Peter Jackson, Before 'Lord of the Rings'
Weekend Edition Saturday, December 13, 2003 · Before Peter Jackson emerged as the successful director of the Lord of the Rings movies, most of his early films were low-budget efforts that offered a mixed bag of characters and scenarios. Hear NPR's Neda Ulaby and Washington, D.C., video-store clerks Scott Mueller and Adam Robinson.
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Molly, who listens to KANW in Albuquerque, N.M.:
"As the release of the new King Kong directed by Peter Jackson draws near, my mind keeps going back to a great story about the director's early work that I heard a few years ago. I had to go to your Web site to look it up, and I'm sure others would appreciate it too... Definitely a coffee-snorting-through-the-nose sort of story."
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