Coming to theatres October 15, 2008.
`BILLY: THE EARLY YEARS' PROFILES FAMED EVANGELIST
We know who he is; how did he get there?
TIM FUNK
Billy Graham (Armie Hammer) does some soul-searching outside his family's home in Charlotte.
LEBANON, Tenn. --
For more than half a century, his name, face and voice have been among the most recognizable on the planet. But not once in all that time has Hollywood turned Billy Graham's life into a feature film.
His story has rise, but no fall. Celebrity, but no scandal. Where's the tension that sells tickets?
But now, as the Charlotte-born Graham approaches his 90th birthday in the silent seclusion of his mountaintop home in Montreat, two movie producers with a record of making family and faith-based fare are busy on a "biopic" that will dramatize parts of his life on the big screen.
Not the parts where Graham pastors to U.S. presidents or preaches to millions around the world. Producers Larry Mortorff and Bill McKay were more interested in what happened before all that.
"Everybody knows who he is," Mortorff says. "Nobody knows how he got there."
In the getting there, he and McKay saw the greatest story never told: a human tale of a young man who found his grand purpose in life only after being tested by rejection, failure, even doubt.
"Billy: The Early Years," the working title, will hit theaters Oct. 15.
Shooting on the $6 million movie recently wrapped in middle Tennessee.
Name cast members include Oscar winner Martin Landau, one-time "Bionic Woman" Lindsay Wagner -- producer Mortorff is her fourth ex-husband -- and Jennifer O'Neill. The director: Boone-based Robby Benson, a teen heartthrob in the late 1970s who now works mostly behind the camera and has longtime Charlotte and Carolinas connections.
For six weeks, inside old churches and homes, under tents and trees, they recreated scenes that shaped Graham's life between 1934 and 1949.
The Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association had no involvement with the movie. CEO Franklin Graham, the evangelist's son, recently told the Observer that the filmmakers seemed to take "great pains to hide (the script) from us ... I cannot say how authentic or accurate it is because we don't know."
In response, McKay said he and Mortorff would be "honored" to show the film to the Grahams before it's released.
McKay said they hadn't made contact because they were "advised" that the Graham family never endorsed books or films, so didn't request any approval "out of respect for Dr. Graham, his legacy and that policy."
As for accuracy and tone of the independent film, Mortorff said minor details have been changed to accommodate its two-hour running time, but that it offers a "proper, well-researched, very positive take on young Billy Graham."
Bankrolled by a London-based company that's new to movies, the film is hardly a big-budget blockbuster. McKay says it will get a full-dress national release, but acknowledges that it is likely to appeal most to Christian audiences.
"(Graham) is one of their own and they will get to see a piece of his life very few Christians know about," McKay says. "That's exciting enough to them that they'll give it the initial push, just like they did (Mel Gibson's) `The Passion of the Christ.' "
The producers are already reaching out to pastors, Christian radio listeners and young fans of Christian, gospel and country music.
Josh Turner, a big-voiced country music star, was signed to play George Beverly Shea, Graham's long-time baritone soloist on his crusades.
Mortorff also says he purposely hired actors who are Christians to play young Billy, wife Ruth and friend Charles Templeton, an evangelist himself until he began to disbelieve what he was preaching. In between takes, the trio -- Armie Hammer, Stephanie Butler and Kristoffer Polaha -- said they sometimes joined together for prayer.
"You would hear three really humble people who come before the Lord and just ask him to help us be available to whatever he wants to speak through us," says Butler, 23. She attended a Graham crusade in 1994 in Atlanta, when her father, ex-Atlanta Brave Brett Butler, gave witness on stage.
Graham's first years were spent in Charlotte, the setting for the first third of the movie. Wagner plays his devout mother, Morrow, and Hammer as Billy suits up in his Sharon High School baseball uniform.
