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If 2021 wasn’t looking brighter already, the news that previously unseen Beatles content is coming soon is certainly a welcome sign that there are better days ahead. Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson has restored over 55 hours of previously unrestored footage of the Fab Four during the recording of Let It Be, edited together as the film The Beatles: Get Back, which is now set for a summer 2021 release. The wait until August might be a tough one for fans of the iconic British group,...

Print To the editor: As a Long Beach resident, I can attest to the troubling destruction caused to store owners during the summer protests. Friends had their shop windows broken and there was looting. (“Yes, they’re actually blaming Black people for the violent insurrection by the pro-Trump mob,” Opinion, Jan. 14) But I also know that Black Lives Matter representatives condemned the violence, and some bravely tried to stop it as it occurred. Authorities concluded that most of the looting ...

The boom had started well before that. After the Hobbiton Movie Set was rebuilt in 2009 on the Alexander family farm, the business went from 17 staff and between 13,000 to 25,000 visitors each year to almost 300 staff, around 3000 visitors each day in summer and an average of 60 tours per day. From there the car park remained full and the rolling hills of Hinuera were often dotted with earth-green tour buses as camera-toting tourists weaved in and out Middle-earth. Now, a minimum of five t...

By Jessica MasonDec 24th, 2020, 5:15 pm The love of Frodo Baggins’ life was one Mr. Samwise Gamgee. Nothing in the entirety of the Tolkien canon, even Sam’s wife, will ever dissuade me from this fact. Frodo and Sam’s story is about love, no matter how you see it, but for many of us who adore the world of Tolkien, they were queer. So too were Merry and Pippin. And Gimli and Legolas. And Aragorn and Boromir probably had a thing that one time. Also, let’s not forget whatever was going on ...

"Rachel said to tell you that with a, you know... sort of kidding, but why? What?" he said while filming a message on Cameo, a platform that allows people to pay for certain celebrities to send them personalised videos. "First of all, how do you know they didnt? "You know what I mean? Its a long trek to Mordor," the Stranger Things actor joked, noting how Frodo and Sam embarked on a days-long journey to plunge the corrupting ring, which turned its wearers into power-hungry lost souls, into th...