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2008






    OK, Bruce's Angels is officially FOUR years old today!! Though we have been celebrating since Saturday, we have one more treat as our GRAND FINALE. We've put our new "Secret Agent Man' video on You Tube (to avoid the long download time for videos). This makes our 17th video on You Tube (and more to come...)!  If you haven't yet seen this one, you don't want to miss it.  As we said below, it's our best one so far.  Qamiel, who majored in communications in college, has experience editing videos and it shows, and Israfel, our Photos Manager, did a terrific job of selecting pics to match the lyrics of "Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers. The result is a exciting, fast-paced video that showcases Bruce/Jurgen in a gorgeous collage from La Femme Nikita.  BTW, our You Tube videos from La Femme Nikita  are very popular; we expect this one to start getting lots of hits right away too.

  This video is terrific!  Really!!  Don't miss it!!!

  Click here for our favorite spy



We've come a long way since that day four years ago when we had only a few photos and even fewer skills. What fun it's been learning new ones!  We look forward to learning even more skills and continuing to bring Bruce fans new treats and updates in the years to come.  Let's toast one more time to our inspiration:
    


April 26:    IT'S TIME, YES,IT'S TIME...WE'RE CELEBRATING FOUR YEARS FOR BRUCE'S ANGELS! AND WE'VE LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!!  We're starting a little early (May 1 is the official date) so we can have more time to celebrate!  And have we got a spectacular show for you!  Qamiel and Israfel pulled out all the stops and prepared two animated shows for your viewing emjoyment that are SIMPLY STUNNING (as the webmaster and not the one who designed them, I can brag on them a bit).   The first page features a scrolling slide show titled BRUCE PAYNE: A CELEBRATION THROUGH THE YEARS with one pic from every Bruce film and TV show that we have PLUS music by Kool and the Gang singing "Celebrate"!  But wait, there's more...the second page, our Grand Finale, is a music video slide show featuring our favorite hero Jurgen in SECRET AGENT MAN, complete with the Johnny Rivers song.  This is far and away the BEST VIDEO we have done, no kidding.  Qamiel lend his editing know-how and Israfel matched the pics with the music perfectly!  We've come a long way since our first day four years ago. Our opening was sincere but to be perfectly honest, kinda pitiful. But no more!  We have honed our skills, getting better and better each year.  And for what better cause than the talented, handsome Mr. Bruce Payne!!

  Click here for our BIG BASH


April 25:  The praise for Brothel just keeps rolling in. Here's another positive review from the 2008 Annual Sedona Film festival.  Calling Brothel a film that " connects emotions, art, and heritage," Deb Bentlage Curator, Phippen Museum, writes “This visual treat for the eyes and soul stirred so many emotions and memories in me about love and loss that it was painful to watch at times..."  but, she continues, it provides "... an opportunity to appreciate the artistry of the filmmakers involved.”  For the full review, click here.  We are really looking forward to seeing it.

Our German angel Steffi has sent us a beautiful Never Mind graphic; we've posted it on the NSNM Wallpaper page.
  Click here for the Never Mind (aka Never Say Never Mind) wallpaper page. This page won't make us blue...

April 19:  Last week we "ripped" your heart out; this week we'll "steal" your heart with pics from Riders aka Steal. First we assembled two sets of audio/video clips from the film with some of the more interesting scenes (including the one we can't quote on a G-rated update page ).  We put the clips on the Riders page and the audio/video page as well as You Tube.  To go along with this theme, we have also placed Riders pics on yet another online photo gallery--MyPhotoAlbum.  There's a slide show there too.

  Click here for the first Riders clip on You Tube

  Click here for the second clip

  Click here for the Myphotoalbum gallery

  Click here if you want to download the clips


April 18: 

We’ve found another positive review of Brothel at the 14^th Annual Sedona International Film festival. This one is written by David Kanowsky, Kudos Movie Critic for verdenews.com.  He writes: “Here are a few of the films that I think are worth noting… Brothel, Amy Waddell's film, is about a young loving couple. The husband owns a house in Jerome (yes, our Jerome) that once was a brothel but is now abandoned. Strangely, he commits suicide. The wife, Julianne, is trying to come to terms with her loss…Brothel does not fear nor try to break down the boundary between real and fantasy. It simply ignores the boundary. And we are drawn into Julianne's experience…It is a very fine ghost story without horror. Julianne harbors an inner hope that she can find her husband here among the ghosts - or is she really one of them?”  For the full text of review, click here.

