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...Polyhex Classics,” a Transformers reference, naturally). With these wrappings, the book could easily mingle unnoticed alongside _Middlemarch_ and _The Canterbury Tales_. Whether it deserves such illustrious company is somewhat questionable. Like the “grown-up” covers on _Harry Potter_ reprints in the UK, this tactic seems designed to allow the child within to enjoy himself without embarrassing the adult without. Perhaps it’s a British thing...
...first stop was Warner Bros. Studios, where we took a tour of the lot, stopping to check out the Harry Potter paraphernalia in the Warner Bros. Museum, traipse through the sets of “Gilmore Girls” and “ER,” and even spot a speeding Mekhi Pfeiffer zooming by on a golf cart...
...left to purchase, with a 30-50 percent off sale well under way? The Sanrio stash had been raided by the Hello Kitty contingent, and the Blues Clues bandits had left the cupboard bare. In addition to Madeline’s entire wardrobe, glitzy Barbies, and assorted Harry Potter ogres, there was still a healthy supply of singing Kiss dolls, Star Wars’ Amidala action figures, The Simpsons’ Bleeding Gums Murphy figurines, and Mary-Kate-and-Ashley videos to satisfy the masses. And who knows what loot (or lil’ looter) was left beneath the mounds...
...MEANWHILE Strange but True Ever noticed the resemblance between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Dobby the house elf from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? Many Russians have, and they feel Warner Bros., who made the film, modeled the puny elf on judo hard man Putin. Rumors are now swirling that an unnamed Russian law firm is planning to sue for the misuse of the President's image. Maybe Dobby should...
...declaration of world peace could hardly have elicited such joyful hysteria as the news that the new Harry Potter book is finally on the way. Within 24 hours of J.K. ROWLING'S announcement that the fifth installment of the series will arrive in bookstores on June 21, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hit No. 1 on Amazon.com in the U.S. and Britain, and the stock of Scholastic, Potter's U.S. publisher, rose $2.99. Since the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was published in 2000, Potter fans have been frothing for Volume V. Such...