To get more information, use the sites I use like the ones below. Simply find a movie or actor you want to see, go to one of the sites below and see if the film is playing in your area.
28 Days (2000) UK Walk on the Moon, A (1999) UK Albino Alligator (1996) Crimson Tide (1995) Crew, The (1994) American Yakuza (1994) Carlito’s Way (1993) UK Young Americans, The (1993) Young Guns II (1990)
Liv Tyler (Arwen)
Plunkett & Macleane (1999) UK Onegin (1999) UK Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Ian Holm (Bilbo)
Last of the Blonde Bombshells, The (2000) (TV) Joe Gould’s Secret (2000) Beautiful Joe (2000) eXistenZ (1999) UK Simon Magus (1999/I) UK Match, The (1999) UK Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998) (TV) King Lear (1997) (TV) UK Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) Loch Ness (1995) Frankenstein (1994) Madness of King George, The (1994) UK Hamlet (1990) UK Dance with a Stranger (1985) UK Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) UK Chariots of Fire (1981) UK Time Bandits (1981) UK Alien (1979) UK Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Sean Bean (Boromir)
Don’t Say a Word (2001) Anna Karenina (1997) Black Beauty (1994) Stormy Monday (1988) Caravaggio (1986) UK
Martyn Sanderson (Bree Gatekeeper)
Ned Kelly (1970)
David Weatherley (Barliman Butterbur)
“Potato Factory, The” (2000) (mini)
John Noble (Denethor)
Airtight (1999) (TV) UK
Peter Mackenzie (Elendil)
Chill Factor (1999) UK Speechless (1994) UK Lorenzo’s Oil (1992) Off Limits (1988)
Karl Urban (Eomer)
Price of Milk, The (2000)
Hugo Weaving (Elrond)
Strange Planet (1999) Babe (1995) UK
Miranda Otto (Eowyn)
What Lies Beneath (2000) Jack Bull, The (1999) (TV) UK Love Serenade (1996)
David Wenham (Faramir)
Moulin Rouge! (2001) Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) Little Bit of Soul, A (1998) Cosi (1996)
Cameron Rhodes (Farmer Maggot)
Absent Without Leave (1992) UK
Elijah Wood (Frodo)
Black and White (1999) Ice Storm, The (1997) North (1994) Good Son, The (1993) UK Radio Flyer (1992) Forever Young (1992) Paradise (1991) Internal Affairs (1990) Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel)
Gift, The (2000) UK Man Who Cried, The (2000) Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) UK Pushing Tin (1999) UK
Ian McKellen (Gandalf)
X-Men (2000) UK Apt Pupil (1998) UK Gods and Monsters (1998) UK Bent (1997) Cold Comfort Farm (1995) (TV) Jack and Sarah (1995) UK Restoration (1995) Richard III (1995) Scandal (1989) UK Windmills of the Gods (1988) (TV) Alfred the Great (1969) UK
Secret of the Andes (1998) UK Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) (V) UK Great White Hype, The (1996) Cyborg Cop (1994) Sunset Grill (1993) Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing (1992) (TV) Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1982) UK Victor/Victoria (1982) Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A (1979) UK
Price of Milk, The (2000) Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Orlando Bloom (Legolas)
Wilde (1997)
Ray Henwood (Man At Council)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Dominic Monaghan (Merry)
Hostile Waters (1997) (TV)
Bruce Spence (Mouth of Sauron)
Rikky and Pete (1988) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) UK Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) UK
Sean Astin (Sam)
Sky Is Falling, The (2000) Icebreaker (1999) Deterrence (1999) UK Dish Dogs (1998) Courage Under Fire (1996) Encino Man (1992) UK Toy Soldiers (1991) Staying Together (1989) War of the Roses, The (1989) UK White Water Summer (1987) Goonies, The (1985)
Christopher Lee (Saruman)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) UK Jinnah (1998) UK Moses (1996) (TV) Stupids, The (1996) UK Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Last Unicorn, The (1982) Safari 3000 (1982) Arabian Adventure (1979) Return from Witch Mountain (1978) Satanic Rites of Dracula, The (1974) Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974) UK Four Musketeers, The (1974) Three Musketeers, The (1973) UK Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) UK Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) UK
