Newsletter #26

folc central
Newsletter #26
September 25, 1998

In This Newsletter...
What's New?
The Diva Factor
What's On?
Trivia
L&C Questionette

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What's New?

Here's a link to a SUPER L&C site! The Lois and Clark Haven
http://fly.to/the_lnc_haven

Here's a link to FOLC Central's web site: FOLC Central
http://members.aol.com/lovelc/folc.html

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Thanks to Christina (Ne1for10is@aol.com) for sending us some important Superman information:

At the post office they have a Superman stamp. You can't buy it alone, it comes with a bunch of other memorable things from the 1930's. For $54.00 you can get 10 albums of all the superheros (including Superman) with special stamps of them inside. Also, they have those non-adhesive stickers of Superman and Clark Kent for you car or mirror or bedroom window or every square inch of your bedroom. They also have really cool keychains, pins (to wear on your clothes), S-shield shaped notepads, and some other things I can't remember. All of this stuff is under $5.00 dollars, so it's afordable for everyone.

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It's Official!!
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Dean Cain's movie FUTURESPORT airs on October 1st! For more info. on FUTURESPORT and other DEAN CAIN sightings, read the "What's On?" column in this newsletter!

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In our next newsletter there will be a NEW column, written by our very own vice president, Jill! Yayyy:)

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The Diva Factor
by Karen (LadyFOLC@aol.com)

What Women Want

I recently had a male friend of mine ask me the eternal male question: "What do women want?" As if I can speak for all womankind and define exactly what we want out of life and out of a partner. I don't even always know what I want! But, in response to him and to all other male readers, I offer what I can in response.

Now, ladies, correct me if I am wrong. But I think the one thing that virtually all women are looking for -- ultimately -- is respect from the opposite sex. Now, each woman's interpretation of respect is a little different -- whether it's worshipping the ground we walk on, or just putting the toilet seat down. For me personally, respect is taking my opinions and feelings seriously, not rolling your eyes when I'm stressed or freaking out or in one of my drama queen, "there's a conspiracy to make me miserable and it's all your fault!" moods. It's also respecting my feelings and expectations. Don't make us feel bad for watching Buffy or Lois & Clark or Titanic or whatever it is that floats our boat. Don't expect us to give more than we are ready to give. And call me back when you're supposed to, you male chauvinist pig!

What else do I and many other women want? Compliments! I'm not saying we have to be treated as goddesses -- but frankly, it helps. Tell us we look nice -- would that kill you? Sometimes it's completely self-serving to our egos, but frankly those are the best kind of compliments. They make us happy, make us feel attractive and vibrant and wonderful. And even if we already know this about ourselves, it's really nice to hear it from others.

Guys, you want to score points with us? Send us flowers. Watch Buffy or L&C or Titanic or whatever with us -- and don't moan and whine about it. Big, BIG points if you suggest we watch it before we can. Do little things for us, because it's the little things that can mean the most. Whether it's opening the door for us, offering your arm or hand when we walk, cooking for us, brushing our hair out of our faces, kissing our hands, offering us your seat or drink ... all of these will make a big impression on most women, if not all.

Women want to feel beautiful and intelligent and attractive and noticed. This is the compliment aspect again. But it can backfire, if you don't think with your brain before speaking. Here are some examples -- all of which I have been told myself.
Good compliment: "You look beautiful in the morning."
Bad compliment: "What did you do to your hair?"
Good compliment: "Is that a new outfit? It looks good."
Bad compliment: "Hey, are you wearing makeup? You don't look so tired."
Good compliment: "You light up the room."
Bad compliment: "Kissing you is like kissing my sister."

You see, men? It's not that hard. You just have to try to deal with our little quirks and eccentricites, even if you don't understand them. You have to make us feel appreciated.

Now, this friend of mine also asked me, "Why do women say that just want a nice guy and then go for a mean, good looking one?" I can't completely explain that one. I think that ultimately, most women want a guy that we are attracted to and that stimulates us mind, body, and soul. Many women may become attracted to a bad boy, but it's usually a passing thing. A "glutton for punishment" type of deal. I'm personally an old fashioned girl. Tall, dark and handsome, opens doors, cooks for me, tells me I'm beautiful type of deal. But you can't completely categorize what every woman wants into one little neat package. Just as you can't define what men want in one little description. Everyone is different.

But I promise you, every woman will appreciate you much better if you call us back.

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Visit Karen's columns!

The Diva Factory - Home of the Walking Opinion

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What's On? TV & MOVIE NEWS
by molly (lovelc@aol.com)

FUTURESPORT
Starring Dean Cain, Wesley Snipes, and Vanessa Williams
When? Thursday, October 1st, on abc at 9pm

Check the TV Guide with Ally McBeal on the cover...there's a full page ad for "Futuresport" and might I say Dean looks absolutely yum?

