Digest 2, originally sent Sun Jun 20 03:49:27 1999 :

There are 8 messages in this issue.

Topics in today's digest:

      1. Los Angeles Times 990602 Deep-sixed nine runs out of space
           From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
      2. Edmunton Sun 990602 Cleopatra next TV action star
           From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
      3. Calgary Sun 990602 Shields sitcom is suddenly casting
           From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
      4. St. Louis Post-Dispatch 990603 Video show "midcoast mania" is down
           From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
      5. Ottawa Sun 990603 Suddenly in need of replacements
           From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
      6. Ottawa Citizen 990603 Margo Roston's capital style
           From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
      7. Los Angeles Times 990603 Morning report
           From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
      8. London Free Press 990603 Name game for millennium babies
           From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx


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Message: 1
   Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:37:55 -0700
   From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: Los Angeles Times 990602 Deep-sixed nine runs out of space

Los Angeles Times
June 2, 1999, Wednesday
Calendar F1
1445 words
HEADLINE: DEEP-SIXED 'NINE' RUNS OUT OF SPACE; AFTER SEVEN YEARS IN
SYNDICATION, THE 'STAR TREK' SPINOFF ENDS WITH A TWO-HOUR FAREWELL. 'THIS IS
GOODBYE,' ITS PRODUCER SAYS.
BYLINE: DAN CRAY, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
GRAPHIC: Signing off: Michael Dorn, left, Nicole deBoer, Colm Meaney,
Alexander Siddig, Rene Auberjonois and Nana Visitor listen to holographic
James Darren.

Commentary: About as brief a mention you can get. XENA is mentioned as a
competitior of DEEP SPACE 9 in the past.

Text:

   The bridge of the starship Defiant is a shambles, the captain's chair
ripped from its mounting. The ops center on the nearby space station is in
similar disarray, and the massive Promenade--the two-story nucleus of the
station--is now missing its upper level. Throughout the debris, familiar
faces dressed in Starfleet uniforms have tears in their eyes and are hugging
goodbye. For "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" fans, it has the look of yet
another setup for an episode in the ongoing story line about Starfleet's war
against the Dominion.

   This time the drama is real, as production on the Emmy-winning series
wrapped in late April and workers at Paramount studios began dismantling the
elaborate sets once and for all. After seven years in first-run syndication,
"Deep Space Nine" comes to a close with a two-hour special Saturday night on
KCOP. And unlike its "Star Trek" siblings, which have spun off new series
and films, no one expects there to be an afterlife for "Deep Space."

   "For 12 years we've done nothing but grow," says series co-creator and
executive producer Rick Berman, a "Star Trek" veteran with two other "Star
Trek" series to his credit along with co-writing three of the "Star Trek"
feature films. "When one show would end, another would begin or there would
be a movie, and nobody left. It's different with 'Deep Space Nine.' This is
goodbye."

     For some, it's good riddance as well. Officially speaking, "Deep Space
Nine" matched the success of its predecessor, "Star Trek: The Next
Generation," which similarly spent seven years in first-run syndication,
winning multiple Emmys and critical acclaim. But "Next Generation" won
something "Deep Space Nine"--which cost more than $2 million per episode to
produce--never could: the hearts of "Star Trek" fans, a broad popularity
that enabled Paramount, the production home to the "Star Trek" franchise, to
groom the "Next Generation" cast as big-screen successors to Capt. Kirk and
Mr. Spock.

   "We never hit in the same way," says Alexander Siddig, who plays Dr.
Julian Bashir on the series. "It was always a work in progress, and it never
settled, because the good nesting spots were too commercial or a betrayal of
what we were trying to do."

   "Deep Space Nine" also faced hurdles "Next Generation" never encountered.
There was the show's non-"Trek"-like premise, which centers on a space
station situated next to a planet embroiled in political and social strife.

   The ongoing story meshed the upgrade of that run-down space station, the
politics of a struggling culture, Capt. Benjamin Sisko's (Avery Brooks)
position as a religious figure to the nearby planet's inhabitants and the
eventual Dominion War.

