Actor Sean Astin knows what bipolar disorder can do to a person. His mother, actress Patty Duke, was diagnosed as bipolar in 1982 when she was 35. This was after she’d already suffered a lifetime of inexplicable euphoric highs and rock-bottom lows that characterize bipolar lives. As she once wrote, “I’d cry, it seemed, for years at a time.” Astin was 11 years old when her tantrums and mood swings were finally diagnosed, and now he’s campaigning to raise awareness of the disorder, particularly how friends and family can help diagnose it. “Family members are often times the first to really start to notice the early symptoms of the mania,” Astin says. Astin — whose resume includes “The Goonies,” “Lord of the Rings” and, today, “24” — spoke to amNewYork about bipolar disorder. [More]
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TORONTO (Reuters) – Hard-working hobbits, elves and wizards take the battle of good and evil to a stage in downtown Toronto on Saturday when the curtain rises on the first preview of the multimillion-dollar “Lord of the Rings” musical. The production, drawn from J.R.R. Tolkien’s popular stories, will align theater and a range of musical traditions, including work by Finnish group Varttina and Indian composer A.R. Rahman, to deliver an unprecedented retelling of Tolkien’s fantasy classic, producer Kevin Wallace told Reuters. [More]
More than 10,000 women voted for their pin-ups in a survey in March’s edition of New Woman magazine. The top 100 of which have been posted on independent.co.uk, Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom make the list. Mortensen cracks the top 50 at number 46 while Orlando Bloom almost reaches the top at number 3. Get the entire list here. [More]
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Following our highly successful detour into Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies, this weekend Hall of Fire will explore the relationship between Frodo and Sam. Was it ever a relationship of master and servant, or was it more one of close friendship from the very start? How does it evolve over the course of the Quest? Where do we see Frodo the leader?; where do we see Sam the leader? [More]
The award winning Lord of the Rings Symphony sounds in Germany. On this years May 28th. the Lord of the Rings Symphony is going to sound in the Kölnarena in Cologne, Germany. This is the opportunity for everyone who would like to experience the musical masterpiece of Howard Shore live. This extraordinary concert event provides a wonderful arrangement of the soundtracks from the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. It’s a symphonical journey through the fantastic world of Tolkien’s phantasy-novels. [More]