And here's another screensaver request, this time from Paige (aka giveupfaith). She's a big fan of Jacob Kell.  She picked out her favorites and you can see them by clicking below.  Can't have too may Kell screensavers, in our opinion.  Kell, no...oh ouch...

April 12:  Want to have your heart "ripped" out? Check out the behind-the-scene Ripper audio/video clips we just posted. Bruce comments on the film, talking about  why women like scary movies but why the film is more than just a scary movie.  If you thought the behind-the-scenes  pics we already had posted were yummy, wait till you see how adorable (forgive us) he is in this videotaped interview.  No Rane, no Damodar--this is Bruce Payne.
Click here for the Ripper clips


Speaking of audio/video clips, we have branched out with oru You Tube videos.  All the previous ones were stills set to music. Now we have a Jurgen video consisting of key scenes from the 3 episodes of La Femme Nikita featuring Bruce.  Number 16!  We'll be getting new equipment soon and plan to bring you more new and improved clips on YT.  We have also placed the link on our Jurgen page.


And we're not done talking about Bruce videos yet!!  The IMDb has a new feature --it is now linking to You Tube trailers for films the actor has been in. There's 15 listed for Bruce. Not all of them actually have Bruce in the trailer.  We have made our way through and can tell you so that The Apocalypse (the first one), D&D1 (with the wrong name first time it's listed--it's inexplicably called "Field of Dreams" but has the right name later on) and Passenger 57 are all well worth watching! A few are repeats and some don't have Bruce or only have one scene with him. You can check them out at


April 7:

Encouraging news for those eagerly awaiting The Brothel (we sure are!). It was recently shown at the 2008 Sedona Film festival according to www.movingpicturesmagazine.com/  Rae Ann Marsh, author of the story about the festival, referred to The Brothel as “an exquisite art film.”  We are hoping this exposure will help get the film distributed.
Click for a description of the film and link to The Brothel web site

April 5: As promised, we have new material from Verbatim magazine.  Mr. John Mosby, the writer, has graciously given us permission to reprint a sample of the pics and material about Bruce.



We are starting a new feature this week. Fans who would like a special screensaver made from their favorite pics can send their requests, along with the jpgs (or photo numbers) and we'll make it into a screensaver.  We already have a request from Kayleigh (who told us she would like to see a Warlock screensaver and that inspired us). You can see the first fan request screensaver by clicking below.  That inspired Israfel to "take a walk on the dark side" and create the collage above (it will be moved to the Warlock page soon).




April 4:  Branching out once again, we have placed a set of photos on yet another public online gallery.  This time it's Bravenet and we have two galleries: one with the Bruce publicity photos and one with pics fron the film Silence Like Glass.  Because it's on Bravenet, we decided to showcase his hero roles in a gallery titled "Bruce the Brave.
click here



April 1:    We couldn't resist...the Devil made us do it...a new Jokester/April Foolery page.  It includes links to some of Bruce's behind-the-scenes hijinks, as well as our previous parody "April Foolery,"  As we note on our Jokester page, having a gentle, self-deprecating sense of humor is said to be a sign of a healthy personality.  That works for us...



March 29:  We have a message for you...It's time for the April Movie of the Month. Have you guessed?  It's Messages, the psychological suspense thriller.  We have a new music slide show video titled "Messages: The Puzzle," with a haunting musical piece appropriately titled "Interloper."  It's our 15th video on You Tube!  Our calendar queen Sofia has really outdone herself with this calendar page; it may be her best!  And Ariel has revised and expanded her review of the film.  We like this film (Ariel wishes she could tell you why it is true to the profile of a serial killer but that would be telling...) and hope US fans will have a chance to view it soon. If you missed our showcase of Messages the first time, the Movie of the Month page has links to all the various Messages pages (main page, review, wallpapers, calendar, etc)






March 27:  We're still waiting to hear about the release of The Brothel.  In the meantime, here's a bit more information about the movie--an audio/video clip of the writer/director/producer Amy Waddell talking about the film. 


March 22:  First Myspace, then Facebook and now Flickr...we are posting Bruce photos on every public gallery we can find...we think his face should be all over the Internet, not that we're biased...So naturally we couldn't resist...we started with pics of Flikker from Absolute Beginners.  You don't think we'd miss an opportunity for a good pun, do you?   So we now present Flikker on Flickr...


And we're still in a Highlander mood around here...Israfel did another HEG graphic--see above.

