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Franz Ferdinand are among a host of celebrities donating items to a Scots fundraising auction. The Glasgow group have given a signed guitar to the event, to be held at the city’s Oran Mor venue on Saturday. Scots actors Billy Boyd and Rory McCann have also supported the auction, to help victims of the tsunami. Other donations have come from pop star Kylie Minogue and Bond actor Pierce Brosnan. [More]
Badali Jewelry Specialties, Inc. will have a booth at The One Ring Celebration on January 14-16, 2005. They have created a card of authenticity for their trademarked rings and have sent the following announcement for all ORC attendees. [More]
Badali Jewelry Specialties, Inc. will have a booth at The One Ring Celebration on January 14-16, 2005. They have created a card of authenticity for their trademarked rings and have sent the following announcement for all ORC attendees.
Paul J. Badali, of Badali Jewelry Specialties, Inc., will be signing cards of authenticity for anyone who purchased Lord of the RingsTM jewelry from BJS, Inc. in the past. Just wear your Badali Jewelry One RingTM, NaryaTM, NenyaTM, VilyaTM, Dwarven Ring of PowerTM or your GollumTM Creature Ring to The One Ring Celebration and visit our table in the dealer’s room. Or bring the card of authenticity you received with your jewelry. Paul will be happy to sign cards of authenticity for jewelry purchased at the convention as well.
Despite its immense popularity, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings has long been criticized by feminists who say that there are too few female characters and that those who do exist are most notable for their conventionality. The first charge is irrefutable: there are only three major and six minor feminine roles in the three fat volumes that comprise Rings. Even the numerous horses in the story all seem to be male! [More]
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – New Line Cinema, under the leadership of co-chairmen Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne, couldn’t have begun 2004 on a higher note. Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” the culminating 2003 installment in his magisterial trilogy, amassed $377 million domestically — $86.6 million of that accrued to New Line’s 2004 accounts. More importantly, the movie scored a clean sweep at the Academy Awards, winning all 11 categories in which it was nominated, including best picture. But that left New Line facing a question: What to do for an encore? The studio’s answer was to hunker down, release some movies and begin planning. [More]