Brian Sergent (Ted Sandyman)
Absent Without Leave (1992) UK
Bernard Hill (Theoden)
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999) UK Loss of Sexual Innocence, The (1999) UK Titanic (1997) Shirley Valentine (1989) UK Gandhi (1982) UK
Brad Dourif (Wormtongue)
Ghost, The (2000) Storytellers, The (1999) UK Best Men (1997) UK Death Machine (1995) Murder in the First (1995) Color of Night (1994) Amos & Andrew (1993) Body Parts (1991) UK Hidden Agenda (1990) Exorcist III, The (1990) Dune (1984) UK
Jim Rygiel (SFX)
102 Dalmatians (2000) Anna and the King (1999) Starship Troopers (1997) Multiplicity (1996) Batman Returns (1992) Ghost (1990) Last Starfighter, The (1984)
Howard Shore (Composer)
Score, The (2001) High Fidelity (2000) Cell, The (2000) Yards, The (2000) Dogma (1999) eXistenZ (1999) Analyze This (1999) Game, The (1997) White Man’s Burden (1995) Client, The (1994) Nobody’s Fool (1994) M. Butterfly (1993) Sliver (1993) Guilty as Sin (1993) Prelude to a Kiss (1992) Kiss Before Dying, A (1991) Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) Postcards from the Edge (1990) She-Devil (1989) Signs of Life (1989) Fly, The (1986) After Hours (1985) Places in the Heart (1984) Scanners (1981)
When I fist called Paul Badali of Badali Jewelry with the idea of making a pin for the Oscar nominees, I never thought in my wildest dreams we’d see them wearing the pins live on television.
During our Oscar party Randy Cook walked up to me and apologized for not wearing his pin, saying that he was extremely nervous for the Oscars and forgot about it on his hotel dresser. Jan Blenkin, Peter Jackson’s personal assistant rushed up to me just before getting into her limo and begged me for a pin, I of course obliged (I hope you get yours soon Jan!).
Many people have been asking how, when and where these lovely pins were made, so Paul Badali send us this in-depth description.
Here are some of the missing details. When you contacted me, you asked that the leaf be more of an oval shape than a “T”, with a small stem at the base, with gold and light green colors rather than dark green, with the inscription “Good Luck from TheOneRing.net”
I have been planning to design and offer an Elvish leaf broach for quite a while like the one The Fellowship received from Galadriel and the Elves upon leaving Lothlorien. In researching Tolkien’s description of the broach, I found it described as a “brooch like a green leaf veined with silver” and the best described when Legolas, Gimli and Aragorn discover the broach dropped by Pippin in the grass as “like the new-opened leaf of a beech tree – the brooch of an elven cloak”. The European Beech leaf is an oval shape and new-opened leaves are of a light green color. So this is the type of leaf I used in designing the clip for the Academy Awards; the European Beech.
I was able to print of the Logo you use for TheOneRing.net off your website, and sketch that into the design on the leaf. Once I had the entire leaf design and script drawn up to my satisfaction, and correctly sized, I had the design photo-etched into copper. The 3 dimensional but flat design was cut out of the copper sheet, and then molded in silicone rubber. Waxes injected into the rubber mold were then bent into the curved shape of the leaf. Separately, I had the “copyright” info. and “limited edition” info photo-etched into copper, molded, and injected in wax. The wax leaf and wax parts with the writing for the back were then all assembled into 4 complete wax originals. I cast 4 originals, so we could use the best of the 4 to create a final silicone rubber production mold. Waxes were then injected into this final original mold, and each piece hand numbered in the wax starting with 001 up to 36; the total number of raw castings made up so far. Four of these first 36 cast in silver were rejects; so 32 were available to have the clip soldered onto the back, get polished, and be finished with the colors applied to the front. I will be recasting the 4 reject numbers, and more leaf clips up to 100; the total number this edition is limited to.
