The top 20 rating items on Scoop over the weekend were...
The following pictures were taken at Whakapapa ski-field on Mt Ruapehu at the weekend. Peter Jackson's film crews have
been filming scenes for the Lord of The Rings trilogy of films there recently.
The following report of recent happenings in the Ruapehu area - the site of the latest filming of the Lord of the Rings
Trilogy - was sent to Scoop by a recent visitor to the area…
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... bear with me while I do my therapy. One of the reasons I keep on with Hard News is that it
gives me the chance to shout at people who piss me off. It relieves me of the need to bore my friends and family with
the details.
The earth has replaced the wind as the major buffeter of the capital in the last fortnight, with recent midnight jolts
reminding Wellingtonians they are sitting targets for the next big one.
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.
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.
The following three images show the Greenpeace operation to test waste from Cogema's nuclear reprocessing plant
discharge at Raz Blanchard. Greenpeace discovered alarmingly high levels of radioactivity during its tests and has
called for an end to discharges ...
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.
As protestors gather around the Western World in the cause of improving the lot of their fellow disadvantaged citizens
of Planet Earth, clouds are gathering over the Horn of Africa promising deliverance of a different kind.
At 9.15pm last night a 5.5 richter magnitude quake centered 60km South of Patea was felt in Wellington.
Greetings. Today in MEDIA http://www.nzedge.com/media we have 40 new stories from the international online media about
New Zealanders flexing their edge around the globe: Fleur Adcock and Marie Clay in England, the late Len Lye in Paris,
Richard ...
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.
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.
The ACT Party warned Parliament that the removal of tax returns would work against taxpayers, ACT leader Richard
Prebble said today.
Promotional photos from six of the comedy festival productions presently underway at Bats Theatre as part of the Laugh
Festival. For more information on these shows see... Bats Theatre: International Laugh! Festival 2000 .
As Prime Minister Helen Clark arrives in Singapore, the proposed free trade agreement she has gone there to discuss is
analysed in a Q format by Professor Jane Kelsey.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... some weeks the headlines are not kind to news commentators. There are precious few laughs in
the likes of the cervical screening inquiry, which seeks to trawl over one man's disastrous misreading of test results
over the span ...
The latest update of the Mayday 2000 - Global Day of Action, Resistance and Carnival - contact list. Chockfull of links,
email newsgroups, and sources of information on the global protests due to kick of Monday....
Incensed that a Labour Prime Minister would call them "fairly feral," and comparing them to lynch mobs in places like
Kentucky, West Coasters are now talking about the thing they really understand, forming a new political party likely to
be ...
The latest New Zealand new technology IPO eVentures hasn't been put off by recent ructions on the NasDaq. Today
representatives of overseas backers News Limited and Softbank fronted to media and brokers in Wellington with eVenture's
onshore stakeholder, ...