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...excellent choice for the budget shopper, Dorothy’s selection of costumes is eclectic and amusing. Besides boasting a wide stock of “sexy costumes” (nurse, Little Bo Beep, Dorothy) and many movie outfits (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings), Dorothy’s also offers a large array of accessories. Fangs, wigs, boas and hats are but a small sampling of the offerings that make Dorothy’s an essential stop for costume refinement. And that chinchilla tucked into a corner of your room need not miss out—Dorothy?...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dress-Up Time | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

BUSH I don't know how they get theirs, because that isn't always the case on some of the other lists--where Harry Potter is No. 1, 2 and 3 [Laughter]--of the real best sellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Laura Bush: Good Will Come Out Of This | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...didn't Dumbledore kill, or try to kill, Voldemort?" J.K. ROWLING, posing one of two questions she says no one has yet asked about her Harry Potter book series but should have. The other is, Why didn't Voldemort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Aug. 30, 2004 | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...that has changed. Two of the biggest, megabillion-dollar entertainment franchises in the world, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, come from fantasy novels. A group of outrageously talented writers is busy rescuing fantasy from under a mountain of New Age junk, collectible card games and heavy-metal album covers: J.K. Rowling, of course, but also Neil Gaiman, Phillip Pullman, China Mieville and George R.R. Martin. Now a fortysomething silver-haired British book editor named Susanna Clarke has done something even they couldn't. She has written Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury; 800 pages), a chimera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Magic and Men | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

Partly because one woman's dignified is another man's straitlaced, Allen seems to be on a mission to appear looser. In another upcoming film, Sally Potter's Yes, she's a woman having an affair that crosses racial and religious lines. And finally, the shyest girl in the class is taking on the fastest-talker's job. She's co-producing a film about a group of working-class Irish women who go to Lourdes, France. Her job has been (partly) to get Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates to sign on. "I've never been on the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Supremacy All Her Own | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

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