The most ambitious "local" re-enactment: Dr. Mordecai Ham's fiery 1934 revival on Central Avenue. That's where an initially skeptical Graham, then a teenager living on his family's dairy farm, formally accepted Jesus into his life by answering the altar call.
Filmed under a tent on the Wilson County Fairground in Lebanon, Tenn., the all-night shoot included more than 400 extras, a fleet of classic Fords and Chevys from the '30s, and a robust performance by actor Cliff Bemis as Ham.
Recalling the drama
Young Billy Graham spills out of the green pickup -- the one with "Graham Bros. Dairy" painted on its sides -- and parks himself in a rickety wooden chair near the back of a tent packed with people.It's a steamy summer night in 1934, and Billy and his teenage buddies have come to see the man all of Charlotte is talking about: Dr. Mordecai Ham, a bull-necked traveling evangelist who's up on stage, thundering on about sin.
Billy looks amused when Ham darts from his pulpit to shout down an outraged heckler. But then the preacher heads his way, locking eyes with Billy as he approaches on a trail of sawdust.
"What brings you here, son?" he asks. "You feel an emptiness you can't fill with a fancy car or a pretty girl? You sometimes feel lost? You're not alone."
Then, suddenly, Ham is screaming again, telling the tent crowd that they'll all DIE! in their sin if they don't come forward, right now, and commit their lives to Christ.
As the barked invitation gives way to a choir member's angelic solo of "Just As I Am," the spotlight shifts to Billy. The tall, wavy-haired 15-year-old farm boy rises from his chair, then takes those first steps on a path that will take him to every corner of the globe as the most noted Christian evangelist since Paul.
"And...cut!"
Soul-searching
"Billy" co-producer Mortorff ducks into a tiny coffee shop just off the square in Watertown, Tenn. -- a churchy burg whose downtown, complete with gazebo, will pose as Charlotte's uptown, circa 1934.
As he settles in with his latte and a slice of pie, the thin, silver-haired Mortorff, whose resume includes nearly 30 TV and feature films, is the picture of laid-backness. His answers are pithy.
His take on the young Billy?
"This was a hometown boy growing up in a Norman Rockwell world, coming to grips with his talent and finding his voice."
Mortorff says he and McKay, whose mother taught Sunday school with the late Ruth Graham outside Chicago, see their film as one for and about young people.
Especially young Christians, who buy movie tickets and soundtracks but also take seriously the kind of soul-searching that's at the heart of the picture.
"We wanted it to be a young person's story about `What am I going to do with my life? If I have these strong yearnings, what am I going to do with them?' " Mortorff says. "It's a movie about a hero of the 20th century, told through the eyes of a young person who's surrounded by young people."
The movie's music -- the soundtrack goes on sale in August -- is also aimed at that demographic. Besides Turner, producers wanted a teenage version of Allison Kraus -- high-pitched, angelic voice -- to sing "Just As I Am" during Billy's conversion scene in Charlotte. They found her in Sierra Hull, 15, who beat out 100 others.
And to produce the country-gospel songs by Turner and others, Mortorff and his partners signed up John Carter Cash, the 38-year-old son of Johnny Cash, a close friend of Graham's and a performer at some of his crusades. The younger Cash is even recording one of his daddy's songs for the movie.
Being close to all this musical talent is one of the reasons "Billy: The Early Years" is being made in Tennessee, not in Graham's native North Carolina. Watertown and Lebanon are just outside Nashville.
Preparing for the role
How do you prepare to play the young Billy Graham?Armie Hammer did all the standard stuff: worked with a dialect coach to nail the Carolina drawl, read Graham's autobiography, "Just As I Am," and watched hours of crusade and interview footage.
But he also did something else: read the Bible, especially the story of King David, about the unassuming shepherd boy who's picked out for greatness by God.
"It's hard to get up there (as Billy) and say those words of purity if you're not coming from that place on your own," says Hammer, 21, the great-grandson of famed American industrialist Armand Hammer.
