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...favorite scene in Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone happens off-camera. It involves a supporting cast of concerned adults who decry the fact that a pretty good movie was made from a terrific book. Somehow the success of the Harry Potter movie is used as evidence that a bunch of muggles are ruining their children's ability to imagine for themselves what happens inside a book or tainting their desire to ever pick one up. Soon enough, the thinking goes, our kids will be terminal couch potatoes, unable to conjure up anything more adventurous than an episode...
Bonnie Kunzel, head of the Young Adult Library Services Association and an expert in fantasy literature, says, "In libraries, the most successful promotion we do is to ask people to 'read a movie,'" meaning a book that kids have first experienced on the screen. The Harry Potter movie has led to a bump in reading of the already popular Harry Potter books, which has led young readers to C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Tolkien. "We can't keep Lord of the Rings on the shelf," Kunzel says. Tolkien purists who can't bear to see images of Middle...
With this selection, along with stale leftovers from Thanksgiving (like the grossly disappointing yet massively popular Harry Potter), Christmas is going to be a fun-filled movie season, even if the economy is depressed and all anyone buys is undergarments. Of course, in retrospect, even Home Alone 18 would be appealing at this point, coming off one of Hollywood’s worst years ever. Who can remember a worse year than the one where the meaty offerings were unequivocally over-cooked Christmas hams like Pearl Harbor and The Mummy Returns, and one great film (Spielberg?...
...turns out that Harry Potter has spawned an enormous output of "fan fiction," original stories featuring the Hogwarts gang written by aficionados and posted on the Internet. A curiously large proportion of the stories are in what is called the "slash" category, describing Harry's heretofore unpublicized gay liaisons in stories such as Night of the Round Table. Harry is one of the most popular protagonists in this underground literary form, although he's not alone. (Others include Don Quixote, Ben Hur, Nero Wolfe and, less imaginatively, Frank and Joe Hardy.) Warner Bros. has no plans to include this...
...this nervous post-Sept. 11 America, the word “security” has become a Harry Potter-style cloak of invisibility, rendering unnoticeable all sorts of measures that would previously have roused our ire. We allow our bags to be searched and our IDs to be checked because we believe in makes us safer, because questioning such measures makes us look suspicious and calls our loyalty into question. Businesses are counting on our silent compliance because we all fear that others will think we have something to hide if we protest. We have become a nation of citizens...