Lucy Lawless Archived News
 


August 2001 - July 2002

Click here to read about Lucy's appearance in The Vagina Monologues (including screengrabs of
tv interviews, articles and reports

 

19 July

Lucy has made the NZ Rich List according to the NZ Herald http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyprint.cfm?storyID=2098472

11 July

TV Guide online has an article "Who Should Play Wonder Woman" and it lists the contenders. Very nice photo of Xena with the following about Lucy's chances:

8 July

According to the Sunday Star Times - Lucy is campaigning to raise 2.7 million to complete the heart unit at the Starship Children's Hospital, expected to open next month. The money will be raised through the sale of the $3 Star Bears through ASB Bank and The Warehouse.

 

2 July

This week's Woman's Day has an article on Lucy & Judah (it has several pictures of Lucy and a bundled up Judah).  Many thanks to Leanne from Kiwi Attic for the transcript - the article reads in part:

"Kiwi Actress Lucy Lawless has traded her action hero role for that of Supermum, but it seems the latest addition to her clan, seven-week-old Judah Miro Tapert is proving more than a handful.  Lucy was due to attend the glittering NZ Spider-Man movie premiere, in which she has a cameo role as a punk rocker, but opted instead to stay home with her precious son and take time to recover from Judah's home birth on May 7, While her showbiz work is on hold, Lucy, 34, is a crusader for kids.   She was spotted out with Andrew Young, communications manager of the Starship Foundation, of which she is a patron.  The pair are on the trail of raising $3 million for a heart unit at the Auckland children's hospital

For those interested in a copy of the magazine - please contact Leanne at Kiwi Attic on leanne@kiwiattic.com

21 June

 

United Press International reports:

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Entertainment memorabilia collectors will get a crack at owning artifacts from Hollywood -- including Harpo Marx's Gold 23 harp, Errol Flynn's tunic from the 1938 classic "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and a shirt Elvis Presley wore in "Jailhouse Rock" -- in a 10-day online auction that began Tuesday. TV memorabilia includes Tim Allen's blue coveralls from "Home Improvement, " Lucy Lawless' harem costume from "Xena, Warrior Princess" and a pair of 19th century dueling pistols from an episode of the original "Star Trek" series entitled "The Squire of the Gothos."

to bid on Lucy's costume go to: http://cgi.sothebys.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1837763967
or to bid on the rest of the collection at Sothebys:
http://listings.sothebys.ebay.com/aw/plistings/list/category28368/index.html

19 June

11 June

 

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If you missed these two  issue of Girlfriends magazine - you're in luck. The magazine is doing a promotion to get you to sign up for a yearly subscription and if you do they include these two Lucy issues plus a Wonder Woman issue. To subscribe go to http://www.girlfriendsmag.com/superheroine.html

9 June

xfiles.jpg (10012 bytes)More on the release of Nothing Important Happened Today (X-Files - 9th Season opener). The DVD will also have a behind the scenes footage from the two part episode. The DVD is in widescreen

To order go to: http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/220791  
Pre-order - released 24 July 2002
Price: $29.95 (Australia) Region 4

 

9 May

Added link to ET Online with a quote from Lucy about being 10 months pregnant
The tough TV starlet admitted that the journey with her new bundle of joy hasn't been completely smooth! After passing the 10-month mark (her original due date was Apr. 29) she experienced a bit of "road rage," yelling out, "Don't mess with me, I'm 10 months pregnant!"
Read the full transcript at http://www.etonline.com/celebrity/a10392.htm

8 May

 

Sword and Staff will continue to collect donations made payable to STARSHIP FOUNDATION to celebrate the birth of Judah Miro Tapert on May 7. Anyone wishing to make a donation to celebrate Lucy and Rob's new son, can do so by sending the donation to:

Sword and Staff
P.O. Box 224
Floral Park, NY 11002
USA
[click here for more details]

7 May

Congratulations to Rob, Lucy, Julius & Daisy!

