Lexoriffic: This is Lex and Paul
ChatMod: Michael?
Lexoriffic: Yup
MichaelMcManus: I can type -- but I'm also experimenting with logging onthrough javachat.
ChatMod: Cool!
ChatMod: Hi everyone, thanks for joining us here. I'm Patrizia DiLucchio for SCIFI. Tonight we're pleased to tell you that the wait is over! Beginning tomorrow night SCIFI will be airing never-before-seen episodes of the SCI FI Original series Lexx.
ChatMod: In anticipation of the return of Lexx, tonight we’re pleasedto be chatting with the show’s executive producer Paul Donovan, head writer Lex Gigeroff, and star Michael McManus, better known as Kai. Between them these guys have won more awards than we can list!
ChatMod: So...First question
ChatMod: to : I would like to know if the name of
Giggarotta was a play on Lex's last name?
MichaelMcManus: Yes, it was.
MichaelMcManus: Whenever they were desperate for names, they would always use Lex's names --
MichaelMcManus: because he has a good name.
ChatMod: A question for Michael
ChatMod: to : Mr McManus: What was the most memorable experience that you've had in filming the many seasons of Lexx?
MichaelMcManus: Getting my hair cut on the last day of shooting.
MichaelMcManus: It was a fantastic experience to be done on 65 hours of cable television.
MichaelMcManus: Coming through!
ChatMod: Next question...
ChatMod: to : What was the original inspiration for Lexx?
Lexoriffic: Karl - I have my crack pipe right here
Lexoriffic: Okay - I'll call you a crack whore
Lexoriffic: ga
Lexoriffic: You tell me
MichaelMcManus: I think it was some kind of stoned meeting between Paul Donavan & Lex Gigeroff -- but you'd have to ask them.
KarlSCIFI: welcome back paul and lex
Lexoriffic: Hello
MichaelMcManus: You'd also have to ask Lex how to spell his last name.
Lexoriffic: Better now
ChatMod: Next question...
ChatMod: to : To Mr. McManus> There's a rumor going around that there's going to be a spin-off of LEXX. Are you goingto be in it by any chance?
MichaelMcManus: I've heard that rumor -- and I won't be in it. No chance.
MichaelMcManus: It's just a rumor. No I've done my time in the wig andthe rumor will have to wait for the ratings after the next 14 episodes.
MichaelMcManus: At the END of those 14 shows, my answer will be more clear.
ChatMod: Everybody wants to know why there are no LEXX action figures?
MichaelMcManus: I think they have to ask the company that has the license to market them -- that would be a Paul question.
Lexoriffic: PD: We're working on anatomically correct blow-up dolls
MichaelMcManus: Anatomically correct blow-up dolls of the producing team, naturally.
MichaelMcManus: Personally, I find the absence of Lexx figures oddly ... comforting.
ChatMod: to : Lex, what inspired you so much with the relationship between insects and humans? There seems to be no other aliens in the Lexx saga.
Lexoriffic: There's lotsa bugs in this universe... come over some time and I'll show you
ChatMod: to : Please someone tell me what the H in Stan's name stands for!!!
MichaelMcManus: Ahh!
MichaelMcManus: I have no idea.
Lexoriffic: We're not sure whether the "H" is "Hirsute" or "Heroin"
MichaelMcManus: I have a question for you: Did anyone see Brian or Stanley Tweedle at the sci fi convention in Los Angeles?
ChatMod: Now a really BIG question
ChatMod: to : What motivated the decision to change Xev's hair from RED to BLOND?
MichaelMcManus: That's a Paul question if I ever heard one.
Lexoriffic: Three thousand years in the cooler does strange things to hair - ga
Lexoriffic: As Michael will tell you - ga
ChatMod: STATION IDENTIFICATION:
ChatMod: to : To Paul, Michael and Lex....Hi there...Brian Downey had Lexoriffic: PD: Yes
MichaelMcManus: It was my muscular masculinity that impressed the locals.
MichaelMcManus: Those things are hard to drive -- the torque is unbelievable.
ChatMod: to : How long does it take to write or produce an epsiode?
Lexoriffic: Forty-four minutes and thirty seconds - plus a little post production per episode
ChatMod: to : So, whose idea was it to have 790 fall for Kai?
Lexoriffic: Thr 790- Kai idea came from Chris Bould - an "English" director ... ga
ChatMod: to : Now that fliming for Lexx is over, what other kinds of projects do you hope to try?
Lexoriffic: LG: I'm hoping to get a call back for the Zsa Zsa Gabor story
Lexoriffic: As the lead, natch
Lexoriffic: Dahhhhhhlinkkkk...
ChatMod: to : Michael, do you think you will be doing any American Movies inthe future, or do you hope to?
MichaelMcManus: It would be lovely but I think it's very long odds that anything like that would happen.
