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...Reverend Graham Taylor grabbed the spotlight like a Quidditch seeker seizing the Golden Snitch last week, when the news service Reuters reported that Taylor, a bestselling British fantasy novelist, had been kicked out of a grade school after allegedly calling Harry Potter...
...last Thursday, Reuters issued an embarrassing correction, titled: “The story headlined ‘J.K. Rowling rival labels Harry Potter “gay” is wrong and is withdrawn.” Turns out that Taylor had been kicked out of a school after giving a talk to 12 year-olds, but he was punished for using vulgar words such as “crap, poo, fart and bogey...
...glasses fool you. Beyond Harry Potter’s unassuming exterior lies the heart of a rock star. At least that was the concept two and a half years ago, when brothers Joe and Paul DeGeorge formed their wizard–inspired rock band Harry and the Potters, which has recently garnered a Harvard following. “We thought it was a great idea because people are just crazy for Harry Potter,” says Paul DeGeorge. And indeed they are. When the Harvard First-year Outdoor Program (FOP) staff members discovered the band online, they spent...
...real teens who are out on shows like Desperate Housewives, the dating show Next on MTV and Degrassi (a high school drama on the N network whose wild popularity among adolescents is assured by the fact that few adults watch it). Publishers like Arthur A. Levine Books (of Harry Potter fame) and the children's division at Simon & Schuster have released something like a dozen novels about gay adolescents in the past two years. New, achingly earnest books like Rainbow Road (Simon & Schuster), in which three gay teens take a road trip, are coming this month. Gay kids can subscribe...
...What was your experience like being a conceptual artist on “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban...