Posted AT 8:09 AM EDT on 04/04/05
Finding Frodo
Vancouver — There was no mistaking it for an audition of America's Next Top Model. The search for Frodo began in Vancouver on Saturday morning with the first open casting call for the $27-million stage adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, set to premiere in Toronto next February. Even by the self-effacing standards of reality TV's fame-hungry free-for-alls, it was not a pretty sight.
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