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news july-dec' 2008

 

December 17th 2008
They said 'Break a leg'...
Well thankfully, Lee didn't break a leg, but various news sites, including ETOline.com, are reporting that Lee did injury himself whilst filming his guest spot on his upcoming episode of According To Jim. ETOnline say 'A true pro, he wouldn't leave the studio because it was the final day of shooting. The injury flared up and a doctor had to drain Lee's elbow between scenes. The actor continued to work and can be seen reprising his role as God on the hit comedy series.'

December 10th 2008
No 'Scrooged' here...
Several newspapers and online sites are reporting a story of season goodwill involving Lee helping a woman with her dry cleaning and buying breakfast for a homeless man. The reports say Lee saw a woman struggling with armfuls of clothes outside a post office in Beverly Hills and he stepped in to help. A source tells New York Post gossip column PageSix, "Lee immediately grabbed the clothes and put them neatly on the back seat, telling her, 'Don't hang them from the hooks. They block your vision.'" And after carrying out one good deed, the star found someone else in need of his help. The source adds, "Then, while walking back to his Jaguar, he spotted a homeless man in front of the BeverLiz Cafe, went up to him and said, 'Breakfast's on me, pal!' He ordered the gent a California omelette with turkey bacon and OJ." See, there really are a few gentleman left in the world!

December 8th 2008
First 2009 news!
Lee is return to 2 previous guest spots for a further appearance in The Game, on January 16th, and he will then ascend to play God again in the season finale of According To Jim, sometime in the spring. As usual, further details as we get them!

December 2nd 2008
Lee gets investigated
Lee will be called in for questioning on an up-coming peisode of the CBS crime drama Cold Case. The episode, 'Wings', is shceduled to air in the States on the 21st of December. SKY ONE air Cold Case for british audeinces, so keep an eye on their schedules. The episode will, for once, focus on the songs of one artist: Frank Sinatra.Song that will be featured will include "Come Fly with Me," "Too Marvelous for Words," "I've Got the World on a String," "Little Girl Blue" and "Someone to Watch Over Me." , the team re-opens the 1960 murder of an airline stewardess whose remains are found in an old hotel. The team come across alot of hostile suspects as they investigation proceeds, many of whom resented the fact the murdered woman was trying to organise a stewardess union. Lee plays a character called Dean London, in 2008, one of the victim's former colleagues

October 31st 2008
Lee's Conflict' increases
The official site for Lee's Conflict of Interest movie has added a new poster and a 3-minute trailer. Yes, Lee is well featured in the trailer, so be sure to check it out here.

October 20th 2008
Lindsay signs at NEC
Lindsay Wagner has been added to the list of guests to attend the Memorabilia fair at the NEC, Birmingham, over the weekend of November 22nd and 23rd, just a week before her UK workshops. If you can't make the workshops, this is another chance for fans to meet the first Bionic lady [so to speak] in person. Check the Memorabilia website for details here...

October 16th 2008
Lee & Faith at VIP event
Some pics just in from Lee at Celebrity Farms VIP brunch on Oct. 4, following his award at the Kentucky Film Festival, to help support the Chris Vasiliou Memorial Foundation for Vasculitis. Lee was also there to help promote the company's new slogan, "Better. Stronger. Faster!". I wonder why that was?

Frankie Blue, Connie Stathis, Celebrity Farms' owner Sam Stathis, Faith.

Copyright 2008 Hillary Quinn / Photographer

October 14th 2008
Lee takes a 'Walk for Charity
The Jewish Home of Los Angeles has selected Lee to serve as honorary chair of its ninth annual "Wells Fargo Walk of Ages" in Reseda, on December 7th -- the largest charity walk in the city. With nearly 1,000 participants, the event raises money to support the work of the not-for-profit Home, which is the largest single-source provider of senior housing in Los Angeles. This year's event hopes to raise $500,000 through the Walk to benefit the residents of the Home.

October 6th 2008
Lee feels honored
Lee received his Lifetime Acheivement Award at the Louisville, Kentucky Film Festival last weekend and we've got some pics for you [with thanx to Cubester].

September 30th 2008
Lindsay Wagner UK workshops
Lindsay Wagner will be in the UK at the end of November and will be running one of her "Quiet the Mind & Open the Heart" 2-day workshops. This is a rare chance for fans in the UK to learn more about Lindsay's life philosophy which aims to help people recognise the potential and the peace which reside within them. Cost of the 2-day event, to be held in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, is £117.00 and will take place on Sat 29th and Sun 30th November 2008, 1-6pm both days. For more information check out lindsaywagner.com or email Karen Stowe at karen13@ntlworld.com to book a place.

September 28th 2008
Lee is 'Game for a party
Lee and Faith hit town last night when they were guests at CBS' "The Game" premiere party at The Montalban, in Hollywood. No news on if Lee is down for any further episodes, but hey, it's looking good if you're invited to the new season launch party! Season 3 debuts stateside on 3rd October, on CBS.

