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[nori1980]

Golden Globes tonight *squee* I still have to check if PRo7 airs the show live!
I love the awards season..

Apparently Dom was asked to attend Ring*Con 2006, but supposedly asked for too much money. (check cologne_chick's LJ )

The thing is, we don't even know if it was Dominic himself who said " want this amount of money", or if his PR company agent did all the negotiation on that matter.
Saying Dom is "trying to distance himself from his LOTR character", is a little too far fetched in my opinion. A
fter all there is a life after LOTR, and if you ask Elijah he surely says that he doesn't wanna be Frodo for the rest of his life..So, if Dom takes a break from working on promoting his Merry-self than that's ok imho..

I really don't know what to say to that matter right now..

sweetzattack knows oh so well what to say..
I am posting the most important parts, cos they sum up my thoughts at the moment.. (oops..quoted nearly the whole thing after all :D

Dear so-called "fans",

Yes, I heard it too. Yeees, I read Dom is asking an unbelievable fee of $XXX.XXX to do a convention. And no, I don't think he pulled that outta his own ass! (...)

He's an actor, kiddos! Just like every other working human being he has an employer and can not do whateverthefuck he wants! More than that, actually - he has an employer (in this case ABC and the friggin' Mouse) and a management. He has agents and a future to think of! Did the thought that maybe all these people who, unlike us, have influence on him think that going back to Middle-Earth, and if it's just for a convention, might hold him up ever cross your mind? Can you imagine that, maybe, it's not him who set the prize?

What would you prefer? Him saying, "Nope, sorry, not gonna do this, you're ruining my career?" He is a public person who really has enough on his plate, he can't afford being rude so the only damn thing he can do is ask for fees he knows no one can afford. He's got a job to do, people, and while conventions are work too, let's face it, the time of his life when he was "just" Merry are over. There's more important things for him to think about now.

Sure, the fact that he doesn't exactly love conventions and was treated like fucking shit at ORC (yes, I *do* have a rather strong opinion about Creation-cons - if they can't do it right, they'd better not do it at all and I am not going to step back from that) might play into this now, but I seriously doubt it's the main reason.

Comments

[stefsoleil.livejournal.com]

Yes, they air it live.

[nora1980.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[tinaskywalker.livejournal.com]

Da stimme ich dir voll und ganz zu. Wir wissen nicht wirklich ob das von ihm kommt. Er ist jetzt erst einmal Charlie und nicht Merry. Das kann man verstehen.

[nora1980.livejournal.com]

Wirft auch irgendwie ein schlechtes LIcht auf die FedCon und/oder Marc..

[tinaskywalker.livejournal.com]

Schon ein bisschen. Es wird auf jeden Fall negativ interpretiert. Da fällt mir ein, ich hab immer noch keine eigene Bestätigung. Ich stehe nur bei Anja mit auf der Bestätigung. Vielleicht sollte ich auch noch mal an die FedCon schreiben.

[sweetzattack.livejournal.com]

Suppose I made it clear that I second that - even though I don't have your self-control and couldn't really put it that kindly. *ehem* ;)

[nora1980.livejournal.com]

oooh.. i havent even read your entry on that.
*reads*

not as self-controlled, but in the end much more true and honest :D

[sweetzattack.livejournal.com]

Thanks - but compared to yours, my entry almost makes me feel bad. ;)
Just can't stand shit like that, there really are some people who seem to think Dom has to do their bidding and isn't allowed to have a life and a career just because he was Merry. Sometimes I just want to tell them to grow the hell up.

[nora1980.livejournal.com]

ahaha. compared to yours, my entry makes me feel a little shallow :D

and i felt i held something back, cos after all ..I'm a crazy fangirl who's just trying to defend dom ..

[patsie.livejournal.com]

I agree.

Also, just think of his con experiences. Collectormania and ORC. I only went to Cmania, but after hearing many reports from ORC, both were push through meetings. One fan after the other. bam bam bam bam bam. no time to talk or really interact. That's just not the kind of person dom is. I'd be weary if I were him.

[skulkings.livejournal.com]

I know it wasn't his PR company that asked that. It would be his agent.

I'm guessing he is asking the same for Lost and Sci-Fi conventions as for LotR. Creation, nor anyone, has never gotten him for any of their events after ORC.

[nora1980.livejournal.com]

yeah, i'm not involved in any of that business staff. agent is correct, you're right..

[theshapeshifter.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think this needs to be taken with a grain of salt... we certainly don't know the whole story, all we have is a snippet of information from someone who's clearly not unbiased.

All I can say is, with only the knowledge available to me as part of the fandom, I'm not going to let this one bit of news/gossip/rumour/whatever undermine my opinion of him.

[blavandgirl.livejournal.com]

The money is one thing. I really don´t know what to say to that.
But ...
I wouldn´t want to go to meetings of a thing I´ve done five years before. I am also not going to my England group meetings anymore. It´s kind of sad, but it´s over and it doesn´t feel right to stick with it ... soooooo .... I would understand if he wants to move on.

[blue-hobbit.livejournal.com]

I already said my piece on this, but I just wanted to agree with you. First of all, we don't know if that comes from Dom himself, and even if it does... after seeing how he got treated so rudely by the con people (not the fans) at ORC last year, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he just has "die Nase voll" of cons for now.