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Lord of the Rings Entertainment

Peter Jackson Hospitalized w/ Stomach Ulcer 84

An anonymous reader writes "The Hobbit author JRR Tolkien suffered from a perforated ulcer before dying in 1973. Now today, New Zealander Sir Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and soon-to-be-director of the two Hobbit movies, was hospitalized with a perforated stomach ulcer, and underwent surgery. This is only expected to slightly delay the filming of The Hobbit, and he's expected to make a full recovery."
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Peter Jackson Hospitalized w/ Stomach Ulcer

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  • by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 27, 2011 @12:41PM (#35021154)
    If this had happened in the US, he'd probably be out $100,000
  • by osu-neko ( 2604 ) on Thursday January 27, 2011 @01:41PM (#35021760)

    I have ten bucks that says he developed the ulcer due to the stress of having to deal with modern copyright issuess and whatever big name Hollywood studios he's had to tolerate doing business with.

    That's a pretty poor bet, given that ulcers are usually caused by Helicobacter pylori, not stress, sin, witchcraft, or any of the other superstitious beliefs we used to have regarding ulcers.

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