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The Degrassi Digest # 53 December 29th,1998
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From Your Listmaster: Happy Holidays and Health and Happiness in 1999!
Thanks to Andrew for his many posts this week.
Mark :-)
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I N S I D E:

simon???
Re: 1st Anniversary Special Issue
Ready or Not website
for possible posting ... random things
More Quotes
hmmm....
LAST TRACK ON LAST DEGRASSI EPHISODE
Any more collages on TUDW?
Degrassi quote
DEGRASSI FEMINISM
DEGRASSI BOOKS IN AUSTRALIA
Merry Christmas Broomheads
Degrassi spottings on Hairshirt
CANADA'S ONLY REP IN AUSTRALIA
Degrassi World Fan Fiction Episode #34
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 20:50:51 EST
To: post@degrassi.org
Subject: simon???
From: Ann

Any ideas about the whereabouts of simon?? (michael carry??) i think i saw him in a restaurant in the beaches the other night (yeah i am in toronto), and he had a pair of work gloves in his back pocket. if it was him, he looked thinner, and with a beard. i am so not sure, but he looked familiar, something that about a zillion hours watching a show can do to you. my friend and i thought that he might work in the christmas tree lot in kew beach park, but that is just our little detective hunch. i always thought he was the best actor.

Ann

*Mark* I am sure Michael Carry works for Epitome Pictures, for Linda Schuyler's show, Riverdale, named after the nice neighbourhood just east of downtown Toronto. (Degrassi Street is on the border of Riverdale and the Beaches). Check out http://www.riverdale.ca and check for Information about Epitome Pictures.
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From: HeyItsCass
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 00:36:18 EST
To: mark@degrassi.org
Subject: Re: 1st Anniversary Special Issue

Hi Fellow Degrassi Fans,

Hi there! I am writing in response to Darlene Dazzle's complaint in the Anniversary Issue that there were no Degrassi publicity tours here in the United States. In the spring of 1990, the actresses who played the twins and Lucy hosted a special assembly about teen issues (or something like that) at my former high school, Bayonne High, in New Jersey. My friend Nicole and I begged our typing teacher to let us attend, and she did. Unfortunately, our fellow schoolmates pretty much embarrassed us by asking the actresses VERY rude questions. I managed to ask a pretty lame question about their characters vs. real life (hey, I was star struck!). At the end of the assembly, Nicole and I approached the stage. It was pretty evident that we had ticked them off...the twins looked like they were ready to kill someone, and Anais (Lucy) had already walked off stage. We managed to apologize on behalf of our school to the twins, which was the least we could do. They seemed surprised that someone actually had the nerve to apologize, and thanked us very sweetly. So, there is at least one account of some of the cast coming to the States! Since that has been cleared up, I think my fellow Americans on the East Coast should find a way to get the series back on television!

Yours truly,
Cassandra Ernst-Zitlofsky

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From: "Corina Hitchcock"
To: post@degrassi.org
Subject: Ready or Not website
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:37:49 PST

I just wanted to know if there is a Ready or Not site on the web anywhere and also does anyone happen to know if the episodes that are on Friday nights at 7:30 are new episodes or re-runs?
Thanks

*Mark* There are some Ready or Not websites. Check Yahoo! or Yahoo! Canada
http://www.yahoo.com or http://www.yahoo.ca
Natalie has a Ready or Not Tribute at http://www.degrassi-junior-high.org/NON-DEGRASSI/
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 02:02:21 -0500
From: "Thomas Panarese"
To: mark@degrassi.org
Subject: for possible posting ... random things

Hi Everyone,

First off, I'd like to mention that I enjoyed the anniversary issue of the digest--I've only been on a few months, so it was great to hear the highlights and what I missed.

A few things I had questions/comments about:

1. Adding to other questions about her whereabouts--whatever happened to Stacie Mistysn (aka Caitlin)?

2. Here's something for your paper, and another reason why Degrassi was so much a better show than 90210 or its clones ... ever notice how on 90210 and "saved by the bell" and other shows, that when the characters, who have endured together through high school, go off to college, they all end up going to the same college? This is why I think that Degrassi, even if it wanted to, couldn't have gone on beyond high school. The producers/writers would have never come up with something so contrived. There would have been a way to show various characters at school, but continuity would have been hard to keep track of what the various characters were up to. Still, I think it would have been interesting to see a "college years" thing. Plus, the budget would have been horrendous.

3. Yeah, I think I saw Neil Hope in a porno movie. He was having a five-some with Blair from "The Facts of Life," Dana Plato (of "Diffrent strokes" fame), Corey Nemec ("Parker Lewis"), and an as of yet unidentified cast member of the early 90's teen soap "Swans Crossing." ... NOT!!! I have to say, that "conspiracy" guy? Waaaaaaaay too much time on his hands. Especially to watch porn. Is he single? Probably.

Anyway, love the sight and think you should name it "Poppin' Zits." If that's too disgusting, well, uh ... I dunno.

