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...Each adventure began with the boy Nemo in his hallucinogenic nightworld, provided some vision or threat, and ended with him waking up startled in bed at home. McCay must have taken inspiration from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the publishing sensation of the early 1900s. Nemo is quite like Dorothy Gale, less invigorated than intimidated by this fantastic world, and usually wanting to get back home. ("I don't like this one little tiny bit," he says, "not one tiny weeney...
Harry Potter has buff abs! Oh, and his acting career is maturing too. DANIEL RADCLIFFE, 17, everyone's favorite boy wizard, cast a different sort of spell when he posed for a series of risqué promotional photos for his stage debut, a revival of Equus, opening in London Feb. 16. The photos, the most chaste of which is shown here, were passed around the Internet like a quaffle around a Quidditch pitch. (Radcliffe's role as an unstable stable boy calls for him to be nude onstage.) He also guest-stars as a comically bad-with-girls version of himself...
James Bond has saved the day again. But this time he needed help from a boy wizard - and the tax code. After a slump that had the muggles using words like crisis and disaster, Britain's film industry is back and (almost) better than ever. Films like Casino Royale and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix have made 2006 the second-best year on record for the industry. According to figures released Jan. 15 by the UK Film Council, $1.65 billion was spent on making 134 films wholly or partly in Britain last year - 48% more than...
...Piano Wizard...
Aaron Baer, 25, who won a cult following among G.O.P. officials as e-mailer of the party's constant stream of news alerts, is going to Romney. Matt David, 27, a behind-the-scenes document wizard who knew every word Kerry had said and remixed those words for effect, chose McCain. Matt Rhoades, 31, the former Republican National Committee research director and master of the invisibly planted story, is going Romney. Brian Jones, 36, his former boss, went McCain. Most are protégés of Steve (Bullet) Schmidt, 36, the imposing workaholic who ran the 24-hour war room...