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always funny to see how the crew handled it...they'd send for me in
that kind of "oh shit" meets "nobody gets to see the Wizard" meets "you
want to talk to WHO?" way that just amused the hell out of the cast.
On other shows, however, where the through-line isn't as rigorous, you
have to be more open. On Jeremiah, there was a far greater degree of
give-and-take between me and the various directors and, to some extent,
cast than on B5...but less than on other shows that were even more
collaborative. So there's really no good or bad way here, it's all a
matter of what works for a given show.
jms
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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 06:46:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Toy Gun Question
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Even by my standards, such as they are, this is probably the most dopey
message I've posted in a long while, but what the hell....
When I was a kid, maybe 13, I had an idea for the Coolest Toy Gun In
the History Of the World. And I figured, sooner or later, somebody
would come up with the same idea and actually make the thing, so I
could play with it.
Well, it's now 37 years later, and I'm still waiting. No one's ever
come up with this one, insofar as I know. So I want to put this in
front of somebody in the Making Toy Gun Business. Unfortunately, I
don't KNOW anybody in the Making Toy Gun Business. And I thought, who
could I ask who MIGHT know somebody in the Toy Gun Business?
And who more likely than you bunch?
So if there's anybody reading this who knows somebody in the TGB
(obviously this will have to be verified) on a personal basis, not just
"I saw this name in an article" that would be great. It's both a
mechanical gun with some electronic aspects, but that's all I'll say
about it, so the company would have to handle both in production.
Just throwing it out there to see what happens...and if that 13 year
old jms will ever get his toy gun....
jms
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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 23:08:10 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Toy Gun Question
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
I personally know a toy designer who works for the giant Mammoth
Toys of China. Her forte is designing the circuitry/electronic boards
that go into the toys. Her last toy design was sold on the QVC
shopping
network and at KayBee Toys.
Can you have her drop me a note in email? Thanks.
jms
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:11:29 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: from jms: too damned much stuff
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Okay. That's it. I give up.
Over the last few days, I've been trying to sort through the tons of
boxes that have for the most part been sitting in storage for the last
several years to try and find space for all this stuff, and there just
isn't any. The floors are wall-to-wall with boxes, crates, palletes,
you name it, the detritus of decades of making shows and writing comics
and being a pack-rack. It has literally grown to overflow two rental
storage facilities.
I have reached the point best expressed by Oscar Wilde's last words:
"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
There's just no room, and I'm going insane.
So I'm going to have a yard sale.
Now, understand, the majority of this stuff will never leaving my
hands, and for those I have set aside places here at the house...the
statue of the B5 station that sat for five years on the desk of every
commanding officer on B5...the actual prop Book of G'Kar...a number of
props and bits of memorabilia that have honored places here.
But a lot of the rest is going to go out the door, because either that
wallpaper goes, or...well, you get the idea.
It's going to be kind of a JMS retrospective in some ways, because as I
said, this stuff covers decades...from memorabilia and storyboards for
the Ghostbusters, He-Man and Captain Power series, original scripts
from Twilight Zone and Murder, She Wrote...but the bulk of it is B5
stuff.
There are the actual script books I used during production, into which
I shoved the script I was working on, the breakdowns, shooting
schedules, any storyboards that were needed...the whole thing, in one
book per episode, some of which still have my original notations.
There are episodic dailies tapes, with takes and bits not previously
seen anywhere, posters, publicity material, a ton of stuff.
Props from the show, from my personal collection, where I have doubles
or just no place for them anymore.
(One of the things I'm letting go traces back to the pilot. Not sure
if the show would ever actually go, I paid the wardrobe department to
make me a B5 captain's uniform. I know, I know, I'm the ultimate geek,
but there you are. Suffice to say given the passage of time and
calories, there's no way on god's green earth that that uniform is ever
going to fit. Not that I ever wore it past the initial fitting, but
for sure it ain't gonna happen now. So that's on its way out.)
Another prime item is going to be one of two huge original art pieces
that the late Peter Ledger did for me to help sell B5 itself, big,
elaborate paintings, signed by Peter. The one I won't sell is the
first painting of the B5 station itself from the outside; the one I
just don't have room for is the very first visualization/painting of
the Garden area, with the core shuttle, folks floating around, and in
the bar, a fight breaking out between humans and aliens, with an early
version of Garibaldi in the thick of it.
There's caps, and a disco-style prototype of a B5 crew jacket, a few of
the original blue key B5 symbol t-shirts made up before we did the
pilot and given out at a couple of conventions, an assortment of
souvenirs and some truly, truly weird shit, some of which nobody's ever
heard of before, let alone seen.
I'm still holding on to about 75% of the stuff, but the other 25% has
got to go.
So starting sometime probably next week, the week of the 11th, and from
time to time over the next month or so, keep an eye on Ebay. (I'm
playing with the idea of doing this chronologically, from the earliest
stuff to the latter stuff, but I don't know if I'm disciplined enough
for that.) I likely won't put this stuff up every day, only when and
as I think of it. So you may have days pass with nothing, then a day
when four or five items go up. The Ebay user ID is babylon5auctions.
Once I've cleared out enough room to actually see the floor again, the
auctions will stop and that user ID will go away.
Let the games begin.
jms
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 23:39:39 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: from jms: too damned much stuff
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
JMS did say that he planned to have the
Book of G'Quan for his own after the series, but I think that the book
of G'Kar
was bound by the end, too. If JMS is smart, he has both but he did
probably
mean the book of G'Quan. In fact, I'd automatically read G'Quan
anyway.
Because the Book of G'Quan appears for the first time in "By Any Means
Necessary" Kathryn got that one as a gift, and I got the Book of G'Kar
which, someday, if there is a B5 feature, I may give as a gift to a
certain very tall Narn....
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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:05:10 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: from jms: too damned much stuff
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Please tell me that you will be willing to ship outside the US
As a courtesy to anyone who picks this stuff up, I'm going to be
sending everything out fed ex, to make sure it arrives safely (and only
charging like five bucks), so that means it can go internationally as
well.
jms
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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:08:10 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: from jms: too damned much stuff
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Nice to know you still have some
plans for G'Kar!
Actually, I was thinking of Andreas personally.
Now, help us out here: in what episode do we actually see a definitive
copy
of the Book of G'Kar? Meaning, is this something that G'Kar himself
carried
around, or was it just one of the many Books of G'Kar the Narns on the
station were carrying?
It's the one he was actually writing in, the loose pages gathered into
a leather binder. That one ain't leaving my possession for a long,
long, very long time.
jms
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