Speaking of graphics, our Calendar Queen Sofia has branched out to graphics and has a new Domitian graphic on her domain: Bruce Payne Rules
Click here




March 20:    Today is the Vernal Equinox.  The Celts celebrated all the changes of the seasons and so do we.  Which brings us back to Jacob Kell...though it doesn't take much to lead us back there ...On the Highlander message board we mentioned below, we found John Mosby, a writer who has interviewed Bruce several times and has nice things to say about him. Says Mosby:
" I've spoken with Bruce a number of times and he's always been huge fun to interview. He did a whole photo-shoot for my Verbatim/Impact articles when he really had better things to do on set. He's one of those actors who gives a 'big' performance on screen, but is very much a thoughtful guy off screen. "  Thank you, Mr. Mosby, for permission to reprint this quote. Watch for more from that Verbatim magazine he mentioned soon...

PREVIOUS SPRING EQUINOX PAGE:
click here for info about the Celtic celebration of spring and more pics of Jacob Kell


March 15: THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS...We are fast approaching our FOURTH ANNIVERSARY so we are starting the countdown now!  See our countdown button above.  We'll have some VERY special treats for Bruce fans on this May 1.  But today's first special treat is the fantasy magazine cover created by Israfel. See above.  Don't we wish... Well, we think Bruce belongs on a magazine cover...

Meanwhile, speaking of holidays, Israfel has created a St. Patrick's Day page that includes a hilarious photostory called "Highlander Hijinks" with behind-the-scenes pics from the HEG DVD of Bruce cutting up and mugging for the camera.  This is a really different facet of Jacob Kell, to say the least!  In the first part, he plays "sword guitar" while singing "La Bamba" (though we added a traditional Irish song from Dongas Tribe for our soundtrack). Then Bruce cuts up behind the director's (oblivious) back.  Finally he horses around with Adrian Paul.  Bruce's ever-changing expressions are a real hoot!  This is a side of Bruce you've never seen in any of his movies.  Have fun!

You won't find any green beer or leprechauns (but maybe a few green angels) by clicking here but you will find gorgeous (always) pics of Bruce having a rip-snorting good time..

And now speaking, this time, of Highlander: Endgame, we've discovered a kool HEG discussion board ("Official Highlander Message Board" is its name) and one of the topics is Bruce Payne.  Someone there has found our HEG Impact magazine article page and wow, did the folks there flock to it!  Glad they found us...  There's also another topic called "Highlander: Endgame." 



Click here for the Bruce/HEG page link



March 8:  When it comes to H.P. Lovecraft films, Necronomicon is "dead" on...We love "The Drowned," the story that Bruce is in, and so we went back for another round of pics. This new page has 113 delicious photos and that's no fish story!





One of the   places for photos on the Web is Photobucket.  We found only ONE pic of Bruce (from La Femme Nikita) there but we remedied that quickly enough!!  There are now 260 pics of Bruce from LFN!  And we'll be putting up pics from other films soon...
Click to go to directly to the NEW LFN photo album on Photobucket.


NEW on Facebook: A movie trivia quiz for the faithful fans.  Test your knowledge of quotes from Bruce movies. Ariel and Israfel got a perfect 10 but hey, that's cheating...   Click the Facebook icon.





March 1:  Time for our Movie of the Month again. This time it's a "golden oldie"--an episode from 1984 of The Bill, a British TV show, and what a cutie Bruce is in this program too. Click below for the calendar, collages on the new wallpaper page. and a photostory as well as the photo gallery.
One Bill we don't mind paying...






click here for the photostory



Update on The Book: The new starting date for filming is Oct 2008 and the projected release date is late June 2009.  Bruce is still listed as "in talks."


And stay tuned for another Bruce photo gallery online someplace NEW soon...



February 23:    H.P. Lovecraft is one of our favorite authors, much creepier than Stephen King, but hard to translate into film. This version of Lovecraft's Necronomicon succeeds better than most, partly due to Bruce's suberb portrayal of the tortured and guilt-ridden Edward DeLapoer.  Even other reviewers less biased than we find Bruce's performance compelling (see review link at bottom of our Necronomicon page). So we are pleased to announce that we have 70 new pics of Bruce from the film in our new Necronomicon photo gallery. And there's more on the way!
  Click here


