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Sean Connery in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring?
Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf. He said in an interview that he "didn't understand it" and therefore didn't want to spend 18 months on the project.

More craziness at Not Starring, the place that tells you who they considered before hiring the actors/directors/whatever that were actually in the movies. Thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog, I think.
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too freaking neat

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I was supposed to be able to embed this in the page, but maybe they didn't reckon with LJ. Or vice versa. So let me just say, if you want to see what may be a thousand virtual cars racing along the same track like a thousand driverless lemmings heading for the fjords [note: lemmings do not actually leap], then click on "What th'-?" and prepare to be amazed. (I left the embed code in out of curiosity. If it works on your browser, let me know.)



What th'-?
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