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...SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT A photo caption in the Aug. 6 Dashboard mistakenly reported that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold 72 million copies in its first weekend. The Potter finale's sales number was not available at press time...
Should you find your way up to Salem, Mass., this Halloween season, your chances of encountering a psychic are up - and the odds that that he or she has a felony record are down. That, for those of you who were too drowned in multimedia Harry Potter to notice, is the news from the real town where some estimate every tenth person is a witch...
...evidence that they attempted to run away together. Or that his rich uncle or her rich neighbors cruelly tried to sunder their relationship. Or that?. But it may not matter. Austen has become, in recent years, a kind of movie franchise, in some ways not unlike Harry Potter - except, of course, for a much more limited and self-consciously literary audience. With the exception of the rambunctious and highly cinematic Emma Thompson-Ang Lee Sense and Sensibility of a dozen years ago, these adaptations always strike me as rather wan and patronizing - and this movie is no exception to that...
...objectively speaking, J.K. Rowling’s final installment in her insanely-popular series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” is an amazing novel...
This was an impossible book to write, and 9/10 of it is beautiful. Perhaps that one 1/10 was unavoidable, but the fact is that it is there, and it distracts from what is Rowling’s marvelous swansong. Harry Potter has been put to rest at last...