From ettie1@hotmail.com Sat Apr 03 04:42:35 1999 Path: news.alt.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!peerfeed.ncal.verio.net!nntp2.cerf.net!nntp3.cerf.net!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail From: ettie1@hotmail.com (Sleepless in Seattle) Newsgroups: alt.fan.meg-ryan Subject: FAQ for alt.fan.meg-ryan at February 1999. Part 2/2. Followup-To: alt.fan.meg-ryan Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 02:42:35 GMT Organization: The Internet Group (Hamilton) Lines: 497 Message-ID: <370e8017.2199388@news.ham.ihug.co.nz> Reply-To: ettie1@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ham.ihug.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 Cache-Post-Path: ham.ihug.co.nz!bwong@p7-max2.ham.ihug.co.nz X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: news alt.fan.meg-ryan:8004 X-Agent-Group: alt.fan.meg-ryan Archive-name: movies/meg-ryan-faq/part2 Posting-Frequency: monthly Meg Ryan FAQ for newsgroup alt.fan.meg-ryan at February 1999. ********************************************************************** WHAT'S NEW IN THIS EDITION: - Updated You've Got Mail and Hurlyburly box office info. ********************************************************************** TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1. Personal Information. 2. Up and Coming Projects. 3. Films in Production. 4. Films scheduled for release. 5. Filmography. 6. Awards and Honours. 7. Time Line. 8. Notes to readers. 9. Meg Ryan on the internet. 10. Meg Ryan books. 11. Personal final notes. 12. Addresses and Phone numbers. 13. Sources. *********************************************************************** 6. AWARDS/HONORS: - 1989: Best Actress Award in Europe and a nomination for Best Actress from the I.F.P for her role in Promised Land. - 1989: Golden Apple Award, Hollywood Women's Press Club. Female Discovery of the year along with Pauline Collins. - 1989: Golden Globe Nomination for Best Actress in a comedy role (When Harry Met Sally). - 1990: Meg was nominated for a BAFTA(British Oscar), for When Sally Met Harry. - 1993: Golden Globe Nomination for Best Actress in a comedy role (Sleepless in Seattle). - 1994: Harvard Hasty Pudding Award "Woman of the Year". - "The high point of the evening came when MR was presented with a conductor's baton with which she led the audience in a group rendition of the scene above." (Thanks to Nichael Cramer for this info). - 1995: Many nominations for When a Man Loves a Woman but no Oscar or Golden Globe recognition. She was nominated by the Screen Actors Guild (probably the third most prestigious award). - 1995: She won the Crystal Award in 1995. The Crystal Awards are the most prestigious awards for actresses and are presented by the Women In Film Society. - (Source: NOS-teletekst, june 10, 1995). 7. INTERESTING EVENT TIME LINE: November 19, 1961 Born on this day in Fairfield, Connecticut 1974 Family move to Bethel, Connecticut 1976 Parents divorce and mother moves to New York 1978 Meg changed her surname to Ryan, her mothers maiden name. 1979 Voted "cutest" girl in high school; class secretary; homecoming queen; moves to New York 1981 Film debut in Rich and Famous 1982 Joins cast of As the World Turns 1983 Amityville 3 released. 1984 Moves to Hollywood and starts in the short lived Wildside 1986 Appears in Top Gun 1987 Meets Dennis Quaid on set of Innerspace 1987 Apparently, Meg's first chat show appearance was on Channel 4's "The Last Resort" in the UK, hosted by Jonathan Ross. - Thanks to William Anderson for this. 1988 Reunited with Dennis on set of D.O.A. The Presidio and Promised Land also released. 1989 When Harry Met Sally... 'nuff said 1990 Joe Versus the Volcano released. 1991 Valentine's Day-Dennis and Meg get married. The Doors released. 1992 Jack Henry is born April 1992. Prelude to a Kiss released. 1993 Sleepless in Seattle is smash hit, Meg is back on A-List. Flesh and Bone also released. Meg Ryan started her own production company, Prufrock Pictures. 1994 Busy year for Meg, oscar talk for When A Man Loves A Woman. I.Q released, French Kiss made (her first producing job) and Restoration made. 1995 French Kiss and Restoration released, Courage Under Fire and Anastasia in production. 1996 Quit the Women in Film Society. "Ryan has quit Women in Film, feeling that the group is like a ladies' auxiliary, with no purposeful agenda. "I really thought it was one of the most directionless entities," she says, "trying to serve everybody, but--hello?"