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"Oooh Xita!" - Amber Benson
by emma peel » Tue Jul 30, 2002 12:18 am
More than once, if I'm not mistaken.And Amber knows you.I'm quite envious.by helpful information perha » Tue Jul 30, 2002 9:47 am
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Tracy
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I troost yuu. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
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Tara. Accept No Substitutes.
by emma peel » Wed Jul 31, 2002 6:47 pm
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Buffy Season 6: It grated, like something forced in where it doesn't belong.
by pikachu1060 » Thu Aug 01, 2002 3:58 pm
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by GiftofAmber » Thu Aug 01, 2002 4:31 pm
And meet Amber. I'd never be back in time on Monday morning.... by helpful information perha » Thu Aug 01, 2002 4:58 pm
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by mscheckmate » Thu Aug 01, 2002 8:32 pm
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maybe you could fly to a cheaper destination and car pool with other kittens?
Xander: "Tara, nice axing." Tara: "My first."
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"Oooh Xita!" - Amber Benson
by tyche » Thu Aug 08, 2002 4:07 am
Don't keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. - Quentin Crisp
Bitterness Central
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by Chewster » Sat Sep 07, 2002 5:49 am
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by BytrSuite » Thu Sep 26, 2002 1:39 am
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Taking a 'Chance'
By Sally Tidwell - Copy Editor
September 26, 2002
Birmingham native and actress Amber Benson walked onto the stage of the Alabama Theatre at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon. About five minutes later she said she had to go throw up.
Amid hundreds of friends, family and fans, she was moments away from unveiling her first independent feature at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in Birmingham Sept. 20-22. Fans traveled from places as far away as Canada and Denmark, and some even lined up outside the theater at 6:30 a.m. in the rain, to see the former "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" star debut "Chance," which she starred in, directed and wrote.
Several hours later, the 25-year-old tried to relax at WorkPlay, Sidewalk's headquarters. "All I know is that I didn't offend my family," she said, nervously gnawing at her lower lip.
"People laughed and that's all I wanted from it. It's not high art -- it's a fun kind of romp through my head."
"Chance" tells a simple story about the topsy-turvy world of love and relationships through a menagerie of characters. Benson portrays Chance, a 20-something who's just looking for the right someone.
"The character that I play is not me. She's the least like me in the whole movie. Who I am is James Marsters (also from "Buffy") who plays Simon, my love interest. He's really who I am.
"All the stupid weird stuff where I'm worried about time; I'm always counting things, must be obsessive compulsive, circling around while I'm waiting for the microwave to count down, stuff like that is me. That's what I'm all about. I think everybody has some weird idiosyncrasies that make them them," she said.
Benson said the film reminded her of "Annie Hall."
"I thought this is really reminiscent of Woody Allen, with his talking with the camera, the vignettes and crazy female characters. We tried to create our own little world," she said.
"I feel like there's at least one character that everyone can relate to. It may not be the same one, but there's somebody in there that you can say, 'Aha! I understand that person.'"
Benson and her mother, Diane, spent much of the weekend visiting friends and family, and meeting fans.
"I'm either completely inundated with people chatting or I'm acting like a 5-year-old doing cartwheels."
Moments before "Chance" was given Sidewalk's audience-choice award, Benson said she felt like she had an unfair advantage with so many supporters in attendance. "I hope I don't win, because if I do, I'll feel like I cheated.
"This film festival got a lot of people that never would have come, that came because of me. That was more important than me winning anything," she said.
"I don't care about prizes. It's not why I came here. I came here because this is where I'm from, and I knew my family could come to this. "I really respect Erik (Jambor, festival director), Alan Hunter (president of Alabama Moving Image Association, Inc.) and all these guys doing Sidewalk. They're trying to bring independent film, which is what I've done a lot of, to the South."
An avid supporter of independent films, Benson said she thought it was important that people have alternatives to big-budget films, especially in theaters.
"People are hungry for it, especially college kids," she said. "You don't just want to go to the video store or look online, you want to see it in the theater to get the visceral experience of actually being there and being part of an audience."
She also said she got caught up in all facets of creating the film. "I write all the time, but I don't do an outline and then try to fill in the blanks. I just sit down and vomit it out, and what's there is there.
"After today, I know that if I'm laughing when I'm writing it, then people are going to laugh when they see it," she said.
In addition to writing, Benson said she spent about six months in front of a computer, editing the film. "It's so fun, you have no idea. When you sit down it's like a drug. Editing is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
"I could spend years because you sit down and it's one o'clock in the afternoon. The first time you look around it's dark out and it's 11, and you don't even know where the time went -- whoosh, it's gone."
Benson and her mother both said they would like to take the film on the road and show it to more people. "I'm just going to try and get 'Chance' out there to everybody. We're thinking about a college tour. We're trying to set something like that up, maybe come to Auburn. We'd like to get a cross section of what kids think. It's a 20-something film," she said.
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Disappearing everyday without so much as a word somehow"
by BFR from Paris » Thu Sep 26, 2002 4:39 am
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Benson said the film reminded her of "Annie Hall."
"I thought this is really reminiscent of Woody Allen, with his talking with the camera, the vignettes and crazy female characters. We tried to create our own little world," she said.
) and I'm sure "Chance" could be presented there!
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