Best Friends Animal Society is conducting a silent auction to benefit their Los Angeles Programs that provide adoption, spay/neuter and educational programs. You can bid on tickets to the World Premiere of “Elizabethtown”, a romantic comedy directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst in October 2005, including the premiere party. Best Friends Animal Society is working with animal lovers, shelters and rescue groups nationwide to bring about a time when there will be no more homeless pets. Best Friends operates the nations largest sanctuary for homeless animals; provides adoption, spay/neuter, and educational programs; and publishes Best Friends, the nations largest general-interest animal magazine. Kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us. [Bid]

Peter S. Beagle’s novel THE LAST UNICORN is recognized as one of the all-time classics of fantasy, but it has never been available in an unabridged audiobook edition. Even more exciting is the news that Peter has finally — after 37 years — returned to this rare world of his imagination, penning a 64-page story called TWO HEARTS that is both sequel and coda to THE LAST UNICORN. [More]

Two films out on DVD today include Sean Bean’s fun ‘National Treasure’ and John Rhys-Davies laughable ‘Chupacabra Terror’. Take a look! [More]

Bloom on USA Weekend Orlandomination continues this week leading up to the release of his first film as a leading-man, ‘Kingdom of Heaven’. Take a look at the cover of USA Weekend featuring Bloom. [More]

Be sure to check Bloom out on TV shows coast to coast this week:

May 4th: ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ (CBS) 11:35PM EST
May 4th: ‘MTV’s Total Request Live’ (MTV) (check local listings)
May 5th: ‘Regis and Kelly’ (check local listings)
May 5th: ‘The Late Late Show with Conan O’Brien’ (NBC) 12:35AM EST

Elf Fantasy Fair 2005 Images Gallery II Sytske writes: An additional selection of the LOTR costumes at the Elf Fantasy Fair 2005. There were some very beautiful, but there was not always room to take a picture in the crowd, so I can’t send you the best Eowyn Shieldmaiden costume I ever saw, or the very beautiful Galadriels Grey Havens costume, nor the dog dressed as a dragon. I hope other people send those in and many others. [More]

Take a look at Gallery I here! [More]

Costume Institute Gala Images New York, May 2 – Hey nerds, if you had saved up $5,000 for a ticket to the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute gala instead of standing outside of Grauman’s Chinese Theater for the past month, waiting for the new “Star Wars” movie to open, you would have been able to meet both “Sith” star Hayden Christensen and LOTR’s Elijah Wood. [More]