12-30-01 Latest News
Get PJ Knighted!!
Lewman @ 8:53 am EST
Yes that's right, our very own Bastard has got a web petition up to get him Knighted. So let's get it done! Here's the e-mail I got from the webmaster of the page.
have started an online campaign to have Peter Jackson awarded The Order of New Zealand 2002 for his contribution to the people of New Zealand with the film Lord of the Rings. New Zealand dumped the title of "Sir" and "Dame" last year and replaced it with the Order of New Zealand, our highest honour.
Lord of the Rings has benefited New Zealand in varied and unbelievable ways - tourism, our film industry and so on. And with the recent death of yachting legend Sir Peter Blake, we are very short on heroes and role models.
I had the good fortune to meet Peter at the Australasian premiere in Wellington, and told him that he had changed cinema forever.
In a TVNZ Holmes interview at the New York premiere, John Rhys-Davies also called for Peter to be knighted.
I've started a campaign at http://www.knightpeterjackson.com to collect names from visitors which I will forward to the Prime Minister of New Zealand in time for the 1st February 2002 Royal Honours Nomination deadline (I'll submit an entry on the 20th)So why not go visit the site now and go put your entry in ;p