An Evening with PJ

I went to "An Evening with Peter Jackson" this evening, the first thing of this type he's done, where he's just talked about making LOTR and his film-making in general. Sadly, he wasn't wearing shorts, but his shirt was quite loud. Also, since he's lost weight, there's an uncanny resemblance between him and Dom. hnix, sinbrat and I all noticed. As others have probably already posted, the absolute highlight of the night was the previously unseen footage that was shown - which I had wondered about beforehand, what on earth hasn't been put in on the dvds or otherwise shown somewhere?

The answer - some of Peter's own personal collection of LOTR bloopers. Dear god, let these be released or leaked somehow. I'll try and post what I can recall of them tomorrow.

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I am a sheep who follows blindly. But wacky hijinks in a resturant bathroom ensued, so it's not all bad. Baaaa.

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From Ask Billboard (via toftbsb and NLY).

The leader of the male pop vocal group pack is Backstreet Boys, with more than 29.5 million albums sold in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. 'N Sync is second with 27.6 million.
New Kids on the Block have shipped 17.5 million albums in the United States, per the Recording Industry Association of America. (Most of the New Kids album sales came previous to the establishment of Nielsen SoundScan in 1991; that is why I am using RIAA figures.) 98 Degrees has sold 6.9 million, while O-Town has moved 1.9 million.

Interesting, I had the impression that Nsync had the higher US sales, while BSB was ahead on worldwide figures. I'm assuming that's based on 4 albums each (Backstreet Boys, Millenium, Black and Blue, Chapter 1 vs Nsync, Home for Christmas, No Strings Attached and Celebrity).

Sinpoz, Brian download, blooper link

I've updated the draft Sinpozium timetable, so if you've volunteered for something, check out when you've been tentatively scheduled. Please let me know if there are any omissions/problems/suggestions/changes you'd want to make. It's a living document that we'll update right up until Sinpozium, and will be treated flexibly on the day. I'll mention this in sinpozium when I've got some other stuff to post (or iibnf can), but as most of the volunteers are on my friendlist, I might as well mention it here.

I'm getting really excited about Sinpoz, seeing the weekend take shape like this :)

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veronamay (and lydia_petze) did the hard work and put together a review and great list of the LOTR bloopers shown at "An Evening with Peter Jackson" last night.

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+ Brian on Larry King Live - 40 meg
This is just the Brian portions of the show, made by SueJ (I've converted it to avi to make it more shareable). He's all knowledgeable and coherent and...Brian!

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