We've mentioned previously that we have an international audience. Now EuroSeek™ has made it official. After only being listed with Euroseek™ for nine weeks,
After repeated requests by us, The Sundance Channel FINALLY replayed Ecce Pirate, in which Christopher stars as a boy who is kidnapped by pirates. The show aired on 22 June 1999, and we hope to upload some exciting pictures from it soon.
The official Sundance Channel description of Ecce Pirate is:
Ecce Pirate Directed by Matthew Modine Distributed by Chyna Wranch, Inc. 1996 Matthew Modine directed this tale of a young man who has assumed the life of a pirate, several years after being kidnapped and forced to grow up on a pirate ship. TV14 (D,S,V) (adult content, brief nudity, violence) (:22)
Again, however, take note that we are trying to verify ALL of this (two different running times are given for it, for example, and we want to give you only the most accurate information available to us.)
Finally, after you have seen Ecce Pirate at long last, please e-mail the Sundance Channel and thank them for airing it. (We might also suggest that fans of Christopher's write to him at the address below and urge him to contact us and make us his OFFICIAL web site so that we don't have to dig through the whole Internet like rats through a trash heap to find these wonderful tid-bits for you all, but we would never dream of imposing any further upon Christopher's good graces than we already do. Right. Uh huh. . . .
As we noted on our main page, Christopher Masterson came in first (by one vote!) over his brother Danny as your favorite star here, but we received so many write-ins for Ben Affleck, Ryan Phillippe and others that we had to re-set the survey counter to include them. If you want to vote for for yourfavorite actor here, go to the bottom of this page and click on the plea to the Muse to take you "Home" (ours, not yours!), then scroll down to the survey panel and recast your vote. (Note: 18 June 1999: Ryan Phillippe is currently the most popular star on our web site, followed (in a tie) by Ben Affleck and Ben Silverstone.)
(Further Note: 15 June: oh, how fickle is the crowd! When the Shea-man wrote, "Look out, Leonardo, Ben Silverstone has arrived!" in his review for Get Real, which isn't even in wide release yet, none of us thought that less than two months later Ben Silverstone would have as many votes on our survey as Christopher and Danny Masterson combined, and be just one vote behind Phillippe and two behind Ben Affleck! And you people call yourselves Masterson fans! Hrrrmph! You probably don't even order flowers or books or anything from our advertisers, either, do you? . . .)
Dragonheart II will apparently be going to video sometime in the late summer, and Christopher will be co-starring in Fox's new series, "Malcolm in the Middle." More info on those as we get them.
Finally, for all of you who have been asking, here is the OFFICIAL address to which to send fan mail for either Christopher or Danny Masterson:
The Savage Agency
6212 Banner Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
USA
Do NOT -- shall we repeat this for you? -- DO NOT expect either Christopher or Danny to have the time to reply to your letters, although they will probably read them when they have the chance. They are both extremely busy right now with their shows (remember, Danny had to give up a majormovie role just to appear in That '70s Show), and they both have lives, so they don't have much time to answer their mail personally. (Hint for those who don't grasp the obvious: DO NOT send homemade cookies and cakes, either -- the ants will eat them long before either Masterson receives the package, which will have to be forwarded to them, a process which usually takes the U.S. Postal Service about two weeks to accomplish (and far longer during holiday seasons). Also, be advised that this is NOT -- N-O-T -- where they live, so don't bother going there in person -- you won't find them; Danny lives with his girlfriend in the Hollywood Hills and Christopher travels constantly making movies, so Goddess only knows where he is on any given day!
Finally, the TV series pilot, "Sugar Daddies," which Christopher was working on for NBC, was cancelled during pre-production, so don't hold your breath waithing for it.
Now that we have told you all of this official news, please buy some flowers or something from one of our sponsors so that we can afford to upload some new color pictures here.
Kushner-Locke has sent us so much information on girl that we haven't had time to enter it all yet. For the moment, suffice it to say that, for those who want to be "letter perfect" in everything, the title is spelled in all lower case letters, like the title for the Lukas Haas and David Arquette movie johns.
