Viggo Mortensen will be a guest on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ on Wednesday, September 12th. He is there to promote his latest film ‘Eastern Promises’, a new thriller again directed by David Cronenberg, who worked with Mortensen on ‘A History of Violence’. ‘The Late Show’ airs on CBS at 11:35PM Eastern. ‘Eastern Promises’ is set to be released on September 14th.
Category: Old Main News
A Poole bungalow once the home of JRR Tolkien is to be demolished. The bungalow in Lakeside Road was where Tolkien retired with his wife Edith in 1968 after his two best-known works, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, had already made him famous. An application by Cranbrook Homes (Southern) Ltd for outline planning permission for two four-bed family homes on the site breezed through planning at Poole council on Monday. James Dean, director of Cranbrook Homes said he was not aware of the building’s history. He said: “It’s going to be replaced with two superb contemporary houses. In the light of what you’ve just told me, perhaps one of them should be called Tolkien.” [More]
The first children’s picture book to be illustrated by artists from the award-winning Weta Workshop is due to be launched in September, New Zealand Book Month. Featuring a little rescue helicopter, Champ the Chopper is the first book in a series written by local author Rebekah Palmer with the illustrations done by artists from Weta Workshop, Daniel Falconer and Chris Guise. [More]
TheOneRing.net and dragonworld.tv present The KNIGHT QUEST Contest! Win 2 tickets to participate as an audience member in the first episode of our new medieval-combat based reality TV series! The Tournament will consist of our Masters of Horse, Lance, Bow, Sword and Shield entertaining you with a demonstration of the chivalric martial arts, and you will also get to meet the Cast of our reality series on the very first day they begin their Quest to become a Knight. [CLICK HERE TO ENTER]
TORN Staffer Arwen writes: A fan emailed me to let me know that The Charlie Rose Show has put on YouTube about 3,200 interviews Charlie Rose did, including 2 with Peter Jackson (about an hour long each). To view the videos, go to youtube and search under “charlie rose-peter jackson”. [YouTube]
Pipkin Sweetgrass writes: Could you please run a reminder that the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is upon us and the gulf coast is still a mess, but the Billy Boyd’s Loons Charities cookbook Recipes for Disaster is still available and all profits are still given to the Red Cross for victims of natural disaster…? [More]