{"id":22949,"date":"2001-05-20T04:38:33","date_gmt":"2001-05-20T09:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/05\/20\/cannes-roundup-on-bbcs-liquid-news\/"},"modified":"2001-05-20T04:38:33","modified_gmt":"2001-05-20T09:38:33","slug":"cannes-roundup-on-bbcs-liquid-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/05\/20\/22949-cannes-roundup-on-bbcs-liquid-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes roundup on BBC&#8217;s Liquid News."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">A roundup of LOTR-at-Cannes news from Ringer Spy Jon, who must be a gun typist to get even this much down! ; )<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey guys,<\/p>\n<p>Liquid News, a slot on cable news channel BBC News 24 in the UK hosted by Christopher Price featured a [brief] segment on Lord of the Rings at Cannes.<\/p>\n<p>Price referred to the piece as &#8220;Gandalf goes Gaelic&#8221; though he sounded more like &#8220;Gandalf goes Garlic&#8221; which was no doubt his intention.<\/p>\n<p>Price said &#8220;Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and their smoking friends were out in force in Cannes this<br \/>week,&#8221; and so beginneth the tale of &#8220;how LOTR stole the show&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter (sorry can&#8217;t remember her name, too overcome with catching images of that amazing set they had built) said the preview was &#8220;the talking point of the festival&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Lee went on to say &#8220;I had this dream that one day it would be made, and of course I had a dream that I would be a part of it in some way&#8230; I am not a young man you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(apologises for any paraphrasing that might go on, it wasn&#8217;t taped, and I had to type pretty quick).<\/p>\n<p>Everyone appeared in the clip, as well as Lee, there was Sir Ian McKellen who paid particular<br \/>tribute to the fans.  He cited them as the reason there was so much global hype in the movies.<br \/>That in itself just goes to show how studios should relax their views on unofficial web sites<br \/>and recognise how great a &#8220;free&#8221; marketing tool they can be.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/theonering.net\/movie\/cast\/davies.html\">John Rhys-Davies<\/a> was his usual buoyant, exuberant self.  He felt that they had made the &#8220;movie of the season&#8230; of all time&#8221;, and commented that he felt in twenty years time people would look back at LOTR and consider it &#8220;one of their favourite films&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Liv Tyler was briefly interviewed and asked to speak in true Elvish tongue, which she did, off-script and very well!<\/p>\n<p>And Elijah Woods was very charismatic with the reporter and featured with PJ and the other<br \/>hobbits in a brief clip of their [kinda] can-can routine.<\/p>\n<p>And throughout it all they played key notes from &#8220;Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula&#8221;, which actually fitted<br \/>quite well.<\/p>\n<p>At the very end as the reporter was summarising she was attacked by orc&#8217;s &#8211; forget Tehran or<br \/>Beirut, a true test of a reporters bravery has to be in the midst of that vile breed.<\/p>\n<p>Take care guys,<\/p>\n<p>Ringer Spy Jon<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roundup of LOTR-at-Cannes news from Ringer Spy Jon, who must be a gun typist to get even&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-spy-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5Y9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}