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...Percentage the average dropped on weekends after the two most recent Harry Potter books were released...
...Numbers 67 Average number of children between the ages of 7 and 15 who visit British emergency rooms each weekend with broken bones 55% Percentage the average dropped on weekends after the two most recent Harry Potter books were released...
...Book vs. the Movie As an avid Harry Potter fan, I take issue with Richard Corliss's view that the movie version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is better than the book [Dec. 5]. As beautiful as the movie is, it sorely lacks the true magic of the book. Corliss noted that the film is better because it "telescopes the book's first 100 pages into a thrilling 20 minutes." But without the detail of those 100 pages, the beginning of the movie is disjointed, sketchy and no doubt confusing to those who haven't read...
...staged in 1986, the show never got to Broadway, until last week, with a luminous cast led by Brian Stokes Mitchell as George Bailey, Phylicia Rashad as his mother, Judy Kuhn as his wife, David Hyde Pierce as Clarence and Dominic Chianese (Uncle Junior from The Sopranos) as Mr. Potter. It was directed (by Carl Andress) and choreographed (by Denis Jones) with the artful assurance that spills across the footlights on the opening night of a hit show. But this was a one-time-only event, a reminder that, in the evanescent art form that is live theater (and certainly...
...how Corliss could pick the movie version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire over the book. Although I really liked the movie--it was fast and action-packed--none of the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's books, this one included, have been able to fully capture the essence of Harry. The movie versions cannot put us inside Harry's head the way Rowling so deftly does. MARIANNE L. ADAMS Diamond Bar, Calif...