According to the Hollywood Reporter, RSVP, the black comedy starring Glenn Quinn won the audience award for best feature at the Slamdunk Film Festival which was held in Park City, Utah January 13-17. Congratulations to the cast and crew! RSVP had its world premiere at the festival January 15th, and the film's soundtrack features an original score by Mick Muhlfriedel, and songs from Social Distortion, Madness and Rita Marley as well as four new songs from Daniel Ash (Bahaus, Love and Rockets). For more information, check out the film's official site. |
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At Any Cost, the original VH1 melodrama starring Glenn Quinn, will be released on NTSC VHS on video July 3rd. The film is currently prices for rental, which means that it will sell for $52. Order your copy now! PAL viewers! You can pre-order At Any Cost through Blackstar! |
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THEY GAVE THEIR SOUL FOR ROCK 'N' ROLL.
It's the rock 'n' roll American Dream: start a band, sign a record deal, and go on a national concert tour. But what happens when the dream comes true...and turns into a nightmare? "At Any Cost" uncovers some provocative answers, going behind-the-scenes of a fictional band that's on a rollercoaster ride through rock stardom. At Any Cost is the story of the rise and fall of a "one hit wonder" singing group. Lance and Mike, a pair of brothers living in Austin, TX, make a bid for the big time by forming a rock band called Beyond Gravity. Lance's wife Chelsea is recruited as the band's bass player, while the brothers' best friend Ben is appointed manager. The group's optimism and idealism is quickly ground down by failed performances, the foot-dragging of the label that signed them, Ben's ruthless and obstreperous business practices, and above all, by Mike's substance abuse. Just when it appears as if the group's fortunes will change, tragedy strikes. At Any Cost was produced for VH-1 as part of that cable channel's "Movies That Rock" series. In an unusual move, the producers created the group Beyond Gravity before the film was made, the better to fit the plot line progression to the group's songs, rather than the other way around. The film's soundtrack (and its subsequent CD) also features the talents of Andreas Johnson, Barenaked Ladies, and Eagle-Eye Cherry. At Any Cost was first broadcast on August 16, 2000. |
She loves us, yes she does... From the June 11 column from everyone's favourite TV Gal, as she discusses characters she'd love to see return to their series: 
Doyle (Glenn Quinn) on "Angel": Sure he'd have to come back from the dead, but, hello, this is a Joss Whedon show -- a little thing like dying shouldn't stop a character from returning. Again, I'm perfectly happy with the Wesley and Gunn. Especially since in real life both actors date WB stars (Alexis Denisof dates Alyson Hannigan and J. August Richards dates Tangi Miller). For some inexplicable reason this makes me very, very happy -- as if I actually know them. But Wesley and Gunn don't have the chemistry that Glenn Quinn had with Charisma Carpenter. Plus, I've had a little crush on Quinn ever since he deflowered Becky on "Roseanne." |
David Boreanaz was interviewed in the March issue of FANGORIA...
FANGORIA: There were rumors of conflicts on the set with Glenn Quinn, who played Doyle in the first season. Is there anything you want to say about that? |
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| Cult Times Special #16 has a cover story on Angel's Charlies which includes a brief one-page write-up of Doyle, as well as a new never-before-seen candid of Glenn Quinn. Cult Times can be found on news stands, or ordered directly from the publisher. |  |
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Sticks & Stones has wrapped filming, according to director Mark Anthony Galluzzo. In the film, Glenn Quinn plays Criminal Psychology Professor Hal Evans in this Modern day Hitchcockian thriller. Other cast members include Roswell star Majandra Delfino, Dogma's Jay Mewes (of Jay and Silent Bob fame), Wild at Heart and Twin Peaks' favorite Grace Zabriskie, and Wiseguy's Jonathan Banks. |
Moore Action Collectibles (who produce the Buffy action figures) has recently obtained the license for Angel and is planning an action figure line with characters from the television series in 2001. The first series will include the handsome, soul-bearing vampire Angel, his cunning assistant Cordelia, and ultimate bad girl Faith. The series is scheduled to release mid-2001. Although the first line will not include a Doyle figure, the company hopes to include one in the second line of action figures sculpted by renowned sculptor Clayburn Moore. More news as it becomes available... |
