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...behind the cheery facade? Why did she never ask why? Ginny scheduled several appointments with a psychiatrist, Gail McVey. She and Hilary talked mostly about books--Hilary and Ginny read one or two a week--and about memories of her father. After four visits, McVey gave Hilary a Harry Potter journal in which to jot down her feelings and told Ginny, "You have a remarkable daughter. She talks all about her father ... She can keep seeing me if she likes, but she's doing so well, I'm not sure it's necessary...
...Winners ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Movie hero is rumored to be eyeing California governorship. To improve his chances, he'll take speech lessons from Jesse Ventura ALFONSO CUAR?N Mexican director of Y Tu Mam? Tambi?n gets third Potter film. Early changes: Hermione will develop Spanish accent, precocious sexuality SNOOP DOGGY DOGG Rapper inks deal to produce an action figure in his own likeness. Cute, but what child has the patience to braid all those itty-bitty cornrows? Losers ELIZABETH HURLEY Fab femme is edited out of new Austin Powers movie because she's not funny. If that's the criteria-then when...
...huge volume of about 850 pages called Genius, which is a study of 100 different writers and will be published in October. Last year I turned out an anthology called Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages, which is, in a sense, my anti- Harry Potter anthology, because I loathe Harry Potter. Those books are hopeless and massively cliched--bad thinking and bad writing. And they will vanish. In spite of all the hype and all the 120 million copies, they're bound for the rubbish heap in five, six years...
...Potter-besotted readers worldwide are desperate for author J.K. Rowling to stop counting her gazillions and finish the next Harry Potter book. But in China, there's no need to wait. Middle Kingdom readers are eagerly slapping down $1.80 for Harry Potter and Leopard Walk up to Dragon, a 198-page book that claims to be the series' fifth installment. If the tortured title isn't clue enough: the book's a fake, written in Mandarin by an anonymous Chinese author, though its cover bears Rowling's name. Police are threatening to fine booksellers who stock it, but the People...
...Piracy: Faking Harry Potter...