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The Best of Stephen Colbert's Hobbit Week

by | December 7th, 2012

Last night, America's #1 biggest Tolkien geek Stephen Colbert wrapped up "Hobbit Week," four nights of The Hobbit-related programming with guest appearances by the movie's cast and crew on The Colbert Report. Entitled "The Pundit: Or Colbert and Back Again," Colbert's Hobbit coverage involved him interviewing Sir Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, and Peter Jackson, wielding an elvish blade and smoking from a wizardly pipe. Hit the jump for more highlights from Hobbit Week:

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'The Colbert Report' Will Celebrate "Hobbit Week" Next Week

by | November 30th, 2012

Noted Tolkien nerd Stephen Colbert is celebrating the release of Peter Jackson's new Hobbit movie with a theme week on The Colbert Report next Monday through Thursday, according to Entertainment Weekly. The Report's "Hobbit Week" will feature a different guest from the movies each night: Sir Ian McKellen (Dec. 3), Martin Freeman (Dec. 4), Andy Serkis (Dec. 5), and Peter Jackson (Dec. 6), all in advance of the movie's Dec. 14th release. Stephen Colbert visited the set of the Hobbit movies in New Zealand last year and allegedly filmed a cameo in either the second or third film in the trilogy. About Colbert, Peter Jackson told [...]

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On Michael Cera's Running

by | March 2nd, 2011

Have you ever noticed that in all of his roles, Michael Cera ends up running? Here's a great piece from the Believer in which the particular brand of nerd Cera tends to play is tied into the act of running. It's worth reading! For all his running, never once is Cera chasing anybody. (The closest he comes is in Juno: just after crossing the finish line and failing to locate Juno in the stands, he runs to the hospital where Juno is giving birth.) He is never the pursuer. But then again, he is rarely the pursued. In Nick and Norah, nobody chases after him when he runs [...]

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