The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • Page 300

Is Out Tk ere Dim Mulder and Scully in L.A.? You nave to wonder how the poster couple for 'Northwest noir' will weather the show's move to Hollywood and the massive scrutiny of this summer's feature film. reportedly was restless to bust through the cloud bank, too. A headline in the Tacoma News-Tribune read, "That Blinding Light-What Is It, Scully? It's the Sun, Mulder." Vancouver is not a town, it's a terrar-ium. And to make matters worse, border officials regard recreational drugs the way Ahab felt about whales and Gen. Jack D.

Ripper felt about fluoridation. Duchovny told Movieline that border officials, who routinely threaten visitors with strip searches and drug-sniffing dogs, detained him and said, "You tested positive for cocaine." Duchovny said he doesn't use co-Please see Page 7 them is the future of the show now that British Columbia is history. For months, the ominous signs of the impending change were as obvious as an extraterrestrial cadaver falling from the sky into a backyard wading pool. "I feel isolated and lonely. I'm not happy," "X-Files" star David Duchovny (Agent Mulder) told Movieline Magazine.

"Vancouver is a nice place if you like 400 inches of rainfall a day. It is kind of like a tropical rain forest without the tropics. More like an Ice Age rain forest." Duchovny was stuck in Vancouver for 10 months of year while his bride, Tea Leoni, was stuck in and his co-star Gillian Anderson (Agent Scully) blobs of black oil, and a mysterious Antarctic fortress. And don't tell them to bring it to the attention of the authorities! The authorities are trying to blame it all on them! But "The X-Files" film cag. also be read as a high-budget episode of the TV series.

X-philes will be ecstatic, for instance, to see their old friends The Lone Gunmen show up to help Mulder out of a tight spot Yes, folks it's a dessert topping and a floor wax a major motion picture and a sturdy bridge between two TV seasons' episodes. That's the simple truth. But as any "X-Files" fan can tell you, there are deeper truths; and the one that concerns By Tim Appelo The truth is out there and it's coming down here. "The X-Files," the half-billion-dollar TV series that just spun off a $60-million movie, is leaving its damp spawning grounds in Vancouver, B.C., after a half-decade and relocating in Los Angeles. The movie is contrived to make sense to those who don't watch the show two FBI agents are racing to disentangle a conspiracy involving a bombed Dallas office building, an extraterrestrial mutant virus, a dead kid in Texas, scary 1 I a.

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