We are using a high-tech epoxy based enameling system called DurEnamel to put the beautiful colors onto the front. Rather than high temperature melting of glass (enamel) onto the front of the brooch, DurEnamel mixes up like epoxy and only requires 150 degrees for 2 – 3 hours in an oven to cure to a glass-like finish and hardness. The green in the leaves was done in 4 steps starting with the darkest green colors along the veins first, and finishing up with the lightest transparent green last. The final coat was the gold DurEnamel in the letters. All of the colors were custom mixed to achieve the desired results.
20 finished clips were shipped to TheOneRing.net to give to the folks who produced this phenomenal film. All of us at Badali Jewelry who participated in the creation of the clip got one to keep ourselves also. So there are about 70 left that we can sell for $250.00 each to anyone who would like a beautiful collectable piece of history (look for more information in our shop section soon! -Xo).
Xoanon here to pick up the rest of the story. The pins were shipped to our publicist Asfaloth in Los Angeles. TheOneRing.net was invited to the New Zealand Embassy party at the Beverly Hills hotel the Friday before the Oscars. Quickbeam and Asfaloth attended the event and presented the pins to Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean and many many others who were there (look for video and pictures of that event soon!).
When Peter Jackson, Mark Ordesky, and Jim Rygiel wore their pins to the Oscars, we were beyond excited when we saw them on the screen. And the press was quick to pick up on our story.
arien writes: Here’s an interesting article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the facial scars on Viggo Mortensen and Sean Bean:
For Hollywood, heroism is skin-deep.
Facial scars have long been a staple of the villain in literature and even more so in movies — think Scar in “The Lion King” or any number of James Bond baddies.
But filmmakers also use scars, often an actor’s real nicks and knock-abouts, to convey a troubled hero. Take “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” for example. Actors Viggo Mortensen and Sean Bean portray two members of the heroic fellowship. Both have prominent facial scars in real life, but only Bean’s is visible in the movie.
“As the heroic Aragorn, Viggo has his scar almost completely hidden in his beard,” said Vail Reese, a San Francisco dermatologist who analyzes skin conditions in the movies on his Web site, Skinema.com.
“In Bean’s case, however, his character, Boromir, is on the edge, moving toward the dark side — and his scar is not hidden,” Reese added.
Reese pointed out that when Mortensen has played a villain, as in “A Perfect Murder,” the actor’s upper lip scar is obvious — even highlighted.
Conversely, when Bean has played a romantic leading man, as in 1997’s “Anna Karenina,” the scar above his left eye is difficult to spot.
Hiding Mortensen’s scar may have been just being faithful to J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary description of Aragorn as a bearded man. There’s no mention of a scar for Boromir in the original novels, however.
“How much they unconsciously noticed it, I can’t say, but I do wonder if, when they were casting the actors, they didn’t look at Sean and, on some level, think about that scar,” said Reese.
Whether or not Bean’s souvenir from an on-set accident during the filming of “Patriot Games” helped land him the role of Boromir, a scar symbolizing conflict in a hero is not a Hollywood invention.
“In some folktales, the hero becomes physically branded,” said Shakespeare scholar Miranda Johnson-Haddad, who has studied the depiction of villains.
“In the case of Boromir, it works beautifully — he is definitely a conflicted character,” she said. “You see the scar and you assume he got it honorably in battle, but it also indicates there’s something a little off with him.”
Boromir isn’t the only hero with issues and a scar.
Character actor Tommy Flanagan, severely scarred in a knife attack, has made a career of playing complicated but heroic sidekicks, including a vengeful warrior in “Braveheart.”
Laurence Fishburne, who has facial scars, has also played a few not-so-good good guys, most notably Morpheus in “The Matrix.”
“Laurence has got impressive scarring that’s played up much like Sean Bean as Boromir in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ ” said Reese. “And for most of the movie you’re really not sure if he’s a bad guy or a good guy.”
The lights have dimmed, the party is over, and I’m sitting here trying to remember every detail of this past weekend, a whirlwind of activity for the TORN staffers that organized and prepared for our “One Party to Rule Them All.”
