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| I've now finished uploading all the photo's. Use the Page Numbers above to view
the different photo's and reports. Party Preparation Photo's Posh frocks and tuxes, plus the limo trip to The One Party Inside The One Party - a special report The Special Guests Arrive The Wrap-Up New Friends Say Goodbye and Links to Prim's wonderful Poems about the trip Here's the competition I set for fan club members while images were being uploaded. Answers are in square brackets after each question. 1. Which over-enthusiastic fan-club member spilt Sir Ian McKellen's drink all over him? [Silver] 2. Which over-enthusiastic fan-club member shrieked "I can't wait that long!" when Peter Jackson announced that the first trailer for "The Two Towers" would be showing at cinemas next weekend? TOElf 3. Which member of the fan club party, having previously stated they didn't really know the film, and never watched the oscars reacted to the award winners arriving and posing with their oscars by walking round in a daze repeating the phrase "This is so cool!" [Orcrist2 aka Ward] 4. Which fan club member went up to someone who won a rather exclusive Legolas t-shirt in the raffle, told her "You don't want that" and managed to persuade the winner to hand it over? TOElf 5. Who called out to Peter Jackson as he passed and got him to come back up the stairs and shake his hand? 6. What was the most frequently asked question by the girls of the web master when he pointed out that Justin from the Decipher Fan Club services was around? [(a)]Was it (a) Why is he running a fan club for a film nobody likes? (b) Can we talk to him about how the fan club's going? (c) Is he married? (Clue: it's not (a) or (b)!) 7. How many fan club members who asked to hold Richard Taylor's two oscar statuettes and/or pose for a photo with him were politely refused? [(c)] Was it (a) All of them (b) About half of them (c) None of them - everyone who asked got to hold the oscars and have their picture taken (Clue: I have more than one photo with Richard Taylor, the oscar awards and a fan club member in them!) 8. Quickbeam thanked the team for making a boy who had cried at the book at the age of 13 now cry again on seeing the movie at the age of 33. What did Richard Taylor say in response? [(c)] (a) "Thank you very much. We always try and do our best." (b) "We wanted the film to be as much like the book as possible" (c) "To coin a New Zealand phrase: You big wuss!" 9. What had Peter Jackson been doing 2 days before flying out to the oscars? [(c)] (a) telephoning all his friends in the Academy asking them to vote for him (b) recutting the movie to turn it into a gay love story, with Sam and Frodo throwing the ring away and eloping to the Grey Havens together? (c) looking at the test screenings of Gollum and thinking that they looked "pretty damn good and not looking like CGI at all" 10. Which member of the cast and crew when being told how far people had come to attend the party, with Brazil and Germany being given as examples, raised his oscar statuettes to them and boasted "We've come from New Zealand!"? Richard Taylor |
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