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Glenn Quinn will star in writer-director Mark Anthony Galluzzo's indie feature Names Will Never Hurt You (formerly known as Sticks & Stones). According to The Hollywood Reporter, Glenn Quinn will co-star with actors Rick Otto and Nora Zehetner in writer-director Mark Anthony Galluzzo's indie feature Sticks & Stones. The project is about a college graduate who throws one last party and proceeds to kill his friends one by one. Quinn stars as a doctoral candidate who has a fascination with death, serial killers and mass murderers. According to the Cleopatra Productions website, Sticks & Stones is a Hitchcockian thriller in the spirit of Rope with the style of Shallow Grave that begs the question—can murder, if done well, be considered Art? An art whose medium is one of flesh and bone. At the second annual Method Fest in June, a Pasadena-based festival celebrating character-driven independent film, writer/director/cinematographer Mark Anthony Galluzzo's film Trash was awarded a special festival award for best film. According to Doubble Troubble Entertainment, the film, now in pre-production in Las Vegas, will shoot all principal photography in Las Vegas in October and November. |
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Joss Whedon discussed Glenn's performance in issue #199 of FANGORIA:
"I actually have more fun writing Wesley than I do Doyle," says Whedon of the character, who began life during season 3 of Buffy before finding his way into Angel's universe. "When Wesley came on, we were finding our legs. He was a part of that, and though he doesn't get much props for it, Alexis has made it alot of fun to write. Glenn Quinn's greatest talent was glowering, and we already had David Boreanaz doing that. It was a banjo act and a banjo act. When we brought Wesley in, the element was there that we needed. Plus, he's a hoot." |
The Buffy and Angel Yearbook, in stores now, reprints the Fall 1999 interview with Glenn Quinn from the Official Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine. So if you missed it the first time, you can get it now! The magazine also features a season one Angel character and episode guide, and lots of great pics of our favourite half-demon. |
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From Quinn Bounces Back by Kate O'Hare:
"I was not at all depressed about it, I can tell you that, because I knew what I'd done. My idea is, kill them with kindness, kill them with good work." Quinn has remained close with former co-star Boreanaz (their official Web sites can both be found at www.celebrityboulevard.com), and has let no grass grow under his feet career-wise. "I had a good Christmas, stayed in town. Then I got offered this movie, which was a really, really, great confidence boost." And fans of "Angel" might notice that Ben dresses suspiciously like Doyle, and there's a reason for that. "I did that as a tribute to him and to the many people that were quite fond of him," Quinn explains. "I actually kept all the clothes from the character, because they don't belong on anyone else's back but mine." Read the full article. From the live chat with fans on AOL (Keyword: Live) Aug. 16, 2000: Question: What are your feelings on the online "Bring Back Doyle" campaigns? If ever offered the chance, would you go back to the show?
Hollywood Vampire focuses on Angel Season one, exploring the world of Angel, Cordelia, Doyle, Wesley and Kate. This episode-by-episode guide encompasses the highlights in categories such as Dreaming (As Buffy often proves) Is Free: The Charisma Show: Dudes and Babes and Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll. It also spots where logic flies out of the window, and tries to catch all of those never-ending pop culture references. The Buffy connection is covered in detail, discussing the shared history of Angel and Buffy and charting the instances where characters flit between the two series. Hollywood Vampire will be available in the UK November, 2000, and should be available in the United States by January, 2001. Reserve your copy today!
And as in any family, there are lots of balancing acts in place to keep everything moving forward. Mike's a great guitarist, but he uses heroin. Ben wants to stay artistic, but big time business maneuvers beckon. Bassist Chelsea is Lance's wife - she wants to rock, but also has maternal responsibilities, leaving to care for their son. How are life's daily problems overcome in the rock 'n' roll workplace? Watch as Beyond Gravity has its story told in At Any Cost. Excerpted from Tv Grid:
"Everyone wants that five minutes of wanting to be a rock star," Mills says, adding he was thrilled to do his own singing. "I basically put down all of the tracks in a total of four days. They say, `guerrilla shooting'; well, this was guerrilla record making." He and Quinn both say that because they hang out with a lot of musicians, they think the story is a fairly accurate portrayal of the seedier underbelly of rock life. "I believe that stuff goes on," says Quinn, whose father is a musician in Ireland. "You see these guys turn into villains. The bigger they rise, the harder they fall." Read the full review (warning: contains spoilers!) at Tv Grid From Tv Guide.com:
BAND ON THE RUN
Everybody, that is, except two brothers, played by Eddie Mills (Wasteland) and James Franco (Freaks & Geeks), who form a rock-and-roll band and head to the City of Angels to become stars in this dark, made-for-cable melodrama. And it's a lesson that they learn in the harshest way.
