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Harry Potter Business Pledges Wands for Hurricane Relief

Due to the huge disaster situation in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, last night our friends over at Alivan’s Master Wandmakers announced that they are running a special promotion through Sept. 12th to benefit Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief. Alivan’s is calling…

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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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7FT Tall Ian Whyte Body-Doubles for Madame Maxime

In an interview on the ic Teeside web site which talks about Ian Whyte’s transformation from basketball player to movie actor, Ian descibes his experience of appearing in the next Harry film. Shortly after playing a monster in the film…