In his next movie, Warner Bros.' "Justice League," Hammer -- 6 feet 4, with chiseled movie star looks -- is set to play Batman.
No villains tried to stamp him out in "Billy," but his character does have to deal with perilous emotional combat: getting rejected by a girl he loves, butting heads with the president of fundamentalist Bob Jones University, giving a first sermon that's a disaster.
But the biggest confrontation Graham faces is from his pal Templeton. Starting as close friends and as traveling evangelists for Youth for Christ, Templeton seems to be the brighter star. But he eventually becomes an agnostic -- and labels Graham's faith "intellectual suicide."
Graham decides, in the movie's climax under a grove of trees in "California," to cast aside his doubts and believe what the Bible says. In the final scene, Landau as Templeton rises from his deathbed to embrace the visiting Billy -- played by Graham's real-life cousin, Bill Graham, a retired Christian bookseller in Nashville.
"You made the right choice," Templeton tells Billy.
That's just before the film ends.
But with the real Billy Graham now in the twilight of his life, the new movie could turn out to be just the beginning of interest in him as a big-screen subject.
McKay, who's next working with Mortorff on a movie about Jesus' resurrection, says he's heard of four other Billy Graham projects in the works.
And Marty Shiel, whose British company, Solex Productions, is putting up the money for "Billy: The Early Years," is talking sequel -- or sequels.
Says Shiel: "We're leaving the door wide open."
Tim Funk: (704) 358-5703
Controversy averted
The producers' original choice to play the preacher who brought Billy Graham to Christ: John Hagee.
Yes, the controversial Texas televangelist repudiated last week by Sen. John McCain after a recording surfaced that had Hagee saying Hitler and the Holocaust had been part of God's plan to drive the Jews back to Palestine.
The movie's producers said a scheduling conflict was the reason Hagee ended up not playing Dr. Mordecai Ham, in a tent revival scene set in Charlotte in 1934.
But the film's director, Robby Benson, wanted a real actor and was put off by controversial Hagee, who had also attacked the Catholic Church.
"I wouldn't be directing if he had the part," Benson told the Observer. "I might have gotten fired. But that would have been all right by me. I'm glad the producers made the right choice (in recasting the key role)."
Benson, an actor himself, said Hagee would have distracted audiences. "This movie is about Billy, it's about goodness," he said. "It's a powerful scene and we don't want people watching it say, `Hey, wait, isn't that . . .?' "
After Hagee's exit, Benson recruited friend Cliff Bemis -- star of the touring production of Tony-winner "The Drowsy Chaperone" -- to play Ham.
In his day, the real Ham was also controversial, for attacking local clergy and spewing anti-Semitic and racist comments.
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| Friday, September 28, 2007 INTERVIEW |
Ex-'Bionic Woman' Lindsay Wagner leaps from acting to activism |
Lindsay Wagner rose to fame in the mid-'70s when she guest-starred on Kentucky native Lee Majors' TV hit, "The Six Million Dollar Man."
Public response to Wagner was so positive that the actress was given her own series. As "The Bionic Woman," Wagner won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
She went on to star in more than 30 TV movies and miniseries, opting for roles that illustrated the complexities of modern life, including "Shattered Dreams" (a drama about domestic violence), and "The Taking of Flight 847: The The Uli Derickson Story" (about a heroine's cool in the face of airline hijackers).
Now, Wagner, 58, spends much of her time conducting experiential workshops titled "Quiet the Mind & Open the Heart" through her non-profit organization, PeaceMakers Community. She'll hold the two-day workshop this weekend at Dogwood Hill Inn in Prospect, Ky.
"I never envisioned myself here, but I've always wanted to live my life in service," Wagner said. "That was true before I was in the movie business, while I was in the movie business … and now."
Wagner took time out from her preparations to talk about how she went from actress to activist.
Q: When did you begin conducting workshops?
