Football Shorts
The News Review:
- Football Shorts
- Childish pursuits give grown-ups a release
- Is aid a $2.3 trillion failure?
- Emma Watson wants to go with the flow
- First official images from ‘Order of the Phoenix’
- Dressed for success
- Battling for a monster hit
Football Shorts
Times Online – Sep 24, 2006
He is described as everything from ‘bitter’ to ‘a chav’. ‘If brains were made of cotton wool he wouldn’t have enough to make a tampon for a canary,’ suggests Cheryl Greedy (possibly not her real name) from Barnet Mental Hospital (possibly not her real residence) Theo misses out on Harry Potter film The two most famous 17-year-olds in Britain are to be linked on celluloid when members of Theo Walcott’s family make a cameo appearance in the new Harry Potter film. The footballer’s father Don, his mother, Lynn, and Ashley, 19, his older brother, have just completed costume fittings for their parts in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth film from JK Rowling’s series of novels, due out in 2007. Walcott himself had also been due to appear in the movie but had to pull out because filming schedules clashed with his commitments for Arsenal and England Under-21s. ‘I can’t tell you what scene it’s going to be because that’s a secret, you’ll have to have to wait and see,’ said Don Walcott.
Childish pursuits give grown-ups a release
Atlanta Journal Constitution – Sep 24, 2006
Kickball or skateboarding moms may or may not be short-lived fads, but rejuvenalia appears to be here to stay. Or as Noxon puts it, “The rebellious part is fading away. ” A 40-year-old reading a “Harry Potter” novel is not counter to expectations; if anything, it’s a little more startling to encounter an adult who has never read one of the books about the boy wizard. Kidulthood is moving away from being a noticeable social trend and becoming the mainstream. It’s who we are, or will be.
Is aid a $2.3 trillion failure?
Guardian Unlimited – Sep 24, 2006
It would operate more like a market than a centrally planned economy. As an example, Easterly laments the fact that while the free market managed to deliver 9 million copies of the latest Harry Potter book to die-hard fans in a single day last year , there are many thousands of people dying in Africa for want of drugs costing as little as 12 cents. ‘There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can’t get 12-cent medicine to dying poor children. ‘Easterly says the ambitious promises of the UN’s cherished Millennium Development Goals, to get all children into school, cut infant mortality and so on, should be scrapped: ‘Of course, the general aspiration to reduce poverty is one that I share.
Emma Watson wants to go with the flow
HPANA – Sep 24, 2006
Every film is such a huge production, and it’s a long time. " She also discusses her co-stars, flying and boys… Daniel and Rupert seem so sure. I wouldn’t want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do. Nothing is ever going to be quite on the scale of this. And also I’ve come into acting in such a funny way. Most people who want to act have to sit through hours of auditioning and work their way up, whereas I seemed to have come straight in at the top, having had no experience at all.
First official images from ‘Order of the Phoenix’
HPANA – Sep 24, 2006
The image is from the beginning of the movie in which Harry is fighting off the dementors. The article describes the scene:
In one image, Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who plays the young wizard, is seen crouching in an grimy alleyway as he attempts to defend himself from an attack by the Dementors. UPDATE: Thanks to Nixx from HPFWNL (Harry Potter Fans With No Life), we have a.
Dressed for success
Times Online – Sep 24, 2006
html”–>Though Hathaway claims that in a previous job (baby-sitting, what else?) she had “this one tyrannical three-year-old, I’m not kidding, who was the most like Meryl’s character of anyone I’ve ever worked with”, it’s unlikely anyone could match the cool hysteria of Priestly — a part given extra spice by the fact that Weisburger’s novel is assumed to be a hiss-and-tell payback (officially denied) for the author’s time spent as a dogsbody to the Vogue editor Anna “Nuclear” Wintour. At the fictitious glossy Runway, the hardwood floors are strewn with eggshells as Andy is forbidden to go to the loo, sleep or eat, sure in the knowledge that a fur coat will be flung at her should she fail in a simple task such as procuring, at five minutes’ notice, the Fort Knox-guarded manuscript of the unpublished new Harry Potter so Priestly’s kids have something to read on holiday. The film was made by the team behind Sex and the City, and its sartorial bent is being heavily marketed. The day of this tête à tête, Hathaway has been forced to dress to the nines, fielding interminable questions about haute couture from impossibly effete European journalists. Now her stilettos are parked by the door, her designer togs strewn in favour of something more casual. “A fashionista like Mischa Barton really should have been the one to play this role,” she quips.
Battling for a monster hit
Times Online – Sep 24, 2006
Among those with new titles in the pipeline are Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton, Charles Frazier, John Grisham, Robert Harris, Stephen King, John le Carré and Thomas Pynchon. Despite sales of their huge back catalogues, publishers make a big chunk of their profits from current bestsellers. Record-breaking sales of the hardback edition of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ensured that Bloomsbury banked profits of £20m last year. This month the publisher reported the paperback edition helped it to a 6. 5% jump in revenues.