The following is a special Top Scoop's weekend ratings report + RUGBY NEWS....
Lions Roar
- IN a pulsating opener to NPC 2000 at WestpacTrust Stadium on Friday night Wellington beat Canterbury 27-20 with powerhouse No8 Filo Tiatia charging toward regaining an All Black jersey with an awesome all-round performance. For Mathew Loh’s match report see... Tiatia Shines In Lions Victory [1] in the Headlines wire. See Also...Scoop Images: Lions Vs Canterbury #1 [2] - #2 [3]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0008/S00065.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0008/S00066.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0008/S00067.htm
The
Scoop Top 30 rating items yesterday were...
1: Scoop
Images: The Blood Red
Moon...Again
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Scoop
Images: A Mountaintop Hobbit
Retreat?
Yet another picture of a Lord of the Rings set has been supplied to Scoop by a friendly Hobbit. This time it appears to show a mountaintop fortress guarded by an eagle statue.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
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Scoop
Images: Wellington's Blood Red
Moon
The following image of Sunday night's total lunar eclipse was supplied by Christopher Picking.
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Scoop
Archive: When The Wizard Gets
It
The following is an image taken secretly from the Lord of the Rings site while filming takes place.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/a1/fd/200008081651.6e736819.html
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Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG
END!
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
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Scoop
Archive: Scoop Image: Where The Hobbits
Are
The following picture of a Hobbit House was supplied to Scoop by a friendly, anonymous, hobbit. Scoop beleives it is the first published picture of Hobbitton, in the Waikato, taken from the ground rather than the air. The Hobbitton set is being used for Peter ...http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/e6/e8/200006031018.f2d003c6.html
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Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: The Guardian of Helms
Deep...
The guardian of Helms Deep - exclusively on Scoop! The following picture is from the set of Helms Deep used in the filming of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Scoop came by it courtesy of a friendly Hobbit.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/ec/6b/200006271142.ca7d5e48.html
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Scoop
Archive: Hook Line And Sinker - Dominion Ring
Winked
Re: Cate Blanchett and Galadriel's Evil Sister. THEONERING.NET'S Tehanu writes To the Dominion Letters To the Editor page.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/e2/1c/200008081034.b1a5dd03.html
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Scoop
Archive: Are These For Real?
The latest pictures to come from the Lord of the Rings film website theonering.net seem to have had some magic touch ups - if they are real photos at all...http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/f7/d6/200006161515.bfb399c5.html
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Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: More LOTR Pics From
Ruapehu
Scoop is pleased to present a series of images of Lord of The Rings Filming from its content partner http://theonering.net . They show filming underway in Happy Valley at Whakapapa skifield on Mt Ruapehu.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/1d/fc/200005030943.ff7b2567.html
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Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Gandalf's Two Exploding
Trees
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.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/5e/6d/199910211110.2a220329.html
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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
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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
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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.
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Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: A Misty Ruapehu Film
Set
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.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/29/c5/200004281446.a3d442fc.html
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Candidate
Al Gore Profits From
Pollution?
Democratic presidential candidate, Al Gore, bills himself as a champion for the environment making impassioned pleas for action in his 1992 book, Earth in the Balance. But investigators are now accusing him of profiting from pollution. John Howard reports.
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HARD
NEWS 11/8/00 - Beyond a Joke
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... sometimes politics moves far beyond the stage where any rational citizen can give a rat's arse about it. Sometimes it happens twice in a week.
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Upton-on-line:
Even More on the Treaty
Recent editions of upton-on-line have covered GM cows, trade agreements and the survival of the nation – all through the prism of the Treaty of Waitangi. We thought we could turn elsewhere this week but the Treaty production line is in over-drive and no-one ...
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Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Mirror Snaps Bilbo's
House
Scoop wouldn't normally so shamelessly lift a photo from a newspaper but in this instance the claim in the Mirror/Daily Record that this is the "first" picture of the Lord of the Rings secret Kingdom, is, respectfully disputed.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/10/ae/199910181355.2d1ec1f3.html
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Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Castles & Tents In A
Quarry
Scoop's anonymous Hobbit photographer has been busy again snapping away at Lord of The Rings sets, this time at the most photographed set of them all, the Haywards Hill (Dry Creek) quarry. Filming at the site is now fully underway with scenes of ...http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/87/9c/200002160935.cb770781.html
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Scoop
Archive: Ringswatch: Our Liv Freaks Out In
Battle
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.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/ca/88/200004070956.b55790d9.html
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Scoop
Images: Wellywood's Favourite Starlet
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.
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Stop
Hallucinogenic Chocolate
Biscuits!!!
"The Corrective Party is appalled, disgusted and degraded at the continued hallucinogenic properties of the "Toffee Pops" chocolate biscuit. When a woman eats this chocolate biscuit, she entertains fantasies of nubile scantily clad men in their ...
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Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Bree Is Spooky At
Night....
Having seemingly scored the internet Scoop of the week with his pictures of BREE AT FIRST LIGHT Scoop contacted the Hobbit who scooped the world and asked him if he had any more snaps from his visit to Bree....http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/11/7b/199910141610.d2a81f5f.html
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Scoop
Link: Weird Fish Story Of The Week
Fish As the Ultimate Brain Food - Lucent Uses Salmon DNA to Replace Computer
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Scoop
Images: Hobbit Town Photos Mystery
Solved
The two photos above one apparently of the same scene - appear to confirm that the Hobbit Town photos published this morning by the Dominion are indeed real - even if they do look a little too toy townish.
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Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Lord Of The Rings Preview
Highlights
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.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/a9/99/200004100055.8b5d43fa.html
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Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Two More Pics From Dry Creek
Quarry
Two more shots from Dry Creek Quarry on Haywards Hill near Wellington where filming is underway for the Lord of The Rings Trilogy. See also... Scoop Images: Castles & Tents In A Quarry . Scoop would like to express its thanks to the kind hobbit who ...http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/61/56/200002181638.204239af.html
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Scoop
Images: Dom's Stale Hobbit Photos Are
Fake!
More than three weeks after Scoop first published a picture of, allegedly, the home of a Hobbit from the Lord of the Rings, and the day after we published aerial photos of the Waikato set the Dominion News Paper have run two highly dubious – and probably ...
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Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Peter Jackson And The Olympic
Flame
Courtesy of http://theonering.net and photographer Karen Tucker - Lord of the Rings Director Peter Jackson with the Olympic Flame in Wellington's Civic Square yesterday.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/5d/cc/200006071834.1eeb7d8f.html