Harry Potter author earns £77 a minute
The News Review:
- Harry Potter author earns £77 a minute
- Tonks on Set of Order of the Phoenix
- Meet Linda Ellerbee
- Magic makes an appearance
- How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Paris
- Poll: Snow White’s dwarfs more famous than Supreme Court judges
Harry Potter author earns £77 a minute
Daily Mail – Aug 14, 2006
Her tales of the boy wizard and accompanying endorsement dealsmade the writer £41 a minute last year, according to USbusiness magazine Forbes. Rowling is the only non-American on the list, topped byHollywood director and producer Steven Spielberg. The magazine’s Hannah Clark said: “With the £77 she earnsevery minute, Harry Potter author JK Rowling could buy more than afew boxes of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans, one of the youngwizard’s favourite sweets. Forbes estimates Spielberg, whose recent projects include War ofthe Worlds and Munich, made £180 million in 2005, or£342 every minute. Microsoft founder Bill Gates remained the overall richest man inthe world, with a net worth of £27 billion. If he makes a 7 per cent return on investment – the averageamount the stock market appreciates each year – he earns£3,601 a minute, according to Forbes. Hannah Clark added: “While celebrities sometimes venture intonine-figure territory, their paycheques don’t even come close tothe sums earned in the business world.
Tonks on Set of Order of the Phoenix
CanMag – Aug 14, 2006
It turns out that somebody wandered by the set of the production and was able to snap an image of Natalia Tena playing the role of witch Nymphadora Tonks. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
‘PotterFan’ has alerted us to a set image for OotP that has appeared over at the Potter fansite… Nymphadora Tonks made her first appearance in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and we later learn that she has a romantic interest in one of the other major, and older, characters. Tonks is a powerful member of the order as she is also a trained and gifted Auror. She is also young and more bubbly than the rest of the members. In book 5 she enjoys making the kids laugh thanks to her abilities as an Metamorphmagus; she can transform her looks at will. The book describes her as having pink hair, though the set picture shows that Warner Bros went with purple instead.
Meet Linda Ellerbee
Washington Post – Aug 14, 2006
Favorite things on television (other than "Nick News"): Movies, baseball (especially the New York Yankees), "West Wing," "Deadwood. "Favorite book now: "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. " She also is reading the Harry Potter series. Favorite book as a kid: " ‘Little Women. ‘ Like so many so many girls, Jo March was my hero. She was not willing to sit around and be a girl. She did things and had opinions.
Magic makes an appearance
USA Today – Aug 14, 2006
Directed by Christopher Nolan, the movie centers on two magicians in London at the turn of the 20th century who are bitter rivals. Though magic has been a staple of Hollywood fare, most recently in the Harry Potter franchise, analysts say it’s rare that magicians themselves are the subject matter. “Magic isn’t usually as commercially appealing at the box office as it is, say, on TV,” says Brandon Gray of Box Office Mojo. “Those tricks (on television) are being performed in a more realistic setting, while movies use more effects and set-up. To have these two movies coming out within two months of each other is pretty unique. ”
Some magic acts have found solid success on TV, including David Blaine with his occasional specials and Criss Angel with his Mindfreak series on A&E.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Paris
FOXNews – Aug 14, 2006
A few blessings from the local clergy later, and the ossuary was born. It is truly like nothing you’ve seen before. After the initial descent, there is a short jog through tunnels straight out of any “Dungeons and Dragons” adventure — the kind of place any Harry Potter fan would gleefully explore. Then you get to the bones. Stone walls give way to.
Poll: Snow White’s dwarfs more famous than Supreme Court judges
San Diego Union Tribune – Aug 14, 2006
August 14, 2006
NEW YORK – Three quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Snow White’s seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two Supreme Court Justices, according to a poll on pop culture released Monday. According to the poll by Zogby International, commissioned by the makers of a new online game on pop culture called “Gold Rush,” 57 percent of Americans could identify J. Rowling’s fictional boy wizard as Harry Potter, while only 50 percent could name the British prime minister, Tony Blair.