Harry Potter

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Pulp/Radiohead Supergroup Forms to Be Weird Sisters

Although we previously knew Pulp rocker Jarvis Cocker was involved with appearing as the Weird Sisters, Contact Music has revealed today that Radiohead stars Phil Selway and Jonny Greenwood will be appearing with Cocker as the Weird Sisters at the…

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Terry Gilliam Bitter About Potter

British director Terry Gilliam was J.K. Rowling’s original pick to direct the first Harry Potter movie in 2000. While publicizing his new movie, The Brothers Grimm, Gilliam said in an interview recently, “I was the perfect guy to do Harry…

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Writers Debate Harry Potter at Worldcon

by Petréa Mitchell, editor of The Akashic Record Interaction, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, staged a debate on the merits of Harry Potter as one of its program items. The debate occurred at 11am on Saturday, August 6th, between…

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Terry Pratchett Clarifies J.K. Rowling Remarks

On Sunday, The BBC ran a story about British author Terry Pratchett’s comments about J.K. Rowling. He has now gone on the record publicly about those comments: (from the alt.fan.harry-potter newsgroup) Let’s take it a bit at a time. You…

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Dumbledore Is Not Dead!

Well… maybe not. At least, I don’t think he is. I must admit, J.K. completely got me. I fell for it all, hook, line and sinker. I waited on line at midnight on July 16 to be among the first…

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Harry Potter and the Revenge of the Sith

Sometimes it seems Harry Potter is everywhere, you can’t get away from it. For example, today, in reviews for Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith. The very last scene in the movie, when the wise Obi-Wan Kenobi brings baby…