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Lord of the jobs
Posted at: Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 10:15 AM
Kerry, who stayed up late Sunday night watching the 11-Oscar sweep by “Lord of the Rings,” praised the movie’s director for creating thousands of jobs while filming J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy.
“Peter Jackson said that he used 25,000 extras in ‘Lord of the Rings,’” Kerry said at Ohio State on Monday, referring to the director’s comments during his Oscar acceptance speech. ‘‘Did you know that? He has created 25,000 more jobs than George Bush has, ladies and gentleman. We ought to give him more than an Oscar.”
Only thing is, most of those jobs were in Jackson’s native New Zealand where filming took place.
The director is also building a new movie production center in the capital of Wellington, which is sure to create many more jobs … for Kiwis.
— The Associated Press
