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Ray Gun Magazine
by Mark Woodief
A songwriter's tribute becomes an "X-Files" behind-the-scenes video.
David Duchovny, Why won't you love me?
You may have heard the latest celebrity tribute song "David Duchovny"
on the radio, but you probably don't know the amazing path it took to get there.
After New York-based "X-Files" devotee and songwriter Bree Sharp sent
the show a demo tape of her sugary ode "David Duchovny," Will Shivers-a writer's
assistant on Chris Carter's "Millennium"-decided to shoot an accompanying video
incorporating "X-Files" clips and starring cast and crew members. The real kick,
however, is the video's stunning assembly of celebrity cameos.
The astounding array of personalities caught lip-synching along to
the song ("David Duchovny, why won't you love me?" the infectious chorus begs)
include: Brad Pitt, Jenna Elfman, Charles Nelson Reilly, Garry Shandling, Dennis
Fraz, Erik Estrada, David Spade, Sarah Michelle Geller, Calista Flockhart, KISS,
Janeane Garofalo, Alex Trebek, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, George Clooney,
Melissa Etheridge, the Vivid Girls, cast members of Baywatch and Medieval times
and many more. Jerry Springer provides a hilariously deadpan epilogue.
Shivers and his collaborator, Carter's assistant Charles Forsch,
planned to show the video last year at their office holiday party. Now, Shivers
notes, the tape is "getting some attention in the underground."
Since the video, Sharp has been signed by Trauma Records, who will
release her debut disc A Cheap And Evil Girl in July. Sharp hasn't met Duchovny
yet, but it seems anything could happen. The video, she notes, "sort of confirms
the random, bizarre nature of life, the business and Hollywood."
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