Allan Brown: Not even fruity fan can dim Kelly’s grin
The News Review:
- Allan Brown: Not even fruity fan can dim Kelly’s grin
- Gorge Steiner in racism controversy
- Hollywood eyes momentum from summer hits
- Bloomsbury hopes JK Rowling will conjure up her magic again
- Cut words carefully to not lose flavor
- Actor Richard Griffiths horses around on Broadway
- WHAT YOU’RE READING
Allan Brown: Not even fruity fan can dim Kelly’s grin
Times Online, UK
”It can also lead to the possibility of weird science, particularly the idea thatthe optic nerve and cavity provide swifter routes to the bloodstream thanthe stomach does. We could accept this from engineering students but, if thetheory comes from the medical faculty, we’re all in trouble. Potter’s web of indecencyIt would be difficult to believe it took until 2002 for JK Rowling to Google thename of Harry Potter, were it not for an insight from The Thick of It. Acharacter mused that Googling your own name was like opening the door to aroom full of people throwing ordure at you. Rowling was less concerned by what Harry Potter’s online fanbase said,however, than by the sheer, nutty frequency with which it said it. “Notuntil some time in 2002 did I finally crack, and do the thing that peopleassumed I did daily. I Googled Harry Potter,” Rowling writes in herforeword to a new Potter encyclopaedia written by the editor of one fanwebsite.
Gorge Steiner in racism controversy
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
In the interview, given to the respected Spanish newspaper El País, he claims that J K Rowling has steered children away from reading the classics. “My question is this,” says Steiner, who is married to Zara Shakow, an American author and historian of Lithuanian origins. “Will a child who has read all the volumes of Harry Potter move on to Treasure Island, Gulliver’s Travels, Oliver Twist, the classics? “My colleagues who have studied this phenomeneon say they don’t. Children who who have read Harry Potter don’t read the great classics afterwards and that’s sad. ” When Steiner was once asked if he had ever read anything trivial as a child, he replied Moby-Dick. Alternatively, you may have to open a web browser, such as Firefox or Internet Explorer, and copy the link over into the address bar.
Hollywood eyes momentum from summer hits
Arab Times, Kuwait
Two weeks ago, Warner Bros yanked Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from a November release and pushed it to next July, which could spell trouble at box offices because the previous four Potter films averaged $920 million in worldwide ticket sales. That is a lot of movie magic. But a range of films from broad comedies such as Beverly Hills Chihuahua to thrillers like Eagle Eye and art house fare including Flash of Genius could sustain the summer upswing, studio executives and box office watchers said. Youve got it all, said Paul Dergarabedian of box office tracker Media By Numbers, when assessing the outlook from September through mid-November, when the new James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, kicks off holiday season moviegoing.
Bloomsbury hopes JK Rowling will conjure up her magic again
Thaindian.com, Thailand
Nigel Newton had founded the company in 1986, and its growth over the past few years has mainly been because of the Potter books, Mirror reported. But now the publishers are facing a big dent in sales without any new adventures of the boy wizard. The company is banking on Rowlings new book, Tales of Beedle the Bard, which they hope will be a big hit for Christmas when it is released in December. Bloomsburys profits fell by almost a fifth to 42m pounds in the first six months of the year, but cost cutting and a lower tax bill meant profits rose six per cent to 3.
Cut words carefully to not lose flavor
Biloxi Sun Herald, USA
” The sentence begins to fall trippingly from the tongue. Third useful example, from a news story in the Times on Aug. 4: “Today’s hot Beanie Baby or new Harry Potter book is tomorrow’s yard sale fodder. ” Suppose we emend the sentence ever so slightly: “Today’s hot Beanie Baby or new Harry Potter book is tomorrow’s fodder for a yard sale. ” We gain a note of subtle alliteration in “fodder for,” and we end the opening paragraph on an accented syllable. These are among the little dog tricks of “style,” a noun defined by the gnomes of Merriam-Webster as “a distinctive manner of expression. ” The useful example there is a writer “who writes with more attention to style than to content.
Actor Richard Griffiths horses around on Broadway
Reading Eagle, PA
Indie film buffs loved him in “Withnail & I. ” Highbrow theater- and movie-goers delighted in his “The History Boys. ” Tweens have soaked him up in the Harry Potter films as mean Muggle Uncle Vernon. “Work is strange,” he says. “It’s sort of getting more significant and getting more attention. I cannot tell you why that is. I’m the oldest overnight sensation in recorded history.
WHAT YOU’RE READING
Biloxi Sun Herald, USA
As assistant to Ultima, a curandera, or healer, who may or may not be a witch, Antonio witnesses the healing power of both the physical and the spiritual sides of nature. Like a Harry Potter novel, this story reveals the magic that exists beneath the mundane of everyday life. Kay Gough, Bay Books, Bay St. LouisRemember the magical powers of chocolate in “Chocolat”? Here’s a novel where the well-known powers of plants go to the next level. North Carolina writer Sarah Addison Allen combines horticultural folklore, romance and a Southern setting in “Garden Spells. ” Her debut novel is a bright, summery read with the story of family tending an extraordinary garden and a even more special apple tree there.