OKAY, MASTERSON FANS, LISTEN UP: we are an unofficial site and we don't get paid anything by either Ryan Phillippe, or Ben or Casey Affleck, or Christian Bale, or Christopher or Danny Masterson, or any of their "people," nor do we get paid by any of the movie studios or television networks whose films and shows we promote. We run our website as a FREE public service for you, our visitors, and we hope to keep things that way. Unfortunately, that means that we cannot afford to buy a new scanner for transparencies (i.e., those stacks of wonderful COLOR pictures which we have piled up here, gathering dust) or a new video card to grab frames of your fave from movies or television shows, or a new high-speed modem so that we can update our web site constantly, instead of every other week or so, etc., etc.
In order to buy all of that neat hardware so that we can upgrade our page, we have caved in and gone commercial. That's right, folks, after almost two-and-a-half years without ANY ads on our web page, we have placed a few selected advertisements here and there within the actual text of our pages. These, unlike those annoying "pop-up" advertisements, are selected by us because we think that they offer goods and services of interest to you. If you "click through" to the businesses which we advertise (and especially if you BUY something), THEY will pay us -- not much, but we hope that if enough of you click through (and hopefully shop online) we will earn enough to buy the equipment that we want in order to upgrade these pages, add more color pics, video and audio clips, etc. If you like our web site, please patronize the businesses which we advertise here so that we can improve our pages.
Remember, the ads which actually appear in the text of our pages are placed there by us, not by Geocities or anyone else, and we have selected which ads go where as part of our own twisted design aesthetics. Clicking through to those ads helps us to help keep you informed of your favorite performers and the movies, plays, and television shows in which they appear. Please patronize these advertisers. (Or else send us lots and lots of money so that we don't need to accept advertisements.)
We recently recruited helpers from California to Québec to Kensington to Queensland (or maybe it was New South Wales) and took out a substantial loan to make some major hardware upgrades for our real work and in part so that we could keep upgrading this site (you may have some noticed some pages being updated several times a day!).
What did we ask in return? That you sign nice notes in our Guestbook (and thank you to the 300+ people who have) and that you click through to the advertisers whom we feature here so that we could earn enough money for this site to pay for itself.
Having earned less than US $5.00 because so few of you "clicked through" to our advertisers (and only one of you actually BOUGHT anything, we note), now that we have hit the Yahoo/Geocities 11 Megabyte wall, we have been faced with a decision: dig deeper into our pockets and lease more web space from Yahoo/Geocities, or add just enough files to take us to the 11 Megabyte limit and then stop updating this page.
(We COULD, of course, move everything lock, stock, and barrel to Fortune City and gain an extra nine megabytes of disk space, but our attitude is: if you don't care, why should we? We could also move some of our larger files to other servers, but that would make our page load even more slowly than it already does, and we have no intention of contributing to "the heat death of the universe.")
This is The Jaundiced Eye PRODUCTIONS Home Page -- we actually use our computers and video equipment and cameras to MAKE things, believe it or not -- and while this place has been "a hoot and a holler" to run, if you visitors don't care enough about it to let it even pay for its own upkeep, why should we divert our valuable time and resources from PAYING work to keep upgrading this site?
SO, The Muse With the Jaundiced Eye HERSELF has decreed that while His Nibs, The Grand Panjandrum, can finish filling up the 11 Megabytes of web space we have (probably for The Thirteenth Floor review, a final update to our "That '70s Show" page, Lion's Gate's Christian Bale flick, Metroland, and possibly something on Touchstone's upcoming The Thirteenth Warrior (which is only natural, since it is based upon Beowulf, and The Grand Panjandrum likes alliteration, with which Beowulf is fantastically and fulsomely filled), there will be no additional updates after the 11 Megabytes of server space is filled up. Decreasing the sizes of some of our larger photographs (which has already begun here on Ben and Casey Affleck's fan page), will gain us a little more space, and we may do some occasional updates after that, but, by and large people:
So that our loyal visitors are not left totally high and dry, we have added links on our main page to several other sites on the Internet which also devote themselves to pictures, at least, of young actors, and one or two have mirror sites for young actresses as well, for you fans of Jennifer Tilly, Reese Witherspoon, etc.
