeah, it was meant as a surprise, but that's the only one like it there.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 10 Feb 1999 17:06:39 -0700
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Whatcha up to now?
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>I was just
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>curious how you will be spending your time during this potentially nerve-
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>wracking waiting period? Will you be writing more eps for Crusade?
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>Working on your new comic (I can't wait to see it!)? Actually getting
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>some sleep for a change?
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All that...plus working on the show, doing post production on the episodes
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already in hand (CGI, music, sound, editing)...I'm actually about as busy as we
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are during shooting.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 10 Feb 1999 23:39:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: B5 on Drew Carey show
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We worke with the folks from the DCS on this. When they asked if they could do
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it, I only asked that they use our makeup and costume folks so it was
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authentic, rather than what Ellen did with 'em. I think they did a great job
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with this on Drew.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 12 Feb 1999 11:41:05 -0700
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Subject: New Words
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Every so often, I come up with new words for stuff...came up with a couple the
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other day, thought I'd pass 'em along.
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When you're talking on the phone to someone who's online in a chat or doing
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email, and there's that constant pause between what you say and their
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reply...that's "net-lag."
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When you're making a turn in a car and there's people in the way: a flack of
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pedestrians.
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Tha'ts it...just a thought....
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 12 Feb 1999 22:20:20 -0700
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Subject: Re: attn: JMS. Book release order?
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>There seems to be some confusion arising on the UK newsgroup about which
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>group of the three trilogies will be coming out next. I know a lot of us
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>want the Centauri Prime trilogy next (for obvious reasons) but it sounds as
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>though the Technomage trilogy is coming out first (after the Psi Corps
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>trilogy is finished). So which is it? And, if the Jeanne Cavelos novels will
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>be out before the Peter David ones, when can we expect Peter David's work to
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>hit the book shops?
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My guess (it's to some extent a matter of how fast they get it done after I
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turn in the outlines) is that we'll get the next Psi Corps novel first, then a
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Technomage novel, then the final Psi Corps/Bester novel, then the first
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Centauri novel, the second Technomage novel, and after that your guess is as
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good as mine.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 13 Feb 1999 02:07:52 -0700
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Subject: Re: New Unauthorized Babylon 5 Book Out
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I would appreciate it if some kind soul could send me a copy of this book
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(notify me first so we don't have ten folks sending copies in, and wasting
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their time), because this book apparently uses vast tracts of my internet
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postings, which is a gross violation of my copyright. I've given permission to
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use my postings on other internet systems, but never to be used in a book or to
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be sold for profit.
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Under my AOL agreement, and my CIS agreement, and the electronic copyright
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acts, these public postings are my express property and cannot be used without
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my permission.
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This applies to magazines as well as books. To anyone else thinking of
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poaching -- and we had to deal with a UK publisher on this very issue lately,
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and won -- the copyright to this material will be vigorously protected, so
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don't even *think* about using it and selling my words for your profit.
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These are freely provided, to fans, for their private and non-profit use, with
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my permission. NO permission is granted for anyone or anything else.
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I fully intend to bring suit against Mr. Schuster for copyright infringement.
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>A new unauthorized Babylon 5 book was released recently. I bought it in NYC
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>St. Mark's Comics. Here is the book info:
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>An Uncensored Guide, The Unauthorized, Uncensored Guide for Fans of Babylon 5
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>"Inside Babylon.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 16 Feb 1999 15:19:56 -0700
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Subject: Re: attn.JMS.UK appearances
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There's nothing currently scheduled for the UK.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 16 Feb 1999 16:04:08 -0700
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Subject: Re: New Unauthorized Babylon 5 Book Out
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As noted in another thread, the situation has been resolved, and Mr. Schuster
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has agreed to remove the copyrighted material from all future copies of the
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book.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 16 Feb 1999 16:04:08 -0700
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Subject: Re: Schuster's unauthorized book
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I've communicated with Mr. Schuster, and he has agreed to remove from future
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copies of the book all of the material taken from my internet postings.
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That doesn't affect the copies already on stands, but all copies produced
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henceforth (it's a self published operation, with limited numbers made at any
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time) will be done without that copyrighted material.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 19 Feb 1999 12:06:22 -0700
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Next con appearance?
