The London (UK) Telegraph interview Sir Peter Jackson, The New Zealand MFP. With a wealth of about $450 personal millions, Jackson has been busy. He says he may stop by the Hobbit to throw his hand in. He’s been making his Lovely Bones, to varied reviews. Jackson says he turned down having the nearby Wellington airport named after him, for fear his children would be traumatized walking through an airport named for their father.

“The Lovely Bones” would seem to be an examination of how much more powerful/all seeing the Susie character might or might not be after death. Omniscience is a Jackson theme. Does Susie see that someone else’s number is up? That “The Lovely Bones” is a cathartic reworking of “the Frighteners” can’t only have occurred to me. The resonances are too strong.