Sean Astin, the ring bearer, elected SAG-AFTRA president

Cafe Society
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Well, congratulations for becoming mayor of the shire President of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Sam: It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are.

It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

– From The Lord of the Rings.

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Very cool.

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Sean Astin, the ring bearer?
No, no…Sean Astin, the GOONIE.

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Or Rudy.

And very cooly, the son of original Gomez, John Astin.

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And son of Patty Duke, a former SAG president.

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I knew Patty Duke was his mother, I didn’t realize she was a past President.

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He’ll always be Bob to me.

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What about Bob?

No wait, that was Bill Murray.

You know the Bob you meant shouldn’t have stopped running.

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I read a little bio. He’s got three dads, somehow, and he manages to be well adjusted.

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Looking at his bio, I missed that he was also the voice of Raphael, in the animated TV show the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of 2012.

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Four really. He considers his step father to be one of his dads.

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He’s Twoflower, the Disc’s first tourist, to me. Gotta love a live-action Discworld movie with this incredible cast.

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Billy Tepper sure has come a long way since he saved his boarding school from a terrorist occupation. Good for him.

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One actor over all, one actor to find them, one actor to bring them all and in contracts bind them

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I tried to watch it but the sound was way off in the version on Prime.

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That stinks. I have it on DVD, along with The Hogfather. Mandatory Christmas fare in our house.

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Good news, it was recently posted to youtube, this looks like a legal upload. I watched the first couple minutes, it sounds fine to me.