." - Taken directly from Premiere magazine May 1996. Article named Private Meg by Rachel Abramowitz. 1996 Courage Under Fire released, Restoration wins two Academy Awards. 1997 Finished filming Addicted, released also. 1997 Released Anastasia, the first Film for Fox 2000's animation division. 1998 Finished filming City of Angels. City of Angels released. 1998 Finished filming Hurly Burly. 8. INTERESTING NOTES TO THE READERS: - Started a production company, Prufrock Pictures, named after one of her favourite poems written by T.S. Eliott "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". - Was doused in insect repellent for a scene in I.Q. where she and Tim Robbins had to roll in a deer tick infested grass field. - Made the infamous Blackwell's worst dressed list in 1988. She was "the ragbag doll of the year." Met Dennis Quaid while filming "Innerspace", and was "wooed" by him while filming "D.O.A.". - Dennis and Meg often planned "mystery romantic weekends" where one would make plans and then surprise the other. - Meg hired a plane to fly a happy birthday banner as a surprise for Dennis. Dennis, in turn, hired a high school marching band to deliver a similar message to Meg while she was filming "The Presidio." - Meg and Dennis were married Feb 14. 1991 - Meg bleached her hair platinum blonde for her role in the film I.Q. where she plays the niece of Albert Einstein. - Meg was noted as being one of "The 50 most Beautiful People in the World 1994" by People Magazine. [ Despite the source, this is probably quite true IMHO ;-) ] - Favourite Romantic Movie: "Splendor in the Grass" with Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood - Film roles she turned down: Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman, Ghost, Silence of the Lambs, and Maverick. She turned down Silence because she thought it was "ugly", "dangerous" and "too dark". - She backed out of Maverick because she wanted to spend time with her husband and son. - Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack has sold more than 3 million copies to date. (thanks to Andrew Perry for this info) - Won the Harvard 1994 Hasty Pudding Award "Woman of the Year" - She aced high school, finished 11th in her class, was homecoming queen and was voted "cutest" - She was studying journalism at NYU when she tried out for, and received, a part on the daytime soap "As the World Turns". She paid for tuition by acting in commercials. - Both she and her husband value their privacy. - Very important: Don't ever ask her anything about her mother... long story. - Her mother wrote a book, with all the juicy details, about Meg and her husband Dennis Quaid (no wonder Meg avoids her). (source: Multichoice highlights 1995). - She was voted America's most romantic woman. Second was Cindy Crawford and third Michelle Pfeiffer. - (Source: Cinema, March (?) 1996) - Thanks to Erwin Smit for this info. - Meg actually appeared on a game show on TV early in her career. This has been left out of the filmography (for obvious reasons). - She appeared on Tattletales, the exact time and date of the show is unknown, if anyone has this info then please let me know... - Much of this and some of the time line information has been taken directly from David R Woloschuk's WWW home page for Meg Ryan. 9. MEG RYAN ON THE INTERNET: Newsgroups: * Alt.fan.meg-ryan (created by me, e-mail ettie1@hotmail.com) * Alt.movies.joe-vs-volcano (created by Matthew L. Langford) Note: The posting of binaries to alt.fan.meg-ryan is generally accepted by the members of the newsgroup. Even though many news servers filter them out anyway, the posting of binaries (as long as they are kept to the topic of Meg Ryan) are allowed. IRC: #MegRyan is now a channel on DALnet. Just connect to this IRC network and join in. For a list of DALnet servers go to: http://www.dal.net/servers/index.html World Wide Web: 1. Meg Ryan Homage. UK: http://www.zensoft.co.uk/megryan/ US: http://countingdown.com/megryan/ - Created by William Anderson e-mail neuro@pemail.net 2. Mr Showbiz Meg Ryan section. http://www.CelebSite.com/people/megryan/index.html - E-mail editors.celebsite@starwave.com 3. Joe Versus the Volcano Home Page. http://sojourn.com/~rlesley/web/jvtv/Joe_Versus_the_Volcano.html - E-mail rlesley@sojourn.com 4. Greg Brush´s JVV-Script-Webpage. http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/8299/ - E-mail fictitious@thepentagon.com 5. Sean Allocca's Joe Versus the Volcano Page http://sashimi.wwa.com/~shopnet/jvv/ - Created by allocca@infi.net 6. Meg Ryan section at Internet Movie Database. