PSA for Bay Area LOTR fans

[El Diablo]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfga...entry_id=12009

"Ever since "Return of the King" won the best picture Academy Award, my geek friends and I have been dreaming about how wonderful it would be for a kick-ass local theater to run Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" movies back to back to back. (The extended versions, of course.)

It doesn't get much more kick-ass than the Castro Theatre in San Francisco (OK, maybe the Grand Lake in Oakland ...), which has a "Lord of the Rings" marathon set for this Saturday.

That's 559 minutes of orc-tastic cinema, starting at 1:30 p.m. and ending, by my quick calculation, some time in April. The cost is $10, and the Castro is making clear that "pillows and blankets will NOT be provided by the theater.""