New Sketches!

New Art!
Hello there!
A few new small sketchesFirefly/Serenity
Mal
Zoe
Wash
Jayne
Kaylee
Inara
Simon
River
Book

And, so it's not totally unrelated to our beloved Star Wars here's a preliminary sketch of the....
Rancor!

More to come.
Leah

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It's All Perfectly Clear

I like to shuffle through the Discovery Channel's website every couple of days. I came across an interesting little article about lasers being tuned, so to speak, to work in a way that makes the solid object it's pointed at "appear" (pun intended) to be invisible enabling the user to see beyond the solid object.

They believe that in the future they won't have to "tune" the lasers in order to do this.

Read the short article.

Pretty cool but a bit scary.
LM

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Actor and Site Updates!

Blog and Site update!

A lot of work for me (art) this week so I'm keeping very busy.
This "busy"-ness has cut down on adding too many actors to the SWAD. I have over 70 actors to add, from a prearranged list, to the database with many, many more coming.

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Oliver Ford Davies (Senator Sio Bibble - PT) Until March 25, 2006 Davies will be starring in The Linden Tree at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, UK.
The Linden Tree is set in 1947 during one of Britain's most awful winters. Davies plays History Professor Robert Linden of Barmanley University, and the play revolves around his character and his family. His strength and passion for life and history are contrasted by his wife's (and his family's) unhappiness and his student's indifference to history.

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Keisha Castle Hughes (Queen Apilana - ROTS) will star as the Virgin Mary in new Line Cinema's Nativity. Filming starts in Italy sometime in May and the film is set for release in the first week of December.

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James Earl Jones (voice of Darth Vader) - The play dates for the one-man show, Thurgood, were announced this week. Westport Playhouse, Westport Connecticut. April 30 - May 14. Tickets go on sale to the public starting on April 19, 2006.

Thurgood is a one-man show about Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall who rose from a child in the backstreets of Baltimore to the Supreme Court of the US.

Jones also spoke at the O'hara Exhibit Hall in Dallas, TX this week about his memoir Voices and Silences.

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Clint Bajakian (voice work for over 20 SW related video games and 4 Indiana Jones video games) Bajakian, the Senior Music Supervisor at Sony Computer Entertainment America is speaking today, March 20, and tomorrow, March 21, 2006 at the Game Developer's Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA.

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John Lithgow (voice of Yoda in the ESB and ROTJ radio dramas and the audio books) is set to host VOD Kids Series (20 part series) called John Lithgow's Paloozaville. The series will air in June (2006) on select Mag Rack - on demand video magazine- channels.

Lithgow will also star in Twenty Good Years - a TV comedy about two fifty-something year old men who decided to make the most of their lives after reaching epiphanies. NBC comedy pilot Fall 2006.

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Kevin Michael Richardson (voiced K'Kruhk in Clone Wars and voices for several Star Wars video games) will be voicing a character or more in an as yet untitled ABC comedy pilot. More as it becomes available.

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James Horan (voice work in KOTOR II: Sith Lords) stars and directs the stage play No Second Trumpet.

For more information on this stage production click HERE.

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Natalie Portman (Padmé Amidala Skywalker - PT) was a stand-in (guest) professor for the Terrorism & Counter-terrorism course at Columbia University on March 7, 2006.

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Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian - ESB/ROTJ) His film Constellation is finally getting ready for release this summer. The film is about a black family in Huntsville AL who are coming to terms with a past interracial affair in the family. No specific release date has been set. More info as it becomes available.

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Liam Neeson (Qui-Gon Jinn - TPM) is narrating Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film on March 19, 2006 for PBS.

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Christopher Lee (Count Dooku - AOTC/ROTS) Has worked as a soloist on a very recently released CD called The Lord of the Rings: Complete Songs and Poems. From the packaging:
"This 4 CD-Box contains the world's first complete musical interpretation of all the poems in J.R.R. Tolkiens' masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings' set to music by Casper Reiff and Peter Hall. 14 soloists, among these the world-famous actor Christopher Lee, and more than 150 professional musicians, have taken part in this ambitious project, which took ten year to complete.
The songs help one relive The Lord of the Rings in an entirely new way as they range from happy and funny Hobbit songs in the beginning of the book, to evocative and dramatic highlights towards the end"
Artwork by Her Majesty Queen Margarethe II of Denmark.

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Kevin Pollak (provided voice characterizations in the Ewoks TV series) is joining the cast of an untitled Carol Mendelsohn (CSI writer) produced drama for CBS. The show stars Alan Tudyk (Firefly, Serenity) and is based upon a book about a powerful Washington DC law firm and the lawyers who are at moral odds against their not-so-moral managing partner.

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Kenny Baker (R2D2)

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Updates to existing actors in the STAR WARS ACTORS DATABASE
Dave Bowers (Mas Amedda AOTC/ROTS) - Wattographs is holding a private signing for Dave Bowers until April 7, 2006. You can have personal items signed or get one of the photographs of him as Mas Amedda signed. Deadline for items received is April 7, 2006! CLICK HERE!