   "As a body of work, the show dealt with many very human attributes, much
more than the original 'Star Trek' shows," says Armin Shimerman, who
portrays the space station bartender Quark. "We were looking not for answers
but for serious questions."

   Series Offered Sobering Vision of the Future

   Michael Dorn, who played the Klingon Worf on both "Next Generation" and
"Deep Space Nine" and was brought in to help win over reluctant "Star Trek"
fans, says: "They were very ambitious with this show, because they wanted a
total departure from 'Star Trek.' " For some fans, however, that departure
mired a franchise dedicated to galactic exploration into a pseudo-political
series aboard a cosmic Greyhound bus station.

   " 'Deep Space Nine' has never been popular, because there's no ship,"
contends Ken Friedman, who sells "Star Trek" collectibles at conventions and
rarely sees demand for "Deep Space Nine" items. "On the other 'Star Trek'
franchises , the ship was always a character."

   Worse yet, the series offered a much more sobering vision of the future
at a time when the public wasn't necessarily ready to embrace the concept.

   "The 'Next Generation' really epitomized the '80s, when everything was
beautiful and utopia was right around the corner," Siddig says. "Now, 10
years later we realize it isn't. Our show tried to reflect that." Producers
eventually introduced the starship Defiant to get the crew off the station.

   But there were other issues as well. The show always competed for
attention with another "Trek" series--initially "Next Generation" and, more
recently, UPN's "Star Trek: Voyager." As Berman puts it, "I think 'Deep
Space Nine' felt like the neglected stepchild. There's always been that
sense it was stuck in the middle, that it didn't get the full chance to
spread its wings."

   In addition, science-fiction and fantasy programming exploded in the
1990s, and "Deep Space Nine" found itself also competing for viewers with
shows such as "The X-Files," "Xena," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the
closely themed "Babylon V."

   "We never caught on like any other 'Star Treks' before us, because 'Star
Trek' is no longer the only game in town," says Rene Auberjonois, who plays
the station's security officer, Odo. A more subtle problem stemmed from the
series' attempt to utilize several formats, a disorienting approach that
left viewers loving the show one week and hating it the next.

   "When people watch TV, they basically tune in to see the same comforting
show every week, and that's not what we did," says Ira Steven Behr, another
of the show's executive producers. "We mixed it up--drama, humor, battles,
space opera--and I think some of the fans are resentful of that."

   For all of its troubles, "Deep Space Nine" managed to change the world of
"Star Trek" in ways "Next Generation" did not. Most notably, the writers
were able to include conflict between the characters--an element that was
taboo under the rules of the late "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry,
whose 24th century vision held that mankind had evolved beyond such
disputes. Berman cheated the rule by developing lead characters that were
not Starfleet personnel--thus allowing the freedom to generate disagreements
between Starfleet and non-Starfleet characters.

   Characters the Heart of the Show

   "Deep Space Nine" was also the first "Trek" to feature an African
American lead actor (Brooks), and included strong female characters that
were missing from the "Trek" universe since actress Denise Crosby's short
stint on "Next Generation."

   "It's nice," says Nana Visitor, who plays Col. Kira, "that there's no
longer any question of why a woman is first officer." Berman feels the show
will be remembered for "the incredibly rich group of characters that were
woven into a big tapestry."

   Behr suggests such in-depth characterization is the show's hallmark,
regardless of what effects-hungry fans may think.

   "You look at the original series and the props are hokey, the sets are
cheesy, but Kirk, Spock and McCoy still work," he says. "That's why, when
people say 'Star Trek' is popular because of the bright vision of the
future, I don't buy it. It's not the vision, it's the humanity, and that's
what we have coming out the ears on 'Deep Space Nine.' Ten years from now
you may wince at the look, but the stories will still be there."