. . . in Sweden. Yep, according to the Internet Movie Database listings, girl opened today in Sweden. girl stars Dominique Swain, Sean Patrick Flannery, Channon Roe, David Moscow, and, of course, Christopher, who plays "Richard." More info as we receieve it (or dig it up, as is usually the case!).
19 March 1999: The new little PAX-TV network (KPXN, Channel 30 in the Los Angeles area) will be airing the celebrated "Touched By An Angel" episode starring Christopher Masterson and Madeline Zima on March 30th (8:00 PM in Los Angeles -- check your local listings for the PAX-TV station in your area, assuming that you have a PAX-TV station in your area).
This hard: not that anyone told us (we, as usual, had to find out for ourselves), but Christopher is DEFINITELY appearing in Dragonheart II. That's official, from his agents. For more info, click here for our source on this.
15 December 1998: "More, More, MORE!" -- We are very gratified by the number of people who have visited and would like more information about Christopher and Danny Masterson, Ryan Phillippe, and others, but, please bear in mind, as we say elsewhere, Jaundiced Eye's Home Page is a FREE site and we are NOT being paid to supply this information. Except for the single datum that Chris and Danny Masterson are indeed brothers (which Chris personally told us), we have also received NO OTHER co-operation, information, pictures, or anything else from Christopher or Danny or Ryan Phillippe or their agents, managers, publicists, etc. -- we have had to ferret out each and every scrap of information on them that we have posted, and each page here represents well over 100 hours of our research time and on-line work; that's several thousand dollars of time, effort and bandwidth that we are "donating" to you, our visitors, and the stars we all like so much.
In fact, we are frankly getting so irritated at the number of actors, their "people," and their fans who EXPECT us to do all of this free work, that we are very seriously considering not providing any further updates in 1999 on actors who haven't co-operated with us unless they are in a movie, television show, play, etc. for which we receive pix or info from some other source, such as the production company. Many of the people for whom we have fan pages here pay publicists thousands of dollars a year to do what we have been doing for free for over two years, and those publicists, in turn, very rarely co-operate with us, even though we are often doing their jobs for them! (For example, we had a MAJOR problem trying to get information on Christopher's film Cutthroat Island from M.G.M., and even though Artisan Entertainment now controls the video rights to the film, we can't get anything on it from them, either!)
We may know, love, or admire many of the people for whom we have fan pages, but we aren't stupid, and we do have lives of our own to lead. The information on this site doesn't just appear out of nowhere -- we have to find it (and sometimes pay for it) and then create the HTML computer code for it, and then post it; that represents time and money that we can't spend on people who actually PAY us, or it represents our leisure time -- the time WE would like to spend watching shows and films with our favorite actors and actresses, but which we devote instead to working here.
The least we expect is a little bit of co-operation or gratitude; if we don't get either and people (mostly visitors here) "cop an attitude," as if we are supposed to be slaving away here (sometimes twelve person-hours a day), it really irritates us . . . A LOT . . . and we reserve the right to say, "No more!"
Apropos of none of the above, Christopher co-starred in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia in Los Angeles a while back. Fans of Stoppard's writing can hear more of it in Shakespeare in Love, which he co-wrote. The film stars Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Affleck, and Judi Dench.
Campfire Tales starring Christopher, Jimmy Marsden, Jay Ferguson, Devon Odessa, etc. had a theatrical release this . . . er . . . last Halloween. Read all about it (real soon!)! Honest! Soon! REAL SOON!
Tremendous thanks to the Zima Sisters Unofficial Fan Page for the six pix of Christopher as "Doc" from "Touched By an Angel" which we have been able to upload. Madeline Zima (from "The Nanny") co-starred with Christopher on what was one of the first ratings-busting episodes of the (now) enormously popular CBS show. The six pix are scattered throughout our site, so re-visit spots here which you may not have been to for a while (like the listing for "Touched By an Angel, below!). Maybe it's time to bombard CBS with demands for a sequel to that episode? What say you Madeline and Christopher fans?
