BEVERLY HILLS (California) Feb 10 – “Lord of the Rings” mastermind Peter Jackson said Monday he was thrilled that his last hobbit movie is leading the Oscars race, but disappointed that its star Sean Astin was not nominated. The 42-year-old best director-nominee said he was delighted that the last episode in his film trilogy “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” was vying for 11 Oscars when the awards are handed out later this month. “As a filmmaker you make films and obviously it’s not about awards, but I think (an Oscar) would be an incredible honour that you will never have again,” the New Zealander told journalists at a luncheon for Academy Award nominees. [More]
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The Lord of the Rings finale The Return of the King has become the third most successful film of all time. Peter Jackson’s epic has now made $942.7m (£517.9m) worldwide, and is expected to pass the $1bn mark after it is released in Japan on 14 February. [More]
Jill writes: I thought you might enjoy the following which has appeared on a conference website, as a guide to scientists planning to submit an abstract for an international atmospheric chemistry conference to be held in Christchurch in September. [More]
And some people like to think of scientists as a humourless bunch…
After recently finishing up his theatre run in Australia, Ian McKellen is back in the US and on ‘The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn’ Tonight. Be sure to get plenty of coffee and skittles tonight as you will have to stay up until 12:35AM for this show. [More]
(CP) – Composer Howard Shore is writing more music for the Lord of the Rings but knows his love affair with Middle Earth must end. “It’s still a work in progress. This morning I was writing music for the extended version of Return of the King,” he said backstage after winning his Grammy for best score on Sunday. “It’s really bittersweet because we’ve worked on it for so long and so hard, with great collaboration and true friendship. The Lord of the Rings is also our story. I felt like Frodo in the beginning.” [more]
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PippinSkywalker writes: There is in every tale a beginning and end. To make any story complete however, it is necessary and indeed it is impossible not to have a middle. The middle of a story is the child of the beginning and the father of the end and so in this way carries great weight in itself. This tale that follows as well as the next can readily be documented as the middle of my adventures. [More]