The band travels down the road from naiveté to bitter experience, relationships are tried and bonds are broken as the players encounter the nightmare of drug addiction and the senseless death of one of their own. Glenn Quinn (Angel) is absolutely chilling as the brothers' childhood friend and the band's manager, who's determined to prove that he's the real talent in the band with his ruthless tactics. Maureen Flannigan (7th Heaven) and Cyia Batten (Star Trek: Deep Space 9) also star in a movie that might just make rock-star wannabes think long and hard about what they wish for while playing air-guitar to their favorite tunes and mouthing lyrics in the mirror.
Soundtrack songs by Barenaked Ladies and Eagle Eye Cherry add to the movie's rock-and-roll milieu, as do KISS bassist Gene Simmons's cameo as a producer and VH1 on-air personality Roshumba Williams's brief appearance as herself. And the catchy original tunes written and produced for the movie by Rod Taylor and Spencer Proffer wouldn't seem out of place on the pop charts.
From TV Guide Music News by Rebecca Rankin
Barenaked Truth At Any Cost Excessive drug use, dysfunctional romance, shattered dreams, blaring rock. No, it’s not an episode of Behind the Music. It’s VH1’s original movie At Any Cost, premiering August 16. The film stars Glenn Quinn (Angel, Roseanne), and the soundtrack features new songs by, among others, Eagle-Eye Cherry and Barenaked Ladies. "It’s a story of a band that comes to L.A. to make it," says Barenaked drummer Tyler Stewart. "We can relate to that." The group’s cut, "Pinch Me," will also appear as the first single on their album, Maroon, due out September 12. Why release the song early to the filmmakers? Jokes Stewart, "We figured it was either them or Napster."
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Check out screencaptures from the episode!
The At Any Cost soundtrack features features actor Eddie Mills (Lance) singing four of the six original songs written for the film, plus new songs from Barenaked Ladies, Eagle Eye Cherry and Train. The At Any Cost soundtrack will be released August 8 as VH1's first original soundtrack album.
David Fury recently spoke out (presumably during the San Diego Comicon) regarding Angel's first season... Please be aware that the below appears to be a partial quote.
From The Post Gazette July 25, 2000:
"Joss has bandied about, 'I love the idea of putting a character in the main credits
as one of the stars of the show and then kill him right off the bat,'" Fury said.
"But in the case of Doyle, he didn't want to kill off Doyle. It just became a
situation. The work situation became difficult.... It's hard enough to make a
television show without the headaches."
Glenn has requested that all gifts sent in honor of his birthday (and any other occasion) be directed to his charity of choice, the Revlon/UCLA Women's Cancer Research Program, where they will do the most good and be tax-deductible. For information on how you can make a charitible donation in honour of Glenn's birthday, check out the charity section of this website.
Excerpted from SFX.
"Well, you know, we wanted to do that. We wanted to, you know, take out a character. And, you know,
plans can change if something is really working."
But presumably Doyle wasn't "working"?
"We felt it was the right thing to do. Yeah, it did cause a lot of fuss. He's a popular guy .." Whedon pauses, then continues a touch conspiratorially, "Well, you know, he wasn't that popular before we killed him; something I have to remind people. But we wanted to introduce a character who would work in a
different way."
Excerpted from the AOL/TV Guide Live chat with David Boreanaz from May 23, 2000:
Question: Mr. Boreanaz, are they considering bringing back the character of Doyle on Angel? David Boreanaz: As of now, Doyle character is not on hold, but he's gone for now. The producers felt that his character didn't fit the direction that the show was going in. Which was a shame because not only was he a talented actor, but a close friend of mine. But, Glenn is doing considerably well, and there will be other characters who will be taking on a similar role to Doyle's.
Conan O'Brien: Wow.
DB: Come on.
CO'B: What a horrible use of national television. Just have him call me.
Excerpt from the VH1 press release:
NEW YORK, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer, you bring the popcorn. VH1 will bring the movies. Every Wednesday night at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT), beginning May 31, VH1 presents a summer-long festival of "Movies That Rock" highlighted by the debuts of five new full-length VH1 Original movies and 10 acquired rock flicks. The series kicks off with the VH1 Original movie, It's Only Rock & Roll, a fast-paced celebration of 50 years of rock and continues throughout the summer with the true-life biographical drama Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story, the music-filled comedy Out of Sync, the screen bio Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back, and the contemporary drama At Any Cost.
