Congrats to Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh for winning the ‘Moonlight Projects AFI Award’ last night at the Australian Film Institute’s award show. [AFI.org.au]
Day: October 31, 2004
Today is Peter Jackson’s Birthday! Peter was born on Haloween 1961 in Pukerua Bay, New Zealand. That makes him 43 today! Happy Birthday Peter!!
In celebration of the Lord of the Rings 50th anniversary, Ted Nasmith presents slides of his paintings from the new edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s prequel to the trilogy. Nasmith was commissioned for twenty-six new paintings. He will be at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, TX today (Oct 31st). Nasmith will be joined by Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey at this event.
Melissa writes: I just wanted to let you know that a friend of mine, who knows I am a big LOTR fan, called to say that Viggo made a last-minute surprise appearance at a Michael Moore rally in Columbus, Ohio tonight (October 30th). [More]