A: It's been an evolution. The workshops, as they exist right now, it's been a couple of years. Prior to that I was doing work in the Los Angeles County jails (with facilitator James Beard and Sheriff Lee Baca) … in some of the particular programs they have for incarcerated domestic-violence (perpetrators).
How did you begin working with men who have committed domestic violence -- and why?
I grew up in the midst of (domestic violence). I understand it deeply from being in the midst of it as a child. That's why I can honestly say that as much wonderful work that has been done to shelter women … until everyone in the syndrome has the opportunity to be helped in a positive way, we won't bring about healing. Of course protect, continue to protect (those who've been abused). To me, the women are only one-half of the syndrome, and the syndrome is never going to end in our species, in my opinion, if we don't look at both sides of it. … We can shelter victims all we want, but (we need to) embrace and offer the kind of help to perpetrators as we do victims. … Not everybody wants help, but a lot of people do.
How did your work in the jail system evolve into you holding workshops around the country?
I started a support group for the gentlemen who'd get out of jail and keep working the process. That's been the evolution of it. I've done private word-of-mouth work for years through my own personal healing and evolution of the journey. I passed that on. … We have such negative, angry, judgmental ways of approaching people who do things that cause pain to others, it makes it very hard for people to look at that themselves.
How do you try to make it easier?
It's kind of like stepping through the looking glass. … We're going to respect you as a child of God here. It's spiritual but not religious. You can be of any religion or no religion. But we're going to help you be a higher you. It's very holistic. It encompasses education, if you need more education. It encompasses cutting-edge psychology. It encompasses scientific brain research: How a man's brain works; how a woman's brain works. It's so rare that people set up that kind of healing environment for domestic-violence offenders. … To me, that's been a part of what's held back the domestic-violence movement from being more successful than it has been in the past few decades.
So, conducting workshops for people from all walks of life was just a natural extension of what you were doing.
I believe that God kind of inspires you: "Go over here for a while. Over here." I was guided, inspired to make a left turn down this road for a while. I have always felt that this was my desire all these years. Most of my movies were all true stories about people, about human potential because I have such faith in that. I believe at the core of our human potential is the connection to the divine. We tend to think of it as something separate from us, but to me that's where it comes from, that part of us that's connected to something much greater than ourselves.
What do you mean by "quiet the mind and open your heart"?
Our mind -- all that stuff that won't stop that we can't stop thinking and worrying about -- has nothing to do with our present situation. But our mind doesn't compute that, and it gets in our way of us really being present and in the moment. Understanding and looking at how our personal perception -- what's already in our minds -- of any circumstance in life … is, in fact, what creates our experience of that event, of how we feel when we look in the mirror.
Do you have any plans to return to acting?
No, I'm really not (acting) anymore. I'm really enjoying this work. It's kind of a natural extension for me because that's what my film career has been about. I'm not saying I'll never do another film. But I'm just more focused on this.
Have you seen any episodes of NBC's remake of "Bionic Woman"?
I haven't seen anything except for the snippets. It's going to be very different. … It'll be interesting to see what the old-timers think of it.
What are you most looking forward to about your trip to Louisville?
Aside from just seeing Louisville? … Getting together (earlier in the week) to do a reception benefiting The Center for Women and families. It's just what I've learned so far about what they're doing is so great.
| Saturday, August 13, 2007 APPEARANCE |
Lindsay attends the Academy of TV Stunts Peer Group Party |
   
  
Lindsay attended the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Academy of TV Stunts Peer Group Party on Saturday, August 13th, 2007 in North Hollywood, California. Also in attendance, were David Hasselhoff and Paul Michael Glaser among others.
| Tuesday, August 21, 2007 MOVIE NEWS |
The Surfer King released on DVD! |
In August of 2004, Lindsay filmed a few scenes for an independant feature film entitled "The Surfer King" and director Bernie Murray shares his experience with working with Lindsay on this film as well as a few photos on the set and from the premiere which took place in April of 2006. Now, "The Surfer King" will be released on DVD on August 21, 2007. Please click here to find out more about Bernie's experience and for some exclusive photos!
| Thusrday, May 10, 2007 APPEARANCE |
Family, celebrities turn out to honor Ed Thrasher with city's 286th star |
From left, Robert Alexander, Singer/actress Della Reese, Ed Thrasher’s sister Marilyn Ball, Lindsay Wagner and Linda Gray pose for a picture Thursday during the unveiling of Ed Thrasher star at the Palm Springs Walk of Stars in downtown Palm Springs.
