ORCS AND DORKS? WE JOIN THE WAIT FOR THE MIDNIGHT 'TOWERS'.Byline: Addison Pate Staff Writer The entertainment started long before the 12:01 a.m. showing Wednesday of ``The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' at Universal CityWalk Universal CityWalk is a part of Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Japan originating from Universal's first park, Universal Studios Hollywood. . Among the ``Rings'' faithful walking into one of the first L.A.-area public screenings of director Peter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic was a 7-foot tall blond creature in black leather boots and see-through plastic pants Plastic pants, plastic panties, and diaper covers are all basically the same thing. They are devices worn over a diaper for the purpose of containing liquid or solid waste that may otherwise leak through the fabric. . (We checked our tickets to make sure we weren't at a ``Hedwig and the Angry Inch'' revival.) It's not often that the special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. begin before the movie, but then we hadn't been inside yet. As expected, the front half of the theater bubbled to the brim with ardent fans dressed in ``Rings'' T-shirts and jackets, or outfitted as Orcs and Hobbits In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Hobbits are a fictional race related to Men. They first appear in The Hobbit and play an important role in the The Lord of the Rings story. This is a list of hobbits that are mentioned by name in Tolkien's works. (though no one, we noticed, came barefoot). In the back, however, an altogether new species emerged - row after row of techno-teenagers with cell phones, text messengers, PDAs and laptop computers. One guy was playing a game head-to-head with another kid three rows down and on the other side of the aisle. Another girl was messaging her friend - who sat in the same theater - from her wireless PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). . Although I didn't see it, I'm sure one of them had a digital camcorder ready to offer viewing over the Internet for free. Even after the lights went down, the circus atmosphere continued as an anti-drug commercial filled the screen. As an on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. policeman busted two teenagers smoking marijuana, the crowd erupted in boos and hisses. But the following ad - for the computer game ``Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'' - quickly turned the boos to cheers. (Should we interpret that as computer-game violence,good; drug busting, bad?) Despite the boisterousness of the crowd, as soon as the movie title appeared, the audience fell into rapt silence and not a creature was stirring - not even an Orc in the third row. |
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