Jess sends us a small re-cap on the comings and goings of people like Jay Laga’aia, Miranda Otto, David Wenham and Cate Blanchett. [More]
Month: July 2003
Jess writes: I’m sending some info about some of the southern hemisphere’s splendid LotR stars.
Anyone in Sydney in October can catch Jay Laga’aia as Mufasa in the Aussie stage production of The Lion King. Oh, and for anyone who is wondering, you pronounce his last name “Lah-guy-ah”.
Miranda Otto’s new film Danny Deckchair opens in Oz on July 31. It tells the story of Danny, an idealistic cement contractor played by Notting Hill’s Rhys Ifans, who decides to escape his humdrum life by strapping helium balloons to a fold-up chair. After an unscheduled journey across Sydney, Danny lands in the backyard of Glenda, played by Otto.
In the crime-comedy Gettin’ Square, David Wenham plays Johnny “Spit” Spitieri, a crim trying to walk the staright and narrow after getting out of jail, but finds it hard to resist crime, the underworld and all things nefarious on Australia’s glittering Gold Coast. It opens in Oz in October.
This article: “Cate a soft touch for green things” was in Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph a few weeks ago:
Cate Blanchett has handed over a substantial donation to a US environmental group, Forest Guardians. Blanchett made the donation to the New Mexico-based group after filming Ron Howard’s The Missing in the Desert State. “The gift to Forest Guardians is meant both as a token of gratitude for the crew’s tireless contributions and also to help preserve the state’s natural splendour for generations to come” she said. She must have developed a soft spot for those other forest guardians, the Ents, while filming The Lord of the Rings in New Zealand.
Mattforce sends in a small report on the OzzFest concert in California this past week. Seems old Ozzy used a few LOTR scenes and goofed around with them. As anything related to the Osbournes, watch the ****ing language here kiddies. [More]
Even writes: A couple of days ago you ran a small report about Jay Laga’aia being on crutches due to a broken leg sustained during fight scenes on some movie (See Laga’aia’s Broken Leg Woes -Xo). The truth is a bit more mundane. [More]
Even writes:
A couple of days ago you ran a small report about Jay Laga’aia being on crutches due to a broken leg sustained during fight scenes on some movie (See Laga’aia’s Broken Leg Woes -Xo). The truth is a bit more mundane.
He actually dislocated his knee-cap while filming a light-hearted basketball segment for a low-low-low budget TV series here in NZ called “Pulp Sport”. The joke was that Jay was up to go up against one of the stars of the NZ basketball team (“The Tall Blacks”) in a game of one-on-one.
Jay went for a lay-up shot and then just crashed to the ground. The film crew showed a close-up of his knee and you could see the patella (knee-cap) sticking out to one side, clearly not where it was supposed to be.
They carted poor old Jay off in an ambulance. He seemed to be cheerful enough during the whole ordeal, but hey, the guys an actor after all. He must have been in agony.

A supposed authentic report from this site featured the image on the left claiming to be Dementors from the latest Harry Potter films. A little digging brings up the image of the Nazgul on the right…notice the similarities? This is a false image, ‘Photoshopped’ is the term. [More]