   The show's dedication to telling complex stories led to an
extraordinarily large recurring cast of more than 20 characters, most of
whom will be seen one last time--sans their usual get-ups--in a bar scene
during the series finale. That scene--which guest stars James Darren as a
holographic lounge singer--also served as the final gathering of the regular
cast, and the mood between takes was akin to that on the last day of high
school.

   "You don't work together so closely for so long without having a few
tears shed," says Colm Meaney, who plays Miles O'Brien.

   As filming commenced for the final time, Darren recited the words viewers
will probably remember most from the finale. "Like the man said," Darren
croons during the scene, "all good things must come to an end." Fans of the
series consider that a loss for television.

   " 'Deep Space Nine' concentrated on building up the characters rather
than on shoot-'em-up-bang-bang alien fighting," said fan Irma Zamot, who
traveled from Atlanta to attend the recent "Star Trek" Grand Slam Convention
in Pasadena, which included a "Farewell to 'Deep Space Nine.' " Clark Bowie
and Alex Hood, who hail from Aberdeen, Scotland, were so upset the series
was ending they flew to Los Angeles and sneaked onto the Defiant set during
the final days of shooting.

   "It was an ongoing story that was so different from 'Next Generation' or
'Voyager,' " Hood says. "That's what fans are going to miss."

   * The two-hour series finale of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" airs at 8
p.m. Saturday on KCOP. The network has rated it TV-PG (may be unsuitable for
young children.)





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Message: 2
   Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:41:02 -0700
   From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: Edmunton Sun 990602 Cleopatra next TV action star

The Edmonton Sun
June 2, 1999, Wednesday
EXPRESS 42
481 words
HEADLINE: CLEOPATRA NEXT TV ACTION STAR
BYLINE: TYLER MCLEOD, SUN MEDIA
Graphic: Non-Xena

Commentary: More on Back 2 Back Action! The "Xena producer" is R.J. Stewart.

Text:

   The makers of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys are looking to the future
for a replacement for the syndicated series. Literally.

   Cleopatra 2525 is one of two half-hour productions in the Back 2 Back
Action adventures, which debuts next winter.

   Jack of All Trades, meanwhile, is set on a colonial-era Caribbean island.

     Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert of Renaissance Pictures promise the
faster-paced duo will be in the same style as Hercules and Xena: Warrior
Princess.

   "It will be every bit as dynamic," he told Variety, "with the same broad
action, strong drama, humour and sex appeal that has attracted both men and
women to these shows."

   Tapert and an Xena producer created Cleopatra 2525, which follows the
exploits of an exotic dancer who is cryogenically frozen in 2001 and wakes
up five centuries later.

   Cleo and two warrior pals then have to escape an underworld ruled by evil
robots.

   The improbably named Jack Styles in Jack of All Trades is a swashbuckling
aristocrat stationed in the Caribbean by the British Secret Service during
the 1700s.

   Eric Morris, a writer for The Pretender and Sliders, came up with the
story.

   Both shows are to be filmed in New Zealand.

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Message: 3
   Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:44:08 -0700
   From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: Calgary Sun 990602 Shields sitcom is suddenly casting

The Calgary Sun
June 2, 1999, Wednesday
ENTERTAINMENT 44
356 words
HEADLINE: SHIELDS SITCOM IS SUDDENLY CASTING
BYLINE: TYLER MCLEOD, CALGARY SUN
GRAPHIC: KEVIN SORBO ... As Hercules.

Commentary: More Back 2 Back press release

Text:

[snip]

MOVE OVER, XENA

   The makers of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys are looking to the future
for a replacement for the syndication series.

   Literally.

   Cleopatra 2525 and Jack of All Trades are two 30-minute productions in
the Back 2 Back Action adventures, which debut next winter.

   Cleopatra 2525 follows the exploits of an exotic dancer who is
cryogenically frozen in 2001 and wakes up five centuries later. Cleo and two
warrior pals have to escape an underworld ruled by evil robots.

   The improbably-named Jack Styles in Jack of All Trades is a swashbuckling
aristocrat stationed in the Caribbean by the British Secret Service during
the 1700s.