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?Meg+Ryan 7. Meg Ryan section at All Movie Guide. http://allmovie.com/cgi-win/AVG.exe?sql=2P_IDP|62388 - Created by All Movie Guide. E-mail voices@thenewage.com 8. The Meg Ryan Mini Home Page http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2975/ - Created by Manuel Huerta, e-mail al601402@academ01.mty.itesm.mx 9. An Alternative Joe Versus the Volcano Page http://members.aol.com/waponi/jvtv.htm - Created by Richard Saylor, E-mail rlsaylor@ix.netcom.com 10. Matthew Baldwin's Meg Ryan page. http://www.netzone.com/~mbaldwin/megryan/ - Created by Matthew Baldwin, E-mail mbaldwin@netzone.com 11. HARALDS HEIMSEITE http://www.isarflash.com/1.htm - Created by harald.schmitt@az-online.net 12. Rusty Spell's Little Pagelet for Joe Versus the Volcano. http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~rwspell/joe/index.html - Created by Rusty Spell, E-mail rwspell@ocean.st.usm.edu 13. The Big O. A tribute to Meg Ryan. http://www.mmogul.demon.co.uk/thebig_o.htm - Created by Andrew Perry, E-mail Andrew@mmogul.demon.co.uk 14. Val's Meg Ryan Page. http://www.tropicalshade.com/meg - E-mail buzz@tropicalshade.com 15. Meg Ryan. http://www.uni-erlangen.de/~sz1038/meg.htm - E-mail Christian.Popp@stud.uni-erlangen.de 16. People Magazine's hottest celebrities on the Web Meg Ryan sec. http://pathfinder.com/@@CErFZQcAPGBL77j1/people/icon/iconmeg.html 17. Cagri's Meg Ryan page. http://www.ug.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/~cagri/meg0.htm - Created by CagrI Ozturk, E-mail cagri@ug.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr 18. Meg Ryan's Homepage. http://pw2.netcom.com/~stigma_x/ryan.html - E-mail genx@juno.com 19. Hollywood Online - Meg Ryan section. http://www.bitesite.com/celeb/mryan/mryan.html - E-mail Feedback@hollywood.com 20. Meg Ryan Super Links page (heaps of links). http://nsknet.or.jp/~bzw01202/eng/emsl.htm - E-mail bzw01202@nsknet.or.jp 21. Tom's Meg Ryan Page. http://www.stopklatka.com.pl/meg/ - Created by Tomasz Kaniak, E-mail tomkat@stopklatka.com.pl 22. Warners Bros. Addicted to Love Site. http://www.addictedtolove.com/main.html - Created by Warner Bros. Visit WWW.wb.com for help. 23. Eintritt zur MEGabit http://homepages.hs-bremen.de/~04960089/ - E-mail eller@uni-bremen.de 24. Anastasia movie site http://www.anya.com/ - Visit http://www.foxmovies.com/ for more info. 25. Gcarras's Meg Ryan page. http://members.aol.com/GCarras/meg.html - Created by GCarras, e-mail gcarras@aol.com 26. Queen of the Romantic Movies. http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/2575/ - E-mail lerstin35@hotmail.com 27. SirOracle's Meg Ryan page. http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/3174/ - Go to the page and select the 'Feedback' option to contact. 28. La PÂgina de Meg Ryan http://personal.redestb.es/kikedom/megryan.html - E-mail kikedom@mx2.redestb.es 29. Xavier's Meg Ryan Page http://www.megryan.net - E-mail xavier@intercom.es 30. Celebrity Cellar Meg Ryan section. http://www.celebs.net/MegRyan/mrhome.html - E-mail matt@celebs.net 30. The MEGnificient RYAN http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/5870/meg.html - E-mail naz007@singnet.com.sg 31. Meg Ryan. http://www.megryan.com - E-mail mailto:webmaster@MegRyan.com 32. Meg Ryan's Ultimate Fan Club. http://www.angelfire.com/ms/MegRyanFanClub/ - E-mail joze.staric@siol.net 33. Meg Ryan. http://perso.club-internet.fr/domi67/MegRyan/megryan.htm - E-mail domi67@club-internet.fr 34. Ryan, Meg by Park J.H. http://myhome.netsgo.com/jenix/ - E-mail jenix@netsgo.com 35. Entertainment Pix. http://www.angelfire.com/oh/entertainmentpix - E-mail bradlee19@webtv.net 36. Meg Ryan's Feital Homepage. http://www.originet.com.br/users/feital - E-mail feital@originet.com.br 37. Roland's Meg Ryan page. http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a9225370/megryan/index.htm - E-mail e9225370@student.tuwien.ac.at 38. Movie Times: Meg Ryan. http://www.the-movie-times.com/thrsdir/actress/mryan.html - E-mail amt@texas.net 39. Meg Ryan: Biographie. http://www.mygale.org/02/tonio666/Actrices/Meg_Ryan/Meg_ryan.htm - E-mail gabber666@bigfoot.com 40. You've Got Mail official site. http://www.youvegotmail.com - E-mail ? 