First off, I must express my sincere heartfelt gratitude and admiration for TheOneRing.net’s founders, Tehanu (Erica Challis), Xoanon (Michael Regina), Corvar (William Thomas), and Calisuri (Chris Pirrotta). They started TORN out of a love for JRR Tolkien’s work, identifying and filling a great chasm in the world of fandom. (and no, Corvar is *not* the balrog ; )
When I first heard of the movies, I immediately went online, searching for any information I could find. I remember coming up with three fan-oriented sites and I checked them out. TheOneRing.net ‘ruled’ from the very beginning… Why? Because Cali, Corvar, Xo, and Tehanu put their heart and soul into the site, and I didn’t see that anywhere else. Ever. Before TheOneRing.net came into existence, I was like millions of other Tolkien fans. I wondered, “Is there anybody else out there?” Oh, yeah : ) Thanks to these four folks, who met for the very first time in ‘real-life’ on Oscar Sunday, we have all discovered that we are not alone; that we are part of an immense worldwide community. I am very honored and proud to serve as a volunteer staff member here at TheOneRing.net.
Okay, enough of the mushy stuff….
I arrived at LAX early Saturday afternoon. Calisuri and Miss Calisuri were there to whisk me off to Party Central, located at Asfaloth’s home. There I met Asfaloth. Quickbeam, Xoanon and Lady Xoanon, the mysterious Lady T, Arathorn’s better half, and the rest of the PartyStaff, wonderful folks all, who’d been stuffing the “Goody Baggins” with wonderful items donated by our sponsors. Houghton-Mifflin donated copies of The Lord of the Rings FOTR Visual Companion and The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide. Decipher donated Mines of Moria starter decks and LoTR calendars. And Sideshow/Weta donated medallions from their medallion series. These great gift bags were to be handed out to the guests as they arrived.
We watched a bit of the New Zealand Embassy Interviews (soon to be up on TORn Digital!), then Thorongil and I went back to the airport to meet Gandalf and Gamgee, just in from Washington State. It was dark-thirty by this time, so we all headed to Toi’s Rock-n-Roll Thai Restaurant for dinner. Okay, I have a confession to make: I had never eaten Thai food before, and I can’t even remember the name of what I ate, But Quickbeam recommended it so I knew it would be good. (Quickbeam, famous for Green Books and green hair, was our guide for the weekend, pointing us to cool places that could handle a crowd.)
After we’d eaten dinner, some of the group felt the need for some exercise. Others felt the need to vocalize. In what may be a good thing, as I have not heard everyone sing, BOWLING(!!!) won out over karaoke! So off to the Hollywood Star Lanes we went. (I’m told The Big Lebowski was filmed here, by the way.) I remained part of the audience, while some of the more energetic folks bowled the night away. From there, everyone headed to their respective abodes. The Oscars were only hours away!
Sunday morning bloomed fine, fair and breezy. We rushed about getting our party threads and finery in order and carefully packed, then headed to the Hollywood Athletic Club to begin setting up and decorating. The club is a historic building erected on Sunset Blvd in 1924. Founded by Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, Rudolph Valentino, and Johnny Weismuller (the best Tarzan there ever was), this unique structure is only used for private parties and film-making nowadays. As you enter the front door, you walk through the lobby (where we set up registration) and then head up the wonderful (and I must say dimly lit) staircase. As you reach the landing you face two enormous mirrors. Upon each mirror were two stands for statues of the founding members of the athletic club. As I glanced, I noticed Weismuller’s statue was missing from his stand. Thinking it a shame that this had happened, I looked up toward the top of the mirror, where Johnny’s statue, clad only in a loincloth, was scaling the side of the mirror, trailed by a chimp. I do have a picture of this. No, I cannot post it ; ) Hmmmm… maybe if we do some airbrushing I could ; )
As you reach the top of the stairs you enter a long hall. To your immediate left is the largest room, which we used as the Oscar ceremony viewing room. Upon the walls we placed signs for the categories Fellowship of the Ring was nominated in. Rows and rows of chairs, as well as tables and chairs in the rear of the room were set up here for the audience to watch the Oscars when they began.
The room next door was used for playing pool and for dancing. A deejay came in and did a great job for us : ) The next room, cordoned off for security, was the VIP room. This room also had a pool table, as well as a wonderful fireplace. Each room possessed great ambience: dark and glamorous. The final room was used to display all the items up for bid at the silent auction and all the raffle prizes. We had wonderful prizes donated by folks at Sideshow/Weta, The Tolkien Society, and Royal Selangor, to name a few.