28 October 1998: Just below this box we discuss Christopher's appearance in Matthew Modine's film, Ecce Pirate (that's the correct spelling). We've spoken to Matthew's manager in New York and she has advised us that the film is airing exclusively on The Sundance Channe. Needless to say, we urged a home video release! We shall keep you informed as we learn more about Ecce Pirate.
BTW, it appears that Matthew Modine filmed the movie in black-and-white, so be aware that if you see any B & W pix of Christopher in pirate garb (or in a state of . . . um . . . "undress"), the picture is almost certainly from Matthew Modine's film, and he should be credited. (We asked for permission to run the pictures we have, because we admire Modine and don't want to step on his copyrights, unlike some less scrupulous sources.)
23 September 1998: Elsewhere on this page we mention how difficult it is for us to get info on Christopher for your viewing pleasure. WE AIN'T KIDDING!
First of all, we have been informed by The Vault that Campfire Tales was released yesterday by New Line Home video and should be available at video stores. We, of course, still haven't seen it.
Then, while prowling around Star Galaxy we discovered that the two new pix we recently uploaded are not from Campfire Tales; they are from Ece Pirate, written and directed by Christopher's former Cutthroat Island co-star, Matthew Modine. The spelling "Ece," by the way, is from the Internet Movie Data Base, which has virtually no information on this film. We SHALL persist in tracking it down.
SEPTEMBER 24: How's this for tracking it down?
Chris info is coming in to us so fast that we have to TIME our updates now!! Kushner-Locke is working on Girl which features Christopher as "Richard." Sean Patrick Flannery and Channon Roe are also in the film.
We have freely acknowledged being fans of Christopher Masterson since CBS aired the cancelled-too-soon The Road Home. We confess to not quite understanding why his name has expanded with his career (he has gone from "Chris Masterson" to "Christopher Masterson" to "Christopher K. Masterson" in three years), but his career is taking off, just as we predicted. (And the nice people at IMDb now tell us that our man's full name is Christopher KENNEDY Masterson.) Ironically, however, Christopher has become mostsuccessful since he has reverted to plain, old "Chris." (29 APRIL 1998: What Do We Know Department: Christopher has just appeared as "Christopher Kennedy Masterson" in a creepy episode of "Millenium" entitled, "A ROOM WITH NO VIEW." We have a link to Lee Record's full review (SPOILER WARNING!) of the episode .
Since Christopher doesn't (yet) have a home page of his own, please consider this a (mostly) UNofficial source of info on him. And we solemnly assure you (22 September 1998) that getting information about Christopher is DIFFICULT! We have been trying for almost two years to get "his people" to develop a page for him or send us info, and it's apparently hopeless. Since our film reviewer will hopefully be certified soon by the Motion Picture Association of America, maybe they'll send him something we can use here!
By the way, for those of you who were wondering about the name, he is Danny Masterson's brother. THAT's official. (Christopher told the Shea-man that himself, which is about as "official" as may be.)
Chris co-starred as "Doc," a very ill boy in the 1997 season's third episode of "Touched By An Angel," and, whether because of his appearance or not, that episode creamed its opposition and became the season's most successful "Touched By An Angel" episode. Considering how much the Nielsens love Danny Masterson, we think that the episode's success was due to Christopher's presence. Consider:
The Mastersons remain masters of the Nielsen ratings!
If those of you who are his fans lobby REALLY HARD, maybe he'll start a home page of his own or send us some exclusive material to entangle in the Web. Unless and until he does, please consider us a strictly UNofficial source of Masterson information.
Many thanks to Dennis Kytasaari for pointing out that Christopher played "Avery at 13" in episode 126 of Murphy Brown. The episode aired 17 May 1993, at the end of the show's fifth season. (It's the "one" about Avery's first birthday party.)
Apropos of "One," we HAVE a copy of Christopher's scene at last! Hopefully, we will be able to grab a frame or two for his fans to see. Considering that this episode only airs once a year, we hope you will appreciate our efforts to get this!
