Adventures in Hollywoodland

After a brief trip to Hollywood where they hobnobbed with the power players and cultural elite, the LWOT editors are back on Canadian soil. Their American adventure began with a trip to the Oscars and the Miramax post-Oscar party before they moved on to negotiations for the rights to produce a movie about the world's greatest fiction magazine. After the initial public appearances and with rumours swirling around the top-secret project, the handsome trio kept a low profile throughout their three-week trip. They did manage to take in the famous tour of Bob Saget's house and visit Bea Arthur's grave.

Jared looking dapper on the red carpet before his interview with Ryan Seacrest
about negotiations for an upcoming LWOT movie.

Ryan on the red carpet behind Sarah LArson and George "the Silver Fox" Clooney.

Russell as he made his way into the Kodak theatre right before

his dust-up with Gary Busey. Russell had to dodge Busey and
reporters as they questioned him about his rumoured
involvement with fellow Maritimer Ellen Page.

Ryan and the Afflecks. Ben looking sheepish as they discussed how he was 'da bomb in Phantoms.

Jared with Oscar winner Javier Bardem and Joel Cohen
as Jared gushed over the brothers' work on Kingpin and The Matrix.

Ryan goofin around with Portia de Rossi and Ellen Degeneres where
he discussed a possible cameo in the rumoured Arrested Development
movie and asked Ellen who was better to work with: Jeremy Piven, Ari Gross
or that guy who played the cop in The Wrong Guy.

LWOT Sightings

In 1978, information technologists at the University of Washington utilized previously published short stories as test material for the new International Packet Switched Service. Among them, former LWOT editor Darren O'Groussny's beloved short story "Wheat Ground".

That same technology would later develop into what is now popularly known as The Inter-Web.

LWOT Sightings

A tattered copy of LWOT's April 1974 issue can be seen on Mulder's bookshelf in Episode 28 of the hit TV show The X-Files. The episode, entitled Duane Barry, features an early appearance of the mysterious Mr. X. As Mulder attaches two strips of tape in the form of an X to his window, the LWOT spine is visible on the FBI agent's bookshelf.

The bulk of the show's nine seasons were filmed in British Columbia, and the primarily Canadian crew often slipped Canadian cultural references into the background, one of the most memorable being a letter bearing a limited release Johnny Canuck stamp.

LWOT's Managing Editor Michael Millbury was a huge fan of the show, and the magazine's brief appearance led him to release the January 1995 issue with the title Lies With Occasional Truth Is Out There. The issue featured work from some of Canada's best science fitcion writers, including Ron T. Cartwright and Oliver Munroe. In an attempt to keep Mulder's collection up to date, X-Files producers were provided with honorary subscriptions to the magazine, but Chris Carter, the show's creator, didn't allow LWOT to reappear, as he felt that it would take away from the running joke about Fox Mulder's penchant for pornography.

Short-lived X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen also makes reference to the legendary fiction magazine. In episode 10, Tango de los Pistoleros, Frohike says to a ranting Byers, "Where did you read that? Lies With Occasional Truth?"