DO NOT MISS THIS MOVIE!!!

Also..."Life Goes On" is airing on that new channel, PAX. Dean's episode of "Life Goes On" (he plays a surfer guy...double yum!) is supposed to air on October 1st. Check your local listings to make sure it's going to be on where you live!

ALSO in the Ally McBeal TV Guide (Sep. 26-Oct. 2) there is a short article about 12-year-old actress Kyla Pratt. If you don't know who that is, she played one of the school children in the L&C episode "Through A Glass, Darkly"!! According to TV Guide, Kyla has been doing a series of Nike commercials and Rosie O'Donnell commercials...and will have a role on "Any Day Now"...and maybe even get her own show! Who knew? Well, when she becomes really famous, we can say "Hey...I knew her when she was on Lois & Clark"

THE NEW SEASON OF BUFFY PREMIERS on September 29!!

Don't miss this episode! There is a Buffy ad in the TV Guide (yep, the same TV Guide as above). Very cool!!! Yayy! And...on September 30th...the season finale of "Dawson's Creek" re-runs. This is a very sad episode but it's happy, too, and you need to watch it. Why? Because the new DC season premiers a week later! Did you know there are Buffy trading cards and episodes on video?? Check your local card and/or video stores for more information! Speaking of Buffy, I have this episode of "All My Children" from 1993 (before L&C premiered, even). It's one of the first episodes that Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy) guest-starred in. She looked so young! So unslayerlike! So...brunette! She played Kendall...evil...bad girl. Won a Daytime Emmy for it. Justin Whalin won a Daytime Emmy once, too! So I guess you could say they have something in common.

The Parent Trap!


This is the cutest movie!! And it has TITANIC connections.

1) They go on boats a lot
2) The parents originally met on a boat (sound familiar?) and fell in love!
3) One of the boats they go on has a lifesaver thing that has "Southampton" printed on it
4) One of the twin girls tapes a picture of Leonardo DiCaprio on her wall
5) The twin girls play poker
6) One of the girls rides a horse

Now, you might be thinking: "At what lengths will this crazy girl go to to connect *everything* about this movie to 'Titanic'?" Many lengths. Oh, and I'm not done yet. Here are some more connections.

7) In both movies, there are elevators
8) There are also cars
9) There is water
10) There are humans

Amazing, is it not? The Parent Trap could *be* Titanic!! OK, I'm totally making that up. It's 9:13 at night and I'm a little loopy. And so I'll shut up now

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Trivia

The last newsletter's trivia question was:

>>Name the three Lois & Clark guest-stars (the actors' names please) that also starred in the 1995 TV Movie "The Langoliers".<<

And the answers are...

Bronson Pinchot (Kyle Griffin on L&C)
Mark Lindsay Chapman (Kryptonian guy on L&C)
and Dean Stockwell (Preston Carpenter on L&C)

Congratulations to mary-j.juan@usa.net! She was the first person to get all three right! Way to go to the following people who got one or more of the actors correct: ErinFOLC, Azalea, Cubby89, Air36, and ARiche! (Sorry if I left out anyone)

This newsletter's question is:

What color of shirt was Dean Cain wearing when he posed for the cover of "Entertainment Weekly" in 1996?

The first person with the correct answer gets 50 superdollars! Send your answers to LoveLC@aol.com! Good luck!

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L&C Questionette
In the last newsletter, we asked you...
What was the worst-looking outfit Lois ever wore...and why do you hate it?
Here are just a few of the responses that were sent in!
(My comments are in parentheses)

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Hmmm......I would say that the black leather outfit (and the performance that accompanied it) that Lois wore in "The Wall of Sound" would have to be the worst outfit she ever wore. Now, I'm putting words into the mouths of you guys out there, but for the girls?.....I don't know. Though Teri looked fabulous in practically anything they put her in, that leather thing with the metal studs is not one of my favorites.

--Scardno007@aol.com

(You're right about that--our Lois looked great in almost anything she wore. Even in sweats! But you're right, that outfit was just "appropriately cheap" And don't forget about her tattoo!! Hehe)
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::::raises hand like it's about to shoot off my arm::::: OH OH OH! I SO know this one!!! Possibly the worst outfit ever worn in the history of television - it's obviously Ultrawoman's outfit. Those who deny how horrible it is have serious mental perception problems. It is made up of every loud, bracing color of spandex and squished against her body in an effort to show off her chest. It was a third season thing - we saw more of Lois's cleavage that year than Demi Moore's. It had that horrible polyester cape and nylon armbands and mask. What was Martha thinking when she made that? What was LOIS thinking when she let Martha dress her like a cross between a Crayola action figure and an homage to Married With Children? May I tell you that the first time I saw this outfit, I started hyperventilating and needed to breathe into a nearby McDonald's bag? The only problem was that there was still a Chicken McNugget inside, which I nearly choked to death on. And what an embarrassing way to die - death from inhaling a chicken-like object after a panic attack from tackiness.
The Ultrawoman outfit should never have been made. I hope that after filming that episode, it was subsequently burned and the ashes were buried, never to be heard from again.