(Before Christopher was "Avery at 13," however, he was "Steve at 10" in Singles.)
Christopher also appeared as "Lewis Bing" in the "Just One Lullaby" episode of the popular TeeVee series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. We had tuned in to see Eric Balfour as (ironically) Benjamin Avery. The episode is number 037 of Dr. Quinn, and first aired 9 April 1994. It "won" it's night, by the way. (Ultra-trivia: "Lewis Bing" was also previously played by David Tom, who is the brother of Nicole Tom, who co-stars with Madeline Zima on The Nanny; Madeline, in her turn, co-starred with Chris on Touched By an Angel.)
"Just One Lullaby" aired in Los Angeles on KCOP-TV 13 on Friday, June 20th, 1997 at 9:00 AM. Check with your local station & TV listings for the date and time it will be showing again in your area.
With its availability on videotape, we finally got to see Michael Cimino's The Sunchaser, in which Christopher has a (too-)small part, as Dr. Mike's older brother. Fans of Christopher's long, wavy, blond locks may not be prepared for his "look" in this film, but his performance (what there is of it) is good. Frankly, though, our vote for best performance in the film goes to John Christian Graas (who has also appeared on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, btw).
We don't know much about Christopher K.'s life on the stage, but we do have the Shea-man's review of his performance in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Les Petites canailles, one of Christopher's films, has a title which may be translated as "The Little Rascals." This is not the 1994 American film directed by Penelope Spheeris, it is a 1992 Italian film (in English), directed by we-know-not-whom (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more!), but with cinematography by Roberto Forges Davanzati , who is perhaps best know for his camera work on that classic, Cannibal Holocaust. We are not making this up.
To see some truly flattering cinematography of Christopher Masterson (and Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney and Rupert Everett and Cameron Diaz and . . .) go to see My Best Friend's Wedding, which contains some of the most flattering footage ever shot of these stars. And the film's good, too! (By early August it had hit Number FOUR at the box office and has since grossed well over $140,000,000, making it the most successful film in which Christopher has appeared so far. Christopher plays Scott O'Neal, the best man (a choice with which many would agree, we're sure!). As of 5 November, 1997, by the way, it was still showing in at least one theater on Hollywood Boulevard!
Good publicity department: 25 November 1997: My Best Friend's Wedding is, sadly, no longer playing on Hollywood Boulevard, but -- since we posted our November 5 update -- it was added to 285 more theaters nationwide! It has also now grossed over $125,000,000, and its November 14-16 weekend gross (how much people spent on tickets for it) was up 166% from the previous weekend, even though the national weekend gross for the top 50 films dropped by 2%! For the record, My Best Friend's Wedding is (so far) the 9th most popular film of 1997 in the USA. Number 10 is . . . Face/Off, which co-stars Chris's brother, Danny. The Masterson Men rule the Nielsen ratings and the box office! . . .
Update: May 15, 1998: At least they ruled until Titanic was released! Look for My Best Friend's Wedding and Face/Off on video now.
(With all of the wonderful things we've said about My Best Friend's Wedding, you would think that Sony would have finally sent us a press kit for I Know What You Did Last Summer for all of you thousands of Ryan Phillippe fans who visit Jaundiced Eye's Home Page, but nooo . . . . By the way, not that we're bitter or anything, but the weekend gross for I Know What You Did Last Summer fell by 37% after we published our NW8 (Not Worth $8) rating on our main page, and, nationally, 94 theaters stopped showing it. That's almost enough to make us wonder just how much influence our little Web page really has in the humongous world of the Entertainment Industry!)
If you're wondering where some of Hollywood's top young stars learned their craft, check out Rider Strong's page for Diane Hill-Hardin's Young Actor's Space. What better recommendation for acting training than that the brothers Strong (Rider and Shiloh) and Masterson (Chris and Danny), the siblings Tom (Nicholle and David), the Mowry twins (Tia & Tamara), Luke Edwards, and . . . heck . . . just click on Rider's page -- but come BACK here, gentle reader!
