Magic lost for new Potter fans
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- Wanted: Films just for kids
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Magic lost for new Potter fans
NEWS.com.au - Nov 11, 2007
The anagram is one of seven "clues" that Dumbledore is gay, according to Andrew Slack, head of the Harry Potter Alliance, an organisation "dedicated to using the examples of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore to spread love and fight the Dark Arts in the real world". Rowling says she has always regarded her books as a "prolonged argument for tolerance". But just watch as the Harry Potter series becomes a new front in the culture wars. The once-innocent stories of a boy wizard are about to morph into degenerate tales of an aberrant but vulnerable orphan, consigned by his "normal" aunt and uncle to live - literally - in a closet until taken away to an alternative world where he’s taught to use his wand and dress in robes by a powerful, anti-authoritarian master-wizard. Harry’s fans actually greeted Rowling’s revelation at New York’s Carnegie Hall with applause, prompting the author to declare: "If I had known it would make you so happy I’d have announced it years ago. " Media reports declared it a victory for gay rights. The London Times said it was a "Magical day for gays as Dumbledore is outed"…
I think it encourages homosexuality," Christian Coalition of America president Roberta Combs said. In choosing the powerful headmaster as her standard bearer for gay rights, Rowling has thrown further fuel on the fire-and-brimstone of two conservative phobias: the "progressive" influence of teachers and academia, and the ignorant equation of homosexuality with pedophilia. Parents and pastors will be poring through the seven Harry Potter books searching for evidence of Dumbledore’s insidious lechery and anything that might lure children into a "gay lifestyle". If conservative Christians railed against the Teletubbies because one of the creatures sported a handbag, how will they react to a re-reading of the sixth book, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, when Harry steals out of the school with Dumbledore in search of one of the Horcuxes? In chapter 26, Dumbledore says to Harry: "Take off your invisibility cloak - there is no need for it now - and let us take the plunge. " It continues: "And with the sudden agility of a much younger man, Dumbledore slid from the boulder, landed in the sea, and began to swim with perfect breaststroke toward the dark slit in the rock face.
Comments on ‘Home snoop CCTV more popular than Big Brother ’
Register - Nov 11, 2007
Take your head out your arse, and stop getting your dick out in public. That way nobody will shop you for being a serial phone box rapist, and nobody will have a pop at you for being a privacy zealot when it’s not applicable. Either that or get a Harry Potter invisibility cloak or something. the cops have got a hard enough time as it is, I think the more they assimilate with the public the better they can operate. Everyone slags the cops out and it kinda grates me, they deal with the scum of the UK and just because a hoodie scratches your middle class car, they are rubbish and didn’t turn up for an hour blah blah blah. Should be doing a better job etc…
Dammit, they didn’t have a single one without a hood!You don’t need a "Harry Potter Cloak" - just a hood. Nice idea By JBPosted Monday 12th November 2007 10:15 GMTThis sounds like a fantastic idea. Can’t say I’d b glued to it all evening, but I can imagine it’s one of tose things that you just find yourself watching while channel-surfing. @policing on the cheap: This scheme is a sort of modern version of the days before we had a police force, when the community regulated crime. Of course back then people were out in the streets, and sorted out any bad behaviour.
Wanted: Films just for kids
Times of India - Nov 11, 2007
Mehrapins the reason to the fact that Bollywood rarely scored hits in this category. Then there’s the diminutive budget of these films. Against Hollywood, where aHarry Potter or a Home Alone is made on the budget of any big banner film,Bollywood’s budget for kids’ movies doesn’t go beyond Rs 2. 5 crore and yields noreturns. “Producers want returns for their money. Who will buy a Rs 250 ticketto watch a children film,” questions Mehra. With very few commercialsuccesses, most of the recovery on children’s films comes from DVD sales andtelevision rights…
We are not making thatmistake in the sequel of Hanuman, for which we are coming out with 300 printsand expect a return of Rs 36 crore at the box office in the first phase itself. According to Adarsh, children wantto see fantasy, and if it is made well then it’s assured of an audience as wellas commercial success. “About 80% of the audience for films like Harry Potter,Spider-man and Batman are kids or adults who are kids at heart,” he says. Theimportant thing is to consider the content of the film and its time of release. “If you release a film when school exams are going on, then it obviously won’twork,” points outAdarsh.
Hauntingly Good Tours In Northern England
The Chattanoogan - Nov 11, 2007
Her seven-book fantasy series about a boy wizard named Harry Potter became an all-time best-selling phenomenon. js’> Alnwick Castle in Northumberland was the site where the movies based on Rowlings first two novels Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were filmed…
Dating from the 11th century you will easily need a day to view everything contained both within and surrounding the walls of this magical place. And while the castle has been the site of many of Englands famous historical events including battles between the English and the Scots, in recent years it has also served as the location for other movies, such as Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, and Elizabeth and Blackadder. Before Harry Potter, Alnwicks had another famous son named Harry. His name was Harry Hotspur and he first saw battle at the age of eight and was knighted at 11. It is his life-size statue that greets visitors who choose to participate in the Knights Quest considered one of the United Kingdoms scariest interactive activity, facing the dragon in Dragon Quest. Young visitors to Alnwick can also dress in clothes of the time (1305), play games, learn the art of swordsmanship and jousting as they participate in Knights School to become a Knight or Lady of Alnwick. This part of Great Britain is also home to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which features restored heritage trains that travel through 18 miles of the beautiful North York Moors National Park from the market town of Pickering to Grosmont, with stops at Levisham, Newtondale and Goathland.