MichaelMcManus: Right now, that's what I think.
MichaelMcManus: But it would, of course, be lovely.
ChatMod: to : Paul, in your last chat, you mentioned a Renaissance project
Lexoriffic:Lexoriffic: PD: I'm going to Italy in April
ChatMod: to : Who's idea was it to have the LEXX blow up Disney World? Did someone have a bad experience there as a child?
Lexoriffic: PD: actually it was as an adult - ga
MichaelMcManus: I'm not implicated in that at all. I am innocent!
ChatMod: to : I'd like to know how Micheal keeps a straight face during some of those really incredible sceanes, like Xev fiddling with his knobs?
MichaelMcManus: If they hadn't thrown out all of the outtakes, one could easily see that I don't always keep a straight face. Although I'm not bad.
ChatMod: to : A lot of Lexx fans are freaks...goodness knows I'M thankful thatmy bangs cover up that 3rd eye on my forehead. ;) Did having such a fan-base challenge you to push the envelope with the writing/producing of the show?
Lexoriffic: What's so weird about a third eye?
ChatMod: to : How did Brian handle the "Fluffer" scene? I bet there where someterrific outtakes.
Lexoriffic: Brian couldn't take his hands off Jeff Hirschfield when the camera was not rolling...
ChatMod: to ChatMod:: Lex, how many ship designs did you go through till you picked
Lexoriffic: 69
ChatMod: to ChatMod:: to the Lexx and Paul : will there ever be a special with all the funny outtakes from the Lexx ?
Lexoriffic: PD: in the DVDs, yes...
MichaelMcManus: That's another way to get money out of sci fi fans!
ChatMod: As per previous chats, a pressing question tonight is: Where did the idea for "violating carrots" come from?
Lexoriffic: PD: Alex Busby - head of special effects - and he has 'unvresolved issues' with vegetables
ChatMod: Praxilla> to : Some folks would like to know if Mr. McManus has found new management yet?
MichaelMcManus: The idea came from the usual theme of anal penetration...
MichaelMcManus: I've turned out to be unmanageable.
ChatMod: to : Just a comment on what Michael said about getting money from us. A lot of us women would pay a fortune for him.
* MichaelMcManus laughs
MichaelMcManus: Wow. How much is a fortune?
MichaelMcManus: I may head back this way when I'm broke.
ChatMod: to ChatMod:: to : Micheal are you going to do more plays
MichaelMcManus: Yes, I am going to do more plays. And as soon as possible.
ChatMod: to : being very new to lexx and not knowing a lot about, why was there a diffrence in personality between Eva Habermann and Xena Seeburg as Xev
Lexoriffic: They didn't respond to the high voltage treatment in the same way - ga
ChatMod: A lot of people are asking if any of you will be attending fan conventions this year? And if so where?
MichaelMcManus: I have no plans to attend fan conventions this year.
Lexoriffic: We'll be at the Woodside Tavern in Dartmouth for most of the year - ga
ChatMod: to : for micheal, Did you do your own research for your scene in Fluffdaddy?
MichaelMcManus: It was a collaborative effort.
ChatMod: to : Please Mr. McManus if it's true that he's going to be playing a part in a movie of the book "The Power of Dr. Del"
MichaelMcManus: My people are still waiting for the contract negotiations to get un-stalled.
ChatMod: to ChatMod:: Why did you make Vlad a women, and why did she want to kill Kai?
Lexoriffic: We couldn't find a guy who could squeeze into the bustier. And she's from Finland...
ChatMod: to : Lex: Do you act anything like Dr. Rainbow in real life?
Lexoriffic: N-n-n-n-n-n-n- sometimes....
ChatMod: to ChatMod:: Hi Michael ,Paul and Lex I think u r such amazing men, Paul and Lex what made u think up such a creative show as Lexx?
Lexoriffic: There''s lotsa creative minds at the Woodside Tavern
ChatMod: to ChatMod:: Lexx has some stuff that some people find offensive. Has that ever been a problem in dealing with networks?
Lexoriffic: Not this network fortunately
Lexoriffic: What do y'all mean by redneck?
ChatMod: to ChatMod:: Is what Brian said true about there being a lexx spin-off of Lexx in the future.
Lexoriffic: That's up to the network
ChatMod: to : I was having an argument with one my college tutors a few days ago, as he seems to think he saw Lexx 20 years ago in Germany, Is he totaly metal, or was the concept for Lexx based on a similar tv show?
Lexoriffic: Lexx played first in Germany about five years ago - but we like to think of the show as an homage to "Space Precinct"
ChatMod: Paul, Lex, Michael. Our hour is over. Thanks for logging on. We'll all be watching tomorrow night. And to our audience, thanks for your myriad of questions! We'll open the floor in a moment
MichaelMcManus: Good bye to you all and thanks for having me online.
Lexoriffic: Danke - Tschuss –