It's a boy!
Judah Miro Tapert was born on 7 May 2002
From: Sharon Delaney: Official Xena Fan Club

The note from Sharon Delaney:
With his father's urgings and his mother's anguish  Judah Miro Tapert was born at 11:46 pm local time (NZ) on May 7th. Weight 8 lbs 8 oz.  Everyone is fine.

26 April

The two episodes that Lucy starred in "Nothing Important Happened Today - Part 1 and 2" will be released on VHS & DVD. You can preorder from
https://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000070294 (DVD)
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000070293 (PAL Video)
Amazon.com - Germany (PAL)
Many thanks to steffi-xphile@freenet.de   for the information

19 April

Reviews of Spiderman (the movie that Sam Raimi has produced and where Lucy has a small cameo) are now in http://www.zap2it.com/movies/movies/reviews/text/0,1259,---11868,00.html

17 February

The following is from the NZ Herald
This weekend, Sky City and the Starship Foundation will launch an advertising and fundraising campaign aimed at helping children and young people at risk of abuse. The appeal, fronted by actor Lucy Lawless, will raise funds to help medical specialists from Starship join police and Child, Youth and Family Services in a multi-agency centre. The first centre of its kind in New Zealand, its aim is to stop children falling through gaps in the system. Children will be able to be treated by all three agencies under one roof rather than in different offices or even different parts of town. Starship needs another $100,000 to refurbish its part of the building before the centre can open in August.
Appeal details: Safe and Sound Appeal donation envelopes will be delivered to Auckland households from Monday. Donations can be made online at the Starship website or sent to Freepost Safe and Sound Appeal, PO Box 91939, Auckland Mail Centre.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyprint.cfm?storyID=939639

14 February

NZoom has an rm file talking about the Vagina Monologues where Lucy is interviewed
http://onenews.nzoom.com/ (right hand side of the page under Holmes: "Getting comfortable with your Vagina"

5 February

llet2102_34.jpg (25472 bytes)Lucy is interviewed on Enteraintment Tonight (4 February US/5 February Aus). In the interview she reveals that she suffered a miscarriage between the end of Xena and her current pregnancy. It was also implicated that at some point there was a worry about her current pregnancy.
ET Online has a snippet of the interview on video and transcript
http://www.etonline.com/celebrity/a8837.htm

12 January

In the January 4 issue of NZ Truth and TV Extra it was reported:

I'M NOT ONE TO GOSSIP BUT . . . LUCY LAWLESS has turned down a big-bucks offer from Playboy magazine to bare all for its pages. She recently said she believed the publication asked every woman in showbusiness.

So she laughed off the proposal. But I hear her US representatives were tickled by it. I also hear they are going to come back to Lucy with another, even bigger, offer. But our Lucy is a class act so maybe she'll turn them down again.

19 December

InStyle Magazine - December 19, 2001

Lucy attended the premiere of Spy Game and was asked if she would prefer Brad Pitt or Robert Redford. Lucy's answer?

"Oh ... no, no, no," said Lucy Lawless when asked to make the choice. Sounding more like a politician than a warrior princess, she answered, "I'll take whichever one."

18 December

Added links to 10 photos of Lucy from the premiere of Lord of the Rings in Los Angeles on 16 December 2001
http://gallery.fansites.com/showthumbs.asp?start=19&EVENT=1301
http://gallery.fansites.com/showthumbs.asp?start=28&EVENT=1301

15 December

Lucy Alert:
Lucy will be attending the Lord of the Rings premiere at The Egyptian 6712 Hollywood Boulevard Hollywood - December 16, 2001. So stay tuned for some more coverage of Lucy.

14 December

12 December

New Zealand, Home of Middle-earth The voice of Lucy Lawless takes you on an audio visual journey through the varied and beautiful New Zealand landscapes which were used as a backdrop to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy. With stunning photographs and interviews with the cast and crew of the films, learn why New Zealand was the only landscape on earth that could have provided the locations for Tolkien’s Middle Earth. This behind the scenes journey is broken into five parts which focus on the interesting parallels between the fictional world and the real life country and people that helped realise it. Experience New Zealand, Home of Middle-earth.
Listen to Lucy narrate this audio visual journey http://www.purenz.com/?98B94218-FEC9-430A-8CEF-AB2A52EAFCE1

8 December

The New Zealand Herald reported that the July annual appeal during which $3 Star Bears were sold and a champagne Bollinger ball in September.   TVNZ broadcaster Angela D'Audney, television star Lucy Lawless, entertainer Sir Howard Morrison and actor Temuera Morrison also backed the appeal, which raised about $4 million.

