From: USAToday.com.
Christopher Lee’s ‘Rings’ quest
British Gothic horror film icon Christopher Lee won’t slow down. The 77-year-old actor will fly to New Zealand in January to appear in the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy. Lee will spend two months playing the white wizard Saruman, who is Gandalf’s (Ian McKellen) mortal enemy and tries to rule Middle Earth and the hobbits. Lee recalls reading the trilogy back in the ’60s, during his days playing Dracula in various Hammer studio films. “I was just beginning as an actor, and I thought, ‘Oh, wouldn’t it be wonderful if this film is made, and wouldn’t it be even more wonderful it I was able to play Saruman?’ ” Lee says by phone from his London home. “Touch wood, I will be. It’s a dream come true.” Lee also plays Pakistan’s founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, in Jinnah (seeking a distributor) and might reprise his role as Duc de Richleau in a much-talked-about remake of 1968’s The Devil Rides Out.
Thanks to Scout for the tip!
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The Hall of Fire is off to a roaring start, with two great chats done already. Check for details on past chats at The Hall of Fire page. Here’s a note from Gamgee about the next meeting, this Saturday, November 27.
What Would Gollum Have Done?
…if he had not fallen into the Cracks of Doom? Would he have put on the Ring and run away? Perhaps would he have eaten Frodo and Sam, or made himself King of Fishessss? Maybe he would have gone crazy and jumped in! There are many possibilities, so join Gamgee, Gandalf, and Pipesmoke, in the Hall of Fire, on Saturday, November 27th, at 3:30 EST to talk this one through. We look forward to hearing what you think, preciousessesss, so join the crowd and speak your mind!
Live in a different timezone? Check the correct time for you here!
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TheOneRing.net is happy to announce something rather cool and new to the site! And just in time for the holidays! Ecards!
Sending a card is easy with TheOneRing.net™’s Greeting Card Center! Just follow the instructions at each step along the way. I also want to let you know that the cards are stored in a non-indexed directory so only you and the recipient will know how to find the card. This directory is also pretty secure from spammers, so send your card knowing you will not end up on any junk list.
After you have completed the card, you will be shown a preview. If you do not like your card, you may edit it and then send it, or just cancel the request. The recipient will receive e-mail advising where to find the card.
So send a card to your friend wishing them Happy Holidays!
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US Ringers can catch Ethan Hawke in the amazing drama ‘Dead Poets Society’. If you really want to see a great film, along with one of the best preformance by Hawke, check out this film. 3:30 EST on Cinemax.
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This is a bit of good news I recieved from Sean van der Meulen:
According to a poll in a dutch newspaper, “de Gooi en Eemlander”, Dutch readers voted Lord of the Rings their number one book of all times, with The Hobbit in at number nine. The number one position was gained by a large majority, and thanks to both younger and older readers voting for Tolkien’s works, one of the only books to do so.
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We’re having an election tomorrow, so I thought I’d mention for the benefit of Kiwis that visit this site, that your vote affects whether movies get made in NZ, whether people write or read (or learn to read, for that matter)
This is part of the “Hard News” article on scoop. I couldn’t see who wrote it.
“It’s not expensive to have a culture. New Zealand On Air’s total wage bill is about $665,000 a year – not much more than Don Brash’s own salary. And our public investments in our own culture tend to pay off.
“Prebble had either the cheek or the ignorance to tell Kim Hill that Peter Jackson bringing in $360m in foreign exchange to make Lord of the Rings showed that the creative industries could stand on their own two feet.
Well, I suppose so. If you don’t count the first four movies that the Film Commission helped him make, or the pervasive roleof NZ On Air in building the kind of skills base that lets you even think about projects like Lord of the Rings – or Xena, WarriorPrincess, for that matter. Similarly, there’d have been no ‘How
Bizarre’ as a worldwide hit without the Otara Music and Arts Centre.
What I really like about Labour’s Arts Policy is that it’s written like an industry policy – indeed, it’s explicitly linkedto Labour’s industry development policy. There are contestable Arts Capital grants, short-term artists’ allowances at the level of the dole to get businesses rolling. And there are local content broadcast quotas. It is coherent and it will pay off.”
See the whole thing here
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