A movie will be made about Norway High School’s baseball team and its championship season. Production on “The Final Season” will begin in May. Filming will take place in Cedar Rapids, Norway and Marshalltown. The movie will star Sean Astin of “Rudy” and “The Lord of the Rings” movies, Sam Elliott and Katherine Ross. Astin will play Kent Stock, the head coach for the 1991 season. Stock took over as baseball coach during the championship season. [More]
Month: March 2005
Dominic Monaghan’s latest film ‘Shooting Livien’ will make its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas later this month. The film is described as; ‘A dark psychological drama, Shooting Livien explores the inner psyche of John Livien, a disillusioned New York musician who deals with a childhood trauma by claiming an alter ego. His band on the brink of success, fantasy becomes dangerously blurred with reality as Livien struggles with his identity crisis.’ The premiere will take place on Monday March 14th, at 500 East Cesar Chavez Street. Additional screenings will take place at the Alamo Downtown on the 16th and again on the 19th. [sxsw.com]
The Illinois Central College English Department will host “The Lord of the Rings at 50,” a discussion of J.R.R. Tolkien and his masterpiece on Tuesday, March 29, at 7:00pm at the ICC Performing Arts Center, East Peoria. The discussion will be moderated by ICC professor and Tolkien Society representative Mike Foster and will feature two award-winning Tolkien scholars, Tom Shippey and Douglas A. Anderson. [More]
Turgon writes: For World Book Day (March 3rd), the Independent (UK) invited 100 “leading lights of British letters” to name the characters who give them the most reading pleasure. One writer picked Tolkien’s Gandalf:
Gandalf chosen by Mary Hoffman (Stravaganza City of Flowers)
JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings boasts the best white wizard in fiction – not morally ambiguous or neutral like Merlin, but not infallible either. Always wise when present and strangely comforting even when predicting doom and destruction.
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Many ORC attendees have responded, but we hope to get a lot more feedback to improve for our next One Ring Celebration event! Please fill out our ORC Satisfaction Survey for the One Ring Celebration that took place Jan 14th-16th 2005. If you attended this event, please give us your feedback. It should only allow about 10 minutes to fill out. [Click Here]
MrCere writes: TheOneRing.net will take orders for TORn polo shirts through THIS Friday and then stop production. These shirts have always been made as ordered by you and we JUST received a shipment so if you are waiting for your shirt, mail is on the way. After Friday’s deadline we will submit our final polo order and the door will close on this item. [More]