Sylvia writes: For the world wide fans, here is the movie poster at the Cinema Montparnasse in Paris where FOTR is being very well-received. [More]
Day: February 23, 2002
Take a look at the CNN interview transcript from the February 22nd interview with Peter Jackson on ‘American Morning’! [More]
Check out the latest poll at suntimes.com, YOU get to choose the Oscar winners! [More]
Nikki Took: Being hugely disappointed at not being able to fly down to LA to attend the booksigning at Brentano’s (I had to work that day), I had high hopes of reading about an upcoming booksigning in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wrong! PJ and Fran were briefly in town on Tuesday for a special screening. [More]
Cynthia writes: Just wanted to report that I just listened to a 40-minute interview on WNYC in NY with Christopher Lee, full of articulate musings on his career and laced with excerpts from the LOTR score. [More]
Cynthia writes:
Just wanted to report that I just listened to a 40-minute interview on WNYC in NY with Christopher Lee, full of articulate musings on his career and laced with excerpts from the LOTR score. Wasn’t able to tape it, and missed the first 10 minutes, but here are a few tidbits:
He said he “thinks” Peter Jackson is in NY (today is the book signing in Union Square) and that he is going to be seeing him tomorrow (Saturday).
He just had a drink with the opera star Samuel Ramey, a bass whom he admires very much. Interestingly, Lee said he comes from a family of opera singers and studied singing early on. The legendary tenor Jussi Bjoerling heard him singing at a tavern and got him to audition for the Stockholm Opera. He didn’t have the funds to stay in Stockholm and study, so he ended up playing all those wonderful villains and using that voice in a different way.
His great ambition, still unrealized, is to play Merlin.
He belongs to 3 stunt men’s unions by virtue of being a terrific swordsman (his father was an expert in the military) and often used to do his own stunts til he realized it took work away from stunt men.
He will turn 80 on May 27.
He met J. R. R. Tolkien at the Eagle and Child Pub in Oxford once when he was there with friends, and said he “practically knelt” to him.
He spoke very warmly about the courage of New Line in taking on the LOTR films, saying they were “the only company that had the guts” to do it and is “glad they’re being rewarded. They deserve it”.