You might not remember the songs on any album by your favorite band, but if the cover art or band logo is great, you'll always know what it looks like.
Late on Thursday afternoon, Ed Thrasher, the 12-time Grammy nominee for album art direction who died Aug. 5, 2006, was posthumously honored with the 286th star on the Palm Springs Walk of Fame, at 160 S. Palm Canyon Drive.
Joining Walk of Fame chairman Bob Alexander in dedicating the star, were Palm Springs Mayor Ron Oden, who proclaimed May 10, 2007, Ed Thrasher Day and recited a poem, "The Old Master"; actress Linda Gray, who was Thrasher's former wife, and their children, Jeff Thrasher and Kehly Gray Sloane; his sister, Marilyn Ball; his niece, actress Lindsay Wagner; and Della Reese, who sang an a cappella version of Louis Armstrong's "Wonderful World."
Gray told the small crowd of about 60 that "today is a day of love."
"We're all here to celebrate Ed's life," she said.
It was Thrasher, she said, who coined the phrase "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back" for Frank Sinatra's 1973 coming-out-of-retirement album.
"He was always on the cutting edge," she said.
Thrasher started his career as an assistant art director at Capitol Records in the mid-1950s, moving on to Warners/Reprise in the early 1960s.
During his years in the record industry, Thrasher photographed and designed album covers for artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, the Grateful Dead, the Doobie Brothers, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby and even Tiny Tim.
He used a moody self-portrait of Joni Mitchell for her "Clouds" album, which encouraged artists to become more involved in the cover designs for their work.
Wagner thanked the Palm Springs Walk of Fame committee and the city of Palm Springs for the walk, which honors not only stars but also the people behind them.
"We're nothing without the Ed Thrashers," she said. "It honors the whole city that you honor (these people)."
After the 40-minute ceremony, Thrasher's daughter, Kehly Sloane, said she was pleased that her father's star was in the city he chose to live in after leaving Los Angeles.
"It's really nice to have a place I can bring my children and they can see how the city honored my father."
Ball, who lives in La Quinta, thought it was appropriate that Thrasher's star was in Palm Springs rather than Hollywood. "He loved living here," she said. "Once he moved here from Los Angeles, he never looked back."
| Thusrday, May 10, 2007 SPECIAL INTEREST |
New BIONIC WOMAN series on NBC |
This looks very promising and the good thing is that it just may get the original "Bionic Woman" series released on DVD in America. Let's hope so.
ON THE WEB: Click here to discover Michelle Ryan. Click here for an additional preview of the new show
 
Michelle Ryan in scenes from the upcoming television series beginning this fall on NBC, BIONIC WOMAN.
Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers in the original THE BIONIC WOMAN in the late seventies.
