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The Dominion Post
December 26, 2003
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Only in New Zealand. Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright, pictured
holding the camera, happily did the honours when a member of the public asked
if she could take a picture of her with Helen Clark at Sunday's Tangiwai
commemorations. After a bit of direction, Dame Silvia manoeuvred the prime
minister into position for the pic, taken amid a crowd of bemused onlookers.
Your Diarist finds it difficult to imagine a similar sight overseas, such as
the Queen snapping British Prime Minister Tony Blair with a subject.
Peter Jackson wasn't the only person involved in The Lord of the Rings who
was obsessed with the films. Jackson told Britain's
Channel 4 that star Viggo Mortensen regularly faxed him in the middle of the
night. "After a long day's shooting, when all the other cast would be in
a bar, a nine-page handwritten memo would come rattling through the fax from
Viggo, outlining his thoughts about that day's work and the next few days to
come," Jackson said.
David Bain, who lost his second appeal against his convictions for the 1994
murders of his mother, father and siblings, has a few things in common with
Peter Ellis, convicted of abusing pre-schoolers at the Christchurch Civic
Creche. Both maintain their innocence, both lost two appeals in the Court of
Appeal, both were tried before the same judge, Justice Williamson, and they
were both in Christchurch's
Paparua Prison for a time. A few years back, Ellis told a colleague of Your
Diarist that when Bain arrived at the prison, he went up to him and said
wickedly: "Hi David, I'll be your friend, but please don't call me
family."
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