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Editor’s Note: This review does not reveal any major plot points from the book, so feel free to read the review and enjoy “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” in any order...
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MANILA Harry Potter finale sells 72 million in first weekend...
...looks famous. He's quirkily handsome--he's the hot guy whom the girls never noticed in high school because he was a mathlete--with suspiciously good hair and a black leather jacket. He lives near Minneapolis, but he grew up in Portchester, England. "My biggest problem with Harry Potter is that I went to an English public school and hated it," he says. (By "public school," the English mean what Americans mean by private school.) "I would have rather lived under the stairs." When he was 17, Gaiman wrote his own novel about English schools...
...fact that Stardust is finally getting made says more about how Hollywood has changed than how Gaiman has. After The Lord of the Rings, Narnia and Harry Potter, not to mention 300, fantasy is a proven commodity. But the big studios may have a more difficult time domesticating Gaiman than they have with his colleagues. Stardust is tough to market--it's a category-breaking mix of comedy, romance, drama and action--and like many truly nerdy genre works, it's full of unhip, unironized emotion. "It's not like a comedy like Shrek that's making...