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Tony Z writes: Just thought that you folks might want to know that there is a national organizational “BookPALS” that has actors read to school kids. SAG (Screen Actors Guild) is involved in the organization, and Sean Astin (Sam) picked one of his daughter’s favorite stories to read on the site. [More]

Tony Z writes: Just thought that you folks might want to know that there is a national organizational “BookPALS” that has actors read to school kids. SAG (Screen Actors Guild) is involved in the organization, and Sean Astin picked one of his daughter’s favorite stories to read on the site. The link below is to the site’s new “Storyline” section of the site. On that page you’ll find a link on the left side of the page to the video where Sean reads the story “A Bad Case of Stripes.” So for all you ring fans you can have Sean read you’re kids a very cute story! [More]

Laurelinda sends in this great report from Comic-Con 2002, Lawrence, Sala, TORN, WETA and more! [More]

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