Harry Potter film star sheds light on dyspraxia
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- Harry Potter film star sheds light on dyspraxia
- `Billy Elliot,’ Harry Potter’s `Equus’ Lead New Broadway Season
- September Harry Potter Decor Contest Now Online
- Harry Potter In Terrible Magic Mix-Up
- PotterCast 164: Harry Potter Goes to Comic Con
Harry Potter film star sheds light on dyspraxia
London Free Press, Canada
The diagnostic term used by the medical community is Developmental Co-ordination Disorder, and it encompasses a range of motor difficulties that can interfere with the activities of daily life. Radcliffe’s spokesperson has been quoted saying the star of the successful Potter films has a very mild condition that, at its worst, means he has bad handwriting and trouble with tying shoelaces. Warren Fried, executive director of Dyspraxia USA, is grateful Radcliffe has talked openly about it. “Finally, people are interested in what I’ve been trying to explain to them for 27 years,” he said from Chicago.
`Billy Elliot,’ Harry Potter’s `Equus’ Lead New Broadway Season
Bloomberg
'' “The shows were booked before there were no bonuses onWall Street,'' said Emanuel Azenberg, a 74-year-old Broadwayproducer and general manager who has worked on more than 150productions. “The new shows better be good or they'll open andclose. '' Highlights include the 1973 Peter Schaffer drama “Equus,''with 19-year-old “Harry Potter'' star.
September Harry Potter Decor Contest Now Online
The Leaky Cauldron.org, MA
the-leaky-cauldron. Many of us have dreamed of having our very own Harry Potter room in our home. Now is your opportunity to make that dream a reality with our newest contest, the Harry Potter Themed Decor Contest, which asks you to photograph a room or area in which you live that is decorated in an unmistakable Harry Potter style. Feel free to decorate with any commercially available Harry Potter merchandise or anything of your own creation. Imagination and creativity rule the day! Whether you’d like to create your very own Potions classroom or Hufflepuff Hallway, we’d love to see your work. This contest runs now through October 12th.
Harry Potter In Terrible Magic Mix-Up
The Spoof (satire), UK
Radcliffe, shooting a scene in which he had to disappear, covered himself in Hogwart's 'own brand' vanishing fluid. When Radcliffe thought he was safely invisible he slapped Hermione's arse, pinged her bra-strap, then pretended to take carrot-top Weasley from behind. But the shocked reaction of the production team alerted the teen star to his awful mistake. He had mixed up his potions - it was not Hogwart's vanishing fluid, but Hagworm's VARNISHING fluid!Radcliffe was owl-lifted to ward thirteen and three seventeenths of Leicester Royal Infirmary, where he has undergone treatment to mattify his glaring forehead.
PotterCast 164: Harry Potter Goes to Comic Con
The Leaky Cauldron.org, MA
First up, Sue brings you the latest news including Emma’s perfect A-Level scores, a Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park ride update, Dan Radcliffe getting ready to make his debut on Broadway in “Equus,” new “Half-Blood Prince” action figure images, the potential continuation of the Harry Potter video games, and an article from the Telegraph about about Jo’s foreward to our own Melissa Anelli’s upcoming book, “Harry, A History. ” Next up, Melissa sits down to speak with Comic Con associate and Harry Potter fan Eric Bowling, who planned the first ever Harry Potter panel at Comic Con.