How cool is this?
Viggo Mortenson, a long-time fan, reveals he wore a classic Canadiens logo T-shirt under his Aragorn breastplate throughout the making of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. “It gave me just a little more power with the sword,” he says.
–Andrew Ryan, Globe and Mail
DRIVEN wonders (wishes, anyhow): Is Viggo actually holding a hockey stick in that LOTR photo at the top of this post?
Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for an Oscar yesterday for playing an Oscar-winning actor playing a black man who later pretends to be a peasant farmer. The irony is as thick as his accents. Funnier still is Downey’s own reaction to it. Read More
Date: January 24, 1984
New product debut: “Macintosh” computer
Features: 9-inch screen, 128k of RAM, ‘mouse’
Price: $2,495 US—and, if you can put a valuation on what history deems the catalyst for a revolution, worth every penny.
In adjusted dollars, by the way, the peppy little machine that popularized the mouse and made a computer with a graphical interface “affordable,” for lack of a better word, would today cost… Read More