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I'll be at Megacon in Orlando, Florida the weekend of March 5th.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 20 Feb 1999 18:40:48 -0700
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Sifl and Olly
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>In the latest B5 magazine, it says that you may be voicing one of the
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>puppets on an upcoming Sifl and Olly episode. Will this still be
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>happening?
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Haven't heard back. Liam said they wanted to make me into a sock puppet for
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the show. I said it would be redundent, but they were welcome to go for it.
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So we'll see....
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 21 Feb 1999 22:44:24 -0700
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Does cast/crew get paid?
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It depends on the department and the position within that department. Some
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folks can get holding money, some go on the union roster for day-work elsewhere
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until the dust settles.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 22 Feb 1999 18:44:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: Attn. JMS: Writer Ageism/60 Minutes
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>Is or was there any writer ageism present in your experience writing B5 and
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>elsewhere? 60 Minutes did an interesting piece on older writers having
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>trouble working? What's your take on this issue? I think a good writer
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>regardless of age with a good story can sell it.
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I haven't personally experienced it, but only because I'm still in my middle
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40s (44). However I know a number of people who *have* been affected by it,
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and it's a genuine problem. The irony is that many of the shows that say "we
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want mid-twenties writers only" are being run by guys in their fifties...so if
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they can create it and write for it, why can't somebody else in that age range?
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 26 Feb 1999 14:07:43 -0700
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Subject: from jms re: Crusade
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Bottom line:
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The reason we've been waiting so long for news is that the SciFi Channel has
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been crunching numbers for weeks, trying to make the deal work with WB, and
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doing their level best. The programming folks there loved the show (and
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special thanks has to go to Programming Head Tom Vitale at SFC who worked
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hardest to make this work).
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The problem is simply this: the money to fund a series is a BIG chunk of
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change. SFC had already allocated its budget for the year as of January 1st,
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and there simply wasn't enough left in this year's budget to pull it off.
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Also, the emphasis now is on spending money on shows where one owns a piece of
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it, and Crusade is owned entirely by WB.
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At the end of they day, they just couldn't make the dollars work, though they
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tried their damndest, and are only to be thanked.
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I'm told that if the ratings are good on the 13 which TNT will still air, all
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the eps made so far will be shown, there may be a second season, but we'll see.
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Meanwhile, I'm taking the day off. There have been seven offers for overall
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deals and multiple network pilot deals with both networks per se and studios on
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my desk for about a year now, ever since B5 ended, which I've been putting off
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to do Crusade. Now I'll pick one of those deals and make it. So the next
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thing from me you see will almost certainly be on one of the major networks.
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I'm going back into the deep water again....
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Meanwhile, my thanks to all those who emailed and wrote and called and
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supported. It's a good show, as will be seen when the shows are aired, and I'd
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rather lose a show I believed in than keep one I didn't believe in.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 27 Feb 1999 22:24:30 -0700
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS & ALL: Do NOT despair.
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What you have to understand at this point is that there's really no time left.
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It takes a large amount of money to hold a cast and crew together while other
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options are being sought, and even then options on varoius cast members and
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others begin to expire fast.
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WB can't keep spending holding money while they're seeking another prospect.
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It's a business decision, but a sensible one, given the large amounts of money
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involved. Their approach now is to believe in the show enough to get it on the
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air, let the ratings speak for themselves, and see what happens.
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My only regret is for the cast, who are all uniformly terrific, and who are
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caught out in all this.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 27 Feb 1999 22:24:37 -0700
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Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Are you still going to Megacon
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Yup, I'll be there.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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Date: 27 Feb 1999 22:25:16 -0700
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Network projects!
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>So what sort of offers have you recieved? I'm just curious...anything
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>sci-fi-ish, or a drama?
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It's a number of things; to run some network shows, to create others (blind
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pilot deals, meaning I write it, they buy it)...one network called late Friday
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as word got out and asked if I'd do a non-SF TV movie for them while the rest
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is in discussion (I said sure)...I can't talk about it much until the dust
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settles and I decide where to land.
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jms
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(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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http://www.thestation.com
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