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...Waterstone's in Birmingham, it was in a cage guarded by two mannequins dressed like Men in Black. At Blackwell's Children's Bookshop in Oxford, the staff tried chaining it up in the window for a few days, but kids kept borrowing stools and climbing in for a peek, so it was hidden away. And on the afternoon of July 8, stores around Britain were packed with children waiting for it. No, not for the newest set of Pokemon trading cards, but for a book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third installment of J.K. Rowling...
Veber, the author of the much adapted La Cage aux Folles as well as other farces, is a veteran of this sort of thing. His movies are slick, simple and irresistibly funny. Like all boulevard comedians, he understands that it is sex that drives everyone crazy. But of course not so much as a top button gets undone in The Dinner Game, despite the amount of libidinal energy running loose in Pierre's apartment and leaking down the telephone lines to a world just itching to compound the confusion...
Francis Veber, the man behind the extraordinary comic feats La Cage Aux Folles and Les Comperes, (both eventually remade in Hollywood as The Birdcage and Father's Day) has crafted another farce: The Dinner Game. But it falls short of Veber's usual promise. Given the unsurpassable hilarity of Les Comperes--a film that amuses even after repeated viewings--The Dinner Game pales in comparison...
DIED. ALLAN CARR, 62, movie producer; from liver cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Creator of Playboy Penthouse Television, Carr went on to write such camp movies as 1980's Can't Stop the Music. He produced the movie Grease and the Broadway play La Cage aux Folles...
Wise--a self-described animal rights advocate and practicing lawyer--has taught a similar course before at Vermont Law School and John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He also wrote a book on the subject, entitled Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals...