Mark writes: The BBC are conducting a poll into the best film to win the best picture Oscar in the last 10 years. [More]
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It’s Thursday on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, and “Lost” star Dominic Monaghan has a day off, but he’s hardly kicking back by the pool. “I have my parents in town right now,” he says. “I’m running around getting things done while they’re in the post office getting postcards right now.” Asked if he’s the son of the year because teacher Austin and nurse Maureen Monaghan are getting to spend the Christmas season in paradise, Monaghan says, “I’m trying. Although my brother lives in Costa Rica, and they’ve always been used to their sons being in far-flung places. They get good air miles now.” [More]
Andres writes: Once again Howard Shore’s wonderful LOTR Symphony did not disappoint this fan! I, and a sold out audience in the beautiful Severance Hall in Cleveland were transported back to Middle-Earth in grand fashion. First of all Saturday’s concert, 2/11 marked the 90th performance of this wonderful Symphony that has been heard at concert halls all around the world- from New Zealand to Great Britain, across Europe, in Japan, and throughout the United States. And The Cleveland Orchestra, which stands today among the world’s most revered symphonic ensembles, did this city proud! [More]
BERLIN (AFP) – British actor and gay activist Ian McKellen accepted a Golden Bear lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival and said he was still a rare exception as an openly homosexual star. McKellen, 66, said that while the success of the Oscar-nominated gay cowboy movie “Brokeback Mountain” might open the door to more pictures on the subject of homosexuality, the industry had rigid ideas about leading men. “It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she’s lesbian. It’s very distressing to me that that should be the case,” he told a news conference. [More]
Be sure to tune into FOX tonight at 9PM EST to catch a new episode of “24” with Sean Astin. Sean has joined the cast of the hit show in it’s fifth season, he plays a savvy government agent who has taken control of ‘CTU’ the Counter Terrorism Unit.
British conductor and choral director Terry Edwards was rushed to hospital after suffering a heart problem during a performance in the eastern French city of Lyon, emergency services say. Edwards, in his 60s, was taken ill just 10 minutes into the performance of the Lord of the Rings symphony from the successful film series, at Lyon’s Halle Tony-Garnier. He was said to be in serious condition overnight. [More]