[At Any Cost] is a contemporary fictional drama about two brothers and their best friend, who grow up to form a rock band and head to L.A. in search of success -- but the realities of the business hit home, and exact a terrible price. Eddie Mills ("Wasteland"), Glenn Quinn ("Angel," "Roseanne"), Maureen Flannigan ("7th Heaven"), James Franco ("Freaks & Geeks") and Cyia Batten ("Star Trek: Deep Space 9") star in the film, also featuring a special cameo appearance by KISS legend Gene Simmons.
The VH1 original movie At Any Cost will premiere August 16 on the cable station, at 9 p.m. EDT. be sure and check your local listings for time and station in your area!
Excerpted from the CityofAngel.com interview with Loni Peristere, Special FX Supervisor
Knowing the process ahead of him, how did Glenn Quinn deal with that?
"Oh, that was the longest, most difficult evening. Poor Glenn, I mean he
had to repeat everything 12, 14, 25 times. And the thing about visual
effects is especially in an effect like that, you need to repeat your actions
identically every single time and if it’s off even a little bit it doesn’t work
very well. So, obviously there’s some give and take there because we don’t have all night and we don’t have a million dollars to keep running the set to all hours. You know Kelly would chop my head off but we always push as much as we can and Glenn was really a sport considering we did all that in one night. It was actually a 14-hour day of repeating the same actions over and over and over again. "Jesus Christ Loni, what the f***’s going on here?" (in his best Irish accent) We had a great time and he’s a trooper and that’s not easy and I have to hand it to him."
Be sure and read the full interview at CoA!
Excerpted from SFX.
"Well, you know, we wanted to do that. We wanted to, you know, take out a character. And, you know,
plans can change if something is really working."
But presumably Doyle wasn't "working"?
"We felt it was the right thing to do. Yeah, it did cause a lot of fuss. He's a popular guy .." Whedon
pauses, then continues a touch conspiratorially, "Well, you know, he wasn't that popular before we killed
him; something I have to remind people. But we wanted to introduce a character who would work in a
different way."
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Excerpted from the AOL/TV Guide Live chat with David Boreanaz from May 23, 2000:
Question: Mr. Boreanaz, are they considering bringing back the character of Doyle on Angel? David Boreanaz: As of now, Doyle character is not on hold, but he's gone for now. The producers felt that his character didn't fit the direction that the show was going in. Which was a shame because not only was he a talented actor, but a close friend of mine. But, Glenn is doing considerably well, and there will be other characters who will be taking on a similar role to Doyle's.
Conan O'Brien: Wow.
DB: Come on.
CO'B: What a horrible use of national television. Just have him call me.
Excerpt from the VH1 press release:
NEW YORK, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer, you bring the popcorn. VH1 will bring the movies. Every Wednesday night at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT), beginning May 31, VH1 presents a summer-long festival of "Movies That Rock" highlighted by the debuts of five new full-length VH1 Original movies and 10 acquired rock flicks. The series kicks off with the VH1 Original movie, It's Only Rock & Roll, a fast-paced celebration of 50 years of rock and continues throughout the summer with the true-life biographical drama Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story, the music-filled comedy Out of Sync, the screen bio Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back, and the contemporary drama At Any Cost.
[At Any Cost] is a contemporary fictional drama about two brothers and their best friend, who grow up to form a rock band and head to L.A. in search of success -- but the realities of the business hit home, and exact a terrible price. Eddie Mills ("Wasteland"), Glenn Quinn ("Angel," "Roseanne"), Maureen Flannigan ("7th Heaven"), James Franco ("Freaks & Geeks") and Cyia Batten ("Star Trek: Deep Space 9") star in the film, also featuring a special cameo appearance by KISS legend Gene Simmons.
Excerpted from GIST TV feature Blessed Boreanaz:
Boreanaz saw the chance to move his gutsy character from a supporting role on Buffy to a starring one on Angel as "an opportunity to expand [my] repertoire and move on. Change is always good."
