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...loop, you'll know that "New Zealand cuisine" is no longer an unthinkable string of words, and that there's more to the country's larder than frozen lamb and vast slabs of bland cheddar cheese. The past 20 years have seen an explosion of creativity among Kiwi chefs, restaurateurs and winemakers, as well as growing appreciation of the purity of the country's produce - a bankable quality in these times of genetic tomfoolery and junk food. Gourmands heading south over the next few months will be in for a treat, as New Zealand enters its season of food...
...Western Samoan roots. "My people are not performers, but they are very flamboyant," he says. "They have self-belief in things which might perhaps deter others." The famous haka war ritual performed by New Zealand's All Blacks rugby team, a posturing display of aggression, is the ultimate Kiwi demonstration of confidence, and Lemalu, soft-spoken with a frequent laugh, comes from a background more rugby than Rigoletto. "The fact that I sang in the choir sat uneasily with my rugby playing as far as the other boys were concerned. But I really enjoyed it." With a Schubert disc...
...know that New Line [the studio releasing the films] would have preferred us to have a little catch-up," says the director, sitting in an office in Wellington, New Zealand, speaking in a cheerful Kiwi accent and peering from behind a mop of curls and plate-size wire-rim glasses. "But I think that's a very TV kind of device. I figured the amount of people going to see Two Towers without seeing Fellowship would be fairly minute. If you can't at least spend $3 or $4 to rent it before you see Two Towers, there...
When last we saw Jackson, one year ago, he was one very jittery Kiwi. His Lord of the Rings trilogy was considered perhaps the riskiest endeavor in motion-picture history. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's mythical sword-and-sorcery three-part novel, the movies were all filmed at once during a mammoth 15-month shoot. Jackson, a relatively unknown director who seldom stepped foot outside New Zealand and who was best known for quirky, low-budget films, was given a $270 million budget. The cost ultimately climbed to $310 million. If the first movie had tanked, then New Line (which...
...gamble paid off. Fellowship turned out to be the second highest grossing film of 2001, just behind Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and established Jackson as the Kiwi George Lucas. The movie went on to gross $860 million worldwide and was honored with 13 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture...