[WildB]

I also have not watched the movies in awhile...last I saw was FOTR...well about a month and a half ago. Not so long I guess. I really need to watch ROTK again.

[JudyC]

Originally Posted by Brekkon I haven't seen any of the "LOTR" movies for years. Bad fan bad! You should check out the "LOTR" thread here, Judy. Help us revive it.

Yeah, I should and will. . Actually, I am trying to post more on the LOTR FF board b/c I'm afraid it's going to close. So much of the discussion has inevitably been transferred onto separate boards for the individual actors.


I saw the trilogy back in August. Before then I probably hadn't seen them in six months. Between following the careers on the actors, visiting the main sites and listening to the soundtracks, a little bit of Middle-Earth stays with me every day even if I go months without seeing the films. It's a lovely thing.

Judy

[JudyC]

Just a reminder: Elijah is on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on October 5th.

Judy

[Brekkon]

I didn't want to see "ROTK" because I didn't want the story to end...But I guess I should just suck it up and deal with it, yeah?

I was tempted to play Billy's song the other day. When I first heard/saw it, it made me cry.

Woo-hoo, Elijah on Jay Leno. Alas, we don't get that in Australia.

Someone had better tell me all about it, post screen-caps etc! *waggles finger menacingly*

[one small hobbit lover]

OMG Brek Billy's song makes me teary all the time, I have it on CD and I listen to it all the time.

I wonder ij it'll be uploaded...i mean the Jay Leno thing

[WildB]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Emilio Estevez has added Sharon Stone and Elijah Wood to the high-wattage cast for "Bobby," his passion project about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, which he will write and direct.

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Nick Cannon and Freddy Rodriguez have also joined the lineup, which already includes Anthony Hopkins and Demi Moore. Estevez also has a role.

The independently produced ensemble film mixes fact and fiction to chronicle the intertwining lives of a grand cast of characters, all of whom are present at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in the hours leading up to Kennedy's shooting.

Stone will play the wife of the hotel manager who works in the hotel's beauty salon. Wood's character is marrying a girl to change his draft classification. Cannon is a Youth for Kennedy volunteer, and Rodriguez is a hotel busboy.

Ten more major roles need to be filled, but after 4-1/2 years, Estevez is 2-1/2 weeks away from the first day of principal photography. The budget is less than $10 million.

Estevez was inspired to make the film by his friend, director Roger Avary, who set his "Killing Zoe" primarily in one location. At the same time, he wanted to make a picture that was indigenous to Los Angeles, especially when so many movies are getting made out of the country.

"In 2000, I found myself at the Ambassador Hotel for a photo shoot with my brother ( Charlie Sheen), and I remember calling Roger going, 'I think I found it. I'm not sure what the story is, but I think it's going to be about the day Bobby Kennedy was shot,"' Estevez said. "I started to do the research and started writing. I finished it about a week before 9/11."

Kennedy had made an impression on Estevez when he was a child living in New York.

"I met Bobby when he was running for the Senate in 1967, and he was campaigning down the street from where we lived in New York," he said. "My father was doing some work on his campaign and took me down to this police precinct where they were campaigning. I was on his shoulders, and Bobby leaned out and shook my hands.

"I remember the morning he was shot, I woke up my father and told him the news. And the first stop we made when we moved to L.A. in 1969 was the Ambassador Hotel."

The Ambassador is slated for demolition, so the production hopes to re-create the hotel using the Biltmore hotel, Park Plaza Hotel and Hollywood Park. Some parts of the Ambassador will make it into the movie, however, after Estevez and his art and props department attended an auction on the hotel grounds September 10 and managed to come away with stationery, some doors, keys, an oven, and the operator switchboard.

Stone recently completed "Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction." Wood is currently in theaters with "Everything Is Illuminated," and Cannon with "Roll Bounce." Rodriguez, best known for his work on "Six Feet Under," will be seen in the upcoming "Harsh Times."

[Brekkon]

Thanks for the news, Sand!

that we can CONFIRM that Elijah will be in "Bobby".

[WildB]

Elijah was so cute on Leno. They talked about his house and his whirlwind press tour.

This site has some clips

[Brekkon]

Thanks for the link, Sand! Downloading the clips now, although clip 3 keeps timing out. Grrr.

[WildB]

I forgot how he talked about liking to do laundry. He is too cute.

[Brekkon]

Man, he really must love doing his laundry.

I think I've downloaded all of the clips, I'll have to check...