Lucy missed out on the Bollinger ball as she was stranded in LA after the September 11 attacks. See below from The Sunday Star Times

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The following is from Sunday Star Times

Lucy is one of NZ stars that have been recruited by former Thompson Twins member Alannah Curries for a poster campaing against Genetically engineered food. The celebrities were photographed in protest t-shirts on September 1, 2001.

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Sunday Star Times - 16 September 2001

Actress Lucy Lawless missed the Champagne Bollinger Ball in Auckland last night, after she was stranded in Los Angeles because of the terrorist drama. One of the thousands of passengers grounded in the aftermath of the attacks, she was to have helped launch a new Monopoly board game as a fundraiser for Auckland's Starship children's hospital

6 December

From People Magazine - 12 October 2001

New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless celebrated her first Thanksgiving in the U.S. with producer-husband Rob Tapert and their 2-year-old son Julius at their L.A. home. (Her daughter Daisy, 13, from her first marriage, is in boarding school in New Zealand.) Lawless tells us that she wasn't allowed in the kitchen--except to clean--while Rob and his brother Jeff, a professional chef, did all the cooking.

From Entertainment Weekly - 5 December 2001

BABY BOOM Ex-Xena Lucy Lawless and her husband, ex-''Xena: Warrior Princess'' producer Rob Tapert, are about to produce another little warrior prince or princess. The couple have a 2-year-old son, Julius; Lawless, 33, also has a 13-year-old daughter, Daisy, from a previous marriage. The new baby, whose sex has not been announced, is due in late April or early May. Perhaps not coincidentally, Lawless' publicist says she's not planning on returning to ''The X-Files'' to reprise her guest-starring role from this season's two-part opener, as an amphibious super soldier....

4 December

According to the NZ Sunday News Lucy will be co-MC at the Sky City Starlight Symphony in Auckland at the end of January. She may be singing at this event.

Added two page article from the NZ Woman's Weekly - 10 December 2001 - The Xena Files

Added article from New Idea - 1 December 2001 - "Lucy's Shock Pregnancy"

Added article from Sunday News (NZ) - 2 December 2001 - "Lucy Is Making a Splash"

Added small mention of Lucy's pregnancy from the Woman's Day magazine (New Zealand) - 2 December 2001

Archived link to article "Lawless To Join X-Files This Fall" from the People Daily News

25 November

From the Daily News - 23 November 2001
Kiwi actress Lucy Lawless, 33, who played Xena - The Warrior Princess on TV, is expecting her third child with producer husband Rob Tapert at the end of April

USA Today - 23 November 2001
Xena expecting: Lucy Lawless, 33, and her producer husband, Rob Tapert, are expecting another child in late April or early May. Lawless and Tapert (who produced Xena) have a 2-year-old son, and Lawless has a daughter, 13, from her first marriage

22 November

Lucy has gone to another film screening - this time it's for The special screening  "The Affair of the Necklace," a saga of celebrity and sex, greed and desire, corruption and temptation. Set in the waning years of the 18th Century, this provocative film tells the story of how one woman's quest for honor caused a scandal and brought down a kingdom.

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The wonderful news coming out of the recent ET mini interview with Lucy is that she's expecting her third child on April 27, 2002. In her interview Lucy indicated that the baby is fine and she will be considering a water birth similar to Julius' birth two years ago. The other big news is she cut her hair to shoulder length (see ET grabs) and she is looking absolutely smashing.

