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Sunday, July 1st 2007

3:35 AM

7/1/07 Update Blog

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Added 20 Mutant X sites and one affiliate. Expanded the videos and the Mutant X interviews/articles sections.

For the Mutant X fans who've wondered why head writer Howard Chaykin left Mutant X after the first season, Chaykin spoke a little about the subject in an interview with Suicide Girls last month. Here's an excerpt:

Howard Chaykin: I had a television career that hit the shoals in the early 2000s. I decided I didn’t want to go back. I felt it was time to leave television and become a human being again.
Daniel Robert Epstein: I thought you left Mutant X. Is that not true?
HC: I didn’t quit. I was fired.
DRE: Do you want to talk about why?
HC: No, not especially. It was a pleasant experience while it lasted. It wasn’t a pleasant experience at that point. Frankly I was happy to have the job but I wasn’t all that upset to leave it. I was fired in June and the way television business works is that jobs become available in May and in November so that even if I wanted to go back to work all I could do was freelance and there wasn’t that much freelance. I decided that since I had all those months I might as well do some comics. So I pitched a book at DC Comics on a Friday and they bought it on a Tuesday. I did the book and I decided on the basis of that I wasn’t particularly interested in going back to television. I asked my wife how she would feel about it and she was delighted because she felt I had become a sort of unpleasant person and I never went back.

Mutant X

Karen Cliche: Karen's film Moment has been selected for another viewing, this time at the Rhode Island Film Festival in August. In the meantime, you can check out a video interview with Karen and the other cast members of "Flash Gordon" at TV Squad.

Tom McCamus: In a recent interview, Tom stated that he will be appearing in an upcoming production of Stephen King's Misery.

John Shea: A long-time friend of the Nantucket writer, John has written the introduction for a collection of Del Wynn's poetry, ACK Poetically: A Collection of Poems and Writings by Del Wynn.

Lauren Lee Smith: Lauren's latest project will be the role of Cynthia Morgan in J.J. Abrams' HBO medical drama, "The Anatomy of Hope". She is also scheduled to attend this year's San Diego Comic-Con on July 29th, with the cast of Pathology.

Victor Webster: Production has been completed on Victor's film, Sands of Oblivion, which is scheduled to air on the Sci Fi Channel on July 28th.
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