“My movie event of the year was watching all three Rings films (the first two in extended cuts) back to back to back at the Loews 42nd Street E-walk on Dec. 16. I was lucky to be there, beside people who'd stood in line for as long as 16 hours to buy tickets and then again for six hours to get good seats. The atmosphere was electric, and the movies looked better this way, flowing easily into one another. Before the third movie started, three hobbits and Gollum showed up to pay tribute to these fans: Frodo kept saying "F---in' A!" and was very sweet in his enthusiasm, and Gollum sang a verse of 'My Way' ('And now, the end is near …')."
—David Edelstein, “The 34 Best Movies of 2003: Child spellers, hobbits, and the year in cinema,” Slate.com, 31 Dec 03, http://www.slate.com/id/2093334/.
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