We are busy spiffing up our Facebook and MySpace pages.  On the MySpace page, we have added a new colorful kaleidoscope slide show of photos from Bruce's film and TV appearances.  Israfel, our Angel of Music, has added a music play list that include pieces from Bruce's films -- "Absolute Beginners" by David Bowie, "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis (also in AB), the Highlander: Endgame theme "Bonny Portmore," and "Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven (used in One Man's Justice) as well as other music spanning classical to classic rock.  As those of you who have visited MySpace know,  pages can have "friend" icons links to other pages.  So far, our friends include Justin Whalin and Thora Birch from D&D, fan sites for Adrian Paul and David Bowie, and musicians Hoobastank, Nickelback and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. 
click here for MySpace; membership not required for top level but is for photo gallery

On our new Facebook page, we have the same slide show and play list, and a photo gallery of 46 pictures, one from each Bruce film/TV show for which we have photos, plus several publicity photos. We also have a similar photo gallery on the My Space page.  Both pages also include 3 of our videos  from You Tube.  Other links on Facebook include an already ongoing Bruce Payne fan group. This group was started by Nicole B, who is a big fan of Bruce's.  She has made us a welcome part of the group.  Things are really rolling along and more to come...
Click here for Facebook; membership is required to see the above. You can register on the linked page.



February 16:    Since we have one of THE major Dungeons & Dragons fan pages, we are pleased to announce that we now have a copy of one of the original D&D1 Press Kits.  In addition to 10 publicity photos of various characters, it includes a complete list of opening credits  and cast, explanations about the film which is derived from the role playing game Dungeons and Dragons.  It also contains 8 pages about the production of the film, i.e., the work behind bringing the film to the screen, explanations of how each character in the film was to be portrayed, various famous places in Prague where the movie was filmed, comments from cast members on their particular character and background information about the major cast members.  We pulled out several of Bruce's comments for the Intro page.
 



We are also pleased to announce that we now have a page on Facebook. We'll be expanding it soon. However you have to be a member of Facebook to view it. Click below. You can register on that page.



Our German Angel Steffi has sent us a kool graphic for Riders aka Steal.  We placed it on the Riders page and on Steffi's fan art page. 
   Click here to be taken for a ride...

February 14: Our angel Steffi has sent us and Bruce fans a sweet (but not too sweet)  Valentine (hey, after yesterday, we needed that.   ).  To read the poem, click below for the larger version with readable text.  There are also links to previous Valentine pages.

  BA Valentine pages over the years


February 13:    As promised. we are bringing you our Valentine Special.  Don't expect hearts and flowers from this video, well, except maybe for bruised and battered hearts...It's our musical version of "Dark Love" with pics (some of them NEW to our site) from Paranoia 1.0, Ripper, Full Eclipse, Warlock III, Cisco Kid, Highlander: Endgame and Switch with music by Advent Sleep (SO appropriate for Bruce movies...). Plus some weird and outre graphics by Ariel. Instead of the conventional "roses are red, violets are blue" kind of stuff, this "valentine" is more like "hearts are black, bruises are blue; if you don't like my advances, tough for you..." 

  Click here for Dark Love.  The You Tube video is at the bottom of the page.

You can download it from our Music Video page by...

  clicking here


February 9:  Check out our new rotating Bruce's Angels logos above.  It includes four by Israfel, one by CMoon and one by Angelique. Also see above a new BA logo by Israfel featuring a new pic of Jacob Kell.  We'll add it to the rotating set soon.  We have also added easy access buttons above taking you straight to all the Bruce You Tube videos and to the BA MySpace page. 

And speaking of Kell, we have a NEW (well, new to our site) Bruce interview from Impact magazine 2001 about the making of Highlander: Endgame.  The page has a a beautiful background by Sofia. To accompany our new article, we also have six new pics of Bruce as Kell that are only in the trailer, not in the film.  Kell yes, you'll love these photos.  A real Kell of a weekend from Kell's Belles...OK, we'll stop with the puns already...
Click here for the new Impact magazine intervew and new Kell pics


And watch for our Valentine Special on Feb. 14: the musical video version of "Dark Love."

  GOOD NEWS for people in DVD Region 2 (Japan, Europe, Middle East and South Africa):  According to CDJapan.com, Never Say Never Mind will be released April 4, 2008 on DVD. However it is unclear whether this is the authorized edition that is being sold on swedishbikiniteam.com



February 2:   As is our "tradition," instead of a Movie of the Month for February, we have a "Valentine" theme instead. This year's theme is "Dark Love"...well, not exactly love and it's not really romance...more like sexual encounter...and a bit perverted at that...Hey, no syrupy, gooey Valentine stuff here! Click below for Israfel's darkly handsome graphics, Ariel's morbidly arch (perhaps even droll) commentary and Sofia's red (or is that black) hot calendar, to say nothing of hot pics of Bruce! 
 

