Why Tyler Perry Isn’t Doing a Woman, Plus Harry Potter Horses Around
The News Review:
- Why Tyler Perry Isn’t Doing a Woman, Plus Harry Potter Horses Around
- Another fantasy novel to get the ‘Potter’ treatment
- NIU to host conference for Harry Potter fans
- Potty pair produce Potted Potter for literary festival
- The Stylish Ladies of Harry Potter
Why Tyler Perry Isn’t Doing a Woman, Plus Harry Potter Horses Around
Village Voice, NY
The magic-wand wielder simply can’t understand why there’s so much fuss over the nudity, which after all is a relatively minor feature of the show, done at the very end, as it were. Well, my darling teen idol, maybe it’s because for months we’ve been bombarded with promotional photos of your bare parts, pretty much selling the production on the shock value of seeing your tender taint!And it’s working—I’ll be up close with binoculars—though maybe they should have instead gotten one of the old Harry Potter co-stars, Sean Biggerstaff, for the part? After all, Radcliffe just bravely told an interviewer that his penis gets smaller onstage. (”Good excuse!” I hear you all exclaiming. You people are evil!) Whatever the case, am I the only one who feels that an evening of gratuitous nudity combined with some serious animal abuse sounds like a visit with Sarah Palin’s family? Hello? Hello?Moving on to people abusing each other, there’ll be more David Mamet on Broadway this season than there’ll be religious paraphernalia hanging from Palin’s daughter’s maternity hooch dress. The American Buffalo revival will have Haley Joel Osment fully clothed in the story of thieves aiming for both a coin collection and the audience’s purse strings. (Haley can look into the crowd and crow, “I see rich people.
Another fantasy novel to get the ‘Potter’ treatment
The News-Press, FL
“Brisingr” - the third young-adult novel in Christopher Paolini’s “Inheritance” series - hits bookstores at midnight Friday. And with it comes another round of book-release parties, complete with trivia, costume contests and even Celtic dancing. The parties echo the hubbub of a “Harry Potter” book release. And, indeed, the Potter books have changed the way bookstores handle “event” books.
NIU to host conference for Harry Potter fans
Geneva Sun, IL
suburbanchicagonews. The conference, titled “Searching for Platform 9: An Academic Harry Potter Conference,” will be held on the DeKalb campus from 8:30 a.
Potty pair produce Potted Potter for literary festival
Liverpool Daily Post, UK
“We were both jobbing actors and doing stand up that was very much storytelling- style stuff. Now we try and bring in all our skills both as trained actors and comics. ” The two friends were asked to perform in a branch of Borders to mark the launch of the sixth Harry Potter book in 2005, and the 70-minute show developed from a five-minute sketch. “We both love Harry Potter – if we didn’t we would have stopped a long time ago,” said Dan. “It’s been great fun to do and we’ve been doing this show so much it’s almost become a part of us. We improvise and add things so every show is different. It’s organised chaos.
The Stylish Ladies of Harry Potter
The Leaky Cauldron.org, MA
location); In The News. Thanks to Jackie from our Order partner. bonniewrightonline. com for letting us know that Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) and Katie Leung (Cho Chang) both attended the Ashley Isham show, with new photos of the ladies.