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...couldn't get past the second book in the Potter series, so I can only imagine the melancholy of Potter fans everywhere as the seventh book closed the series. Perhaps Rowling's fans feel the same sense of loss that I did at the end of the HBO series The Sopranos. For many fans of ended sitcoms and long-ago cancelled TV series, the end doesn't necessarily mean the end (depending on the level of your obsession). There are 316,983 fan fiction works based on Harry Potter alone on Fanfiction.net...
...Today fan fiction (or fanfic if you're in the know) is an Internet phenomenon where anybody with a computer and a connection creates and posts stories using existing fiction, television sitcoms, movies and their characters as the basis for their creations - much in the way that Lydgate continued the Canterbury Tales. True to the participatory web, many fan fiction sites provide visitors with popularity rankings and the ability to review fan fiction entries and sort based on those reviews...
...ball. We [Murphy was at the game with a friend, Amir Kamal] see it tracking. We think it's close, but it's just out of our reach. It goes about 30 feet to my right, and about six rows behind me. And then ... it bounced. It hit a fan's hands, and then hit the pavement, which made it about eye level with me. I immediately, without even thinking, dove head first into the pile. You see something, and you instinctively know just to grab it. So I got my hands on it, and I immediately covered the surface...
...wasn't worried about breathing. I was thinking about my grip. Hold on to it. Hold on to the motherf----r. (Laughs). Then, I'd say about a minute later, I hear somebody shouting 'Does somebody have it? Does somebody have it?' I thought that was some fan. So I immediately started shouting, "I got it. I got it. Get the bleep off me." But it was a cop who was saying all this. So as someone is picking me up, I'm nudging him off me, like, "Get off me, man." The cop says...
...Harvey Weinstein describes the Asia gambit as having sprung up not from money troubles, but from a penchant for Asian cinema spurred by a close relationship with chopsocky fan Quentin Tarantino. Name an Asian hit in the West and the Weinsteins are probably in some way responsible. Iron Monkey, Farewell My Concubine, Princess Mononoke, and half of the eight highest grossing American showings of Asian pics, including Hero and the original Shall We Dance?, were all released under Harvey's guidance...