As the Oscars began, folks settled in wherever they could to watch. Televisions were strategically set up in the rooms and the hall to give everyone a chance to view the show. During commercial breaks Quickbeam, emcee of TheOneParty to Rule Them All, chatted with the audience and called upon volunteer staffers to help with the raffle drawings.
Now, while y’all were enjoying yourselves, the staff was actually getting ready for the BIG show! Yes, we mean the show after the show!!! Word was out that we would be receiving some very special guests! Sure enough, about midnight, Sir Ian McKellan, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Richard Taylor, Jim Rygiel, Randy Cook, Howard Shore, and Mark Ordesky (President of New Line Cinema) dropped in to visit for a while. Our special guests were thrilled to see the outpouring of affection and admiration radiating from the 400+ fans. They took time to shake hands with as many as they could reach, and gathered together in the front of the viewing room for a photo op and a few words. Thanks y’all, from everyone!
Oh yes, they brought their Oscars…
It was so cool to see all the statues just casually standing on top of a pool table as PJ & Company partied in the VIP room. And yes, those Oscars are heavy! Just for the record, they’ve not been engraved yet. The winners have to send them back to be engraved.
In the wee hours of the morning, our surprise guests left to attend other functions and the wonderful fans who’d partied all night began leaving (I hope only because their feet hurt as bad as mine did and they wanted to take off their shoes). We undecorated the place and gathered up our stuff and loaded the cars. Thanks to the staff of the Hollywood Athletic Club, who worked hard, kept us fed and stayed late for us! A number of folks actually went on to Denny’s for breakfast, but alas, some of us had planes to catch the next day and needed to head on back to our accommodations.
Snagging a few winks of sleep after an all nighter, we managed to resume an upright position on Monday morning. I believe high heels are instruments of Sauron! Hobbling to the airport terminal, I managed to arrive at the gate just as boarding began. The ride home was smooth and peaceful. Of course the first thing I did when I got home was log into the chatroom. So many folks were asking questions and I tried to answer all I could, but doggonit, I had to be at work 8am Tuesday!
Thinking back on the past weekend, the most memorable moment was when the four founders finally got together as a group. The funniest was Ian smooching on the Legolas standee, and turning the Saruman standee around to face the wall. And honestly, I can’t even think of a bad moment. I can’t wait until we do this again even better next year… Are you ready? Woohoo!!!!!
Here’s the gist of this evening’s 30 minute BBC “Front Row” special on the impact that Lord of the Rings has had in New Zealand – it included an interview with Peter Jackson that was notable for its fluency and relaxed style.
The programme shifted between two interviews conducted by Francine Stock – one with Jackson and the other with Peter Calder of the New Zealand Herald.
Peter Calder started by revealing that the pendant that Ian McKellen could be seen wearing at the Oscars was a New Zealand “greenstone” – a form of jade that is sacred to Maoris. Calder said this was an honour for New Zealand and that it reflected the tremendous affection that members of the cast developed for the country during their time there.
He went on to describe Peter Jackson as utterly unpretentious and joked that they must have had to drug him to get him into a tuxedo for the Academy Awards – and that they then probably had to staple it to him. He said Jackson is “the apotheosis of the can-do” mentality that is prevalent among New Zealanders and that he epitomises what they call “a number eight fencing wire man” (fencing wire apparently being the Kiwi equivalent of Canadian duct tape).
There is sadness in New Zealand that Peter Jackson’s personal efforts were not recognised with an Academy Award but the New Zealand film industry is extremely proud to have beaten off global competition in the highly specialised areas for which LOTR won Oscars. Unfortunately the New Zealand government recently stopped giving tax breaks to the movie industry (this reportedly angered Peter Jackson) and there are concerns that countries such as South Africa and Australia could now come up with more attractive deals for film-makers.
