Bob writes: I just heard on the radio that Howard Shore is Shelagh Rogers’s guest on “Sounds Like Canada” on Thursday, June 2. The programme airs on CBC Radio 1 at 10 a.m. across the country. You can find out more about the specific spot (including how to get a transcript) at the Sounds Like Canada web page. [More]
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The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2005 Mythopoeic Awards. The Mythopoeic Society will be announcing the winners at Tolkien 2005 in August of this year, and presenting awards for literature and scholarship. The categories are, “Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, Adult Literature”, “Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, Children’s Literature”, “Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies”, and “Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies.” Long time friend of TORn, Anne C. Petty has been nominated for her Tolkien in the Land of Heroes in the Inkling Studies category, along with many other fine scholars. [More]
The Donmar Warehouse has announced details of its forthcoming season. Many of the productions had previously been reported, although new news includes the premiere of a Mark Ravenhill play starring Ian McKellen. As has been known for some time, Neil LaBute’s This Is How It Goes will be followed by Schiller’s Mary Stuart (in a new version by Peter Oswald) beginning July 14 and featuring Janet McTeer, Harriet Walter, David Burke, James Fleet, Barbara Jefford and Rory Kinnear. Phyllida Lloyd will direct. [More]
Charles Ross’s touring stage show, “The One-Man Star Wars Trilogy,” is as audacious as the title suggests. Without the use of props — or any other actors — Ross sings John Williams’s theme music, mimes the crawling yellow text at the beginning of each episode, replicates the sound effects of whooshing X-Wing Starfighters, and impersonates all the characters, even minor ones such as Admiral Akbar, the tunic-wearing squid-like creature that makes Jabba the Hut look like a pretty boy. Improbable as it may sound, Ross accomplishes the whole thing in 58 minutes. [More]
The combination of a killer shark, a waddling alien and a story of humanity in the midst of the Holocaust has driven film buffs to crown Steven Spielberg as cinema’s greatest director…Two other big names of modern film — Peter Jackson, who directed The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction) — are in seventh and eighth places. They beat Orson Welles, the director of Citizen Kane, who came ninth, and Woody Allen, who was tenth. [More]
Green Books Staffer Anwyn writes: Summer brings a new installment in our Science of Middle-earth series by Olog-hai [More] as well as a picnic basket of new Moon Letters in our fan writing section [More]. If you’re a fan of Q&A, look for two important updates to our last Q&A edition, and you’ll also want to check the main Q&A page for a special message to Q&A readers [More]. Happy summer days to all!