Two stories from the New Zealand Herald:

A surprise appearance at the Governor's Ball (heehee!).

A rare interview with Sarah McLeod, aka Rosie Cotton. Includes a picture of her with her now-four-year-old daughter Maisy, who played Frodo Gamgee in the last scene of RotK.

I weirdly happened to catch Billy on Craig Kilborn last night - just flipping through.

He said that the cast only made it to two parties after the Oscars: the New Line Party and the fan party (I'm assuming he meant the TORN party?). Awwww. They skipped Vanity Fair and Elton John to hang with the fans. Yay them.

(Though it makes me sad that I can now not look forward to any hobbit pics in my Oscar issue of VF. Oh well.)

eta: oh they went to the gov's ball, too - but that's not so much a party as where you load up on food before you start drinking, I think.

Cutesie hobbits.

looks around for Kathy

Okay. She's not here yet. So I'll post her info: Check the "trilogy trailer" on [link] It's pretty cool -- three trailers together plus a quick run through all the important faces.

It's pretty cool -- three trailers together plus a quick run through all the important faces.

That was fantastic. The last minute was chill and sniffle inducing.

I wish I could find it in Windows Media. . . well in the Windows Media that I have because I was over at Yahoo trying to watch the Ned Kelly trailer and all I could get was sound.

There's a Ned Kelly trailer?

Whoot!

Yeah, if only I could see it!

Meanwhile, wire images "Hidalgo" page.

He rode the horse to the Premiere. . . well, probably only a short way there.

Heath looks pretty hot. Orlando looks pretty ... rough.

Viggo's pretty weird.

(Wireimage can't tell Dom from Billy yet.)

(Wireimage can't tell Dom from Billy yet.)

To be fair, neither can I.