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...children's-book business is a strange realm: whereas it's rare to sell millions of copies in a year (the anomaly of Harry Potter aside), the books tend to have an enduring shelf life. What other product created in the 1940s still sells well, almost completely unaltered? Goodnight Moon, Pat the Bunny and The Poky Little Puppy, sexagenarians nearly all; each still moves more than 150,000 hardbacks just about every year. And let's not even start on Dr. Seuss or P.D. Eastman. (Well, we can start: Green Eggs and Ham sold more than 500,000 copies...
...Queen of England is not yet cutting coupons, but a recent survey by the British Mail on Sunday newspaper reported that Her Majesty earned far less than certain commoners last year. Harry Potter author J.K. ROWLING was the top female earner in Britain in 2002, raking in $77 million, six times as much as the Queen. The newspaper ranked the women by annual salary, not accumulated wealth. JUDGE JUDY SHEINDLIN doesn't have to interview world leaders or tiptoe through blood-spattered crime scenes or try to contain Regis Philbin. Despite this, she will now earn more than most other...
...culture-sociopsychologist's handbook tells us that we must have used this novelty tune as an escape from relentless bad news amid war and recession. O.K., so what did that make Macarena in 1996? If America's fortunes have changed since 1999, why hasn't Harry Potter's popularity? And can any blather about America's longing for superheroes change the fact that a competent adaptation of Spider-Man with Kirsten Dunst in a wet blouse would have been gold in any year you threw a dart...
...nowadays lesson plans are based on The Gospel According to the Simpsons, in which Homer stands in as Job, and The Gospel According to Harry Potter, in which the boy wizard's decision to walk through what appears to be a solid wall to get to the train that will take him to his magical school becomes a meditation on faith. Church facilities have been updated with computer stations for video games like Bible Grand Slam and movie theaters for features like The Creation, narrated by Amy Grant. Teachers are baking unleavened bread as they read Exodus and aiming slingshots...
...highest bid at a Sotheby's Auction for a hand-written, 93-word outline by author J.K. Rowling that provides a glimpse of the fifth installment of the Harry Potter books...