Heather Graham, James Purefoy and Andy Serkis have been tapped to star in the independent feature “Samantha’s Child.” The film is being directed by English commercial director Simon Fellows and is being produced by Brad Wyman, Donald Kushner and Andrew Stevens. David Hemmings also was working on the film when he died unexpectedly Wednesday. [More]

Deirdre J writes: I’m just sending you an announcement of a party for young people, to be held at the North Castle public library in Armonk, New York next Friday afternoon. [More]

Deirdre J writes: I’m just sending you an announcement of a party for young people, to be held at the North Castle public library in Armonk, New York next Friday afternoon. (December 12th, 4:00 PM) I am appending an attachment of the flier (it’s an MS word file – hope you get it OK!) There’s also info. about the party on the Mount Kisco library web site. From the main site, mountkiscolibrary.org, click on either teens or kids at the left, then on “programs,” (kids page) or scroll down a little and click on the green dragon (teens page).

In case you don’t get the attachment, here’s the info.

Tolkien celebration at the North Castle Library,
Friday, December 12th, 4 PM.
For Students from 9-14 years old.
Space limited, registration required.
Call (914) 273-3887 or (914) 666-8041 to sign up.

D.C. resident Kyra Mairead Gorski, 21, founded a “Lord of the Rings” fan group on the Internet called the District of Dark Whispers, whose members live around the world. [More]

Hobbit Dan writes: There is a minutes long video regarding the character of Samwise on the official website now. It will take a little long to download but it’s worth it. There’s a long clip from ROTK that shows Sam and Frodo discussing Gollum that I haven’t seen before. [More]

Silmarien Patricia writes: The Extended Versions of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers will be shown from today (December 4th) until December 11th exclusively at the Millenium Alvalaxia cinemas in Lisbon. [More]