   Eric Morris, a writer for The Pretender and Sliders, came up with the
story.

   Both shows are to be filmed in New Zealand.

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Message: 4
   Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:47:15 -0700
   From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 990603 Video show "midcoast mania" is down

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 3, 1999, Thursday
GET OUT, Pg. 2
LENGTH: 738 words
HEADLINE: VIDEO SHOW 'MIDCOAST MANIA' IS DOWN BUT NOT NECESSARILY OUT
BYLINE: Kevin C. Johnson; Post-Dispatch Pop Music Critic

Commentary: Brief mention of XWP: "And it wasn't too hard to beat out the
competition. Usually, we were the only show on except for 'Xena' reruns"

Text:

   "Midcoast Mania," the spunky late-night television program, that
spotlighted performances from Midwestern acts, recently aired its final
episode. The show, however, is down but not necessarily out.

   "There was some political pressure from other entities looking to produce
a show with more money and more power who didn't like us doing this one. And
it's better not to do battle with them," says Rod Sherrell, producer and
director of "Midcoast Mania" during its run of three seasons and 122 shows.

     Sherrell alludes to the advent of the bigger, more-high-profile "Point
TV" show. Both programs aired on Channel 30 (ABC), though "Point TV" is
airing on Friday nights and "Midcoast Mania" aired in the early hours of
Sunday mornings.

   "We couldn't do it on Channel 30 anymore, so I began talking to other
channels," says Sherrell, who was disappointed when the news came down. (The
official reason the show was dropped, he says, was because it aired a video
by avant-garde performer Typewriter Tim that featured Tim sporting a
prosthetic penis).

   "I don't have any resentment toward 'Point TV,' " Sherrell says. "I
applaud anybody doing anything to help the local scene. But they could have
kept us on, maybe as the lead-in show."

   "Midcoast Mania," which was called "Spotlight Video" for four years
before assuming a new name, reportedly was well-received locally. "Everybody
wanted to be a part of it. It was the only way for bands to get local
broadcast television, although 'Show Me St. Louis' occasionally put on a
local band. And it wasn't too hard to beat out the competition. Usually, we
were the only show on except for 'Xena' reruns," says Sherrell.

   In an e-mail to "Midcoast Mania," Dave McLain of the band Polaris wrote,
"I enjoyed the show very much and I'm sad to hear that it's no more." A
member of the band Din Squad e-mailed with the message "Hang in there" and
said he was sorry to hear the show was gone.

   Sherrell, Cat Cacciatore, Ryan Schlueter, Tom Schlueter of "Midcoast
Mania" are moving on. Sherrell says he's in talks with a national,
Midwestern-based cable channel to revive "Midcoast Mania" and continue its
focus on Midwestern bands.

   "We've gotten to the point where we've done all we can do locally. If
we're only in the St. Louis market, then the bands are only getting a buzz
locally. This would be a national forum to possibly break a band. That's one
of our main focuses," says Sherrell. "We appreciate all the support we've
gotten to get us to the level to make this national plunge."

   The new show will plug the Internet heavily, and a band's Web site
address will be seen onscreen while the video airs. The show could surface
as early as July 1. In the meantime, fans of "Midcoast Mania" won't be out
of the loop. Its Web site, www.midcoastmania.com, is still operating and
fans can access videos from their favorite local bands there without going
through the whole downloading process.

   About 15 bands have their videos available for viewing on the Web site
now, but an additional 200 videos will be added during "Midcoast Mania's"
down time. Links to bands' individual Web sites can also be found at the
site.

   "We want to get to the point where people can buy the videos and buy the
music," says Sherrell.

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Message: 5
   Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:49:14 -0700
   From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: Ottawa Sun 990603 Suddenly in need of replacements

The Ottawa Sun
June 3, 1999, Thursday
ENTERTAINMENT 51
LENGTH: 216 words
HEADLINE: SUDDENLY IN NEED OF REPLACEMENTS
BYLINE: TYLER MCLEOD, SUN ENTERTAINMENT

Commentary: More from the Back 2 Back press release

Text:

[snip]

    MOVE OVER, XENA: The makers of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys are
looking to the future for a replacement for the syndication series.
Literally.

