From IMDB: At least 75 percent of New Line’s staff of 600 are likely to be fired in the coming months despite assurances by Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes on Friday that he wants to retain as many New Line employees as possible, Daily Variety reported today (Monday), citing an “emerging consensus.” The trade publication said that New Line is also expected to shut down its offices in New York and its headquarters in West Hollywood, moving remaining operations to the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. Speaking to New Line employees by satellite on Friday, Bewkes said that Co-Chairmen Bob Shaye and Michael Lynn are “still here,” but “for everyone’s sake, they need to step back from the process.”
Month: March 2008
Dominic Monaghan will be a guest on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ on March 12th. The Tonight Show airs on NBC at 11:35PM EST. Keeping with former cast members of Peter Jackson Films, Naomi Watts will be on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ on March 11th on ABC. Set those TiVos!
Claire writes: Billy Boyd is starring in a new series on BBC4 called “Empty”. It’s about “Jacky and Tony …just two ordinary guys, spending their days rummaging through the empty flats of people who have departed.” There are more details on the BBC website. You can see the first episode on the BBC iPlayer site for the next five days. The rest of the series should be available on BBC iPlayer for seven days after each transmission (Thursdays at 10.00pm GMT).
(Or Mountains and Molehills of the Mind)
John Howe writes: The other day, walking outdoors was like stepping into a picture. The lake and precocious moon were by Aivasovsky. Not turbulent enough to try as a Turner, but there was a hint of mist courtesy of Caspar David Friedrich. The woods nearby by Klimt, trees and fields below by Corot. A patch of sun by Bieler, a patch of grass by Durer. Mountains by Calame or l’Eplattenier in the distance. In Switzerland, they are never far away, mountains. On a good day, I can see them out the studio window (if they’re sharp, popular wisdom says the weather will turn bad, but there’s no such thing as bad weather, just a switch of painters and palettes.) From our place, it’s a hop, skip and jump, at least in fancy, across the lake and the plateau to the Alps. Remote enough to be a backdrop, sometimes startlingly clear or often near-invisible in the mist and cloud, they are only an hour and a bit by car, but far enough to be more routinely ideas of mountains than looming lumps of vertical rock (which do have a tendancy to tumble down on highways and railways, given that Switzerland’s mountains are very lived-in.) [More]
Contemporary composer Johan de Meij’s The Lord of the Rings Symphony is the centerpiece of the Knoxville Wind Symphony’s “Storm of Sauron!” concert at 8 p.m. Monday, March 3, at the Tennessee Theatre. The Dutch composer debuted his Symphony No. 1, best known as The Lord of the Rings Symphony, in 1988. It was winner of the 1989 Sudler Composition Award. The piece is in five movements, each inspired by a character or episode from the J.R.R. Tolkien novel “The Lord of the Rings.” Wind symphony performs ‘Lord of the Rings’ piece
Aragorn by Ainu Laire
Ringer board member and artist, Ainu Laire, was kind enough to point out that today is Aragorn’s official birthday:
“Aragorn is one of the few Tolkien characters to be actually granted a date of birth and not just a year. He was born on March 1st, 2931 of the Third Age to Arathorn and Gilraen. At two years old, his father was slain by an orc-arrow that pierced his eye and he died at the age of sixty. Gilraen took her child to Rivendell, and Elrond took the place of his father and loved him as if he were his own. In this house his lineage was kept secret from him, and he was called Estel, which means ‘hope’ in the Elven tongue. “
Ainu Laire has posted a complete history on our boards, as well as some links to their wonderful artwork (featured in this post). Please check out the full post! [Read More]