Today is Viggo Mortensen’s Birthday! Viggo was born on October 20th, 1958 in Manhattan, New York. That makes him 48 years old today! Happy Birthday Viggo!
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Canadian composer extraordinaire Howard Shore turns 60 today! Shore, who composed the Academy Award winning LOTR Trilogy score was born on October 18th, 1946 in Toronto, Canada. Happy Birthday Howard!!
Dominic Monaghan’s hit sci-fi/fantasy show ‘Lost’ is on tonight! Be sure to catch it on ABC! TORN’s chatroom now has a special ‘Lost’ screening room, login to #lost at 9PM and watch with fans from around the country! [TORN CHAT]
Primula Baggins writes: Wow, I had SUCH a wonderful time and wish to add my thanks to Marcie for hosting the event in her lovely home. The Valar must have smiled on us, because the heavy rain predicted for the Los Angeles area on Saturday October 14th never materialized! Greeting arrivals in the living room was Kristi’s life-sized Gollum statue, sporting an elegant new “Wizard” ensemble in sable and blue that matched his eyes perfectly. The kitchen table was filled with great snacks and desserts, and in the backyard Rohtireth had set up a large tent decorated with wall-sized cloth banners of Rohan design and sparkly lights. Charming! [More]
From Variety: MGM’s recent announcement that it intended to release “The Hobbit” and, hopefully, get Peter Jackson to direct it, caused major buzz in Hollywood. It also caused a frenzy among Jackson fans, who have been lobbying via petition on the fansite TheOneRing.net for Jackson to tackle the “Lord of the Rings” prequel ASAP. The petition tallied nearly 50,000 signatures and was submitted to MGM and New Line, which share film rights to “The Hobbit.” (MGM owns distribution rights; New Line owns the rights to actually make the movie.) [More]
ROME (AP) – October 17, 2006 – For Viggo Mortensen, it’s loyalty to friends – not to flag or country – that keeps soldiers on the battlefield, as depicted by his character in the film “Alatriste” about a soldier in 17th century Spain. “Alatriste is not really fighting for his king, but for his friends,” the 47-year-old actor said Monday before presenting the movie at the Rome Film Festival. “There’s a sense of honor and pride, some of them, of course, fight for their countries, but for some, first comes friendship, the people you’re there with,” Mortensen said, going as far as to compare his character, an aloof and loyal hero to “the American, Italian or even Spanish soldiers who fight in Iraq.” [More]