"Alexis is a great actor. He fits in nicely. It's a different character," comments Boreanaz. Doyle symbolized "my tormented past. The show has [since] taken on a different attitude." In the beginning of the series, Doyle had visions that led Angel to a new person in need of help each week ó the idea being that if Angel helps enough souls, his will be redeemed. Since Doyle's death, however, the show has become more of an ensemble effort, with Angel, Wesley and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) ó Angel's business partner, who has inherited Doyle's visions ó fighting evil as a group, rather than focusing on Angel's quest for redemption.
Though he's happy about the direction the show has taken, Boreanaz has strong feelings about
Quinn's departure. "I thoroughly miss him every day. He's a great guy to work with as a friend
and as a worker. So I take it as a sad change, but it'll work."
Excerpt from the Sky One interview with David Boreanaz:
David Boreanaz: Yes, I- what's "hint, hint"?
DJ: (laughs) I was just fishing there, just trying to find out if you bumped into him at a TV studio,
filming a show that you might happen to be in...!
DB: (smiles) Uh, no, but I do speak to him, I see him all the time. I just talk to him though...
"It deals with a lot of the same elements as 'Behind the
Music,' but it's set against the backdrop of three
friends," said Michael Larkin, VP of motion pictures.
"It's about innocence lost in the world of the music
business."
The cast features a group of young up-and-comers,
including Eddie Mills, Glenn Quinn, Maureen
Flannigan, James France and Cyia Batten.
Check out the first four Angel novels from Pocket Pulse. All four are set before Hero, and feature Doyle! Or, if your tastes run to fanzines (fan produced anthologies of short fiction, novellas, novels, and illustrations) then check out fanzines dedicated to Doyle and Angel.
NOMINATE Glenn Quinn for People.com's annual Most Beautiful People poll. hey, can't hurt, might help...
Excerpt from "Biting Talent", the May 2000 Starlog interview with Charisma Carpenter by Ian Spelling:
"As far as the characters go, Cordelia and Doyle had such a great, great relationship. There was a lot of chemistry. My Mom said, 'I was really sad to see him go because I really felt for him wanting to get to you. I felt he was going to reach you and then he pulled back. And it was so compelling.' So I think the show suffers a bit for taking that away. But Joss and David are very smart. They're very good writers, so I'm sure they'll make up for it in some other area. I don't think that our show is going to die, that we'll lose out momentum or anything. But I have a little bit of a thorn in my heart over it."
Carpenter is likely correct in her assumption that Wesley was brought on board to fill the void left by Doyle's demise, but as a lighter presence. Though the British demon hunter still appears to have a hankering for Cordelia (one first introduced on Buffy), Carpenter doesn't expect sparks to fly any time soon. "We bicker a lot," she notes. "I think we really do like each other. It's such a complex dynamic. First of all, his coming into the scene threatens Cordelia, because she wants Angel's attention. She wants to be Angel's right-hand man, and here he comes in and tries to get a job. He's pushing his way in and he's so organized. He's such a threat. He's always one-upping me, or trying to. So I'm always calling him on it. There's a little competition there. Also, at the same time, if I'm ever in need, who's there for me by Wesley? If his life was in danger, I would be there. We would die for each other. So that's good. It's like, 'Bicker, bicker, oh my God, I love you. This is my family. Don't screw with my family.'"
Excerpt: "Doyle was an interesting character," Whedon muses. "We had always wanted to shake things up by getting rid of Angel's mentor, by setting up someone you'd assume would be there the
whole time and then killing them. It was going to be really surprising, but unfortunately, everybody knew about it a couple of months beforehand.
Read the full story here. Glenn Quinn is interviewed in the March 2000 issue of TV Zone. Order your copy today!
"If the death of Doyle was in Joss Whedon's mind from the beginning, I honestly don't know," says consulting prducer Howard Gordon, who along with Tim Minear wrote "hero", which did, indeed, mark Doyle's death. "While he didn't say 'We're gonna kill him,' he did say 'We could kill him if we want to.' It was more of a fluid understanding that this character was a try-out in a way. In the end, I think they felt how much more bold it was to develop this character and then kill him. What it does is create a way of handling the fact that, generally, in television you know that nothing is safe, which is kind of cool."
As to the genesis of the episode, Gordan explains, "The question we started with was how do you describe the fact that this guy is half demon and half human. I think we took the character and dissected him at that basic level, and reverse engineered the story to illuminate that."