41. Meg Ryan Picture Gallery. http://alas.matf.bg.ac.yu/~mn95059/megryan.html - E-mail ? 42. J_Holmes' Meg Ryan Fan Page. http://members.tripod.com/~J_HOLMES - E-mail jimholmes175@earthlink.net 43. Jazzy's Homepage. http://www.stephenr.u-net.com/ - E-mail stephen.rutherford@wavenet.co.uk 44. Official Hurly Burly Movie site. http://www.flf.com/hurlyburly/ 45. You've Got Mail - Unofficial Site. http://members.xoom.com/Madpilfer/ygm/ - E-mail Madpilfer@yahoo.com 46. Meg Ryan Yahoo Club. http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/themagnificentmegryan 47. Meg Ryan - Herz und Verstand http://www.megryan.de - E-mail webmaster@megryan.de 10. MEG RYAN IN BOOKS: It has recently been brought to my attention that there exists a Meg Ryan biography. I have ordered one through a fellow Meg Ryan fan in Europe. He has provided me with the following info about the book (I wish to leave him anonymous so he does not get bombarded with requests from everyone wanting one). Here is some information about the book: - Title: MEG RYAN - Herz und Verstand - Author: Karsten Pruessmann - Publisher: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG. Munich - Date: 1996 in Munich - ISBN: 3-453-09405-0 - Language: German. - about 190 pages - there are chapters about her private life, her Mom, Dennis Quaid, her career, the strong women of Hollywood, her films, her upcoming projects and a chapter about the German voice of Meg Ryan. No new edition will be printed, importing from a German store might be your best solution. - 63 pictures (b/w) + cover (Colour). Your best chance would be to try importing it from a German book store. Remember that the book is in German. Any other books about Meg Ryan please e-mail me. 11. FINAL NOTES: I would like it if people could e-mail me any suggestioins/additions/changes/etc. I am still after the box-office take for: Amityville 3-D. I would like to thank all the contributions which have been so important to make this a very comprehensive FAQ. Especially David Woloschuck, David Van Dommelen for his "As The World Turns" info, Richard Saylor for providing information and much needed enthusiasm, Entertainment Weekly, and the Internet Movie Database. But most of all Meg Ryan who will forever be my number one movie star and who has given me so much laughter, enjoyment, emotion, satisfaction and happiness to last me a lifetime, her skills are priceless and will forever continue to captivate audiences all over the world. On behalf of Meg Ryan fans everywhere, I would like to say thank you very much. Long live the queen of romantic comedies (and the queen of all movies for me). Please send information to me at ettie1@hotmail.com 12. ADDRESSES/PHONE NUMBERS TO GET IN TOUCH WITH MEG RYAN. THE BEST ADDRESS TO USE WOULD BE HER PRODUCTION COMPANY: Meg Ryan, Prufrock Pictures, 10201 West Pico Blvd, Building 78, Los Angeles 90035, U.S.A. Note: Could someone in LA or nearby please verify that these details are correct, I have heard they have changed. Could someone please let me know what the new details are... Or you can try: I.C.M, 8942 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211, U.S.A. Or you can try: 11718 Barrington Ct. Suite 508, Los Angeles, CA 90049, U.S.A Or you can try: 9301 Cherokee Lane, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, U.S.A And the last one I have is: 8899 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. 90048 U.S.A (expect a long delay if you are waiting for a reply, Meg is usually a busy lady) AND THE PHONE NUMBERS ARE: AGENCY-PHONE: (310)550-4000 (212)556-5600 (This should be I.C.M) Public Relations Company: Geller & Associates: (310)859-7661 Production Company: Prufrock Pictures Production: (310)369-3103, FAX (310) 369 2308 13. SOURCES: - The Internet Movie Database. The U.K site is at: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Movies/ - David R. Woloschuk of the Meg Ryan home page listed above. - As The World Turns information provided by David Van Dommelen. - Box-office information from Entertainment Weekly. Numerous issues, published by Time Inc. - Johnnie Young's movies in production listing. Electronic Hollywood for 4 September 1995. For more information about his very useful service e-mail jjyoung@primenet.com. - Andrew Perry and Robert Lindsley for their contributions in making this such a comprehensive FAQ. You can also find this FAQ at William Anderson's page and Tom's Meg Ryan page. (c) Ben Wong, 1998.