We've mentioned previously that we have an international audience. Now EuroSeek™ has made it official. After only being listed with Euroseek™ for six weeks,
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 in the lead, followed -- in a tie vote -- by Ben Affleck and Ben Silverstone. Esteban's way behind. . . . )
11 March 1999: Esteban finally has an official site on the Web! Actually, it's for entertainment industry professionals, so if you visit there, don't muck around and try to leave fan messages for Esteban -- you can do that in the guestbook here (he reads it once a year or so). DO take a peek at it, though, if you are curious about what the real movers and shakers in Hollywood look at on the Internet (besides those nudie pictures of Dr. Laura!)
23 February: (1) Yes, that is Esteban at the wheel in the new Mountain Dew commercial about what snowboarders do when they aren't snowboarding. (2) After our running joke about trying to track down Esteban in Venice during AFM two years ago, one of his films, Deal of a Lifetime (see below), is going to be at AFM '99. (3)We're still awaiting news on Hitman's Run. (4)Esteban's manager informs us that he has just wrapped the feature Random Acts of Violence. (5) No, we still haven't met Esteban in the flesh. (Some of us are beginning to think he's actually an advanced computer construct made by Pixar!)
We FINALLY saw Late Bloomers, and hope to have a review and some pix for your perusal soon, but sensitive viewers should be warned: if seeing Esteban engaging in yucky heterosexual coitus will offend you, you probably shouldn't see Late Bloomers. BTW, don't let your local video store put off ordering it because it's not available on video -- it is, and has been for some time.
Esteban appears with Kevin "The Usual Suspects" Pollak and Michael "Party of Five" Goorjian in the Faustian comedy Deal of a Lifetime. Tommorow Films Corporation is taking it to AFM, the international marketplace for film makers and distributors.
8 December 1998: As of last week, Deal of a Lifetime was in the editing room, going through post- production rituals, and the producers had not yet selected a U.S. distributor for the film.
(Esteban will also be in the upcoming Hitman's Run.)
Thanks to informants and our own devious channel-surfing, we have learned that Esteban has been a recurring character on the WB's "The Smart Guy" and that he played "Shane Elias" in an episode of CBS's "Promised Land." We shall try to get you pix and more info as they become available.
The Internet Movie Data Base page on Esteban does not mention it, but we have been told that he appeared in two xmas '97 episodes of "Beverly Hills 90210." He played "Ben" in the 8th Season episodes "Comic Relief" and "Santa Knows."
The tireless Jo had advised us that Esteban is listed as part of the cast in the erotic video Young Americans, which we haven't seen. HOWEVER this rumour seems to have originated with an ad for Young Americans which featured the cast information for the video of Late Bloomers, in which Esteban DOES appear. We apologize to anyone who was inconvenienced by this mistake, but -- trust us -- if Esteban ever does do a sexy video, we'll let you know! (And if you are into videos like Young Americans, we refer you to one of our new pages, which sets the record . . . uh . . . "straight" about a lot of cool young actors.)
BE "FRIENDS" WITH ESTEBAN: In case you fans had not recognized him in his goggles, parka and other snow-boarding gear, that is Esteban Powell who gets dumped in mid-air in the television Mountain Dew ad to the tune of "Tonight, Tonight" (from West Side Story). Thankfully, Esteban's sideburns are as unique as Shane McDermott's hair or Stephen Dorff's birthmark, so he is easy to spot once you know what to look for. Even if you want to "just be friends."
(And for you Stephen Dorff fans who DON'T know where his birthmark is, we refer you to any one of several sites which feature pix of him. Far be it from US to discuss his birthmark anymore!)
If you would like to more about "Bone Chillers" and Esteban's role as "Brian" than any sane person would EVER want to know, a good starting place is Fergus's "Bone Chillers" Episode Guide.
Apropos of "Bone Chillers," another actor for whom we have great hopes, John Patrick ("A.J.") White, Esteban's former co-star on "Bone Chillers," appeared in a major role on "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" on October 20th, which probably gave him more public exposure in one night than he has received from the two previous series in which he starred and from his numerous guest appearances on various shows. John Patrick White -- remember that name; you'll be hearing a whole lot more about him in the coming years. (He's good to his fans, too!)
Esteban's Powder co-star, Sean Patrick Flannery, is co-starring with Jerry "Sliders" O'Connell in the upcoming comedy/drama, Jello Shots.
OKAY, ESTEBAN FANS, LISTEN UP -- YEAH, YOU TWO OVER THERE: 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.
