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1: Guy’s
World: Premiere Night In Middle
Earth
It’s 12.01am, I’m in geek heaven and I’m loving it. It’s the first Australasian public screening of the Fellowship of the Ring. The hardcore fans are kitted out in their pointy ears and armour. All in the theatre sense several years of anticipation about ...
2:
Scoop
Images: LOTR Opens In New York
The scene in downtown Manhattan as the Fellowship of the Ring opens - Image from Miles Thompson
3:
Scoop
Satire: Brian-Drain Figures Continue To
Rise
Latest figures released by the government show that the so-called ‘Brian-drain’ continues unabated with a further 412 Brians leaving for overseas in the last 6 months.
4:
Scoop
Update #9 – Good Tidings Of Great
Joy
In This Edition: Good Tidings Of Great Joy – To The Barricades - Calling all Cultural Patriots (With The Ultimate LOTR Christmas Present!) – The Plan - And.... The Secret of Scoop’s Success
5:
Big
News: Spelling Christmas with an
X
Well it’s that silly money-making season again – Wellington is renamed Middle Earth, Christmas parades turn into Santa parades, we eat, drink and be merry until we’re overflowing wrecks and when writing out our Christmas cards spell Christmas with ...
6:
Scoop:
Top Scoops From Middle Earth
Scoop Update: Season’s Greetings - Satire: Brian Drain Figures Worst Yet - Scoop Is In The House - Under Urgency!- Government Is Seizing the Power To Sack MPs - With Bill of Rights Breaching Bill! - Petitioning Rages On As SAS May Or May Not Get A ...
I have a website called the Rankin File. The "brand" has now worn thin, however. There are too many Rankin files, as any internet search engine will reveal.
8:
The
Business Of Space Imaging And The
War
War normally stimulates technological development - but there are signs that the conflict in Afghanistan may be having the opposite effect.
9:
Christmas
& New Years Weather Here &
There
The following are long range forecasts from the NOAA Supercomputer for Christmas and New Year’s weather, here in NZ, in the US, Europe and Middle East. For Christmas/New Year's weather forecasts for other parts of the globe please make a request to editor@scoop.co.nz ...
10:
Mallard
Toppled As Parliament's Worst Behaved
MP
Trevor Mallard is no longer Parliament's worst behaved MP according to the 2001 list of Parliament's 10 worst behaved MPs, prepared by United Future leader, Hon Peter Dunne.
11:
Gandalf
Enchants NZ Ambassador And Guests
Nowdays it seems it is not only hobbits that can appear out of thin air. Ian McKellen, the wizard star of The Lord of the Rings, was the surprise special guest at a private screening of The Fellowship of the Rings in New York on December 17 hosted by New ...
12:
Top
PC Tips For The
Holidays……
AUCKLAND, December 18, 2001 – With holidays looming there a number of ‘quick and simple’ things you can do before you leave for the break.....which will make life easier on your return.
13:
Howard's
End: Count The Blessings
What really matters at this time, as you and I know, has little to do with politics, war or strife, and lots to do with little boys and girls and Christmas gifts. Family, friendship, a little hope, a little peace, these are my Christmas wishes for you, ...
14:
Legislative
botch-up 'reintroduces' prohibition
National last night exposed a serious error in a new law proposed by Winston Peters to control alcohol abuse in designated public places, which would inadvertently ban alcohol from every public place - effectively reintroducing prohibition.
15:
Baise-Moi
An Invitation To Murder And
Mayhem
Christmastime – the season of peace and goodwill – has already been marred by murder and mayhem here in New Zealand. Yet our film censor has given an R18 rating to a violent French movie featuring rape, torture and murder of the most brutal kind and ...
16:
Parliament
vehicle checks cost $31,000 a week
Taxpayers are being 'ripped off' by additional police and security costs of over $31,000 per week at Parliament following the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to National MP Murray McCully.
17:
Minister
Becomes Baby-Maker
Green party Co-Leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons has warned of the considerable dangers contained in late additions to the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Genetically Modified Organisms) Amendment Bill.
18:
Huge
Interest In Web-Based Audio-Visual On
LOTR
As excitement builds about the first feature in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which is receiving rave reviews in London and has its Australasian premiere in Wellington tomorrow, a web-based audio visual that lets people journey through the New Zealand ...
19:
Parliamentary
Service report
Alliance whip Grant Gillon says the findings of the Parliamentary service report on the use of Alliance parliamentary resources are broadly in line with his expectations.
20:
Scoop
Archive: Lords Of The Rings Six Minutes @
ShoWEST
Peter Jackson's latest movie in progress The Lord Of The Rings was recently given a sneak preview at the 'ShoWEST' Trade Fair in Paris.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/7b/b7/200007011532.3f5ce8e5.html
21:
Greenpeace
Images: Japanese Whale Tissue
Sampling
Latest images from the Southern Ocean show the fate of the Minke Whale caught yesterday. It was sampled....
22:
“Flightless
Kiwi” Bikes The Globe
Edwin Tucker, of Papatoetoe, leaves New Zealand December 27th to begin an expedition to circumnavigate the world by bicycle.
The idea of separate jails for Maori, is turning the Treaty of Waitangi on its head, ACT leader Richard Prebble says.
24:
Labour
Threatens The RMA For Christmas
The Labour Government is threatening the fundamental tenets of the Resource Management Act, says Forest and Bird.
25:
Dating
website signs up Ten Thousand
members
Internet dating site findsomeone.co.nz recently reached a milestone, signing up it's 10,000th member.
26:
Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was
Stirring
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.
27:
Global
Reunion Site Launches: Kiwis
Wanted
A website aimed at reuniting people world wide with old school and workmates - www.worldfriends.info - has gone live in New Zealand.
28:
'NGO
Support For Hercules'?
Earlier today we received the media release below which came as an email message with the subject heading 'NGO support for Hercules'.
29:
Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Liv Meets Some Smokin'
Ringwraiths
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.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/c9/0f/200001131642.34564fdb.html
30:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 18
December
Today's questions of the day concerned: Peace-Keepers To Afghanistan – SAS In Afghanistan – Tania Furlan Murder Witness Payment – Murders And Police Resources – University Entrance / NCEA- Budget Cap/ DEFU – Business Compliance Costs - Dodson Report – Pacific ...
Alastair Thompson
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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