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   found by Vivien at the Haven.  The writer is wrong about one   
   fact -- the first Estrogen Brigade that ever existed was for   
   Siddig El Fadil of STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, *not* Patrick   
   Stewart.  Those of us who started that first Estrogen Brigade   
   *chose* the words "Estrogen Brigade" in the first place because   
   they made a nice acronym when combined with Sid's initials: SEFEB.   
      
      
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   ARTS AND LEISURE DESK   
      
   Looking for Space Aliens (and Denying Yale)   
      
   By MAUREEN DOWD (NYT) 1968 words   
      
   Published: March 26, 1995   
      
   VANCOUVER, British Columbia -   
      
   David Duchovny meets some very strange characters on the job:   
   a flesh-eating beast-woman from New Jersey, a six-foot intestinal   
   worm with a face and a red-lipped, red-nailed, vamping vampire.   
      
   "You'd think seeing a Cro-Magnon woman in New Jersey who was   
   6-foot-1 of pure girth would be the most amazing thing that   
   anybody ever saw," Mr. Duchovny says dryly.  "But there's   
   always another level of amazement for me to go to."   
      
   He also gets some very strange attention.   
      
   Mr. Duchovny plays Fox Mulder, an F.B.I. agent who investigates   
   space-alien visits and other supernatural phenomena on the Fox   
   hit television show "The X-Files," a moody, mysterious "Twilight   
   Zone" for the 90's that was the surprise winner for best drama   
   at the Golden Globe Awards in January.  (Until "The X-Files,"   
   Mr. Duchovny's most memorable role was as the transvestite   
   detective Dennis Denise in the television series "Twin Peaks.")   
      
   The 34-year-old Manhattan native, a Princeton graduate and Yale   
   Ph.D. candidate who abandoned his thesis to try acting, has   
   become the first Internet sex symbol with hair.  (The bald "Star   
   Trek" captain, Patrick Stewart, attracted the first Estrogen   
   Brigade, as female Trekkies in cyberspace call themselves.)   
      
   The David Duchovny Estrogen Brigade and a sister group, the   
   Duchovniks, try to "serve David," as they put it, by compiling   
   as much information about him as they can and putting it on the   
   Internet -- everything from his dog's foot-licking habits to   
   his poetry writing to pronunciation tips (DAY-vid doo-KUV-nee)   
   to the latest on his relationships with his real-life   
   girlfriend, an actress named Perrey Reeves, and his   
   television F.B.I. partner, Gillian Anderson.   
      
   The cyberspace fans describe his vital statistics this way:   
   "6' 1" tall, brown hair, hazel eyes.  Mole on right cheek.   
   The rest is sheer poetry."  The "What's David Really Like?"   
   section gets more gushy: "From all accounts, he is charming,   
   funny and very smart. . . . David seems to be very surprised,   
   not only by the success of 'The X-Files' but by his own   
   personal popularity (does the man not own a mirror?)."   
   Others have also gone over the moon about the Mulder character   
   (he does not like to be called Fox, and his nickname around the   
   bureau, because of his interest in the mysterious, is Spooky).   
      
   In an article about men's fashion in The New Republic, Laura   
   Jacobs offered a cerebral observation about the foxy Mulder:   
   "His every fashion move is monitored on the computer lines,   
   from his haircuts to his ties to the look in his brown eyes.   
   Machines all over America booted up after a show in which   
   he climbed out of the company pool wearing a Speedo."   
   The writer christened Mr. Duchovny "the Zeitgeist icon,"   
   a modern John Wayne riding the range of alien atmospheres   
   and "Mellors at the millennium," a reference to the sexy   
   gamekeeper in "Lady Chatterley's Lover."   
      
   The latter is an allusion Mr. Duchovny might appreciate,   
   since he is not only one of the rare actors who drops   
   references to "The Fairie Queen" and Dante but also the   
   host of Zalman King's "Red Shoe Diaries," the glossy yuppie   
   soft-porn cable show that appears Saturday nights on Showtime.   
   "I have never found sex scenes embarrassing, and I don't think   
   they're hard to do, either," says the actor, who occasionally   
   takes a turn as the romantic interest on "Red Shoe Diaries."   
      
   Sipping hot cider one Sunday night at a Starbucks in Vancouver,   
   where "The X-Files" is shot to save money, Mr. Duchovny says he   
   doesn't understand much of the lofty commentary on the show.   
      
   "I'm, like, overeducated, but I have no idea what a lot of this   
   stuff means," he says.   
      
   He also says he is not too computer literate and does not pay   
   much attention to the Internet buzz, though he seems intrigued   
   by the printouts of his Estrogen Brigade fan club pages.   
      
   Fresh from his evening workout, Mr. Duchovny is wearing jeans   
   and a black cotton shirt. He does not look or act like a star;   
   he seems more like the cute lawyer who lives down the hall.   
   He recalls that at the Golden Globe Awards reporters wanted to   
   know what he thought about Brad Pitt.  The two appeared together   
   in the 1993 movie "Kalifornia."  "I was kind of preening and full   
   of myself -- you know, my first Golden Globe Awards -- and some   
   reporter holds up a picture of Brad Pitt in People magazine as   
   'the sexiest man alive' and asks what it was like to work with   
   him," Mr. Duchovny says.  "So I said, yes, I tried to learn   
   to be sexy from Brad Pitt."   
      
   Chris Carter, the show's creator and executive producer, is   
   rigorous about the film-noir look and ominous tone of the show.   
   The mood is Oliver Stone anti-government paranoia; Mulder's   
   motto is "trust no one."  But Mr. Duchovny sometimes slips in   
   a bit of his own humor.  When the F.B.I. agent was interrogating   
   a sinister-looking young man who claimed to be a vampire,   
   the man asked Mulder, "Don't you want to live forever?"   
   An unsmiling Mulder replied, "Well, not if drawstring pants   
   come back into style."   
      
   His mother, Meg, born and raised in Scotland, is in charge   
   of the lower school of Grace School Church, in Manhattan.   
   His father was a publicist for the American Jewish Committee.   
   As David once said, It's like the Highlands meet Coney Island,"   
   says his sister, Laurie Duchovny, 28, a schoolteacher at St.   
   Anne's in Brooklyn.  She describes her brother as "the biggest   
   softy," even though as a boy he and his friend Jason, with   
   stockings over their heads, would try to scare her by chasing   
   her around the house with kitchen utensils.   
      
   His father, Amram Ducovny -- he dropped the "h" for easier   
   pronunciation -- wrote books, including "The Wisdom of Spiro   
   T. Agnew," "David Ben-Gurion in His Own Words" and "On With   
   the Wind," about Martha Mitchell.  He wrote a play called   
   "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald," which ran very briefly   
   Off Broadway in 1967 with Ralph Meeker.   
      
   David Duchovny recalled the play as his first brush with show   
   business, though the only question the 7-year-old asked his dad,   
   after watching Mr. Meeker sit on stage throughout the long first   
   act, was "I want to know how that man doesn't have to go to the   
   bathroom."   
      
   Mr. Duchovny's brother, Daniel (Ducovny), directs commercials   
   in Los Angeles. His father has retired to Paris to eat baguettes   
   and write a novel.  "When I was 6 years old, I told my father   
   I wanted to be a bathtub," David Duchovny recalls.  "So now   
      
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