The Tattoos of the Fellowship of the Ring
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Find out where the eight LOTR actors have their Fellowship tattoo on.

Orlando and Johnny interview on ET
posted by Mary
There is a video of Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp at ETonline. You have to download Instant ET to view it. Videos change daily, so if you want to see it, you'll have to download it today. There is no mention of whether they will be on the show tonight. Thanks to Mary for the news! Update: Here are screencaps from Kristen. For those who're unable to see the video, E-Blooming.net has the audio file you can download. Thanks Naoko.

Mackenzie Crook talks POTC
Z Review
Mackenzie Crook has been talking about his role in Pirates of the Caribbean as Ragetti " Johnny said he would put in a good word for me - I would like to think that he did. This is a cutlass-in-the-teeth, real swashbuckling adventure. It might be the best showcase for my work. A good comic character is Ragetti, so once again I am playing the idiot. There are lots of visual gags where my eye gets popped out"

Orlando is now #1 for the past 30 days
posted by Sara
Although he remains at #4 for this week's most searched for people at IMDB.com, Orlando Bloom is now #1 for the past 30 days

Kelly loses classification appeal
The Courier Mail
AN appeal against the classification of the new Australian film Ned Kelly has failed. The Classification Review Board has unanimously found that the film, starring Heath Ledger, should retain its M15+ medium level violence rating because of its potentially harmful or disturbing material. Film distributor United International Pictures had asked the board to review the classification over concerns it would prevent schoolchildren studying the legend from seeing it.

Interview: Heath Ledger
Moviehole.net, 03/21/03
Moviehole.net features an interview with Heath Ledger about Ned Kelly and his star status. No mention of Orlando in this article, though.

Peter and Cate decline to attend the Oscars
Yahoo! Movies, 03/21/03
News has it that Peter Jackson and Cate Blanchett have both decided not to attend this year's Oscar ceremonies. While PJ is busy working on ROTK, Cate has a 5 a.m. call time on the set of her new movie 'The Missing'.

And the winner is ... somewhere above the Pacific
New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Lord of the Rings crew face an anxious wait to see whether they'll get to the pre-Oscar ball in time after their aircraft was delayed yesterday. Their Air New Zealand flight was due to leave Auckland last night but the plane required two engine changes, delaying departure for 12 hours. It is understood several of the Rings production team were booked on the flight and may now miss the start of the pre-Oscar parties in Los Angeles. The Academy Awards ceremony is on Monday, NZ time. The Two Towers, the second Rings movie, has been nominated for six awards, including best picture.

By Gollum, we'd better win something ... or next year
New Zealand Herald
Russell Baillie ponders why 'The Two Towers' won't set the Oscars alight this year. Yes, we wuz robbed last year and this year we've already been left out in the cold. "We" meaning that great collective of New Zealand Lord of the Rings fans, who, during last year's awards, saw the first film in the trilogy pick up four awards in the technical and musical categories but lose out in the major categories, despite 13 nominations.

Star Wars is most influential movie
BBC News
The Star Wars series of films have been voted the most influential movies of the last 75 years, in a poll for BBC News Online to mark the 75th Academy Awards. The five science fiction films created by George Lucas, released between 1977 and 2002, were picked as the most influential by more than a third of the 18,000 people who voted online. Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films were second in the poll, chosen by almost a quarter of voters.

A close shave for the hirsute
The Sydney Morning Herald, 03/22/03
How real-life characters are portrayed in films has been an especially juicy issue lately. . . Something eerily like this discussion took place during planning for Ned Kelly, which opens in cinemas this week with Heath Ledger as the legendary outlaw. . . The pressing question was whether Ned should have a beard. Or was that wasting Ledger's good looks and the chance to tap his female fan base, especially in the United States?

Ned, or maybe g'day?
The Sydney Morning Herald, 03/22/03
While the actor Heath Ledger has made it clear he has no regrets about giving Ned Kelly an Irish accent in the movie which has its world premiere in Melbourne tonight, the matter may yet prove to be the film's most serious historical issue. Did Kelly really speak that way? It's a touchy question. By making Australia's No.1 folk hero sound like an Irishman, has the movie stripped him of much of his Australian identity?