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Corey Feldman's "Goonies" co-star Sean Astin is standing by his friend as Feldman comes forward with allegations of a Hollywood pedophile ring. "Hopefully, this doesn't play out as a personal tabloid story," Astin told us at TBS's "Search Party" premiere at Public Hotel. "The fact is, real people all over the country are starting to have a conversation, and it can be very distracting if it distills down into some kind of typical [story]." He added, "My only concern is [it] won't actually develop into the complex conversation that needs to happen. And if it doesn't, and it becomes about...

Known best for his role as Sam in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Christian actor and current star of the recently released Moms' Night Out, Sean Astin said part of Christians' frustrations with the film industry may be their own fault. "Hollywood is antagonistic to Christian films because of forces that are hard to describe, but Christians have made things difficult for themselves by the way they approach the outside community," Astin told Fox411, adding that studios needed to ignore those "who grab the microphones and yell the loudest." Astin, who has starred in two Christian films, said that...

Sean Astin prays for troops. Tehanu @ 6:36 am EST Sean Astin appeared on Joan and Melissa Rivers' miniature red carpet to send a message out to our troops in Iraq, via television. In short, he said that since the beginning of the war he got down on bended knee to pray for them, and that he's still praying for them and for a victory, and that he hopes for their safe return. Also, Joan and Melissa asked him if it was a disappointment to them (the LotR cast and crew) that Peter Jackson wasn't nominated. Sean replied by explaining...

Plump hobbit actor Sean Astin has been interested in directing for some time, having tried his hand at a couple of short films and an episode of TV's Angel recently. Now he's ready to hit the big time, and has optioned a book that he plans to turn into a movie. And Sean's not starting small - he wants to tell the story of the worst natural disaster in American history (and no, we don't mean the TV show AfterM*A*S*H). "I optioned a book called 'Issac's Storm' by Erik Larson," he told MTV. "It's a story about the Galveston, Texas,...