News Bullets

By Michelle
June 14, 2003 - 5:04 PM

An article on popular culture and religion from Saturday's New York Times says that Star Trek "was a pretty good bait and lure to get people into rocket science" and that The Simpsons "point[s] out the various options of spirituality open to people."
On another spiritual subject, Richard Hanley, author of The Metaphysics of Star Trek, spoke about faith, philosophy and The Matrix with UDaily.
Totally Kate! has added new photos of Kate Mulgrew onstage at the 92nd Street Y here.
A Colorado Daily article on solo theatre performances cites both Mulgrew's performance in Tea At Five and Patrick Stewart's performance in A Christmas Carol.
Kelsey Grammer (Captain Morgan Bateson) will guest host for late night's David Letterman on Friday, June 20.
StarTrek.com reported that Kirstie Alley (Saavik) will play real-life criminal matriarch Francis Burt in the CBS telefilm A Matter of Family.
Ralfo Furtado reported that Denise Crosby and a crew for the documentary Trekkies 2 will spend a week in Sao Paulo, Brazil filming fans while the actress is a guest at a USS Brazil event.
Zap2It's wrap-up of the years's televised science fiction called the Buffy the Vampire Slayer finale "the event of the season", but cited Enterprise as "going out with a bang" because it "blew the hell out of Earth" in its finale.

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