Sideswipe: Our Sam s murder plot
8 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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An insight from Kiwi actor Sam Neill when he played General John MacArthur in the TV adaptation of Agatha Christie s And Then There Were None.
Did you know. 1. Juli Briskman gave the finger to a motorcade carrying Donald Trump when he was President. Trump was so angry he demanded that she be fired, and she was.
She was so angry she decided to run for office and defeated the local Republican candidate.
2. Out of 30,000 known edible crops, only 170 crops are grown on a commercially significant scale today and just 3 staple crops (rice, wheat & maize) provide 40 per cent of our daily calories intake.
Taupō s posh Huka Lodge set to be sold to American private equity firm
29 Jan, 2021 04:23 AM
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An American private equity fund has been allowed to buy Huka Lodge. Photo / Supplied
What do Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Edward, Tilda Swinton, Donald Sutherland, Joan Collins, Michael Douglas, Sir Peter Jackson, Sam Neill and Michael J Fox all have in common? Answer: they ve all stayed at Huka Lodge, which is now being sold.
The famous Taupō lodge has been voted one of the most romantic tourism venues and has hosted some of the world s richest and most famous people. But now an American private equity business has won government consent to buy the high-profile tourist resort and it has big expansion plans.
Sam Neill entertains British comedian Russell Howard on his Central Otago farm
26 Jan, 2021 09:47 PM
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Sam Neill caught up with funny man, Russell Howard, earlier this week, said of the catch-up: I laughed a lot . Photo / NZH
Sam Neill caught up with funny man, Russell Howard, earlier this week, said of the catch-up: I laughed a lot . Photo / NZH
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Sam Neill has a celebrity guest on his farm in Central Otago this week. A candid photo, posted to Instagram, shows Neill, 72, enjoying a laugh with well-known British comedian, Russell Howard. Day with Russell eight shot Howard yesterday at vineyard , Neill commented in the caption alongside the Instagram snap. I laughed a lot .
resemblance to the reality of anything that has to do with me. the president caught part of that interview and tweeted about it. hunter biden was really bad on @gma. now sleepy joe has real problems! reminds me of crooked hillary and her 33,000 deleted emails, not recoverable! joe biden seems to disagree and he said recently his son hunter will join him on the campaign trail at some point but that doesn t mean his son plans to go into much more detail about his resume. i m a private citizen. one thing i don t have to do is sit here and open my life as it relates to how much money i make or don t. it s all been reported. with that, hunter biden is still giving us more detail about his overseas business dealings that his dad has in the last few weeks. both father and son they only ever find out what one another are doing through the press. neill. neil: then might have to
a speaker never does that. a speaker can never allow any doubt about that. allowing that doubt, that doubt that he might not run for reelection is the same thing as just announcing that you re not going to run. and so it was very easy for me to say back in december, with certainty, that paul ryan was not going to run. and today, when he finally said it, he actually had the audacity to compare himself to one of the most successful and beloved speakers in history. look, i know most speakers don t go out on their own terms, tip o neill was probably the last one to do that. no. tip o neill served 10 years and was 70 years old. he announced he wasn t going to run at the very beginning of his last term, giving his party two