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Wednesday, January 29, 2003

after extensive Googling, found this cute little picture of Ed with Harvey Keitel in Beeper from movie-times.net:

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Thursday, January 16, 2003

from variety.com

Posted: Sun., Apr. 7, 2002, 6:00am PT

NBC pilot takes a walk on the wild side
$2 mil pilot focuses on an American family in Africa

By BRYAN PEARSON

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JOHANNESBERG -- U.S. broadcaster NBC is venturing deep into the wilds with its latest pilot about a veterinarian from Los Angeles who loses his job and heads for a game park in Africa.
Being shot just outside Johannesburg, the $2 million pilot was written and exec produced by Thomas Lynch. He previously exec produced NBC skeins "Just Deal" and "Skate" and produced "100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd."

Lynch says he wanted to drop "a typical American family," complete with marital troubles and a drug-abusing teen son, into an "extreme situation" to see how they coped.

Wild animals including rhinos, wildebeest, lions, elephants and even pythons feature in the pilot for the series, dubbed "St. Georges."

"It is a family drama that has all the issues the typical family confronts, but everything is heightened by the fact that they are in Africa," Lynch said last week during a break in shooting.

Vet Brian Winters (played by Ed Quinn) "takes a great leap of faith" by taking charge of the game reserve, which also rescues animals, Lynch says.

Mel Harris ("thirtysomething") co-stars as Winters' wife, Erin.

"Once Mel agreed to come on board we looked around for a cast who would be able to act with her," Lynch says.

Of his cast of 20, half are American, half South Africans. Canuck Justin Chatwin plays the teen son, Ryan.

"We thought we would have to import more actors, but South Africa has probably the finest emerging film community I have ever worked with," he says.

Directed by Emmy winner Eric Laneuville ("I'll Fly Away"), the pilot will be presented to NBC execs this month.

If the skein is greenlit, Lynch will return to South Africa in mid-June to begin filming in early July, with the first episode to be screened in September.

Lynch says he chose South Africa because "we found multiple locations, crews that are very filmic, good infrastructure and plenty of wild animals."

While the weakness of the rand against the dollar was a "secondary" consideration, shooting in South Africa was cheaper than L.A.

"But in any case I would only have considered this project for Africa. Filming it anywhere else would be cheating," he says.

Date in print: Sun., Apr. 7, 2002.

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Ed Quinn is one of the casting choices listed in a poll for Joe Morelli from Janet Evanovich's One for the Money. i haven't read the book, but if i find a copy i'd look and see if Ed seems right for the role. i think he'd probably do quite well, considering that it's set in Trenton, NJ, and Ed was born in Jersey.

it has come to my attention that Ed's friend Eric Osland was the original bassist(?) of Scattergood, a band from California formed in 1995 that Ed was a part of. Eric left the group in 1999.
like EQ, Eric was also formerly with L.A. Models agency.
and he was in Glamour February 1995 with Rebecca Romijn (6 pages) — i sure wouldn't mind seeing those pics.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2003

shorelineentertainment.com has a comprehensive plot summary and a different version of the Beeper poster from the one that i saw before. a larger image of it would be nice.

hmmm. according to buylando.se, Beeper's video release was on 11 December 2002. i think you can buy it from the site, although i'm not 100% sure, since i can't actually read Swedish. :)
another Beeper summary, in Danish this time. plus a French article about the movie.

is the Ed Quinn in the 18-minute indie film Wicked World *our* EQ? he is credited as Goon 1. {weeble} i'd watch it for myself and find out, but you have to be a subscriber to view it, and i'm just a poor working-class stiff who can't afford things like that. argh.

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Monday, January 13, 2003

whoa. i think i have seen the Eric Osland whose name is often on those surfing pages along with EQ's. Ed himself mentioned him in a site's guestbook. they were also groomsmen together at a mutual friend's wedding.
am i in scary stalker grrrl territory already? i'm afraid that i am...but i just keep finding things with the search engines! :)

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Friday, January 10, 2003

i was going to go offline already but then i stumbled upon this Beeper poster --> if it goes off, you're dead — catchy, huh?
there's also info on the movie on *this page*, but it's in Norwegian. i'll have to look for some1 or something to translate it, i guess.

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random EQ thought for today: i wonder if Kate Bosworth (who starred with Ed in Young Americans) asked him for waveriding advice while filming Blue Crush. if i were her, i would've — he's quite the waverider himself...

anyway the last i heard about EQ from Fi was that he was in a pilot called St. George's Island.

if you have EQ fanart, like this terrific banner --> http://www.angelfire.com/nb/edquinn/images/EQbanner1.jpg (just copy & paste the URL into your browser's address bar)
made for us quite sometime ago by Patty of Simply Fanfic, please feel free to show us, i can be reached by email, just click on my name below this entry to contact me, OK?

.: posted by cj the @ 1:25 PM
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my EQ blog is now open. Fi, i'm still alive. :)
props to hollywood.com for having Beeper info, which you can find *here*. it's just a bit of information on the movie and basically adds little to what Fi already posted on the film roles page. but hey, news on EQ doesn't seem to be thick on the ground these days so i'll just take what i can get. To Chris, who emailed me: unfortunately i haven't seen anything about the release of Beeper yet. :(

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