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 APPEARANCE |
Coming Together for Analea McGarey
Sonoma Community Center
Saturday April 28 - 1:00pm |
| A two-day benefit for Analea McGarey, well-known local massage therapist and author of "Born to Heal,'' a biography of her mother and holistic healer Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey, is planned for the weekend of Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29. Analea, of Glen Ellen, is battling breast cancer and has had to give up her livliehood while in treatment. This has left her with no income to support herself. . Her multitude of friends have planned this benefit out of love and a great admiration for her as the healer she has been to many in Sonoma and surrounding areas. |
 Analea McGarey
The weekend event will kick off on Saturday with an amazing trio of women from 3-6 p.m. at the Sonoma Womens’ Club located at 1st St. East, in downtown Sonoma. Analea's mother, Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey, an international pioneer in holistic medicine, will speak about her inspirational journey and experiences, including her recent trip to educate women about birthing in rural Afghanastan at age 83. Family friend and actress Lindsay Wagner, best known as the Bionic Woman, is also scheduled to appear and will sign autographs. Local resident, and pianist/composer Stephanie Ozer will entertain with her moving Brazilian & Contemporary Jazz, while guests enjoy an appetizer and wine reception . A $50 minimum donation is asked, but more will be gratefully accepted. Read more here.
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| Thusrday, May 10, 2007 NEW BOOK |
BRINGERS OF THE GOLDEN BALL |
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The Secret, Religion, Self-help, Spirituality, and Enlightenment - All In One New Book?
What do The Secret, Law of Attraction, self-help guru Tony Robbins, Hollywood actress Lindsay Wagner, spirituality, religion and world peace have in common? They all come together in Dr. Robert March's new book Bringers of The Golden Ball.
To find out more...click here.
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| April, 2007 SPECIAL INTEREST |
NEXT CONDO BUYER NEED NOT BE BIONIC |
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Lindsay Wagner, known best as "The Bionic Woman" (a character she played on TV in the '70s), has sold a condo in Chatsworth for $649,000.
Wagner, 57, sold a nearly 2,000-square-foot unit with three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The condo was built in 1989; she bought it in 2004.
The actress also appeared in "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974) and in a number of movies and commercials. (Los Angeles Times)
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| April 22, 2007 APPEARANCE |
Documentary Film: H2OPI 2006 Run to Mexico |
Harkins Movie Theaters on April 22 at 6:00 PM in Sedona, Arizona. Special Guest, actress Lindsay Wagner, attended the screening of the film documenting the 1500 mile run by Hopi Water Messengers from the Hopi Mesas to Mexico City for the World Forum on Water. The Hopi runners carried messages about the Hopi Water Ethic to share with the Forum assembly. The story is one of great courage, determination and endurance on the part of the runners and their support crews. They faced long days of grueling hardships as they ran through the desert. Lindsay Wagner, who has been a constant supporter of American Indians, was joined by Vernon Masayesva and other Hopi Elders in a dialogue following the film. Please visit ioet.org for more information.
| April 22, 2007 APPEARANCE |
The 5th Annual TV Land Awards |
    
 
Lindsay attended the 5th Annual TV LAND Awards on April 15, 2007. Her character Jaime Sommers from THE BIONIC WOMAN was nominated for "Greatest Gear" and won. Lindsay used her "bionic speed" to accept the award which was voted online at TVLand.com. Charity activist Heather Mills of Dancing with the Stars presented Lindsay with this award. The ceremony was telecast on Sunday, April 22, 2007. Please visit the TV Land website for further details. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Lindsay on yet another well-deserved achievement!
| April 12, 2007 APPEARANCE |
GOOD PEOPLE, GOOD WORKS: LINDSAY WAGNER |
   
Lindsay was interviewed for the Supreme Master Television show entitled 'Good People, Good Works', a program that documents great and noble deeds and the people who carry them out. It tours around the world to feature the selfless works of people trying to make a difference while helping others and their selfless actions that serve as reminders of our own loving and caring nature. Their passion for the causes and actions to foster change are bringing about positive change in society and their stories are truly inspirational. Lindsay's first part of a two-part interview was aired on April 12, 2007 with part two airring on April 19, 2007. To view part two of this exclusive online interview, please visit Supreme Master Television. A big thank you to Lindsay Wagner's Official Fan Club for the scoop!
| April 22, 2007 MOVIE NEWS |
'CHILD'S CRY' GETS A DVD RELEASE |
The 1986 television movie "Child's Cry" starring Lindsay Wagner, Peter Coyote and Taliesin Jaffe was released in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2007.
