Author of Harry Potter donates 1 million pounds to British Labour …
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- Author of Harry Potter donates 1 million pounds to British Labour …
- Producer reveals ‘Potter’ omissions
- Equus and the Harry Potter penis paradox
- Fiennes and Knightley star in ‘The Duchess’
- movie adventure to give children goosebumps
- Opening the door to Hogwarts
Author of Harry Potter donates 1 million pounds to British Labour …
Xinhua, China
20 (Xinhua) — The author of Harry Potter, JK Rowling, has donated 1 million pounds (about 2 million U. dollars) to the British Labour Party, BBC reported on Saturday. BBC quoted Prime Minister Gordon Brown as saying that he was delighted to have the backing of “one of the world’s greatest ever authors. ” Rowling said she was motivated by Labour’s record on child poverty and opposed a Conservative plan to give tax breaks to married couples.
Producer reveals ‘Potter’ omissions
Digital Spy, UK
According to producer David Heyman, the battle at Hogwarts and Dumbledore’s funeral will not be included in the sixth film in the series. He told website SnitchSeeker that bosses felt they would risk dampening the impact of the battle at the climax of the seventh movie if they included another in the previous film. “The reason why we left out the battle at Hogwarts is because we have a battle at Hogwarts in the seventh film and we are avoiding repetition,” he said. On Dumbledore’s funeral, Heyman remarked: “We decided that while we loved it, what we came up with was the right ending for the film that we had made.
Equus and the Harry Potter penis paradox
Time Out New York, NY
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Fiennes and Knightley star in ‘The Duchess’
San Francisco Chronicle, USA
He’s been nominated for Oscars as a Nazi commandant in “Schindler’s List” and a disaffected Brit in “The English Patient. ” A lot of people felt he deserved nominations for “Quiz Show” and “The Constant Gardener. Fiennes accepted a continuing role in the Harry Potter franchise “to keep the wolf from the door” and then went off and did Shakespeare and Beckett live. He has no idea why “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” was moved to next year from its original 2008 slot. But if you want to see him play someone almost as malevolent as Lord Voldemort, check out “The Duchess. Based on the award-winning biography “Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire,” the movie looks at the troubled marriage between a feisty 18th century aristocrat, played by Keira Knightley, and her fiendish husband, the duke, Fiennes’ role. When she becomes pregnant with her lover’s child, he warns her that she will never see her children again if she chooses to stay with her amour.
movie adventure to give children goosebumps
Times Online, UK
This has been done so that correct url isgenerated if we are coming from a section or topic –>Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondentdiv#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited {color:#06c;}The chilling children’s tales of R. Stine are to be turned into a filmseries to rival the Harry Potter movies. Columbia Pictures has bought the rights to the Goosebumps books, which havesold more than 350 million copies worldwide, making them the second-mostpopular children’s series after J. Rowling’s Potter books. The books, which boast titles such as Brain Juice, You Can’t ScareMe and It Came from Beneath the Sink!, mix gory horror withgood humour.
Opening the door to Hogwarts
Nature.com (subscription), UK
Xudong Luo and his colleagues at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have now figured out how the whole thing could be made real. In two preprints, they describe a method for concealing an entrance so that what looks like a blank wall actually contains invisible openings2,3. Physicist John Pendry of Imperial College in London, whose theoretical work on metamaterials laid the foundations for the trick, says he feels that the effect is even more remarkable than the invisibility cloak, because it seems so counter-intuitive that an object can project itself into empty space.