Where's Aliens' Newt now?

Cory Doctorow: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future, and whatever happened to Carrie Henn? Where's Aliens' Newt now?

• Cory Doctorow: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future.
New hires at high-tech startups were handed a copy of Snow Crash and told, 'Read that, it's our business plan. You start Monday.' I think there's a nice little contrafactual story idea lurking in there about someone who turns up the following Monday with a Babylonian mind-virus pre-coded and ready to seed over the Web.
Read » [locusmag.com]

• Whatever happened to Carrie Henn? Where's Aliens' Newt now?
After Aliens was a huge success she was interviewed a number of times, and every time she said she had no intentions to act again. She's stuck to her word, and for a very long time she never appeared on film again. But since 2001 she's appeared in a couple of made-for-TV documentaries on Alien, and she was also interviewed with Sigourney and her brother for the Alien Quadrilogy DVD pack. But aside from occasional interest from the Sci-Fi community, she's led an entirely Hollywood-free existence. Her last official appearance was at the 20th Anniversary screening of Aliens in 2006, in Los Angeles. In 2000 she earned her degree in liberal studies and child development, and now works as a school teacher in Atwater, California.
Read » [denofgeek.com]

Author: Ruth Lorraine, for AZ10.com ~ 5 Jan 2012

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