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Sunday night’s Empire Film Awards brought out a lot of big stars, including Viggo Mortensen, who was presented the Empire icon award by his Lord of the Rings costar Sean Bean. The event, sponsored by Jameson, certainly seemed to have made sure the Jameson’s was flowing. Go here for a fanstastic clip of interviews by Empire’s Chris Hewitt, where talented actors of all kinds seem happy, giddy, light-hearted, and in the case of 300s Gerard Butler, giggling like a schoolgirl.

Which is nothing compared to Viggo Mortensen himself, and his rambling speech whereby he managed to get digs in at a number of big actors, including Russell Crowe. Apparently Crowe had breezed in and read one of his poems and then breezed right out again–Mortensen reflected with an eyeroll on Crowe’s “unfathomable literay aspirations” and added “there’s a lot of pressure at the top.” He then moved on to talk of The Hobbit, which he and Sean Bean might appear in, wherin Aragorn would be possibly changing Boromir’s diapers because of the age difference–”which would be all right”. Bean jokingly intervened at this point, miming a drink out of Viggo’s Jameson’s bottle to indicate Viggo had apparently had one too many.

This prompted Viggo to actually open a bottle and share a drink with Bean. All drunken ramblings aside, it was good to see our two warrior heroes from Lord of the Rings together again. It’s been a decade since the epic trilogy began filming, and it’s always nice to see actors who claim in DVD extras to “be the best of friends” actually telling the truth. You can see all the bromance-inspiring photos of Sean Bean and Viggo Mortensen and their matching dissheveled hairdos at Zimbio.

PHOTO: Viggo Mortensen and Sean Bean share a laugh at the Empire Awards, screencap c2009 Empire.

Continuing on from last night’s Earthlight post, I have more screencaps from the Doctor Who episode, “Smith and Jones”. This introduction to the Martha character is one of my favorite episodes of the series. There’s a lot of action, drama, suspense, humor, and even a little bit of flirting. The doctor is at his zany and brilliant best here, and is even more adorable suited and barefoot. But we’ll get to that later. Tonight we’re still at the beginning of “Smith and Jones”, as Martha learns more about their dire situation and the strange man she’s chasing danger with.

Dr. Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) has a moment of weakness as she realizes what’s happened to them.

She works her way through it with the help of the Doctor (David Tennant), and they puzzle over the forcefield surrounding the hospital.

Inside the hospital, the two observe the melee down below as the police-for-hire search through the hostages. Be sure to click this pic to get the full effect of the hilarious contrast of the Doctor’s joyful grin (over the gift shop) and Martha’s terrified gaze (over the violence).

Another shot of our two curious onlookers, as they try to decide what it is the bounty hunters are looking for.

The Doctor surmises it’s non-humans they’re after, which is trouble for him.

Martha is confused. Why trouble for him?

Martha wants him to stop looking at her like that. She doesn’t believe that he’s alien, or doesn’t want to believe him.

The definite aliens are down below, the giant rhino men known as the Judoon.

Martha wonders what the Doctor is up to with his shiny light pen thingie and the hospital records.

The Doctor is distressed when she doesn’t believe that it’s actually a sonic screwdriver.

The Doctor’s hair gives you an idea of how much danger they’re in.

We’ll see more of that danger in the next installments of Doctor Who “Smith and Jones” screencaps. Stay tuned to the Shrine for more Doctor and Martha goodness!

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David Tennant, Freema Agyeman Doctor Who “Smith and Jones” screencaps, c2006 BBC.

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