David Lenander writes: SUNDAY, Sept. 25, the Rivendell Group of The Mythopoeic Society and The Minnesota Tolkien Society will assemble at the home of Margaret Gates to celebrate the birthdays of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins. This is the same home that we’ve celebrated the party at for some years–but this year we will have to celebrate without host Richard (Dick) Gates, who died last month. I suggested moving the party, but Margaret (my mother) felt that it would be good for her to keep to this tradition, and remembered that Richard always enjoyed having the Hobbit partiers visit his home. [More]
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Karl Urban rumoured for James Bond screentest in latest net hype. The latest IGN rumour round-up throws a new name in to the ring: Karl Urban. According to the site, Karl Urban is now said to be a serioius contender after “The Final Four”. Urban was cast in the second Jason Bourne film as an assassin. While darkly handsome, he’s a bit elfish-looking for Bond according to IGN. [More]
TORONTO — A greeting fit for rock stars awaited the cast of Cameron Crowe’s latest film Elizabethtown at the Toronto International Film Festival. Hundreds of screaming fans had waited for up to 14 hours to secure their spot along the red carpet when the film had its North American premiere Saturday night. [More]
Cate Blanchett will make her directorial debut during the Sydney Theatre Company’s season next year. The Oscar-winning star has agreed to direct a theatre double-bill with her scriptwriter husband, Andrew Upton, who will also debut as a director. Blanchett will direct A Kind Of Alaska, a play by Harold Pinter about a woman who awakes from a 29-year coma convinced she is 16. [More]
Images of Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom at the Toronto International Film Festival have popped up online. Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean and Ian McKellen are also slated to make appearances. Can you say LOTR reunion party? [More]
His star sure hasn’t faded. Not yet, at least. Which can only mean the screams for Orlando Bloom’s red-carpet entrance at the Elizabethtown gala screening at Roy Thomson Hall tonight will be as loud and intense as ever. Bloom will attend the Toronto International Film Festival premiere with writer/director Cameron Crowe and actress Kirsten Dunst. But most of the teen-crush yelping will be reserved for Bloom, who’s bound to get lots of attention tomorrow night as well, when he drops by the Kate Hudson-hosted One X One charity benefit at the Distillery District. [More]