It was 20 years ago today :: A few Very Much Expected Parties :: The Return of the King cast and creatives hit the post-Oscars party circuit, with stops at the Governor's Ball, the Vanity Fair party, and New Line Cinema's own celebration (a post on the The One Party still to come). Joining the celebrating and celebrated for the parties were beloved trilogy actors Lawrence Makoare, Bruce Hopkins, Jed Brophy, Sala Baker, Andy Serkis, and executive producer Mark Ordesky.
[ The Wellington premiere of ROTK | Air Frodo from NZ to LA | Los Angeles | Berlin | London | New York (1) | New York (2) | Empire's LOTR Celebration booklet photography | Empire's outtakes | Critics Choice and People's Choice Awards | National Board of Review Awards | Producers Guild Awards | Tokyo (1) | Tokyo (2) | Golden Globes | Empire Awards | BAFTAs | SAGs | Oscars (1) | Oscars (2) ]
2023, the year of Alchemy ✨ this year, while largely taking a break from touring we made & released an album kind of out of nowhere. We didn’t plan it. It just kind of fell out of us. It’s some of our proudest work yet & we just want to thank every single one of you for taking the time to listen. We promise we’ll be back next year with some big shows. Merry Christmas & a happy new year to you all - Love G & H 🫶
Leslie Howard, Gertrude Lawrence, and Reginald Owen in Candle Light. The play, from a book by Siegfried Geyer adapted by P.G. Wodehouse, opened at the Empire Theater on September 30, 1929, and ran for 128 performances.
T.E. Lawrence (T.E. Shaw)
13 October 1931
photographed by Howard Coster
In a letter to Charlotte Shaw on 14 October 1931, Lawrence describes how this famous portrait was taken by the well-known portrait photographer Howard Coster: "On Friday I was on the embankment near the Temple ... [when] a little bare-headed man rushed up and said "Colonel Lawrence ... I want to photograph you ... You and Gandhi are the two people I want to take". So I went along, for the joke of it, and he put me on a little chair ... [at] A little shop in Essex Street. Rather a nice little stammering man, I thought. Works for Vogue!" Two weeks later Coster sent Lawrence one of the photographs he had taken (the first one here), and Lawrence commented on it, to his mother on 30 October 1931: "Pity it is so large, for I think that it is very good, as a photograph".