ORLANDO BLOOM

Some people predicted that the teen-crush hysteria over Orlando Bloom would fade away after memories of his portrayal of Legolas in The Lord of the Rings series dissolved into ancient history. They are wrong. Bloom continues in vain to be low profile and inconspicuous. Obviously his actor protection program is failing him in the most dramatic way. He has tried a lot of different things to go about his life in a normal fashion. There is little he can do regarding Bloom-mania, except to endure the attention and let the screams run their course. Although he admits he wondered if the hysteria would ever end, he realized it would not. Girls were screaming into the night, and he survived the attention, as he will again. Bloom's appearance in Elizabethtown, which examined the life of a very personal journey, allowed Orlando to respond to the intimacy of the dialogue, as he responded with intelligence and heart.