A lot of people have emailed me today saying that Daniel Bedingfield (the guy we reported about yesterday) isn’t really English at all. It turns out he’s from New Zealand, which might explain his fondness of LOTR…
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Sent to us from Ringer Mo Jones: As I’m sure you know, the Space Channel from up here [Canada] was at the big Oscar party and put together a really fun video… and thanks to the hard work of Demosthenes & Arathorn we’re now able to present this little gem for the rest of Planet Earth. Featuring site Co-Founder Xoanon, Green Books’ Quickbeam & Anwyn, Sandman/Orbiter illustrator Colleen Doran, actors John Rhys-Davies, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, and fans from around the globe, this is a great taste of what the party looked and felt like as we celebrated the nominations of Peter Jackson’s LotR: TTT during the 75th Academy Awards.
Quicktime: [Click to view video] (20.4MB, but slightly worse quality)
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Brian writes: I didn’t know if this was noteworthy or not, but I noticed that the American Film Institute was going to do a list of 100 years of 100 heroes and villains: There are 400 screen characters on the ballot. The screen characters range chronologically from “The Vampire,” played by Theda Bara in 1915’s A FOOL THERE WAS to multiple contributions in 2001 that include Gandalf the Grey (LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING), Detective Alonzo Harris (TRAINING DAY) and Shrek (SHREK). [More]
Deava writes: They are showing TTT in the huge science center at Harvard University this Friday and Saturday night at 7pm. Tickets are only $1 for students and $3 for those who aren’t quite Harvard-esque. [More]
… and help a worthy cause raise needed funds. Idahoarchery hosts this raffle until April 19th and all proceeds will go to the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. [More]
While surfing the latest trailers at Apple.com, I stumbled across Orlando Bloom (Legolas) doing an introduction for a brand new “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” trailer. Is it me, or is Orlando a little too laid back with his intro?[More]