TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.Byline: Jenny Peters and Elizabeth Snead EASY RIDER: Despite Monday night's downpour, faithful Viggo Mortensen fans lined Hollywood Boulevard For uses other than the original street, see Hollywood Boulevard (disambiguation). Hollywood Boulevard is a boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, beginning at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue, where it straightens out to see the ``Lord of the Rings'' star ride up to the El Capitan El Cap·i·tan A peak, 2,308.5 m (7,569 ft) high, in the Sierra Nevada of central California. Its dramatic exposed monolith rises some 1,098 m (3,600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. theater on his own American paint horse The American Paint Horse is a breed of horse that combines both the conformational characteristics of a western stock horse with a pinto spotting pattern of white and dark coat colors. for the premiere of ``Hidalgo Hidalgo, state, Mexico Hidalgo (ēthäl`gō), state (1990 pop. 1,888,366), 8,058 sq mi (20,870 sq km), central Mexico. Pachuca de Soto is the capital. .'' Talk about a movie memento! Seems Viggo, who has ridden since he was a boy, actually kept one of the horses used in the film. ``I thought about it all during the shoot,'' Mortensen says. ``Then at the end, I asked the owner what he thought about it and he said yes. He stays at a friend's ranch outside of town and I go out there to ride him a lot.'' This isn't his first equine acquisition. He also bought a few ``LOTR'' horses and will soon bring them home. All may end up in the ranch he plans on his land in Idaho. Mortensen, aka the noble Aragorn in the Oscar-sweeping ``LOTR'' trilogy, plays yet another sexy swashbuckler in ``Hidalgo,'' based on the true story of a Pony Express pony express, in U.S. history, relay mail service. At its inception in Apr., 1860, the pony express operated between St. Joseph, Mo., the western end of a telegraph line, and Sacramento, Calif. courier who traveled to Saudi Arabia with his beloved horse Hidalgo. There they battle sand storms, locust locust, in botany locust, in botany, any species of the genus Robinia, deciduous trees or shrubs of the family Leguminosae (pulse family) native to the United States and Mexico. swarms and a fierce princess during a dangerous 3,000-mile race - called the Ocean of Fire - across the barren, treacherous Middle East deserts. No surprise that director Joe Johnston (new ``Jurassic Park IV'') also directed ``Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure'' and the ``Indiana Jones Chronicles'' TV series. ``Hidalgo'' also stars Omar Sharif, best-known for ``Dr. Zhivago,'' who's continuing a movie comeback with ``Cyber Meltdown'' and ``Return of the Thief of Baghdad.'' At the Hollywood Hills home party of New Line's co-chairman Bob Shaye on Saturday, Sharif proudly pulled his sweater down to show off his unrepaired neck wattle wattle, in botany: see acacia. . Proof of how far he's been from Hollywood for the past 20 years. One reason Mortensen took on the project? Nope, not big bucks. Think location, location, location Location, Location, Location is a popular Channel 4 property programme, presented by Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer. The reality show follows two real estate experts as they try to find the perfect home for a different set of buyers each week. It first aired in May 2001. . ``Hidalgo's'' far-flung shooting spots - Black Hills National Forest, S.D.; Blackfeet Indian Reservation The Blackfeet Indian Reservation or Blackfeet Nation is an Indian reservation of the Blackfeet tribe in Montana in the United States. It is located east of Glacier National Park and borders Canada to the north. , Mont.; and Morocco - pleased this admitted Hollywood outsider. Mortensen, who spent more than three years in the wilds of New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. for ``LOTR LOTR Lord Of The Rings (book by J.R.R. Tolkien; movie series) LOTR Lords of the Realm (computer game) LOTR Legend of the Rangers (movie) ,'' avoided Sunday night's deadly dangerous Oscar carpet like the red plague red plague cutaneous vesicles, focal mecrosis of muscle, widespread hemorrhage in salmonids caused by Aeromonas salmonicida. . Now that's what we call horse sense. INDIE JONES: Spirits were high on Saturday afternoon at the jam-packed Independent Spirit Awards after-party in Santa Monica at Shutters on the Beach. Room after room teemed with revelers, many of whom were lugging the spoils of attending the actual awards, a big black bag emblazoned with the IFC (Internet Foundation Classes) A class library from Netscape that provides an application framework and graphical user interface (GUI) routines for Java programmers. IFC was later made part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). See JFC, AFC and AWT. See also ICF. logo and packed with swag, while trying to sip martinis and dip into the chocolate fondue towers scattered around the warren of party rooms. The real winners at the celebration were grasping their Spirit Awards and discussing the future of independent films. In this age of big studios releasing small movies through their spin-off art house divisions, can independent filmmakers stay independent once they have made it to the top of the heap? The big winner of the afternoon, Sofia Coppola for ``Lost in Translation,'' didn't make the party scene, but Clark Peterson, one of the producers of ``Monster,'' winner of Best First Feature, summed up the crowd's attitude, saying, ``I think I'd like to do a little bit of both, some studio films, some independents, but I will forever want to make independent movies, because it is fun to make movies without a studio, to just get out there with a filmmaker and make it.'' Nikki Reed, the 16-year-old writer-actor phenom of ``Thirteen,'' won for Best Debut Performance and insisted that independent flicks are the only way to tell interesting stories. ``(Director) Catherine (Hardwicke) and I are working on something called 'Lords of Dogtown,' which we'll probably do much the same way we did 'Thirteen,' as an independent. But I think doors will open quicker for us this time because of the success of 'Thirteen.' '' Other indie fans who joined the after-party scrum included sibling actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern, Jennifer Tilly, Toni Collette, Annette O'Toole and hubby Michael McKean and the show's irreverent host, director John Waters. Jon Favreau, who has gone from indie filmmaker (``Swingers'') to big-time studio director (``Elf''), weighed in on the side of independent films, saying, ``Indies are getting bigger than the studio movies. You do independents because there's no other way to make those movies, movies like 'Made.' Whenever I have an idea that is too small to do at a studio, I'll do it independently.'' CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1) MORTENSEN: Sorry, traffic was hell. (2) SHARIF: Sticking his neck out. Lee Celano/WireImage.com (3) O'TOOLE, McKEAN: Striking a stylish note. George Pimentel/WireImage.com (4) REED: Lucky 'Thirteen.' Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com |
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