-Tom Panarese

*Mark* I am sending off School's Out for you this week. Sorry for the delay.
Check out Sharon's Degrassi update at http://www.ariel.cs.yorku.ca/~cs952192/update.html
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:31:42 -0800 (PST)
From: David Fagin
To: Degrassi Digest <post@degrassi.org>
Subject: More Quotes

I have another Joey Jeremiah quote which I didn't give before with my others, because it isn't from a specific episode like those in the quotes page of the Unofficial Degrassi Website. I remember that during the first two seasons Joey usually greeted Wheels and Snake with : "Hey Wheels/Snake, my man." (I noticed that for the first two seasons Joey usually talked in a kind of cool dude patter, but at the beginning of the third season he suddenly started talking like everyone else most of the time.)

I have an idea which might be useful for people who want to write to the Degrassi actors who are still acting. I've noticed that many actors get their fan mail through agencies like William Morris, so I wonder if anyone would know if there is any kind of directory which would tell which agencies specific actors use.

I was interested in the comments in the Anniversary issue about Joey's hats. Since I read that the actors wore many of their own clothes, I too have wondered if Pat wore fedoras in real life, and also if he wore Hawaiian shirts. One reason I'm interested in this is because I'm very fond of and sometimes wear Hawaiian shirts myself, I wear jean jackets like Joey also wore, and I even bought a second-hand fedora ten years ago, and I still have it even though I haven't worn it much, so I really have Joey's Jr. High wardrobe.

David
*Mark* good point about Joey's expressions changing from Seasons 1+2 with Seasons 3. I never thought about. He did seem to be less of a troublemaker in Season 3. His character seem to develop more in Season 3.
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From: (Wilson G)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 21:12:30 -1000 (HST)
To: webmaster@degrassi.org
Subject: hmmm....

I would like to get all the Degrassi episodes, but I don't know where to get them. I was only 5 when this show was aired, They show it at our school, and it made me go into Degrassi.

*Mark* Look at http://www.degrassi.org/Features/pertinentaddresses.htm
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From: "ANDREW SUTCLIFFE"
To: <post@degrassi.org>
Subject: LAST TRACK ON LAST DEGRASSI EPHISODE
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:38:13 +1100

In respect of that query by SUZANNAH on Nov 5th about the name of the last track on the last Degrassi High ephisode : I chased that up some time ago with PWT and the name of the track is "Inside My Piano" by Mark Jordon on BMG. I tried to get a copy when in Toronto but couldn't find it - even Sunrise Records in Yonge Street couldn't help.

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:31:42 -0800 (PST)
From: David Fagin
To: Degrassi Digest <post@degrassi.org>
Subject: Any more collages on TUDW?

I was wondering if there are collages of other characters besides Caitlin and Melanie, and is there a link to them besides those in the Digest? I couldn't find any links in TUDW to collages.

David

*Mark* I am in the process of making collages for the five seasons of DJH/DH. They will be called Highlights, and I will soon upload them to the web server within the next week. I am working on more collages. Check out Spike and Liz's shrine at
http://www.degrassi-junior-high.org/Shrine/
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From: "Anna Byrne"
To: post@degrassi.org
Subject: Degrassi quote
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:29:00 PST

My favourite quote from Degrassi is from the first season of Degrassi Junior High (I think) when Yick has a crush on Melanie

The Crush: "Hi Melanie, your eyes are like pimming swools"

*Mark* Thanks for sending in your quotes Anna
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From: "ANDREW SUTCLIFFE"
To: <post@degrassi.org>
Subject: DEGRASSI FEMINISM
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 01:55:50 +1100

Mark and friends,

Don't you think the one thing that is overkill and almost ruins Degrassi is all that extremist feminist nonsense surrounding Lucy and Caitlin ? That business about Lucy not a shooting Joey's video because of girls in bikini ( Allison & Amy ), and Caitlin refusal to be in the video the same. Then there was the feminist horror movie "IT CREEPS" where Simon replays the role of Janet Leigh out of "PSYCHO" when he gets stabbed in the shower. All of this seems to be a Canadian phenomena. Despite the fact it is putting an alternative point of view I believe that sort of extremism is unproductive, unhealthy and only creates more division from the natural order of things. I'd like to hear everyone's view on that topic. Of course Joey on several occassions summed up the arguments very correctly - when addressing his sunshine girls locker pinups: and telling Caitlin it was a compliment to be a bikini girl. He's a gentleman and scholar is Joey. Most Australian girls would love to be wear bikinis in a rock video. Andrew

