FORKNI-L

FORKNI-L Digest - 13 Feb 2002 to 14 Feb 2002 (#2002-45)

Thu, 14 Feb 2002

There are 8 messages totalling 259 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. Showtime's QaF Babylon at Raven? (5)
  2. YKYBOWFKW... PART 2 (TAKE 2) (2)
  3. YKYBW/RTMFK

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Date:    Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:53:53 EST
From:    Dolpfin220@a.......
Subject: Re: Showtime's QaF Babylon at Raven?

In a message dated 2/13/02 1:18:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, WRDRR@a.......
writes:


> I had the same thought.  And they all seem to exit out the door onto an
> unadorned street.  Slap on a Raven sign, and this very well could be the same
> exterior if not the same set.   Does our TO expert (M.Y.) have any thoughts
> on this?

I'm not Marg and am not even located in TO (darn it! <G>), but I've become a
fan of QAF and learned the following about the film set for the club,
Babylon:

<<Except for Ep 101, almost all of the shots of "Babylon" are done at a
Toronto gay club called "Fly." The dance floor of the real club is on the
first floor as is the entrance. The camera uses a wide lens to make the club
look bigger than it actually is...

Anyway, in the Fly, the "backroom" is downstairs. So are the restrooms and
another bar. The balcony goes around three walls but not the stage wall.
There is a brass "fireman's" pole on the stage. On QAF, when characters leave
the club, they go up the stairs. Actually, that would only take them to the
dead-end balcony in the real club. I don't blame viewers for being confused.
It seems as if there are two levels of basement or else the exit is on the
second floor (???). The EXT (exterior) shots of Babylon are shot elsewhere
except for the alley shots which ARE actually behind Fly.
There is a MUCH larger club which is both gay and straight on the waterfront
called "Guvernment." That is where the first Ep's "Babylon" scenes were shot
but it was too expensive to rent for the entire production schedule.>>

I don't recall off the top of my head the name of the club that doubled for
The Raven, but I know it wasn't this....

Hope that helps,
Janet

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Date:    Thu, 14 Feb 2002 07:11:56 -0800
From:    Viv <viv11374@y.......>
Subject: YKYBOWFKW... PART 2 (TAKE 2)

This is my second attempt (my server apparently didn't like the
first one) to send out the second part of my list of symptoms of
FK obsession, whic strangely enough contains the first ones that
I wrote down this past Fall, lost and finally refound. Thus,
without further ado:

You Know You've Become Obsessed With Forever Knight When:

1) You're watching the episode of "Wolf Lake" that starts with a
meeting of a 12 step program for recovering werewolves and think
"Hey, maybe *they* take vampires."

2)Your newest reason for becoming distracted in Shul (Synagogue
for those of you unfamiliar with Orthodox Judaism) is that you
suddenly realized that not only is the petite, redheaded
sixteen-year-old girl genius in the row in front of you named
named Natalie, she also comes from a family of Russian (well,
actually Georgian) doctors and thus she:
A) may be contemplating a career in medicine and
B)Has two grandmothers at home who might call her "Natasha".

3)You're reading about the knights of the Round Table and
suddenly realize that you're visualizing Sir Gereint as...you
guessed it Gereint Wyn Davies.

4)You see the headline "Blood Shortage Looms" and worry about
"what are the vampires going to drink now?"

5)You accidentally call your aunt Natalie's cat Sydney instead of
Reggie. (and then wonder how you could have made that mistake;
Sydney's much handsomer than Reggie)

More to come.

=====
Viv

Don't annoy the crazy person

Life's a witch and then you fly

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Date:    Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:31:13 +0800
From:    Elliza Rahim <relliza@h.......>
Subject: Re: YKYBOWFKW... PART 2 (TAKE 2)

Viv wrote:

>4)You see the headline "Blood Shortage Looms" and worry about
>"what are the vampires going to drink now?"
>
Recently read an article in Fortune about biotech companies coming up with
artificial blood and started wondering if the Brabant Foundation would be an
institutional investor.


Ell - anything to get Nick off his "Bovine Bordeaux"

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Date:    Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:35:44 EST
From:    Lynne Ackerman <Lynnea212@a.......>
Subject: Re: Showtime's QaF Babylon at Raven?

The exterior shots of "Babylon" are of Church Street, just south of
Wellesley.  This area is the predominant gay area of Toronto, and is lined
with gay clubs and gay hangouts (coffee shops, video stores, etc.).  QAF
films in that area a lot.

And just to keep this whole discussion on topic <g>, this area is about a
half a block from the "apartment buildling from hell" that was used in FK,
the one where everyone seemed to get killed <g>.  It's also only about a
block and a half from the Coroner's building, not to mention Maple Leaf
Gardens, where Nick played a concert as a rock star.  And two or three blocks
north is the hotel used in "Queen of Harps", and also the alleyway used in
the second season ep where Nick and Schanke go into the sewers ("The Fire
Within"?).

A message from Lynne Ackerman in Toronto (or, as we like to call it,
"Hollywood North").  Via e-mail:  lynnea212@a.......
                      ** Help support Forever Knight.  Ask me how. **

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Date:    Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:27:33 -0500
From:    marg <mytoronto@r.......>
Subject: Re: Showtime's QaF Babylon at Raven?

I forgot to mention in my last post that you can find a lot more about
the show from Showcase's website on QaF:

http://www.showcase.ca/queerasfolk/about/

Looking at the credits, I see a few familiar names from FK there.


WRDRR@a....... wrote:

> << The local hang out (Babylon) looks a lot like The Raven  >>


--
Marg Yamanaka  <mytoronto@r.......>
In Toronto, the City of the Knight

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Date:    Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:57:53 -0800
From:    Sunny LaCountess <countessa2000@y.......>
Subject: YKYBW/RTMFK

...when you see a bumper sticker that says: "Say no to
Nukes" and you have to read it at leat 2 more times before
you realize it's directed at Nucler Warheads and not the
Jeweled Peach <g>


=====
Countess -- Twilight Knightie,IB,DT,UF,Cotk

"Trudging through enternity, hauling my homemade horrors, do you think THAT was
my dream when I was young and evil?"

                           -Mommy Fortuna, The last Unicorn

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Date:    Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:04:22 -0500
From:    marg <mytoronto@r.......>
Subject: Re: Showtime's QaF Babylon at Raven?

The interior is definitely not the same as the FK studio has apparently
reverted back to it's original function as a warehouse. I haven't been
watching QaF on a regular basis so I'm not sure about the exterior. I'll
take a look at the show the next week and let you know.

WRDRR@a....... wrote:

> I had the same thought.  And they all seem to exit out the door onto an
> unadorned street.  Slap on a Raven sign, and this very well could be the same
> exterior if not the same set.   Does our TO expert (M.Y.) have any thoughts
> on this?



--
Marg Yamanaka  <mytoronto@r.......>
In Toronto, the City of the Knight

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Date:    Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:00:38 -0500
From:    marg <mytoronto@r.......>
Subject: Re: Showtime's QaF Babylon at Raven?

Dolpfin220@a....... wrote:
 > <<Except for Ep 101, almost all of the shots of "Babylon" are done
 > at a Toronto gay club called "Fly." The dance floor of the real
 > club is on the first floor as is the entrance.

thanks for the info, Janet. Fly is located just off Yonge Street, in
Toronto's Gay district.

 > I don't recall off the top of my head the name of the club that doubled for
 > The Raven, but I know it wasn't this....

The night club that was the exterior site for the Raven is now called
the Fluid Lounge.


--
Marg Yamanaka  <mytoronto@r.......>
In toronto, the City of the Knight

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