Ann sends in word that Elijah Wood will be a guest voice on ‘King of the Hill’ this season: The episode is called “Girl, You’ll Be a Giant Soon”, and if new episodes are aired every Sunday night, this one should be shown on April 18. It is episode 19 of Season 8: “Hank and Luanne protest a no-propane rule at the Texas State Fair Grill-Off, but campus radicals take over the protest and turn it into an anti-globalization rally.”
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MILWAUKEE To complete the ultimate quest of “The Lord of the Rings,” Carl Hostetter has left his home in Maryland to navigate roaring rivers and cross vast plains — all to stride bravely through looming masoned gates in search of a nearly hidden glass door. [More]
Cat writes: Even Classic TV has been influenced by The Lord of the Rings. On the 2004 TV Land Awards show, there were two references to LOTR. During the acceptance speech for the Pop Culture award for Gilligan’s Island, the Professor (Russell Johnson) stepped up and said, ‘I’d like to thank the people of New Zealand!’ Later in the broadcast, host Brad Garrett said, ‘If you’re just tuning in, The Lord of the Rings has just beaten McMillan and Wife.’
Dundee Contemporary Arts and macrobert Stirling announced last week the creation of DISCOVERY: Scotland’s First International Film Festival for Children and Young People at DCA. Running from 5 – 19 September 2004 the festival will be based in Dundee and Stirling before touring to venues around Scotland. [More] Thanks to Katia for the heads up!
Ringer Spy Becky writes: I saw the picture of the Treebeard cake a few weeks ago, and thought you might like to see a picture of my Hobbit Hole Cake. My former college roommate and I made it for a birthday party I hosted in September…it was a joint birthday party for my roommate, Bilbo, and Frodo. [More]
Brandon from boxofficemojo.com writes: ‘Return of the King’s worldwide total rose to $1,082,248,739 over the weekend. In China and Egypt, ‘ROTK’ topped ‘Fellowship of the Ring’s final gross to become No. 1 of the trilogy in each of those countries. So far, ‘ROTK’ has out-grossed ‘FOTR’ and ‘Two Towers’ in 52 out of 61 territories. [More]