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...Mount Roskill couldn't be further away from Middle-earth if it tried. Built on a volcano, the former Bible-belt suburb of Auckland is now a very 21st century ethnic melting pot-though that doesn't stop a tourist character in a new movie that's set there from asking, "Where is Mount Doom?" Rather than ring-seeking hobgoblins and hobbits, No. 2-about an ageing Fijian matriarch's gathering of the clan to name her successor-is filled with her kava-swigging, tree-chainsawing, pig-slaughtering grandchildren, who surf a volcano of emotions over one night...
...winningly modest Fraser, 31, helped usher it in. Born in England, where his father was employed as a broadcaster for the BBC, Fraser migrated to Auckland when he was 14 and spent much time with his Fijian grandmother, who lived in the same Mount Roskill house until her death in 1990. While working as a cinema supervisor through the '90s, the aspiring playwright penned his aptly titled second play-and the one-woman show, with nine characters spanning three generations, proved to be the little one that roared. First performed in 1999, Fraser's love letter to his grandmother toured...
Everywhere the Heath brothers look, it seems, there is a lesson to be learned. The Nature Conservancy gives tracts of land spiffy names like the Mount Hamilton Wilderness--a better ring than "1,875 square miles of environmentally critical ecosystem"--and donations perk up. Chalk that up to the power of being concrete. The Texas department of transportation casts Dallas Cowboys and Houston Astros in testosterone-soaked ads telling drivers "Don't mess with Texas," and roadside litter drops 29% in a year. Consider it a score for an emotional appeal to identity--a way of getting litterbugs to believe...
...Experiment” and showcasing the magic of Gifford and Roy, Spooky World is certainly not, as its website proudly proclaims, “nothing more than monsters jumping out.” Take the red line to UMass/JFK. Expo Center is at 200 Mount Vernon St. If you can’t find the time or the transportation to venture out of Cambridge in search of Halloween fun before the big day, don’t despair. Sometimes a weekend at Harvard can be the most ghoulish experience...
...WITH KARL ROVE AS GOLLUM Senator Rick Santorum compares Iraq to the battle for Middle-earth in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, noting that "as the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else...I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the U.S." Hey, it's better than comparing Iraq to Vietnam! At least the hobbits...