--LadyFOLC@aol.com

(OK, here's what really happened: Teri Hatcher was teasing Dean about having to wear those Superman spandex all the time. Finally, Dean got fed up and paid the writers to create an episode where Teri had to wear an embarrassing little pink suit. When she tried it on, no one was laughing harder than Dean. After filming, Teri swore to never tease Dean again if he promised never to suggest a sequel to "UltraWoman" OK so that didn't really happen...at least I don't think it did, but then again, you never know...)

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I think Lois's worst outfit was well.... there were a lot of them, one that I thought was really gross was in Tempus Fugitive! It was this leather suit the skirt was brown and the jacket was the same except that it had these spots of another color brown it looked like she feel in the mudd.

And another one that I hate is in the 2nd episode that poka dotted jacket or that long skirt with the silver blouse and that would have been cute if she didn't add a ugly pink belt to go along with it.

Oh my gosh I think the worst one was in 2 episodes Ordinary People and Just say Noah the pink one that has the stich marks so it looks like if you pulled on one of the stiches the whole dress would fall apart.

--Tracy_Mills@usa.net

(ROFL! I can just imagine Lois going back to the store with her reciept. "Um, excuse me. I bought this dress. It was on sale for 90% off, and well, it fell apart on the first day I wore it. Can I please return it?"
"Look," the cashier would say. "No offense, but I'll pay YOU to toss that dress in the Bermuda Triangle and never show it in public again. Deal?" LOL)

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Well the chickensuit of course. it brought out her humor and witty side but it wasnt her style.

--LadyKryptn@aol.com

(Remember the first-season Lois, how she would do *anything* for a story? LOL, dressing like a chicken was pretty much proving her point)
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Lucky winner #1!
I think the worst outfit Lois wore was (does her outfit from Wall of
sound count?!) that pink dress that ties up with white string around her
wrists, waste and shoulders. She wore it in Ordinary People and then
again in a couple of episodes later. Oh, and pretty much all of the
first few episodes outfits were weird, but we can't blame her. We were
coming out of the 80's. Fashon wasn't as defined then as it is now!

--bono4u2@wichita.infi.net

(What amazes me is that she HAD so many outfits. I mean, sometimes we saw her wear the same outfit twice on the show, but that didn't happen very often. Gotta love having an bottomless, endless closet)
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Well, ... let's see.... I would think it would have to be the (I think it was the outfit she wore in WHALTTA).... I think ... it was the blindingly silver get-up that screamed "I just put all my clothes in the laundry & this was the only thing I had left."

--LNCTNAOS@aol.com

(Notice that Clark did not compliment her on that outfit! It was awfully---shiny. I think she was going for a Tempus/Futuristic look.)
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Lois' ugliest outfit by far was that heinous nasty butt ugly orange and white stitched dress!!! AND SHE WORE IT TWICE!!! EWWWWW And I don't care what people say that silver and red outfit in WE Have A Lot To Talk About was awesome!! But that ugly knit thing with those huge white eighties earrings and the orange lipstick--SOMEONE GET ME A BARF BAG!!

--Hoppe6@aol.com

(I know, I know. The one outfit she chooses to wear twice just happens to be the one that says "Stop Sign" all over it. Who would have thought?)
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Lucky winner #2!
The worst outfit Lois ever wore was... Clark's. I forget the episode name, but it was the one where they went to the marriage counselor and she forgot her clothes. They were HUGE on her! It was pretty funny, but to anyone just flipping through the channels, they probably thought she was pretty strange!

--SCarano590@aol.com

(Hey, good choice! In a strange way, I kind of think it's weirdly romantic that she wore Clark's clothes though. I don't know....maybe I'm just nuts)
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OK, by popular vote, Lois's worst outfit is...

--Lois's orangey-red with white stitches thing in "Just Say Noah"!


Thanks to everyone who sent in their opinions! Sorry if we did not print yours this time, but we loved hearing everyone's responses! :):)

Stay tuned for another "L&C Questionette" in an upcoming episode! Episode? Make that an upcoming *newsletter*. Guess who's got TV on the brain? Meeeee!!!!

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Molly (LoveLC@aol.com)
Jill (Mommy31420@aol.com)
Karen (LadyFOLC@aol.com)
Rachel (Scardno007@aol.com)
Maggie (Maggie13@bellsouth.net)
Cat (CatGrant36@aol.com)