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...once feared as the Darth Vader of mom-and-pop toy shops (a helmet now worn by Wal-Mart). Analysts expect dozens if not hundreds of Toys "R" Us stores to close next year--funneling more shoppers to the discounters where they can just as easily pop a Harry Potter DVD in the cart and scrap the toy altogether. To help keep Toys "R" Us afloat, manufacturers are supplying it with more exclusives this year, like a Big Air Ball Tower from K'nex, though Target, for one, is also selling more exclusive toys...
...adventures of the Baudelaire children were originally conceived in print. Lemony Snicket’s tales were the first to knock the popular Harry Potter series off the New York Times children’s best-seller list. Each of the ten installments in the series has made it onto that best-seller list, and the eleventh, most recent book was released in September 2004. The film version of Lemony Snicket is based upon the first three books: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window...
...politically correct version of Clinton’s autobiography is only the latest in a long tradition of making cheap Asian knockoffs of Western products, from Gucci bags to Harry Potter to Microsoft. Businesses are furious about a practice they say costs $200-250 billion a year in lost revenue and have made it a priority to pressure foreign governments to crack down. But if Americans are really serious about stopping cross-Pacific piracy, we might want to start with our own movie industry...
...raked in more than $1 billion from its Broadway and worldwide touring companies) but also expanded the vocabulary of the stage, embracing everything from puppetry to African dance. Everywhere in the culture, meanwhile, children's entertainment is crossing over to adult audiences and gaining mainstream cachet, from Harry Potter books to Pixar animation. London's National Theatre this year scored one of its biggest successes with a lavish, dense and sensationally entertaining two-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's young-adult trilogy His Dark Materials. In a world in which Madonna writes children's books and hip grownup film critics...
...Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Parker and his 12-year-old son Sam had just returned from canvassing in New Hampshire, where they braved rain and cold to bring out the vote. Parker dropped Sam off at home, where he unwound by watching some Harry Potter. Dad then scrambled to beat the clock. He succeeded—his ballot was the last one dropped into the official black...