Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Victor Webster & Bikini Girl: Sushi and Sake!

Former Mutant X hunk Victor Webster has a lunch date with American Idol’s “Bikini Girl” Katrina Darrell on Wednesday (October 7) in Los Angeles.

Victor, 36, was seen teaching Bikini Girl, 21, how to use chopsticks while lunching over sushi, sake and tempura.

Victor is set to play Caleb Brewer on Melrose Place, airing Tuesday, September 15 on The CW. Caleb is a “very masculine guy, smokes cigars, likes the Los Angeles Lakers, collects sports memorabilia, drinks Scotch, likes guys and is not afraid to admit it.”

10+ pictures inside of Victor Webster and Bikini Girl’s sushi date…

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The 'X' in Mutant X

Fans have speculated that the 'X' in the show's title may have been taken directly from Howard Mackie's "Mutant X" comic books, which in turn had an 'X' because they were related to the X-Men universe. Originally, The 'X' in X-Men stood for the mutants' X-tra special abilities, and later for the unique "X factor" in their DNA that gave them their special powers.

There is some evidence to the contrary, however. Mutant X's executive producer Rick Ungar stated in a 2000 interview that the Marvel production team that was responsible for developing the television show forgot that there was already a Mutant X comic book in existence when theychanged the name of the series from "Genome X" to Mutant X to be more descriptive:

The original working name was Genome X, but we all kind of decided that didn`t tell ya anything," Ungar explained. "Interestingly enough, when we came up with the title Mutant X for this show, we actually had forgotten - or at least I had - we had a comic called Mutant X. It was helpful that we already owned the title, needless to say, but that`s kind of where any similarities end. This show really has no relationship to the X-Men, or anything that`s existed in the Marvel Universe before. It`s brand spankin` new."

Thus, the "X" in the show's title may merely be a remnant of the show's initial Genome X title.