   Cleopatra 2525 and Jack of All Trades are two 30-minute productions in
the Back 2 Back Action adventures, which debut next winter.

   Cleopatra 2525 follows the exploits of an exotic dancer who is
cryogenically frozen in 2001 and wakes up five centuries later. Cleo and two
warrior pals have to escape an underworld ruled by evil robots. Meanwhile,
the improbably-named Jack Styles in Jack of All Trades is a swashbuckling
aristocrat stationed in the Caribbean by the British Secret Service during
the 1700s.

   Both shows are to be filmed in New Zealand.






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Message: 6
   Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:51:59 -0700
   From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: Ottawa Citizen 990603 Margo Roston's capital style

The Ottawa Citizen
June 03, 1999
SECTION: Fashion; F5
LENGTH: 165 words
HEADLINE: Margo Roston's Capital Style
BYLINE: Margo Roston
GRAPHIC: Non-XENA

Commentary: There's a barber shop in Ottawa where you can watch XENA while
getting your hair cut!

Text:

   Alan Neal

   Occupation: CBC Radio One trends columnist; associate producer,
playwright.

   Look: What the 20-somethings on Friends and Melrose would actually look
like if they had real 20-something budgets.

   Recreation: Theatre, theatre and more theatre, hanging out at The Arrow
and the Loon pub, Hennessey concerts.

   Shopping hangouts: Whatever is closest when jeans rip, plus several hip
shrines of trendiness (also known as parents' basement), Gap, Club Monaco.

   Favourite designers: Barber at Glebe Barber Shop (only one in town to cut
hair while watching Xena) and Richard Robinson, (undoubtably working on a
diamond- studded ensemble for Alan right now).

   Fashion faux pas: Still wears clothes he fit into in Grade 13, asks CBC
co-workers for fashion advice.

   Indulgences: Chicken cheeseburgers on pita, fries and salad at the Arrow
and the Loon, KLB beer, Bogie and Bacall, reruns of Dallas on TNN.

   Power dressing: Black

   Workwear: Levis and T-shirt ensemble.






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Message: 7
   Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:54:44 -0700
   From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: Los Angeles Times 990603 Morning report

Los Angeles Times
June 3, 1999, Thursday
SECTION: Calendar; Part F; Page 50
LENGTH: 629 words
HEADLINE: MORNING REPORT;   ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES,
NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION'S PRESS.;   POP/ROCK
BYLINE: SHAUNA SNOW

Commentary:  Notice of Hollywood's First Festival of Visual Effects.

Text:

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   Special-Effects Festival: Special-effects masters from "Star Wars:
Episode I The Phantom Menace" will be among those taking part in Hollywood's
first Festival of Visual Effects, taking place Friday through Sunday at the
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Leonard Goldenson Theatre in North
Hollywood. Additional panels will focus on the creation of effects in such
films and TV series as "Apollo 13," "Contact," "2001: A Space Odyssey,"
"Hercules" and "Xena," as well as in the video game Mortal Kombat and the
Muppet creations of Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

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Message: 8
   Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:56:46 -0700
   From: "Kym Masera Taborn" <ktaborn@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: London Free Press 990603 Name game for millennium babies

The London Free Press
June 3, 1999, Thursday
SECTION: LIFESTYLE, Pg. C10
LENGTH: 718 words
HEADLINE: NAME GAME FOR MILLENNIUM BABIES
BYLINE: TIM ENGLE, KNIGHT RIDDER

Commentary: More on the book "Puffy, Xena, Quentin, Uma and 10,000 Other
Names for Your New Millennium Baby"

Text:

   So! From the dazed look in your eye, we can tell you've received word
you'll be having one of those Y2K babies. No doubt you're feeling some
pressure to come up with the perfect name for a child born in -- gulp -- the
year 2000. Whatcha gonna do?

