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January 9, 2010
Lucy Lawless is kind of like King Midas, but for nerds: pretty much
every sci-fi or fantasy thing she touches turns to gold. Xena: Warrior
Princess and Battlestar Galactica are true classics -- the kinds of
programs nerds will tell their children about ... if they ever manage
to reproduce.
Lawless is starring in the new Starz program Spartacus: Blood and Sand,
which guarantees that pasty people will be dressing up as its
characters at conventions for decades to come.
We're asking Lucy to play a game called "We didn't have the chance to
say thanks." Three questions great American innovators who died
recently.
News submitted by Barbara Davies.