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| Jim Hopkins: If Wellywood's the answer, I have questions |
| With smooth precision, the botoxed fingers opened the gilded envelope. Collagen lips parted. Silicon chests heaved. A thousand lifted faces stared intently at the stage."And the winner for Best Performance in a Copy Cat Role is... |
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Published: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Sideswipe: What a hide |
| When is a pint not a pint? When it's served at the Cock & Bull in Ellerslie. "As a regular drinker at the C & B, I noticed the new glasses straight away. This pub has always maintained it serves beer in a full pint glass - and the... |
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Published: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Noelle McCarthy: A world where Lost Boys are all too easy to replace |
| Lovely lines from William Butler Yeats: "Yet they were of a different kind, / The names that stilled your childish play, / They have gone about the world like wind / But little time had they to pray".They came into my head this... |
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Published: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Richie Barnett : Hard play, attractive footy - that's NRL |
| The NRL is back - and I'm picking it to come back with a boom. There's every chance the first-round 2007 attendance record of 180,000 fans will be smashed this weekend.Both St George and Souths have hit the 10,000 membership mark,... |
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Published: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Inga Tuigamala: Kiwi teams where they belong in Super 14 |
| After a month of the Super 14 the table is a fair reflection of where New Zealand's five franchises are tracking.It is still too early to make bold assumptions on where they will finish as some teams have been on the road while... |
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Published: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Stock takes : Fast food chain takes bite out of recession |
| Restaurant Brands, the local operator of fast food chains KFC, Pizza Hut and Starbucks Coffee, has gone from strength to strength during the recession. The company's share price hit $1.98 last week - its highest level in eight... |
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Published: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Brian Rudman : Two cheers for Wellywood - they're welcome to their wannabe sign |
| As everyone else seems to be offering an alternative to the capital's planned "WELLYWOOD" sign, could I suggest the most accurate slogan for Wellington's film industry would be "NUMBER TWO". Not only would it save the citizens... |
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Published: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Editorial: Ignore cries of doom on funding cuts |
| Predictably enough, Labour has tried to make a mountain out of the Government's announcement of funding cuts in the Education Ministry. According to its education spokesman, Trevor Mallard, these will harm education quality because... |
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Published: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:59 a.m. |
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| Brian Fallow: Giving the economic boat a boost |
| The government plans to set up an Australian-style Productivity Commission in the hope that it would lift the quality of public policy and so make the economic boat go faster.Business lobby groups have been calling for it for... |
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Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:00 a.m. |
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