*Mark* I think the show tried to depict that the actions can be thought of as sexist. The fact is, Amy and Allison agreed to walk about in their bikinis. Joey did not point a gun to their heads. I think his intentions were sexist for the Amy and Allison, but since both parties thought it was appropriate, then I would say it was not sexist ground, but that is only my opinion. I thought that it was a form of prostitution...and both Amy and Allison were degraded to sexual objects, but their characters were dumb snobs anyway. Escort services are legal, but they seem to be like a form of prostitution, right? Joey's comment re: Caitlin wearing a bikini was not meant to be sexist, because Joey liked Caitlin, and he wanted to show her nice body in a non-sexist way. Caitlin perception of being in a music video with a bikini was sexist, because of the way it made her feel. Perhaps sexism is not absolute, it is subjective, and personal. What Amy and Allison would think is not sexist is not what Caitlin would think, or Lucy as well. "It Creeps" was a cool example of the feminist horror flick, like a parody...In the 1980's, all the cruesome killers were men, like Freddie Krueger, Jason, etc...and I think Lucy wanted to show in her film that women can kill and be gruesome as well.
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From: "ANDREW SUTCLIFFE"
To: "Degrassi Digest"
Subject: DEGRASSI BOOKS IN AUSTRALIA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:01:46 +1100

ABC-TV (from Australia) put out the set of Degrassi books printed here and I understand print runs were very low - so they'll be worth something one day particularly in Canada if someone gets hold of a set ( if they can ). ABC books haven't got them anymore but they may be orderable or obtainable from the odd private bookshops in case you want me to chase them up.

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From: blowpopp
To: post@degrassi.org
Subject: Merry Christmas Broomheads
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:43:29 PST

Hello, I just wanted to wish the Degrassi Web Ring members a very Merry Christmas. Now only if Louella Hawkins can fix that heater!

*Mark* :-) Thank you! Happy Holidays to the Degrassi Webring + All Subscribers.

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From: "Shawna Glenwood"
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:08:00 +0000
To: post@degrassi.org
Subject: Degrassi spottings on Hairshirt

Did anyone else see Hairshirt at the Toronto Film Festival? Stefan Brogren (Snake) and Christian Campbell (Todd) were in it. So was Dean Paras, he played Stuart Ball on Liberty Street. You can read about Hairshirt on the Internet Movie Data Base.

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From: "ANDREW SUTCLIFFE"
To: <post@degrassi.org>
Subject: CANADA'S ONLY REP IN AUSTRALIA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 00:31:41 +1100

For those reviewing this site given the reasonable number of Australian contributions it should be made clear to everyone else that there is very little Canadian tv screened on Australian television ( that is distinctly Canadian ). Even CBC stuff. [ Excluding French Quebec which is on mutlicutural tv ]. Degrassi is the only series that comes to my mind and for that reason it is probably the only true link for Australian tv watchers into the culture of Canada. And it hasn't been screened since 1995. Other Cdn made shows are packaged like U.S. ones and are indistinguishable ( forgive me X-Files ) such as FOREVER KNIGHT. It is a bit of a tragedy that is the case - little Cdn product - but that serves to explain why Degrassi is focused on so much. I hope this info is useful and I think the show has done more for Canadian - Australian relations than anything else given there seems to be a intergovernmental policy of culturally distancing the two countries from each other for obscure reasons. Andrew

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Degrassi World #34: Lucy and L.D. Exchange E-mails- written by Natalie Earl
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From: lucyfernandez@degrassi_university.ca
To: lorrainedelacorte@degrassi_university.ca
Subject: Hey girlfriend, what's up?

I am so relieved that Bronco and I are finally settled into our first apartment. Living together is such an important step, and so far it has been incredibly fun and romantic. We are semi-broke right now so we decided not to exchange Christmas presents this year. It seemed pointless to get into debt or to run out and get cheapie gifts like soap-on-a-rope. However, we did get a Christmas tree. It's a tiny, sickly little thing. One ornament made the whole thing droop. We tried to make popcorn strings last night but it smelt so good that we added butter and salt and ate it instead. I have decided that instead of keeping a photo album of "Bronco and Lucy's early years", I will film a documentary compilation. I am capturing all the frivolous little moments that will seem precious later. Bronco and I will spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day making the rounds to various relatives houses. We already know that everyone is going to badger us to get married. They all think that we are living in sin, hahahaha. What is so sinful about living together? It's not like we are selling drugs or hijacking airplanes. I guess they have visions of kinky sex and wild parties. As if we have time between our jobs and school! Gotta jam, Film Editing 101 starts in three minutes.

To: lucyfernandez@degrassi_university.ca
From: lorrainedelacorte@degrassi_university.ca
Subject: Blast from the past

Don't worry about your relatives, it's their job to be old fashioned and over protective. We are liberal now but watch us become super strict with our own kids. I bet that you and Bronco will have really cute kids, something good should come out of all that (supposed) kinky sex. For some reason I remembered that exotic makeover you gave me. You know, the one where I looked like a Las Vegas show girl. You'll never guess who is in my soccer class: Jason Cox! We are always teasing each other about that big swim race we had in junior high. He wants a rematch. I beat him once and I can do it again. He is really cute now, maybe I will accidentally-on-purpose start bumping into him. By the way, congratulations on getting approval for "It Creeps . . . the Sequel". This time can I play the killer and Joey play the victim? I would not mind stabbing him a couple hundred times.

Okay, enough loafing. I need to call my dad to make sure that he is taking his Angina medication. He took care of me during my remission so now it is my turn to look after him.

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Let's Party Like it's 1999---The Singer Who Used to Be Called "Prince"
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