Info - Data collection on Kim Manners

[caffienekitty]

Everyone copes with stress and grief differently. I cope by collecting data. Here are links to articles on Kim Manners' passing, a link or two to old interviews with him, an address to write to the Supernatural set offices and some other things. ETA: There are a couple charity drives starting up, does anyone know if fandom_rocks or Sweet Charity are planning anything?

ETA:
****The Manners family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to The American Cancer Society in Memory of Kim.**** (http://www.cancer.org) - via anteka



Obituary for Kim Manners - posted by Jim Beaver at Usenet Newsgroup alt.obituaries (thank you starrylizard for the heads up.) Originally posted on his MySpace page (thank you sandrinnad

Report from the set from Julie in set decoration, via canadiangoddess

Report from anteka with some info from the set.

Charity Drives:
As above: ****The Manners family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to The American Cancer Society in Memory of Kim.**** (http://www.cancer.org) - via anteka

"Inspired by Gillian" -A X-Files fan site is raising money in Kim's name to donate to the American Lung Association
Donations are being accepted by pocketfullof for the American Lung Association.
KazCON, the Supernatural Fan-run convention to be held in Lawrence, Kansas this August will be donating the charity auction funds raised at the con to the National Lung Cancer Partnership as announced by wolfpup2000 here.



Articles on Kim Manners passing:
Note: Many of these are quite similar, but I'm linking all the ones I find anyway, because some have comments that are well worth reading and joining in.
Buddy TV - (if you are avoiding spoilers, there is a title spoiler in the sidebar, avoid reading)
The Watcher - Blog associated with the Chicago Tribune
Eclipse Magazine
TV Guide - May contain factual error. I think Kim was supposed to direct "Family Remains" but had fallen too ill to do so. I believe the last episode directed by Kim Manners was "Metamorphosis" *ETA: There is also a note in Today's News at that site (spoilers for everything but Supernatural I think, beware) that the second half of a Q & A with Sera Gamble will not be posted as scheduled this week due to Kim Manners' death, so they may be doing a major piece on him instead. I don't know, but that's what I suspect the case to be.
Monsters and Critics
Ken Tucker's Watching TV - An Entertainment Weekly blog.
FearNet - (if you are avoiding spoilers, there is a title spoiler in the blue text immediately under the article, avoid reading)
IGN.com
ShockTillYouDrop.com
MovieWeb
End Of Show - A UK TV news Blog
TV Guy @ Canada.com - Contains a few proofreading errors including one instance of putting David Nutter's name in instead of Manners, but has a really great anecdote from X-Files filming, and some words from one of the people in the grip department on Supernatural.
Super-Wiki's Kim Manners Page
In Memorium - BlogCritics.org's Alice Jester, three pages, very well done and touching retrospective
Zap2It.com
CW Source
DigitalSpy.uk
PR-Inside (may also have a German translation up, but meine Deutsch ist sehr schlect and I couldn't navigate to it from the German front page)
E!Online
Reuters


Articles and Interviews with Kim Manners:
TVSquad's 2007 SPN set visit, with an interview with Kim Manners
'X-Files': Adventure for Directors; Stronger Roles Than Usual in the Shaping of a Series New York Times, March 10 1998 - Has a few anecdotes about Kim Manners' style of directing when he worked on X-Files
CW Source Interview.
Part of the Paley panel with a lot of focus on Kim Manners.


Address:
Here is the Burnaby Office address for those inclined to write letters of condolence and/or support to the Supernatural production crew in Vancouver who are doubtlessly devastated.

Supernatural Films Inc.
8085 Glenwood Drive
Burnaby, B.C.
V3N 5C8
Canada

Eric Kripke
9465 Wilshire Blvd
Suite 880
Beverly Hills, California 90212
USA

Any correspondence for the Manners family may be mailed to:

Holly Ollis
Warner Bros. Television
4000 Warner Blvd.
Bldg 140, Rm 115
Burbank, CA 91522

I don't think I know an address for the LA offices (where Kripke, the writers and the producers are), and I don't know if there's one to write letters of support directly to Kim Manners' family and wife Marlene Manners. If you write care of the show or Kripke, it should get through, but I have no idea. ETA: Address for the Manners family added.

If any of this information is incorrect or inappropriate, please let me know and I will remove or alter it as required.

ETA: I'm probably going to be coming back and adding more to this for a while, I think.
ETA2: If anyone has a link to interviews with or articles on Kim Manners from any time in his career they want to share, or any info on legitimate charity drives being planned, major fan projects, please link them in the comments and I'll add them to the list.

Comments

[gigglingkat]

Join the Wiki - Missy's got a page up: http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Kim_Manners

[caffienekitty]

I joined Super-Wiki a long time ago, and have added a link there now. I'm not sure if X-Files anecdotes are kosher over there, though. This is more of a personal need to gather data, this post, but if I come across anything the Wiki hasn't got, I'll add it for sure.

[brigid-tanner.livejournal.com]

Great idea. Thanks.

[caffienekitty]

It's doing something. I'm one of those people where if I am distressed and I can't do something, I melt down.

Busy

[(Anonymous)]

Keeping occupied..yes.

Hugs
Sharon

Re: Busy

[caffienekitty]

*nods*

[firesnake77.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this!

[caffienekitty]

Thanks. I'm mainly gathering this stuff so it feels like I'm doing something. I'm leaving it unlocked and public because there are people on my f-list who either aren't as connected to the SPN fandom digital grapevine and stuff like Super-Wiki, or arent SPN fans but might know of Kim Manners' work on X-Files that would want to know.

[sandrinnad.livejournal.com]

thanks for collecting all these!

Jim's blog with the obituary that's also on the alt.obituaries is http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=70108012&blogID=466723383 (in case you want to link it)

[caffienekitty]

Done, and thank you. I can't access MySpace with my computer (instant browser crash) so thank you very much for the link. I really want to hug Jim Beaver. And everyone in the crew and Kims family and everything, but Jim's obit for Kim kind of resonated. Y'know?

[mirandler.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for doing this. I've been looking for the mailing address and am glad to see it here.

[caffienekitty]

You're welcome. Like I said, it's mainly a way of coping for me, but I'm glad you found some info from it.

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

Thanks for doing all this. It's great to have the links in one place.

[caffienekitty]

I'm trying to collect links for old interviews and articles on him as well, sort of a memory collection. That Paley video is heart-breaking now. :(