Larger version of Lee & Faith here

Ben10:RAT UK DVD dated
Play.com have listed the UK release of Lee's Ben10:Race Against Time movie for a DVD release here in the UK on the 27th of October. Price is £10.99, with free delivery. No details of any extras, as yet. Amazon.co.uk also have it listed, for £9.99, however you only get free delivery on orders over £15.00. SIte DVD title linksare here: Play.com and Amazon.co.uk. Amazon have the below image on thier site, however this just appear to be a mock-up cover at the moment as no rating or other cover lettering is present.

September 26th 2008
Lee honored at Kentucky Fest'
Lee is to be honored with a "Lifetime Achievement" Award at the Louisville, Kentucky Film Festival next Friday, October 3rd. then the following day, Saturday the 4th, he will be attending a charity event at the Red Mile Harness Racetrack in Lexington, Kentucky.

September 22nd 2008
Dressed to impress
Okay, Lee and Faith may not have won an Emmy, but they would certainly come top of the 'Best Turned Out' category had there been one. The pair looked dressed to kill as they hit the Emmy red carpet last night.

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September 19th 2008
Hit me baby one more time [as Ms.Spears might say]...
We must be coming to the end of the interviews Lee has done on his Ben10 tour, but yes, we have one more for you, this time from The Star Online. Enjoy!

September 16th 2008
The tour rolls on....
A further interview have surfaced at The New Straits Times, from Lee's Ben10 tour [Thanx Cubester], along with news from the man himself he has completed a movie with Tarrantino-regular Michael Madsen, called Conflict of Interest. The Official Site has just a poster up at the moment. The movie also stars Tim Curry, as well as Faith Majors, who plays Lee's on-screen wife! We'll keep you updated on any plot details and release plans as we hear them.

September 10th
Lee finds his VOIZE
Lee stopped over in Kuala Lumpur today to spread the word on Ben10. Some of the Press interview is available to watch at Voize.

September 9th 2009
More 'tour' interviews
This time from the Inquirer.net , Philippine News. Check the 'From superhero to supporting hero' interview here.

September 8th 2008
Grandpa Max on Channel 9
As part of Lee's current tour down under to promote the Ben10 movie, Lee appeared on Australia's Channel 9 'Today Show', yesterday and they have posted the 7 minute interview on their web site. Check here to go to the site and watch it. If you have probelsm watching it in Firefox, you can paste the link into Internet Explorer. If the link has moved, just search 'Lee majors' on the NineMSN site to find it again.

September 7th 2008
The sound of Bigfoot
There is another new CD soundtrack out from the original Bionic Woman series, this item featuring music from 'The Return of Bigfoot' Pt.2. The episode opened the 2nd seaon of the BW, after the first part aired at the 4th season openner on SMDM. There are 24 tracks on the CD including incidental music and various cues composed by Joe Harnell for use on the show. You can order the CD from joeharnell.com and there is a fuller track listing here. Again, order quickly as the CD is limited to 1500 units and sure to sell out fast. Price is $19.95 plus shipping.

August 26th 2008
Lee goes on a Ben'-der Down Under
Lee is off out and about to promote Ben10 on a whirlwind 'tour' next month, taking in Australia, Malaysia and the Philippines to promote last year's Ben10:Race Against Time movie, all in the space of a week! Specific event/promotional details look like this...

• Sept. 7 - Lee will be at the Hoyts Theater in Melbourne Central, Australia premiere 10am
• Sept. 8 - Lee will be in Sydney Australia on "Today Show" Channel 9 (Australia) and then "Morning Show" Channel 7 (Australia), then an interview with "News Limited", ending with a visit to the Children's Hospital/Starlight Foundation.
• Sept. 10 - Lee will be in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the premiere and press conference.
• Sept. 12 - Lee will be in Manila, Philippines doing a press conference and media interviews.
• Sept. 13 - Lee will be at the premiere of Ben 10:RAC at the "Premiere Cinema, SM Mall of Asia in Manila, Philippines.

Lee and Faith will then fly back for their confirmed attendance at the 60th Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday September 21st. The pair are in a for a busy fortnight, we wish them a safe journey on the tour.

August 19th 2008
'Ocean review flows in
We've added the club review for the DVD release of When I Find The Ocean. Find it here.

August 13th 2008
Lee buddies up for the Emmys
Lee is amoungst a select group of actors picked to promote this years 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, and along with the like of The Fonz, Dean Cain, Lou Ferringo, Dennis Franz, George Clooney, and Kermit & Miss Piggy will be plastered all over New York buses throughout the month of August and in People magazine pull-outs. Check-out the ad below.

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Close-up of Lee's section

August 5th 2008
Lee wants you to hear...
Lee is currently promoting a 'Bionic' hearing aid, at the 'Bionic Hearing Aid Official Site' As Lee himself says "It won't cost you $6 Million but you'll think it's worth it" And you don't need to crash your test shuttle to get one!

Bionic Commando dated
As mentioned way back in January on this site, an up-dated version of the original Bionic Commando video game is in the works. The re-vamped XBox Live Arcade version is released on August 13th, for 800 Microsoft Points, while the PSN version follows a day later. Get the latest info and updates at the Official Site.