"I can't say I take any pleasure in killing a lead character," Gordon says. "Creatively it was a decision we came to. I think it's more luck of the draw than a willful decision. I'm not a character assassin."
And check out the final moments of "Hero," when Doyle turns to Cordelia, gives ehr a kiss and transfers something to her. It's a moment remeniscent of Spock and McCoy's "Remember" sequence at the conclusion of Star Trek II. recalls Gordon, "We were definitely aware of The Wrath of Khan when we wrote the ending."
Obviously, while Doyle is gone, he's not forgotten... From the 24 January Watch With Wanda:
Wanda replies: I think it's pretty good already. There's an
interesting episode coming up where Angel mistakenly calls
Wesley Doyle and messes with his head. He's already being
messed with by a demon who can read minds so needless to
say, Wesley gets all screwy.
The Angel cast are featured on the cover of DreamWatch #65, a UK SF/fantasy media magazine. The issue includes two glossy cardstock cast images (A4 sized).
Excerpted from The 11th Hour interview with Angel comic book co-author Christopher Golden:
Hmm. Something to look forward to.
"Originally it was difficult to write Doyle for the first couple of issues," Golden goes on, "because I hadn't seen the show yet. I knew he had a bit of an Irish accent, but I wasn't sure exactly where that was going to go. I didn't know what his attitude was going to be. Once I saw it, I was very happy to write Doyle, and I really enjoyed writing him—and then they killed him."
Which begs the question: Does Golden buy the "We planned this all along" line being spouted by Angel's Powers That Be? "Whatever Joss Whedon says," he is quick to state, "as far as I'm concerned, that's the Gospel."
Look me in the eye and say that, buddy.
So Whedon actually goes eyeball to eyeball, his bulging out at me, and says "That was always the plan."
Hard to call the guy a fibber after that.
Whedon admits he got quite a bit of hate mail concerning the decision, but thinks that offing a main character keeps the viewers on their toes.
"Not to mention the actors," Carpenter chimes in.
Quinn departed the show abruptly, a surprise move Greenwalt calls strategic:
"Early in the game, we thought it would be really cool to kill a main
character, to show nobody is safe." Carpenter was shocked at the news. "It
confirmed for me there is no such thing as job security [in this business],"
she says." Glenn Quinn is featured in a 4 page article in Starburst #257, now on stands!
Excerpted from Watch with Wanda, Week of Dec. 20, 1999:
Expectations are high because you're working on the spin-off of one of your network's
most popular series. But things are going well. The ratings are good, and the show seems to
be getting better with every episode.
So . . . you decide to kill off one of your three regular characters less than halfway into
your first season.
If this were happening on any show other than "Angel," with anyone other than
creators/executive producers Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt in charge, I'd be really
worried. As it is, I'm at least a little bit concerned.
Even though word of the cast change had leaked out, I was still aghast. It took three or
four episodes to warm up to Doyle, but more recent instalments have been nothing short of
wonderful in their depiction of the relationships between Doyle and Angel and Doyle and
Cordelia. The blossoming emotional attachment between the latter pair was suddenly nipped
in the bud.
According to Whedon and Greenwalt, however, they felt they'd sort of written themselves
out on the character of Doyle already.
There's no indication that Whedon was unhappy with Quinn, only that he and Greenwalt
have decided to go in another direction.
"Wesley Windham Price, the failed Watcher," says Whedon. "Wesley's going to come stay with Angel now. It's too perfect. It's so funny. I like Wesley a lot. He cracks me up. He got fired, obviously, and became a rogue demon hunter.
He's very insistent upon it -'rogue demon hunter.'"
From TV Guide Daily Dish for Monday, December 13:
From People's Fall Faces:
Why We're Watching: Roseanne's son-in-law shows his true color -- green.
The last time anyone checked in with Glenn Quinn he had just made Roseanne's "To Shaft" list for running off and marrying Becky Conner on the hit sitcom Roseanne. What few may have known that as the grungy, low-achiever Mark Healy on the program, Dublin native Quinn was actually disguising his Irish accent.
Well, Quinn's got his Irish up again -- complete with accent -- as he debuts in the new spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the WB's Angel. Just as the monsters of adolescence were brought to life with Buffy, the network is saying, this new one-hour series "will explore the twists and turns of early adulthood with the same irony and wit with which [Buffy] viewed the high school years."