21 November

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3 November

2 November

29 October

Inside Hollywood has been showing a short interview with Lucy about Xena. It is part of an advertisement for the Xena Marathon coming up on oxygen channel. It appears to be on about 6-7 minutes after the top of the hour. 
Many thanks to Jacquie for the information

18 October

The following is from Mist at Sword & Staff

Just want to give everyone a Starship ``Monopoly update. Lucy has signed the games and they are enroute to Sword and Staff (85 boxes coming via cargo ship). They should be delivered on or about November 11th. Starship will be sending one game via air mail so I can get the postage and packaging sorted out. I do know that they weigh about 1.5 kg each (3.3 lbs), so that will cost $6.45 to ship via priority. I will give the buyer the option of buying postal insurance on the package as well. The decision to insure the package will be left up to each buyer. I will post the costs of insurance at a later date.

I will send out an email to every person who pre-ordered a game with information and the order form attached. I will also post the order form to the Sword and Staff website as soon as I know all the postal costs, to allow you to fill in the sheet and send it off to me.

Starship has requested that wherever possible we use credit cards instead of checks, so I ask that if at all possible that you charge the games on Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Diners Club.  If you do send checks, they must be banks checks or money orders payable in US$. Personal checks and postal money orders will not be accepted and will be returned to the sender.

There are still some autographed games available for anyone who might want to order one. If you would like a game, please contact me privately at MistNY@aol.com and I will add you to the list of those getting a game.

For those who asked, I will be raffling off some of the Monopoly games with proceeds going to Starship. Those tickets will be 3 tickets for US$10 and I will draw a signed game for each $100 in donations I receive. Your chances of winning will be 1 in 10. If you would like to participate in that raffle, please send a check or money order for US$10 payable to Starship Foundation and mail it to Sword and Staff, P.O. Box 224, Floral Park, NY 11002, USA.  Please include a SASE (self-addressed, stamped envelope) with your ticket order so that I can return the tickets to you.

Thanks again to everyone for their support, and as soon as I have the info on postage costs, I will send you all a note as well as post the order form to the Sword and Staff site.

Best,

Mist
http://sword-and-staff.com 
sword-and-staff-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

15 October

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Actress Lucy Lawless (''Xena:Warrior Princess'') has inked with Endeavor. Since ``Xena'' wrapped up its syndication run over the summer, the kiwi thesp has moved over to ``The X-Files for a recurring gig. Lawless will continue to be managed by Talent Entertainment Group.

Superhero sisters Josie Ryan has turned being a star's sister into a one-woman show, reports Jo McCarroll. Say your sister is super beautiful, super talented and a superhero. Meet Josie Ryan. Her one woman play, Sister WonderWoman, on at Auckland's Silo Theatre this month is about Lynda Carter, television's Wonder Woman to a generation, and her humdrum, homespun sister. In real life Ryan's older sister is Lucy "Xena" Lawless. You do the math.
[click here to read the article]

13 October

Lucy reveals in her latest interview with Ian Spelling, she will be in the Vagina Monologues in New Zealand for a limited time in February. The official Vaginal Monologues site decribes the show as:
In The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler has given voice to a chorus of lusty, outrageous, poignant, brave, highly original and thoroughly human stories.  Based on interviews with a diverse group of women – from a Long Island antique dealer to a Bosnian refugee – the play brazenly explores the humor, power, pain, wisdom, outrage, mystery and excitement hidden in vaginas.  Having seen The Vagina Monologues, no one – woman or man – will ever look at the world the same way again. To read more about this show go to:
http://www.vaginamonologues.com/   

18 August

Season Nine opens in two parts, with both episodes written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz. The first show, entitled "Nothing Important Happened Today," is directed by Kim Manners and will debut on Sunday, Nov. 4th at 9PM ET/8C. It will also feature the debut of the character played by Lucy Lawless. Its conclusion, "Nothing Important Happened Today II," is directed by Tony Wharmby and will air on Nov. 11th.

News and a name for Lucy Lawless' X-Files character

Species of T-Shirt Is Organically Grown and Lucy wears them.  From the LA Times.  If you want to see or purchase one of these shirts Wildlife Works sells them.  Many thanks to Cheri R. for the link.


12 August

Added interview transcript from Live Today with Susan Wood - Interview with Lucy Lawless - 25 July 2001.  Many thanks to Richard for the transcript.

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