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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
Movie star Liv Tyler takes a break from a hectic schedule of filming for the Lord of the Rings trilogy earlier this year
for a spot of shopping on Wellington's Willis St - photo Kevin Stent of the Sunday Star Times.
Liv Tyler, Wellywood’s most talked about starlet, has been acting it up during shooting of the Lord of the Rings, both
on and off the set.
At the weekend the official LOTR website http://lordoftherings.net broadcast a two minute preview from the movie. The
preview is attracting unprecedented internet attention.
Over the weekend the Government announced it was considering a radical proposal for censoring television stations, in
the name of promoting local culture. What I want to know is why we can’t just let people watch what they want to. Why is
that such ...
At the weekend the official LOTR website http://lordoftherings.net broadcast a two minute preview from the movie. The
preview is attracting unprecedented internet attention.
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath poured scorn on the Employment Tribunal after it fined a woman for running a
'sweat-shop'.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... sometimes, probably times when you're heavily sedated, you have to love the dear old New
Zealand Stock Exchange. As markets the world over slumped on Tuesday, the NZSE boomed.
I'd always thought the Olympic Games was a marathon event, requiring a lot of endurance, skill and so on to get to.
Upton-on-line has been holed up in the old Legislative Council Chamber taking part in the great constitutional debate
sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies. The great, the good, the aggrieved and the grumpy (or at least 117 of
them) have ...
London, June 18, 1999 – Millions of pounds worth of damage caused by anti-capitalist demonstrators in London’s financial
district.
IN WELLINGTON... - Copita - Happy Birthday, Ed's - CueFuel - StarMart .... AND WORLDWIDE - E-Bouncers - Julia Child
Kitchen - Guinness question
The following pictures show the inside of the set for the town of Bree from the Lord of The Rings Trilogy which began
shooting in New Zealand yesterday under the direction of Peter Jackson.
A group of about 10 students, including an AUSA executive member and the Editor of Hamilton student magazine Nexus,
burnt approximately 100 copies of Craccum in the Student Union complex on Thursday night.
The following pictures - supplied to Scoop anonymously - show actress Liv Tyler in action during the shooting of some
scenes for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The pictures were taken in the South Island near Wanaka.
How much longer do we have to put up with this kind of conspiracy of silence from our news media? Given a nightly menu
of worthless rubbish in an effort to hide stories such as these.... A letter from publisher Ian Wishart to Paul Cutler
TVNZ Director ...
Responding to the hints of a couple of US Lord of The Rings websites – http://www.lordoftherings.com/ and
http://www.onering.net/ - Scoop earlier this week informed its star Hobbit paparazzi of a reported sighting of Gandalf’s
exploding trees in Upper Hutt.
Taking turns at the podium at yesterday's post Cabinet press conference in the Beehive are Prime Minister Helen Clark
(with an overview), Energy Minister Pete Hodgson (announcing government support for EECA legislation promoted by
Jeanette Fitzsimmons of the Greens), ...
Internet users struck by a bout of patriotism can turn to the Department of Internal Affairs website ( www.dia.govt.nz )
for instant relief.
While Wellington slept, Libertarianz activists were tying up government buildings with red tape to highlight that the
aim of any new constitution should be to tie up government.
The Minister of Local Government, Hon Sandra Lee, has told Cabinet today she has accepted a Ministerial Review
Authority recommendation to appoint a Commission to replace the elected representatives of the Rodney District Council.