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>From: C-reuters@clari.net (Reuters)
>Newsgroups: clari.world.oceania.australia
>Subject: X-Files star Anderson in close encounter with fans
>Organization: Copyright 1996 by Reuters
>Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 22:30:08 PDT

  	  				 
	 CANBERRA, June 29 (Reuter) - Two people were rushed to  
hospital and dozens more treated for hyperventilation after more 
than 10,000 people showed up to see ``The X Files'' star Gillian 
Anderson at a suburban shopping centre in Melbourne on Friday. 
	 Anderson, who plays FBI agent Dana Scully in the popular  
television series, appealed to the crowd to be careful as it 
surged forward after she appeared on stage. 
	 ``Be careful of each other, you don't want to make a bad  
impression on Scully, do you?'' she said as the centre's 22 
security staff struggled with the crowd, the Age newspaper said. 
	 Anderson, who is on a promotional tour of Australia for  
entertainment groups Foxtel and Twentieth Century Fox, was at 
the centre to sign copies of a new X Files video. 
	 Organisers said they underestimated Anderson's popularity  
and did not expect the legion of fans, so-called X-philes. 
	 ``We knew that she was going to be popular but I don't think  
anyone envisaged she would have drawn such a crowd,'' said the 
Southland's shopping centre manager John Gilbert. 
	 Anderson's appearance was cut short for fear of serious  
injury to the fans. 
	 ``I've not experienced anything like it,'' Anderson later  
told the Herald Sun newspaper. 
	 ``I've never made a mall appearance before, so I really had  
no point of reference. When I did the (X Files) convention in 
the States we had about 3,000, but that was all the place could 
hold. 
	 ``The welcome here has been overwhelming, absolutely  
incredible,'' she said. 
	 An extra 14 security guards and 22 police were ordered in to  
deal with an expected crowd of 15,000 at an appearance by 
Anderson in Sydney on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the Westfield 
Miranda shopping centre said. 
  	   	

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