Finishing with Potter ‘worse than divorce’
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Finishing with Potter ‘worse than divorce’
NEWS.com.au - Jan 30, 2008
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"It has been the worst break-up of my life - far worse than splitting up with any man," the 42-year-old told an audience at the Dorchester Hotel for the South Bank Show awards. "But it has also been wonderful to stop and draw breath and think, ‘My God, look what’s happened with an idea I had 17 years ago on a train’. " The Harry Potter books have sold around 350 million copies worldwide and are translated into 65 different languages. The last, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, came out last July. The British author, who began writing her first Potter book in 1990, met and married a local journalist after moving to Portugal in 1991, and had her first child, Jessica. But the marriage fell apart, and Rowling moved to Edinburgh in 1994. She completed the manuscript as a single mother, often writing in cafes around the Scottish capital when her daughter fell asleep in her pushchair.
Cathay ups ticket prices
Channel News Asia - Jan 30, 2008
50 on a weekend to watch blockbusters such as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince or The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Prices for tickets at all Cathay cineplexes will go up on Thursday, adding to the rash of recent price increases including taxi fares, electronic road pricing and cooking gas. At a media conference on Tuesday, the cinema operator and film distributor said it was raising ticket prices for films by 50 cents or about 6 per cent due to “escalating prices in goods, services, labour, film rentals and the Goods and Services Tax”. What’s more, an additional 50 cents will be tagged on for blockbusters such as Harry Potter and Iron Man.
Pottsville, Pa. and Cardinals each claim rights to 1925 NFL title -…
ESPN - Jan 30, 2008
it needs to be fixed. ” They’re trying. Since the October release of my book “Breaker Boys: The NFLs Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship,” the Maroons have been outselling Harry Potter in Schuylkill County. At book signings in Pottsville, readers have presented me with paintings of the team, old photos, baked goods, lottery tickets, prayer cards and pictures of their kids serving in Iraq. Many of them simply break down while trying to explain the magnitude of the Maroons and their stolen title. 10, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives unanimously approved House Resolution 533, honoring the team and demanding that the NFL re-examine the issue.