Oscar-worthy trees.On Oscar night, we were cheering on The Return of the King, the last in the trilogy A company founded in 1979 by Gene Amdahl to commercialize wafer scale integration and build supercomputers. It raised a quarter of a billion dollars, the largest startup funding in history, but could not create its 2.5" superchip. based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. All this rooting, of course, was for our favorite movie stars to date, the Ents--walking, talking 50-foot trees known to take matters into their own hands, er, branches. The Ents Ents treelike creatures who shelter and defend the friends of Frodo. [Br. Lit.: J. R. R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings] See : Trees , protectors For the 1970s television series made by Gerry Anderson, see The Protectors Protectors was a team of fictional superheroes that starred in the eponymous title published by Malibu Comics. of Middle-earth, were not ones to stand idly by when their homeland was threatened. In the second part of the trilogy, The Two Towers, the Ents, led by the ancient Treebeard, successfully flood and destroy a forest-bordered camp where evil soldiers are being trained. The activist trees return in the third movie, communicating with one another in booming voices, from one end of the forest to the other. The Return of the King won 11 Academy Awards overall, including Best Picture and Best 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. . No word on whether the superstar greenery is headed for a spinoff Spinoff A new, independent company created through selling or distributing new shares for an existing part of another company. Notes: Spinoffs may be done through a rights offering. of its own. Think of the attention a solo turn in the spotlight would garner for trees. While we're not necessarily advocating trees that stomp their way to preservation, a good roar now and then might be helpful in getting people's attention. |
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