Greetings, Quickbeam here. The Broadcast Film Critics’ Association is hosting a film festival that includes ROTK in their 10 BEST FEST. All you Ringer fans in L.A., click here and follow the instructions if you want to attend the showing tomorrow, Sat. 3 January at 6PM. Check out the other films too! Rumor tells us that ROTK cast/crew might even be there for a live Q&A session (we don’t know for sure who). Put “ROTK” in your email subject line when you request tickets. You may need to be an MSN or Hotmail user to access the above links.
Category: Old Main News
Bridgette writes: I wanted to let you know that Peter Jackson will be live on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Friday, January 9th.
A new documentary explores the real places in Lancashire that inspired The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The county’s lush green hills and woods, and host of wildlife, gave author JRR Tolkien a setting for his famous fictional works. Pendle Hill, in the Ribble Valley, is believed to be at the centre of JRR Tolkien’s mystical world, Middle Earth. [More]
Deborah P. Jacobs writes: We live in a forgiving age. If in recent years we have reconsidered the sins of figures such as Richard Nixon and Marv Albert, the time has certainly come for a reevaluation of Gollum. Sure, it’s hard to cuddle up to someone who tears live fish apart with his fingers, but he’s not all bad. [More]
In the full-court press of postmodern marketing, one might wonder if any event or person or piece of art could possibly live up to its hype. Hard-sell media saturation can boost hopes to the stratosphere only to crash into disappointment when one finally confronts the real thing. [More]
Noelani writes: The first page of today’s Money and Investing section of the Wall Street Journal has two Middle Earth themed headlines: “Markets Provide a Long-Awaited Party” and the subhead for Ahead Of the Tape – Today’s Market Forecast: “A View into the Palantir”. More proof that Tolkien and PJ and co. have created and propagated THE myth for our times.