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December 20, 2008

Nothing magic about Emma Watson except her ‘Potter’ ‘Despereaux …

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- Nothing magic about Emma Watson except her ‘Potter’ ‘Despereaux …
- Rowling gives Potter fans reason to smile
- Harry Potter
- Harry Potter
- Clearview Cinemas Presents the Ultimate ‘Harry Potter’ Movie …

Nothing magic about Emma Watson except her ‘Potter’ ‘Despereaux …
USA Today 
When people do spot her they can’t believe it’s actually Hermione. “I have a more normal life than people expect. When I take public transport people are like ‘That girl looks like the girl from Harry Potter but it can’t be her on the tube’ ” says Watson. In fact most of Watson’s time — a few fashion shows or events aside — is spent shooting the Potter films. She did check out co-star Daniel Radcliffe’s London stage performance in Equus and praises his bravery in taking on the revealing role. Their sixth film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens in July. “We’re a year older than our characters so I feel like the film was about what I was experiencing a year ago which was this kind of awkward playoff between girls and boys and the miscommunications that happen and the different way they think about things” says Watson.
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Rowling gives Potter fans reason to smile
London Free Press Canada 
Rowling Children’s High Level Group $14. 50 Just in time for the holidays J. Rowling gives Harry Potter fans a little gift. No not a new book about the young wizard — that would be like a birthday combined with Christmas. Instead she’s written a charming confection of a book from the world of Harry Potter with the sparkle and wit that remind us why she became a publishing sensation at all.

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Los Angeles Times CA 
” The saying might be Daniel Radcliffe’s rallying cry but there’s more to Radcliffe than a wizard with a scar. Nineteen-year-old Radcliffe famously bared his buns on both the West End and Broadway in a restaging of “Equus” Peter Shaffer’s play about a stable boy’s psycho-religious fascination with horses and the psychiatrist who tries to help him. He’s also appeared in the Australian film “The December Boys” as Rudyard Kipling’s son in the TV movie “My Son Jack” (pictured) and as randy version of himself in “Extras. ” Last January it was announced that Radcliffe would play Dan Eldon the real-life young photojournalist who was beaten to death by an angry crowd in Mogadishu Somalia.

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Los Angeles Times CA 
Weasley in the Potter series) in 2006’s “Driving Lessons” (pictured) a kind of British version of “Harold and Maude” about the unlikely friendship between a shy vicar’s son and an aging actress. He also made the indie film “Cherrybomb” set to debut in 2009 and plays assassin Bill Nighy’s apprentice in the upcoming comedy “Wild Target.

Clearview Cinemas Presents the Ultimate ‘Harry Potter’ Movie …
MarketWatch 
During the event’s opening weekend the “Harry Potter” films will be shown for more than 12 consecutive hours in order of when the films were released starting at 10 a. each day with “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and concluding with “Harry Potter and the rder of the Phoenix. “Whether people are seeing these ‘Harry Potter’ films for the first or fifth time we are giving adults and children alike the opportunity to enjoy them once again the way they were meant to be seen on the big screen in a premiere venue like the Ziegfeld Theatre” said Craig Zeltner vice president of film Clearview Cinemas.

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