Peter Jackson began his interview by describing LOTR as the Holy Grail of movie-making. Filming it was a thrilling experience and he referred happily to a quote of Hitchcock’s: that most people’s movies are slices of life, but his are slices of cake. When asked how Hollywood might have tackled LOTR, he said he felt that Hollywood has a tendency to over-design in order to make fantasy films very obviously removed from reality; his own goal, on the other hand, was “to make it as real as possible”. JRR Tolkien wrote in such a way that Middle Earth seems completely authentic and Jackson wanted that to come through in the movie.
When asked about the process of turning the books into a screenplay, he explained that it was necessary to simplify. He needed to identify the “A” plot and in this case it was the story of Frodo and the Ring. Most scenes had to be selected to advance that plot, although there were, of course, other sub-plots.
At this point in the programme we heard a short clip from the movie – Frodo saying that he could see “some form of Elvish” on the Ring, and Gandalf reciting the sinister “One Ring” verse. Although not intended for radio the dialogue created a superb effect, especially with Howard Shore’s music hovering in the background.
This marked the beginning of a discussion on the archaic language of the books. Jackson was asked if this was hard to do “straight” and he laughingly admitted that if they hadn’t had Ian McKellen, they’d have been in trouble. Wherever possible they had tried to preserve Tolkien’s dialogue since they were unable to include any of his marvellous descriptive passages. This meant that they sometimes took dialogue from the book and moved it to a different scene, or gave it to another character in order to preserve it, even if it came from a scene that wasn’t in the movie. This was duly illustrated by another clip – Frodo saying (in Moria) that he wished the Ring had never come to him, and Gandalf explaining that he was “meant” to have it (from chapter 2 of the book).
Jackson was asked in passing about the heavy metal scene that had appropriated LOTR during the 70s and 80s and he politely expressed the view that it had nothing to do with Tolkien and that it was not something he was interested in.
Would a Hollywood director have taken on a movie that deals so obviously with loss and looming disaster? Jackson wasn’t sure, but joked that at $300 million LOTR must be the most expensive independent movie ever made. When asked how he dealt with the stress of handling such a large budget he said that three years would have been too long to have stressed over it so he developed a good protective mechanism. It was not his job to worry about the budget – instead, he concentrated on doing his bit to reduce the financial risk by making a good movie.
Was it difficult working so closely with his partner, Fran Walsh? Jackson replied that many relationships break down when one of the partners is involved in the long hours and sometimes weird lifestyle that go with movie-making; in the case of Fran and Peter, however, both partners fully understood and shared the same lifestyle and this proved to be an advantage.
Finally, Jackson was asked if he thought that the reaction to FOTR would influence his work on the second and third movies. “Almost certainly”, he replied. The filming has already been completed but the material now needs squeezing and shaping for effect. He needs another month or two to decide on things that he might not otherwise have done with the next two movies.
Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn)
Liv Tyler (Arwen)
Ian Holm (Bilbo)
Sean Bean (Boromir)
Martyn Sanderson (Bree Gatekeeper)
David Weatherley (Barliman Butterbur)
John Noble (Denethor)
Peter Mackenzie (Elendil)
Karl Urban (Eomer)
Hugo Weaving (Elrond)
Miranda Otto (Eowyn)
David Wenham (Faramir)
Cameron Rhodes (Farmer Maggot)
Elijah Wood (Frodo)
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel)
Ian McKellen (Gandalf)
Mark Ferguson (Gil Galad)
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
Andy Serkis (Gollum)
John Leigh (Hama)
Harry Sinclair (Isildur)
Orlando Bloom (Legolas)
Ray Henwood (Man At Council)
Dominic Monaghan (Merry)
Bruce Spence (Mouth of Sauron)
Sean Astin (Sam)
Christopher Lee (Saruman)
Brian Sergent (Ted Sandyman)
Bernard Hill (Theoden)
Brad Dourif (Wormtongue)
During our Oscar party Randy Cook walked up to me and apologized for not wearing his pin, saying that he was extremely nervous for the Oscars and forgot about it on his hotel dresser. Jan Blenkin, Peter Jackson’s personal assistant rushed up to me just before getting into her limo and begged me for a pin, I of course obliged (I hope you get yours soon Jan!). 