To order your copy, please visit the following stores:
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Synopsis: After 6-year-old Eric is found by the police sleeping and alone at the zoo, and showing signs of being molested, a social worker tries to find out who committed this awful crime; his father, a stranger or someone he knew.
| April, 2007 NEW BOOK |
BETTER...STRONGER...FASTER...THE BIONIC BOOK |
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Before Hiro on Heroes, there was Steve Austin - The Six Million Dollar Man. Before Buffy Summers on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, there was Jaime Sommers - The Bionic Woman. Now, television's classic wonder people of the 1970s are back and stronger than ever in - THE BIONIC BOOK: THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN AND THE BIONIC WOMAN RECONSTRUCTED, written by best-selling author Herbie J Pilato (Bewitched Forever, The Kung Fu Book of Caine). Co-billed as the Cybernetic Compendium To TV's Most Realistic Sci-Fi Superhero Shows, THE BIONIC BOOK is chuck full of commentary culled from Pilato's exclusive interviews with Bionic stars Lee Majors (who played half-superman/half-mechanical marvel Steve Austin), Lindsay Wagner (Jaime Sommers - Steve's female counter-part and one true love), series creator (and science fiction novel icon) Martin Caidin, executive producer Harve Bennett (who would later help to ignite the Star Trek feature film franchise), producer/director Kenneth Johnson (The Incredible Hulk and Alien Nation) and actor Richard Anderson, the latter of whom portrayed Oscar Goldman - Steve and Jaime's stoic but understanding super-viser on both shows (and who has penned the book's foreword). Much more than a mere TV trivia guide, THE BIONIC BOOK explores in-depth the social, psychological, medical and scientic influence, appeal and message behind two of the most popular and heroic science fiction television programs of all time! |
Bionic Book cover courtesy of Matt Hankinson. Ships in September 2007.
ON THE WEB: To pre-order your copy of The Bionic Book, please visit the publisher's website by clicking here.
| April 22, 2007 SPECIAL INTEREST |
BIONICON 2.0 - JUNE 2007 |
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ON THE WEB: Please visit the official BIONICON website by clicking here. |
| February, 2007 SPECIAL INTEREST |
BIONIC ROLE FOR EX-EASTENDER RYAN |
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Ryan, who played Zoe Slater, left EastEnders in 2005 (photo courtesy of alex7000.net)
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Please visit the new "Bionic Woman" series' website at www.alex7000.net
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Former EastEnders star Michelle Ryan has landed the lead role in a remake of 1970s TV show The Bionic Woman.
The 22-year-old, who played Zoe Slater in the BBC soap for five years, beat a host of Hollywood names to the role, according to industry paper Variety.
She will play Jaime Sommers, a tennis professional whose body is rebuilt with electronic parts after an accident, giving her superhuman abilities.
The original show, which began in 1976, starred actress Lindsay Wagner.
The pilot show for the US network NBC, will be a "re-imagination" of the original, said the producers.
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Lindsay Wagner in a publicity shot from 1976 |
The programme was a spin-off from the hit TV series The Six Million Dollar Man, starring Lee Majors.
The bionic woman's limbs allowed her to outrun a car and lift heavy objects. She also had a bionic ear with enhanced powers of hearing. | |
| Ongoing TV COMMERCIALS |
SLEEP NUMBER BED NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON |
Please click on the picture above for a free DVD featuring Lindsay's infomercial and to visit Select Comfort's official website.
| January, 2007 MOVIE NEWS |
SUMMER DREAMS |
Previously released in the USA in April 2006, "The Surfer King" will soon be making its international debut as "Summer Dreams." The American DVD version will be released in August 2007.
To view the trailer, please click here.
| January, 2007 MOVIE NEWS |
BUCKAROO: THE MOVIE |
Buckaroo is set to be released in 2007. Please visit the movie's official site by clicking here.
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