Buffy

Secondary Sex Characteristics

May 28, 2004

Enrico just came back from his US trip with a copy of Playboy magazine. Not something he normally buys, but this issue features Charisma Carpenter, a long-time favorite from Buffy and “Angel,” more or less in the altogether. The last time I saw the inside of a Playboy was over 20 years ago – back [...]

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Life Without Buffy

November 27, 2003

We’re suffering Buffy withdrawal. Angel, the show which spun off from Buffy four years ago, is good, but it’s pretty much guy-centered. I have no complaints about watching all the good-looking men on “Angel,” but I miss the presence of powerful women, and the role model that Buffy provided for my daughter. Ross started watching [...]

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Firefly: Joss Whedon’s Space Opera

September 21, 2003

If you never saw Joss Whedon‘s short-lived series “Firefly” when it was running on US television last fall, now’s your chance. It’s, um, well, hard to explain… a science-fiction western? It takes place 500 years in the future, in a universe populated only by human beings (so far as we know), just after a civil [...]

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That Vampire Thing: Story of an Obsession

June 20, 2003

I had a thing about vampires long before Buffy the Vampire Slayer came along. It began in the summer of 1978, when I traveled to the US with my folks on home leave. The hit Broadway production of “Dracula” had been made into a movie, with Frank Langella reprising his title role. I was 15 [...]

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Farewell to Buffy

May 6, 2003

As mentioned in this newsletter long ago, we’re big fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and everything else by Joss Whedon, the show’s creator, that we can lay hands on). When Rossella and I attended a Buffy convention in London in 2001, we were almost the only mother-daughter pair to attend (the few other kids [...]

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer – My Favorite Obsession

June 15, 2001

Amber Benson (Tara) with Ross Already a Buffy Fan? Here are a few other vampires you might enjoy. Convention Report, June 2001 By now “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is an international phenomenon. The show has completed its 5th season in the United States, and has generated a spin-off show, “Angel” which has been running for [...]

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