Or Empires Within, Empires Without
Yes, I realize the title sounds like the name of a lacrosse team (but it’s only to insure that my compatriots read this.) Nevertheless…
A summer ago, I spent a few days in Toronto giving a little talk at IdeaCity and shooting a television program. Being in Toronto was akin to going back to a place one has never been before, one of those reassuring and slightly troubling moments where you realize that (of course) the superficiality of familiarity is enough to enhance any strange city, as long as you have some tenuous link (in this case, the entire population fiddling with their BlackBerries while walking.) So, in a way, back in a Canada to which I’d never been. Which, as it turns out, was very a propos…
In Queen’s Park*, on the way from the hotel farther downtown towards the Royal Ontario Museum, stand the Ontario Parliament Buildings. My hurried strides, and the most promising-looking shortcut on my free city map, carried me past there. Something about them was so unsettling, otherworldly and fascinating that I returned and spent two afternoons in their company. John Howe’s Journal: CANADIAN CELTICS
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WESTWOOD, MA – January 16, 2008 – Turbine, Inc. announced today that The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ was named one of the Top 50 games of 2007 by Game Informer Magazine, the world’s largest video game magazine dedicated to console, handheld, and PC gaming. Continue reading “LOTR Online Lauded by Game Magazines & Websites”
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Anthony sends along word that tickets are now available for purchase for ‘Day Zero’ in New York. [MovieTickets.com]
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The 2007 nominations for the eighth annual Whatsonstage.com Theatregoer’s Choice Awards, announced at a star-studded event at Café de Paris in London’s West End, included 7 nominations for The Lord of the Rings, now playing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London. The Theatregoer’s Choice Awards is the only major theatre prize-giving decided by the public, so guess what? If you’ve seen the production, vote now! [Learn More] [Vote]
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Apocalypse, here we come. Pittsburgh has landed “The Road,” a big-screen adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy best-seller of the same name that will star Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and a young Australian actor named Kodi Smit-McPhee. 2929 Entertainment, which is producing the movie, and the Pittsburgh Film Office yesterday confirmed rumors “The Road” will shoot in Southwestern Pennsylvania for eight weeks starting in late February to take advantage of the cold and snow. The film also will spend a week in Louisiana and a week in Oregon. [Read More]
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