   Well, how about Mulder if it's a boy, Scully if it's a girl? Too '90s?
Maybe Keanu for a boy, Celine for a girl? Or how about . . . Beck? Caleb?
Eden? Lane? Logan? Quince? Tobias? Or Dalia? Daria? Fatima? Grace? Maeve?
Paris? Tandy?

     Word is that some couples expecting babies about Jan. 1 are planning to
call their offspring Millennium or variations thereof. The folks at the Web
site BabyZone.com know of one tot whose middle name will be Millie if a
girl, Lennie if a boy -- as long as the baby is born on New Year's Day.

   Milford, Millennia, Millicent Mills and Milo are other millennium
baby-name possibilities, according to BabyCenter.com, another Web site.

   Many of the couples having babies these days are Gen-Xers, which includes
20-somethings and people in their early 30s. Plenty of these couples will go
with Jessica or Emily or Ashley or Kaitlyn or Michael or Matthew or
Christopher or Jacob -- all among the in-vogue names now. (Michael has been
leading the boys-names pack for 35 years.)

   Joal Ryan, author of the new book Puffy, Xena, Quentin, Uma and 10,000
Other Names for Your New Millennium Baby, says two groups of Gen-Xers are
likely to search for off-the-beaten-path monikers. One includes all of us
with "peanut butter and jelly" names -- bland, easily digestible,
four-to-a-homeroom names.

   "That's why there are so many Jennifers," said Ryan, 31, from New York,
where she's a staff writer at E! Online. "More than Generation X, I think
we're Generation Jennifer."

   The other group, Ryan says, is made up of the Gen-Xers who were stuck
with hippie-dippy names -- River, Moonbeam or Karma. If these people grew up
despising their names (and maybe their parents), they're likely to bestow
more traditional names on their own kids.

   Nicole Calcara, 24, who lives in Brookside, Mo., was lucky enough to have
been given a name that wasn't too common: "Growing up, I was the only Nikki,
really." Likewise, her firstborn, due June 23, will have a name you don't
see too often: Isabella.

   "Isabella is just a pretty name I had on my list," Calcara says. Other
candidates included Claudia, Paulina, Helena and Sophia.

   Isabella was the only name on that list that her husband, Carl, would go
for.

   "He wanted (the baby's) middle name to be Nicole and I wanted it to be
something different, so we just went with his," Calcara says. "I'm more
flexible. He's pretty picky."

   At BabyZone.com, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 120 or so couples who
are expecting about Jan. 1 have been keeping pregnancy journals that are
posted on the Web site. Of those couples, "We're noticing a strong trend in
unusual spellings and unique baby names," publisher Jeanine Cox says.

   Among them: Aliziah, Darby, Seven, Madeline, Alejandro, Zachery,
Mi'hojah, Jonah and Eliot.

   One journal-keeping expectant mom jokes that she'd like to name her child
"Wytukaye."

   Compared with previous generations, fewer 20-somethings feel obligated to
give their children family names. That's partly because families these days
often are more fragmented, geographically and otherwise. Plus, a lot of
Gen-Xers just want to do their own thing.

   Names inspired by pop culture -- such as TV and movie characters and the
celebs who play them -- will continue to be big. At least a couple of
unfortunate babes have reportedly been christened Anakin, as in Anakin
Skywalker. On the Mad About You series finale last week, which looked into
the future, Paul's cousin Ira had kids with names like Beavis and Shania.
Pretty funny, and prescient, too: Shania (as in Twain) truly is expected to
be a popular name -- at least as long as she is.

   In Puffy, Xena, Quentin, Uma and 10,000 Other Names for Your New
Millennium Baby, Ryan runs down the pluses and minuses of various names. She
also sticks some in categories most parents will want to avoid.

   Cody, for instance, is both a "cuddly bear" name and a "lil' cowpoke"
name (popularized by chat queen Kathie Lee Gifford); while "little princess"
name Alexandra is "an exquisite tiara-ready, girlie-girl name."






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