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...think that Harry Potter will die?’ It seemed like such a frightening prospect,” Tatar said. “So many children have grown up with these books. The only real requirement for a children’s book is that the hero survives...
...album Planet Earth was released in the U.K. on July 15, almost 3 million people picked up a copy. Normally, that kind of news conjures up images of record industry execs high-fiving each other and fans streaming into record stores to empty the shelves of their hero's latest offering. But in this case, the record industry execs are livid. And it's true there isn't a single copy of Planet Earth in any store in the country - but only because they were never there in the first place. In fact, Prince didn't sell any copies...
...this point that Talk to Me embraces a dangerous paradox. By failing to fulfill our generic expectations, by letting its protagonist sink back into local hero status it cheats us of the good feelings we have come to expect from movies about show biz paragons. You leave the theater feeling disappointed by its failure to release the buoyant feelings that last-minute comebacks usually engender. Where's the hit movie, the Broadway triumph, the hysterically greeted concert tour that justifies all the hard times we have endured with our hero or heroine? It's only later, as you think...
...Road to Democracy? Re "Pakistan's Reluctant Hero" [June 25-July 2]: The tussle between suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and President Pervez Musharraf seems to augur well for the country's pro-democracy movement. At least the sacked Chief Justice has been able to convince the democracy lovers that there is light at the end of the tunnel, that it's not impossible to end the rule of dictators backed by men in military uniform. Now it's time for other pro-democracy leaders to get under one umbrella and offer a progressive vision...
...Brinson's success made him a hero to social conservatives, but his approach also made him a renegade. More than a third of the young people he registered were Democrats, and that was fine with him. "We weren't tied to the Republican National Committee or have some agenda. We just wanted people to vote." Plus, he says, he was more interested in consensus than in controversy or finding the next wedge issue. "Some of them don't want a solution," he says of conservative activists, "'cause you won't have an issue to raise money over...