New Line, Zlotoff rig up deal for 'MacGyver' film Sun Aug 25, 9:04 PM ET By Chris Gardner and Josh Spector

LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- "MacGyver," the late-1980s television series that featured an always-unsinkable secret agent played by Richard Dean Anderson, has completed a plot for the big screen.

On Friday, the creator of the Paramount Television series, Lee Zlotoff, closed a seven-figure deal with New Line Cinema to write, direct and produce a feature film based on "MacGyver," the ABC series that aired from 1985-92.

New Line was able to go ahead with the deal Friday after Paramount Pictures, which had the right of last refusal for the rights to the series, passed on the project.

There is no script yet and no deal for Anderson to return to his roots as the hero that could turn everyday objects into such tools as flamethrowers and explosives to help get out of a jam while never using a gun.

The long-running series has never been adapted into a feature film but did spawn two telefilms, "MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis" and "MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday." Sources said that while Anderson may be written into the script in a supporting or cameo role, the Angus MacGyver character will be a younger role.

What does Unfiction say?
What does ARGN say?
Time Hunt

Humanity - Who - "Michael Poverus, a rogue, a mystery, a genius" Beauty - What - "The Time Hunt is a quest for a unique prize - and a quest for the right person to own it" Space - Where - "Navigating through the Time Hunt" Time - When - "The Time Hunt will begin in Spring 2002" Truth - Why - "The Time Hunt began with a small hidden box" Glory - The Prize - "The Machina Universalis, a treasure and an enigma" Mystery - Play - "Try your hand at our miniature Time Hunt and see if you might be the one" Necessity - Register - "Register for the Time Hunt in advance" Love - Coniunctio - "Contact us to find out more"

[09:53] sapagoo: !kittyscript [09:53] * fireballs_unscripted_cats go beserk with pent-up scriptiness, chasing each other through the lounge and knocking over a few things here and there. They bat Puzzy around, rub against everybody's legs, leap on the uber-trout, and meow. And then pee on the afghan. [09:54] sapagoo: oops... sorry about that.

FX To Air '24' over 24 Consecutive Hours

Okay all you '24' fans, you have reason to celebrate. FX will be airing the original 24 episodes during a 24-hour marathon beginning at midnight on Saturday, Aug. 31, and running throughout Sunday, September 1, culminating with the finale at 11 p.m.

30 Years After

Ten years after the publication of Stealers' Sky...
Thirty years after the sacking of Ranke...
Thieves' World is back!

The press release wherein the new novel's name and plot are revealed!

I don't know what caused me to go looking for Sanctuary sometime last week, but I hardly expected to find what I did. Fresh meat.

An anthology series first published in the late, late seventies; I picked up my first Thieves' World novel as I enetered high school some six years later. Actually, I picked up six of them. I bought a box set for Christmas. Best damn box set I've ever read, and they still hold up today.

I don't really know how to describe my attraction to this series. I've re-written this paragraph eight times now, and I'm no closer to putting my thoughts into text. I think, sometime this weekend, I shall transcribe Asprin's closing essay from the first volume which describes the tale of how Thieves' World came about.

In the meantime, leave me comments. Tell me if you've read Thieves' World (or any of it's 20+ sanctioned volumes). Tell me what you thought of it...

...but mostly, tell me if you'd be interested in participating in a simillar (albeit smaller scale) venture.

Brief background: Teddy Borg was created by three MIT students on a total whim. We like computers, networking hardware especially. So one day we get the idea of putting a networking switch inside a teddy bear. Why? Because we can. Because it was either this, or do classwork on a Saturday. Because it would be moderately amusing. Because we have the vain hope that it will attract women.

Thanks to deb, I just had a 25 year regression. Today's lunch menu: a chili cheese dog & an Orange Julius. I feel like I'm seven years old.

nick: "A B5 t-shirt and a plastic lightsaber." I bet one of our fellow ringers has one, if not both, of these items.

Me thinks thou doth assumpt too much. Neither do I possess.

nick: Now I'll go back to my embroidery.

Speaking of embroidery, I have this way cool Babylon 5 cross-stitch kit with a midnight blue fabric and...

...maybe you don't assume too much.

LAUREL, Md., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digex, Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIGX), announced today a reduction of approximately 200 positions or about 20% of its workforce. The initiative will begin immediately and is concentrated in non-service delivery organizations. These efforts are part of an overall plan for Digex to become financially self-sustaining, and to align and focus resources on servicing the company's customer base.

"Digex has three top priorities -- customer focus, expanding our value
proposition and financial independence. This initiative is one of several
actions we're taking to ensure expenses are aligned with revenues," said
George Kerns, president and CEO of Digex. "These are difficult decisions and
much effort has been made to ensure that these actions will not impact
delivery of services to our customers. Digex remains committed to retaining
its market leadership and providing the highest quality hosting solutions and
services."

Digex expects to complete these actions by the end of the week. Affected
employees will receive a severance package relative to their duration of
service with the Company. [emphasis added]

I think I might be safe again. I just realized that as one of the 20 earliest employees left, I am too expensive to get rid of.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

The Immersive Lounge, your one stop shop for discussion of news, rumors, and meta issues of immersive entertainment the world over. Stay tuned. Same immersive time, same immersive channel.

Please note, the extra! exclamation!! points are not!!! mine.

So, this is just a quick update on all the wonderful things going on in the world of Unfiction. All the wonderful things that I don't have the time to get involved in, but I still keep up as much as I can.

Unfiction.com is still out there, but rumors and updates have been few and far between. Among other things, the compendium section is still waiting for someone named "muda" to prepare a synopsis of Majestic.

CollectiveDetective.com has announced public beta testing of their "for-a-small-fee" collection of alternative reality gaming resources. Someone tell me what's behind the veil there, because I'm not spending my pennies on it.

Speaking of Alternative Reality Gaming, ARGN has lauched a co-op venture with CD which is called "The Immersive Lounge" (noted above). A peek at the source code will show you: "Liveplanet is going to pay!"

Who is Live Planet you ask? They are the multimedia creative team behind ABC's new Push, NV entertainment concept... Push is Majestic with a cash prize. Notice I didn't say it was The Beast with a cash prize? LP seems to be gearing up for a lowest common denominator. What's been exposed so far has been ridiculously simple flash games highly-reminiscent of thr3loadr. Skinner's pigeons could solve these. And, now that you know who LP is, why are they gonna pay? Becauses they've already alienated a large contingent of the genre's community. They pulled a righteous faux pas. But that's okay, really, because it's only ABC. ABC seems to be making it a point to dumb down it's net presence. Take it's new take on Alias for example: an irreverant chat bot which shills other ABC shows by 'dropping keywords' and sending players on 'web searches'. Good God, it almost makes me miss thesilentpartner and his memos.

What else, what else... Change Agents are kicking ass. Out of Control is currently the only significant game that's live, and the ARGN kids are eating it up. Way to go, SuperDave!

dparadise: When I lived up north, the mall up there had a place where you could be corn dogs

I know I'm forgetting a bunch of stuff, but the last thing that comes to mind is planning our wedding. When we first talked about marriage, we had lofty expectations... eloping to the south of france, vegas, san fran... *bling* (that was the sound of our reality check) So, it looks like the wedding day will be Aug 31. The monkey and your number 27 will be married in a private ceremony (just like a couple of hollywood celebs) and the parents will join us for dinner. No fuss, no muss, no enormous dent in our wallets.

So, what am I supposed to do with that Vegas travel package I signed up for? Geesh, now I might just have to *gasp* take a vacation.

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