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06-13-2009, 08:57 AM | #1 |
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I am sure all fans of Christopher Lee will be happy to know he has been awarded a knighthood in today's Queen's Birthday Honours - and not before time.
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06-13-2009, 11:41 AM | #3 |
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A fine actor, to be sure. His abilty to give an air of menace to a character named 'Count Dooku' alone merits the honour.
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06-13-2009, 02:09 PM | #4 |
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Can you name any other LOTR actors who have been, or may
be in the future, knighted? Omg, what if PJ's one! Tell me you have to be a Uk citizen. And being a skate boarding elf is an instant disqualification. Right? Right?
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06-13-2009, 03:17 PM | #5 |
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Sir Gandalf and Sir Bilbo
Both Ians, McKellen and Holm, have been knighted. And yes, I'm quite sure that being British is a prerequisite.
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06-13-2009, 04:00 PM | #6 |
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What about being a member of the commonwealth?
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06-13-2009, 06:20 PM | #7 |
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I think it depends...
I can't speak to the situation across the Commonwealth, but that ceased to be much of an option for Canadians some time in the last fifty years or so, possibly dating to about when we *cough cough* patriated the Constitution. Regardless, I'm delighted to hear that the recipient is now Sir Christopher Lee. He most certainly deserves it.
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Unless you are an politician of international Statesman level you usually have to do a serious amount of good work for charity - being very sucessful at music or computers is not enough! The only foreign film director to be given a knighthood is Spielberg... Of course other countries have order of chivalry - it isn't exclusively British. I worked for someone who was a knight of a Maltese catholic order of chivalry. It is rather early to say with much confidence which of the other LOTR actors might be honoured. Most are still rather young and some actors decline honours on political or other principal. If this is not the case then I imagine Sean Bean might well be a possibility. Cate Blanchett in my opinion is certainly of the calibre of our current crop of bedamed actresses but as an Australian republican she might well refuse.
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06-14-2009, 05:56 PM | #9 |
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Congratulations to Sir Christopher on his well deserved honor.
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06-14-2009, 06:27 PM | #10 |
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He's certainly come a long way from playing Frankenstein's monster in those old Hammer films.
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