Martin Freeman plays the inquisitive, vertically challenged Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, the J.R.R. Tolkien classic that is set to be one of the festive season’s biggest movies when it’s released in Hong Kong this week. Early in his career the cuddly British actor, whom internet users have decided resembles a hedgehog, appeared alongside comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as sidekick to the latter’s mock ghetto rapper and politically incorrect interviewer, Ali G. Among his many on-screen cameos, Freeman also featured in the music video for I Started a Joke by American funk metallists Faith No More …
The actress, musician and widow of grunge icon Kurt Cobain has struggled throughout her life with substance abuse and other problems. As a practising Buddhist, Love has often credited her faith and the benefits of daily chanting with helping her through years of depression and anxiety. Labelled by Rolling Stone as “the most controversial woman in the history of rock” a pre-fame Love made her entertainment debut working the pole at Jumbo’s Clown Room, a topless bar in Los Angeles said to have inspired the movie Blue Velvet, written and directed by Jumbo patron David Lynch …