Correction to SWAD:
Michael Eager is now correct as Malcolm Eager.
Paul Bannon (update - Miscellany)
Stephen Buchanon (Film: Star Wars ANH)
Keisha Castle-Hughes (update - Film)
Oliver Ford Davies (update - Theatre and various pics)
Harrison Ford (update - various pics added)
Jaime Glover (update - Radio: 1994)
Mark Hamill (update - Online)
James Horan (update - Film; Theatre; Theatre Director; Theatre Producer)
Christopher Lee (update - Film: Ten Little Indians~1965; CDs)
Kevin Pollack (update - TV)
Hamish Roxburgh (update - Assistant Director)
Tom Sanderson (update - TPM credit)
Kiran Shaw (update - TV)
Kari Wahlgren (update - bio pic and new site link) (Thanks to Rollence!)

GEORGE LUCAS Mr. Lucas will be inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in Seattle on June 17, 2006 for his work in Film, Television and Media. - Congratulations!

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Newly added actors:
Stacy Cheregotis (Stacy Mollema)
Justin Dix
Peter House
Grant McCune

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Actor Connections - STAR WARS ACTOR CONNECTIONS
None this week :o

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References:

FILMS D- F
Dogma #3 Indy ref! (Thanks to DarthCharlie32!)

FILMS K-Q
Monsters, Inc. (trailer) (Thanks to Angel Songco!)

TV D-F
Drawn Together #10 (Thanks to John at Obroa-Skai and Curtis Shaw!)

COMICS/COMIC STRIPS
Under Marie Meier (Indy reference)

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LMangue's Art
New Site!
New work!
Boga at the top of the page

Enjoy!
Leah

Éire go brách!

There are certainly more Irish born Star Wars actors in our beloved saga than I mention here but I will focus on these four:
Adrian Dunbar, Fionnula Flanagan, Bronagh Gallagher, Liam Neeson.

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Adrian Dunbar (unused Bail Antilles - TPM) was born on August 1, 1958 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Enniskillen is the County Town of Fermanagh, located in the very center of the County and is set on a natural island which separates the Upper and Lower parts of Lough Erne (the river Erne). This is part of the North East section of Ireland, the UK part of Ulster.

Dunbar was the eldest of seven children born to a construction foreman and his very first job was in an Abattoir (pork slaughterhouse) but he was also playing in a band in the evenings. His first gig, when he was all of sixteen, was playing a Fender Jazz Bass guitar for Elvis impersonator Frank Chisholm on the road with Frank's Elvis show. He attended St Josephs College for Catholics in Enniskillen.

Acting came by accident when he took a job as a lighting assistant at a local theatre. One of the actors in the production he was working on took ill and Dunbar replaced him for the performance. He decided to take up acting and headed for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (this is also where other Star Wars alum studied acting: Peter Cushing, Carrie Fisher, Stephen Hoye, Ewan McGregor and Dominic West) which is located in London, England. Dunbar graduated in 1983.

He is married to Australian actress Anna Nygh and they have one child, a daughter named Madaleine.

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Fionnula Flanagan (Catherine Towani in The Ewok Adventures: Caravan of Courage) was born on December 10, 1941 in Dublin, Ireland. Dublin just below the Eastern most portion of Northern Ireland and it is the country's biggest metropolis.

Flanagan studied at Scoil Mhuire Marlborough Street, then Sandymount High School and then to Scoil Caitriona, Dominican College in her native Ireland but she also studied languages at the Universite de Fribourg in Switzerland. Her language studies landed her work as a translator in Italy.

Her training in drama took place at Dublin's prestigious Abbey Theatre, but by 1968 Flanagan decided to move to the US to pursue theatre work in New York City.

Since then she has become very well-known in the US and is a multi-award winning actress. She's received awards for her work from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films; a DramaLogue Award (Theatre); an Emmy; a Golden Satellite; LA Drama Critics Circle (Theatre) and a SF Critics' Award. She's been nominated for a SAG, a Tony (Theatre) and several other awards.

Flanagan splits her living time between her native Ireland and Los Angeles with her husband, a Los Angeles psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist, Garrett O'Conner, since 1972.

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Bronagh Gallagher (Radiant VII Cruiser Captain Karol in TPM) was born in 1972 in Londonderry (Derry), in Northern Ireland. Londonderry, locally known as Derry (officially as Londonderry City), is located in to the north west of the eastern most part of Northern Ireland at the Foyle River.

Gallagher's introduction to performing came as a child while listening to the music, soul, country and blues, her parents played. She and her brother would dance while the music played. Her love for performing continued in school where she was involved with the school choir and the drama productions at Nazareth House Primary and ST. Mary's College in Creggan. It was these schools that nurtured her love for the performing arts and became catalysts for heading into professional acting. She joined the Oakgrove Theatre Company in Derry while going to school.

It was the film The Commitments which offered Gallagher her first true break, the popularity of this independent film was astounding and since then she's worked as an actress and a singer, first with Andy White - she played drums and vocals, then on her own touring. She still sings and has put out an album, Precious Soul, that has won wide acclaim. The idea for the album when she took a holiday to the US and traveled with her good friends across the country in a motor home.

Gallagher lives in her native Ireland.

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Liam Neeson (Qui-Gon Jinn - TPM) For this I send you directly to his page in the SWAD. He is one of the most famous Irish actors in recent history.


Go raibh maith agat (Thank you) agus
Sláinte! (Cheers!)
Leah

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Mark Hamill - Monkey Talk

Mark Hamill was a guest star on today's episode of Monkey Talk by Paul Dini (writer for Ewoks, Droids, Batman and many other series). Monkey Talk is an online series (only up to episode 1 after a pilot) which is rather silly but fun.

Click HERE to see the video (about 13 mins)

Enjoy!
Leah

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