{"id":7629,"date":"2003-11-09T18:21:23","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T00:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/11\/09\/ringing-down-the-curtain\/"},"modified":"2003-11-09T18:21:23","modified_gmt":"2003-11-10T00:21:23","slug":"ringing-down-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/11\/09\/7629-ringing-down-the-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringing down the curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontEW.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT HSPACE=1 class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontSA.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT HSPACE=1 class=\"no-lazyload\"> <b>Paul Lieberman<\/b> writes: Elijah Wood, who is given the job of saving the world (or Middle-earth at least) in the &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy, began his career modeling little boys&#8217; clothing in a mall. He was just 7 when his mother moved him from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Los Angeles in 1988, and his screen debut came almost immediately, with a small part in the second episode of &#8220;Back to the Future.&#8221; Enough decent roles kept coming his way that he did not have time to do a single stage play or complete high school. He figured he could learn more &#8220;from life,&#8221; anyway, and by working with the likes of Peter Jackson, the rumpled New Zealand director who had never grossed more than $3.1 million with a film in America before he began negotiating a deal to make three, for $300 million, based on J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s cult classic novels &#151; arguably the greatest gamble in filmmaking history. <font color=\"red\">!!Spoilers!!<\/font> [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/perl\/newsview\/8\/1068423266\">More<\/a>]<br \/><br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Lieberman writes: Elijah Wood, who is given the job of saving the world (or Middle-earth at least)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-1Z3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}