Some fast-food chains have long sold bite-sized food like KFC's Popcorn Chicken, White Castle's Chicken Rings (think onion ring-shaped chicken), or Sonic's potato Tots.
After all, successfully mixing pyrotechnics and narrative is how the most satisfying genre features of recent years -- such as Peter Jackson's "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy and Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" -- have found artistic, as well as commercial, favor.
Though exceptions exist--New Line's Lord of the Rings franchise won several Oscars a few years back--nominations are typically awarded to the smaller budget, often artistic films, aptly dubbed Oscar bait, from the studio's specialty divisions (Paramount's Vantage or 20th Century Fox's Fox Searchlight, among others).
And I think the American people can be assured that -- (cell phone rings) -- it's too hard to give a serious answer while they're playing like salsa music or something like that.
Over the years, fan clubs mushroomed, arcane role-playing games based on the Lord of the Rings were developed - and Tolkien's literary stock plummeted.
Suddenly the telephone rings - it's the call mother and son have been dreading - the camp commander searching for Maxim.
Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy -- has so far stopped at Miami, the Galapagos Islands and Cancun, in Mexico -- the latter during the United Nations World Climate Conference.
Thieves also took the woman's engagement and wedding rings and prescription medication during the break-in at Coldbrook Road East, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
The PS3--also known as "The Cell" for featuring a high speed microprocessor that is said to run rings around Intel's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium 4 chip--also has the upcoming Ninetendo Revolution to contend with.
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Other activities for Cassini scientists during the extended mission will include monitoring seasons on Titan and Saturn, observing unique ring events - such as the 2009 equinox when the Sun will be in the plane of the rings - and exploring new places within Saturn's magnetic "envelope" - or magnetosphere.
It's the trinkets - the branded mugs, T-shirts and key-rings given away as promotional gifts.
The muscular contraction creates vortices doughnut-shaped rings of water below the creature's body.
I'm sure anybody who has not read (or remembered) the books will enjoy the films and go away thinking they have seen JRR Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings but I wanted to see the book on the big screen - not an interpretation of it.
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