Enter Quinn, who will play Doyle, "a disreputable spiritual mentor who has been sent by 'The Powers That Be,' a mysterious and powerful force trying to make things right." This is no ordinary character, mind you. Doyle, say the producers, is "a half-human, half-something else altogether whose charge is to keep a balance between good and evil [guiding] Angel on his path to redemption, though he would rather be at the racetrack."
Quinn's career rise has been something of a race itself. He arrived in California from Ireland at the age of 19, accompanied by his mother and two sisters. He was soon spotted by a casting director who got him an agent -- and a week later Quinn was playing Gwyneth Paltrow's boyfriend in the John Travolta movie Shout.
The audition for Roseanne came hot on Shout's heels, and his one-time guest shot turned into a regular job. Simultaneously, he shot the medieval drama series Covington Cross a continent away (it aired briefly in the U.S. and the U.K. before being cancelled).
When not on the Angel set, Quinn's said to enjoy playing soccer or the drums. A bachelor, he and his close friend (and fellow Irishman) Mark Leddy own Goldfingers, a new night-club in their hometown of Los Angeles. Looks like Roseanne didn't have to worry -- her son-in-law turned out all right.
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Whatever the exact circumstances behind Doyle's departure, the strong fan reaction to it was heartening for Quinn. "Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you
and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day.
Hollywood Vampire is an unofficial guide to Angel by Keith Topping (author of Slayer: The Totally Cool Unofficial Guide to Buffy).
Rock 'n' roll can be serious stuff, stuff on which lives crest and crash. There's no mistaking the dedication that Lance and Mike, two brothers from San Francisco, have made to the band Beyond Gravity - all they really care about is music. With the brothers' best friend (Glenn Quinn) as a manager, a full family spirit sets the tone of their every move.
At Any Cost, premiering on VH1 on Wednesday, Aug. 16, tries to show the pitfalls of climbing out of obscurity in rock 'n' roll. The drama focuses on two brothers, Lance (Eddie Mills, Wasteland) and Mike (James Franco, Freaks and Geeks), who, with Lance's wife, Chelsea (Maureen Flannigan, 7th Heaven), form a band. Their friend Ben (Glenn Quinn, Angel) manages the group.
Everybody knows that talent doesn't guarantee stardom in the music world, and the price of fame can be frighteningly high.
Glenn Quinn celebrated his 30th birthday May 28. Cards and well-wishes can be sent to:
David Boreanaz: The last time I was in actually, uh, told you my friend Glenn Quinn said hello and he says hello again and he's Irish.
The VH1 Original Movie At Any Cost will premiere August 16, 2000. Glenn Quinn has wrapped filming his scenes as the fictional band's manager in Houston, TX and is very excited about the project.
How about the death of Doyle in ‘Hero’? "That, I was wondering if
I could get away with, (laugh) to be honest with you." Loni goes
on to clarify, "Because it is television and I wasn’t sure but David
Greenwalt when he came up with the idea said, ‘I think I want him
to melt to death.’ And I said, ‘Really?’ (laugh) and he said, ‘Yeah
I think so, I want his flesh to melt off and muscle and then
bones.’ And I was like, ‘you sure?’ ‘yeah’, ‘okay.’" That will give
you a little Indiana Jones opportunity. "You know that was the
original idea but we thought that would be a little bit too graphic
so we did it in make-up stages using mat reveals in the inferno. I
would shoot Doyle without make-up, Doyle in his demon form,
Doyle with half-burned make-up and then a clean plate...."
Some fans might not agree with that axiom. Especially those who liked Doyle (Glenn Quinn), Angel's half-demon helper. Doyle was killed off in the episode "Hero" and was replaced by Buffy's ex-"watcher," Wesley (Alexis Denisof).
David Jackson: Do you keep in touch with Glenn Quinn and have you seen him lately...? Hint, hint!
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Speaking of Doyle, Quinn departed Angel under rather murky circumstances. The character, who had been forging a romantic bond with Cordelia, perished in Hero. The party line states that Doyle was never intended to be a permanent fixture on the show, but was to be killed off midway from the start. Scuttlebutt, however, suggests that Quinn was let go after the producers determined that the character had outlived his usefulness, that he simply wasn't working out. "I really don't know which is which and I don't ask," Carpenter says. "All I know is that I am sad. I was very sad to see Glenn go. Personally, there was a kinship. There is a friendship that forms when you work that many hours. He was very charismatic and jolly and just an all-around fun person to be with."
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