During the Hobbit premiere last year all actors gushed about the wonderful experience they had filming with Peter Jackson in New Zealand. But now Martin Freeman, who plays Bilbo Baggins in the blockbuster, reveals that there has been one thing he could have done without with.
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BOLIVIA: The Same Scissors
Down the steep cobbled streets of La Paz, coca-chewing Indians trotted under huge packs of bundled alpaca hides. In the market sun, Indian women in outlandish derby hats and bright-colored skirts haggled over little piles of shelled corn
Memphis: Flood-Weary Residents Go Sightseeing on the River
After weeks of storms and floods, Memphians awoke Tuesday morning to the highest river they’d seen in 74 years. The Mississippi had risen to 48 ft
At Least 15 Dead as Storms Pound South
A wave of thunderstorms with winds blowing near hurricane force strafed the South on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people from Arkansas to Alabama, including a father struck by a tree while protecting his daughter at a Mississippi campsite.
Fred becomes a hurricane; Tropical Storm Linda strengthens
Fred strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday night — the second of the Atlantic season, the National Hurricane Center reported. “Fred is now a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale,” the center said