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From The Hollywood Reporter
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Alyson Hannigan is set to play Sally to Luke Perry's Harry. The actress has
just been cast in the London stage version of Rob Reiner's 1989 film "When
Harry Met Sally," playing the part originally made famous by Meg Ryan.
Directed by Loveday Ingram, the production is set to unveil in previews Feb.
10 with an official opening Feb. 20 at the Theatre Royal in London. Produced
by James Tod, "When Harry Met Sally" is scheduled to run for 16 weeks.
Marcy Kahan adapted Nora Ephron's script for the stage. It will find
Hannigan and Perry as longtime friends who keep bumping into each other
through the years while they separately search for love, always afraid to
hook up with each other for fear that sex will ruin their good friendship.
Hannigan is repped by Innovative Artists and manager Steve Lovett and Lovett
Management. She is best known for her work as Willow on "Buffy the Vampire
Slayer" as well as her part in the "American Pie" franchise as the
flute-toting love interest of Jason Biggs' character.
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What is Events Rescue?
There's already been a bit of speculation about why a group would form calling itself Events Rescue. Already some event organisers are looking dubiously at us, believing we intend to run our own events, or that we plan to tell them how to run theirs.
Nope. Sorry... just not true.
What Events Rescue would like to do is help.
Events Rescue will be a message board where you can discuss events openly, and so long as you avoid bad language and personal attacks, you will be able to post your opinions, both good and bad, about events you have gone to. We aren't affiliated with any event organiser or group, and while organisers and those working with them are welcome to join and post, they aren't in charge. Unlike some teflon-coated boards, posts here will be able to actually stay up or we'll give you a reason why not.
Events Rescue will hopefully gather together articles and suggestions to help people who might want to run their own events. Lots of first time organisers trying to run make mistakes they could avoid simply by looking to see who has made the same mistakes in the past. People will be welcome to agree, argue or put forward their own advice on the subjects discussed, because just because we say "this is the way to do it" doesn't mean we must be right, or that it's the only way.
Events Rescue is not going to run anything itself, though that isn't to say individual people in Events Rescue might not do so one day. And Events Rescue isn't going to encourage or discourage anyone else from running events. What we will try to do is provide what we hope are helpful suggestions. We don't plan to call up established organisers and tell them how to do things. The information will be available for everyone to read if they are interested, and then to use or not as they like.
Lastly, if you are new to attending events, there are a lot of people out there happy to take your money, and nobody telling you who these people really are. Checking their message boards isn't a way to find out, as some boards deliberately remove negative comments about their own events. Hopefully ER will become a place you can check and get the basic background information and a balanced viewpoint on whether they are value for money. If you look here and think the viewpoint isn't balanced, then post your own opinion and balance things.
Prometheus Events löst sich auf
Als ob es in diesem jungen Jahr noch nicht turbulent genug zugegangen wäre, hat sich heute Prometheus Events vollkommen überraschend aufgelöst.
Die SGC 2004.2 wird nun von Wolf Events UK übernommen. Da die Veranstaltung parallel mit deren SG-8 in London laufen wird, verschiebt sich das Datum auf den 29.-31.10.2004. Die Gästeliste wird ähnlich der der britischen Veranstaltung sein (bisher: Michael Shanks, Christopher Judge, Teryl Rothery, Jacqueline Samuda).
Ticketpreise werden 100 Euro für Wochenend- und 55 Euro für eine Tageskarte betragen. Ort der Veranstaltung wird Frankfurt sein - wo genau steht allerdings noch nicht fest.
Als offizieller Grund für das Ende von Prometheus wird Zeitmangel angeführt, jedoch hörte man schon nach der Abspaltung von LoGe Fanevents vor einigen Monaten von Interessenskonflikten im Team und so offenbart ein Blick in das noch offene Forum, dass sich "Prometheus Events and Marketing" offensichtlich bereits seit seinem kurzen Bestehen in einer größeren internen Krise befand und laut den Aussagen die zukünftige Entwicklung zu fanfreundlicheren Events hätte angezweifelt werden dürfen.
Es scheint ganz so, als wäre die eigentlich schon im letzten Jahr erwartete ganz große Pleitewelle im Conventionbereich (wegen finanziellen, wie organisatorischen Defiziten) nun endgültig über uns gekommen. Hoffen wir, dass die Talsohle nun erreicht ist. Darüber hinaus wird es interessant zu sehen sein, inwiefern Wolf Events UK sich mit der SGC 2004.2 in Deutschland etablieren will, oder ob es sich um eine einmalige Übernahme handelt.
Quelle: Prometheus Events
http://www.prometheusevents.de/