And this is just the first part of our Valentine presentation. We'll have more on Valentine's Day...a music video to go with our theme.

We also have a NEW special rare treat for fans today, one that seems ever so appropriate to our theme, if you get our drift here: The article "Pleasure and Payne" from Impact magazine, April 2001.  Bruce has lots of kool, interesting things to say.




And just to wrap it up, check out the NEW Bruce's Angels logo above.  Does it look a bit familiar?  It should.  It's derived from the original Charlie's Angels logo.




January 26:  We're not ready to "ride" off into the sunset yet with the Riders aka Steal movie.  We have 95 more pics in our Riders photo gallery, Part 2 (and another stunning background), thanks to our most diligent and talented photos manager and background artiste, Israfel.  But wait, there's more, as they say in late night TV commercials...We also have 26 behind-the-scenes photos too.  All available to you in our special offer...FREE. (Oops, sorry too many of those late night ads...).






With LOTS of help from our cherub-in-training Devecia, we have added a slide show montage of many of Bruce's films to the Bruces Angels MySpace page.  [The kids are better at some of this new-fangled stuff than us older folks.   ]  We also added music.  The song is one of our favorites: "If Everyone Cared" by Nickleback.  You can check it all out by clicking below. You don't have to be a member to see it.




January 19:  EBay has been kind to us--we have another FANTASTIC publicity photo of Bruce from Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire.  The combo of incredibly photogenic actor and really talented photographer is DYNAMITE!  We're talking sultry and sexy here...
Click here for a photo that will make you forget what.....now what were we're saying?....


Next we have something that will "steal" your heart and "ride" off with it....  Yes, we 're talking about Riders aka Steal.  [OK so we like bad jokes...so sue us.. ]  A delicious photo gallery with 95 pics of our favorite sexist pig Detective Jake Magruder. "Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man".. and Bruce in a pin-stipe suit definitely qualifies!  This is only Part I, more to come next week plus other treats...



PLUS not to mention, a wallpaper page
Click here

Ariel was in fine form with her tongue-in-cheek satiric commentary about the Smart-Dressed Sexist Pig and the Blonde Detective with her Skirt Up to There and Legs Down to Here ...if you didn't catch it the first time around, you can click below:
 


January 12: We have a brand new treat for Bruce fans--a publicity photo from the 80s and does he look fabulous!  Israfel has made a stunning background that does justice to this fantastic photo.
Click here


And we're back for more with Mr. Blue photos --a second photo gallery with 110 additional photos!  And on the gallery page, we reveal a secret about Bruce's role in Never Mind.  Let's just say that Bruce gets to show some emotions after all....
for Mr. Blue Photo Gallery 2


We also have the second set of videos from Never Mind with further clues to the secret in this film...to say nothing of Mr. Blue's sinuous, sexy, smooth as silk voice... We could listen over and over again...




January 5:  HAPPY NEW YEAR to all Bruce fans!!  We're still in a Blue mood-- Mr. Blue, that is.  And Mr. Blue doesn't make us a bit blue.  Israfel has created a sumptious repast of Mr. Blue photos.   That's right, they are good enough to eat!  Mr. Blue is definitely Cordon Bleu quality!  Check out the photo gallery page with 115 pics (and only the first of TWO!) and the audio/video clips.  We're doing the video clips a bit different this year--there are 7 clips rolled into one--almost like a mini-movie.   There'll be more video clips next week along with more luscious photos. We also have 4 graphics on the wallpaper page.

The taciturn Mr. Blue is quite a different role for Bruce.  In most of his roles, he projects a great deal of emotion and tension.  Even Charles Rane, though stony-faced, projects cruelty and narcissism.  Bruce had to dampen his usual panache to play the emotionally challenged Mr. Blue.  It seems to us that it's harder to play flat affect than a straightforward emotion.  But Bruce, talented actor that he is, rose to the occasion and is brillant as Mr. Blue.  Not that we are biased or anything...  Mr. Blue definitely brings a touch of class to this film...

AND LATE-BREAKING BULLETIN: According to the IMDb, Carmen's Kiss is in post-production!  It's scheduled for release in 2008. 

  Click here for the Photo Gallery


click here for the audio/video page


  Wallpaper page



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