Bionic dog really DOES have a bark worse than his bite!
Disney's latest animated feaure for Thanksgiving is BOLT. It features a superhero German Shephard, who has superpowers, one of them being a Bionic bark! The catch is Bolt is the star of his own TV show and has lived his whole life in a TV studio, until one day when he escapes and sets off in search of his owner, who he beleives has been kidnapped. Now in the real world, he teams up with a jaded, abondoned, housecat called Mittens and TV-obsessed hamster, Rhino, who has his own ball. On his travels, Bolt realises he does not actually have super powers and the real world is alot more dangerous than his TV show. Starring the voices of John Travolta [Bolt], Susie Essman [Mittens] and Mark Walton [Rhino], the movie looks great fun, check the trailer at the Official Site.

Bolt and pals Mittens, the cat, and Rhino, the hamster... and his ball

July 19th 2008
Steve Austin goes Euro on DVD this autumn
Following last week's Roma FictionFest, we have confirmed info that the Six Million Dollar Man will get a release in Italy and Germany on DVD this October! This is great news for european fans who can hopefully look forward to better treatment than UK fans have so far got form Universal playback, who relased the first 2 season only, and in a less than pristine transfers. The below shows Lee & lindsay at Fiction Fest promoting the existing DVD Bionic releases...

July 10th 2008
Lee & Lindsay take FictionFest by storm
Fans have gone wild as photo's of Lee and Lindsay have appeared online, from FictionFest. The week long celebration of TV fiction saw Lee and Lindsay together again in front of the cameras, for the first time in years. Variety have an article on the event, and reveal it cost as much as it would have taken to build Steve and Jaime in the first place... $11.5 million!

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July 8th 2008
First 'Ocean review
HomeMediaMagazine.com have one of the first reveiws of When I Find The Ocean, on DVD. Here is what they had to say...
There’s a really decent movie hidden somewhere inside When I Find the Ocean, but unfortunately it’s drowned beneath a bevy of lessons and melodrama.
Preteen Lily (Holly) is grieving over her father, a sailor lost at sea. She lives on a farm with her paternal grandparents and her mother, who is about to marry a man (Tyson) who thinks a belt is a proper tool for disciplining a child.
Obsessed with the ocean and unable to withstand these secret beatings, Lily runs away, drifting down a creek that’s filled with more dangers than you could imagine — a cougar, redneck poachers and a whole lot of racial injustice.
The setting is lovely and Lily’s relationship with her grandfather (Majors) is touching and inspiring — what kid wouldn’t want to grow up free on a farm with an outdoorsy grandfather and his friend (Greene) teaching her how to survive in the wilderness?
But what could have been a poignant family film centered just on Lily, her grief and the unveiling of her monster stepfather-to-be turns into a treatise on race relations in the South in the 1960s that has nothing new to say and only gets in the way of the more interesting tale.
Majors and Greene are sturdy and likeable, and Tyson is appropriately slimy and menacing. Young Holly physically fits the role well, but doesn’t always have the gravitas required. Ladd is another story as the shrill grandmother, whose overblown Southern accent rivals Paula Deen’s syrupy twang.
Tonya S. Holly (mother of the lead) wrote, directed and produced the film. As a first effort, it shows promise, but it also shows the need for some other hands to be involved — particularly during the writing process — and hopefully that will happen for Holly’s next film. — Laura Tiffany

July 3rd 2008
Lee gets into Wain's world
Lee is a guest star in the most recent webeisode of the comedy Wainy Days, featuring David Wain. The award winning online comedy series features "one man's absurdly hilarious quest for love and sex in the big city". Episode #22, 'Rebecca', not only features Lee as David's dad, but also Sarah Clarke and 24's Xander Berkley. You can watch the latest 6 minute episode at My Damn Channel, along with the previous 2 season's shows.

Bionic merchandise update
BIonic fans can look forward to the prospect of continued new Bionic stuff coming out over the next couple of months. There are rumblings that a new Bionic Woman soundtrack is due to be announced soon, over at Joe Harnell's official site. Plus, Koch Media have the 2nd season of Bionic Woman comng out in Germany later this month, with season 3 now almost a cert' for either October or Novermber. Stay tuned for more details as we get them.

July 2nd 2008
Steve & Jaime get together for romantic break in Rome
Well, it looks like both Lee AND Lindsay Wagner will be in Rome this month for FictionFest, with showings of episodes of both Bionic shows on the festival programme. The news on the official fetsival site is as follows:
"The thematic proposals are also wide ranging: as far as sci-fi, the absolute premiere in Italy shall be presented of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a spin-off having the film’s namesake. Next to the new arrivals for the next season, there is space in the line-up for vintage TV series from the 1970’s as well, like The Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man, and RomaFictionFest offers the screenings of pilot episodes. For the occasion, RomaFictionFest has the pleasure of hosting two main characters: Lindsay Wagner and Lee Majors. "
Let's hope we get some pictures!

'Ocean DVD date... at last?
Leemajors.us have received an email saying that the DVD of When I Find The Ocean will finally start shipping on August the 5th. Keep your fingers crossed.