{"id":2237,"date":"2001-11-01T19:51:16","date_gmt":"2001-11-01T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/11\/zap2it-growing-phlox-roswell-mentions\/"},"modified":"2001-11-01T19:51:16","modified_gmt":"2001-11-01T17:51:16","slug":"zap2it-growing-phlox-roswell-mentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/11\/zap2it-growing-phlox-roswell-mentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Zap2it: Growing Phlox (Roswell Mentions)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Coreen and anyone else who sent this in :)<\/p>\n<p>From a Zap2it.com article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Growing Phlox<\/strong><br \/>\nMon, Oct 29, 2001 01:41 PM PDT<br \/>\nby Kate O&#8217;Hare<\/p>\n<p>From an interview with Enterprise actor John Billingsley<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Those who may not know what Billingsley looks like without Phlox&#8217;s facial<br \/>\nbumps and contact lenses will get a chance to find out on Tuesday, Oct. 30,<br \/>\nwhen he makes a cameo appearance in a crossover episode of fellow UPN SF<br \/>\nseries &#8220;Roswell.&#8221; In that episode, called &#8220;Secrets &#038; Lies,&#8221; teen-alien Max<br \/>\n(Jason Behr), through a strange set of circumstances, finds himself<br \/>\nauditioning for a role on &#8220;Enterprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The scene is very short, so Billingsley wasn&#8217;t on the &#8220;Roswell&#8221; set long.<br \/>\nBut he did get a chance to chat with Behr, who spent the summer filming<br \/>\n&#8220;Shipping News,&#8221; with Kevin Spacey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love Annie Proulx,&#8221; says Billingsley of the author on whose book the<br \/>\nmovie is based. &#8220;It never occurred to me to ask, &#8216;How the hell is it working<br \/>\nwith Kevin Spacey?&#8217; I just immediately wanted to talk about the books. She&#8217;s<br \/>\nsuch a grand writer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In particular, he wanted to talk about Proulx&#8217;s latest anthology, &#8220;Close<br \/>\nRange: Wyoming Stories.&#8221; &#8220;She has this wonderful story, and I wanted to tell<br \/>\nhim about it, because I thought he might be right for it. Two young guys,<br \/>\nwho are the consummate Western loners, go off in the woods, not suspecting<br \/>\nthat it&#8217;s anything but an extended summer job, monitoring the sheep in the<br \/>\nfar country. They fall in love. It&#8217;s a great juxtaposition of a cowboy story<br \/>\nand a gay love story. It&#8217;s brilliant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As to Behr&#8217;s reaction at being told that he would be great in a movie<br \/>\nversion of this, Billingsley laughs and says, &#8220;I think he started to edge<br \/>\naway from me at a certain point, but that happens to me all the time in my<br \/>\nlife.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Coreen and anyone else who sent this in :) From a Zap2it.com article: Growing Phlox Mon, Oct 29,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}