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...told: with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone--the first film in what Warner Bros. hopes will be a long and profitable franchise--director Chris Columbus has bravely gone toe to toe with the imaginations of readers who have purchased 100 million Potter books and made the boy wizard one of the most beloved figures in literary history. (The author, once a struggling single mom in Edinburgh, Scotland, has become an international celebrity since Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, as the book is known in Britain, was published there four years ago.) The big-screen adaptation...
...mail on the magically gifted boys and girls; from Hogwarts' Great Hall with its soaring night-sky ceiling to the cavernous vaults and Munchkin-size goblins working in Gringotts bank (keep an eye out for Verne Troyer, who played Mini-Me in the 1999 Austin Powers sequel); from the wizard's version of chess, in which queens and knights come alive and beat each other senseless, to the Quidditch field, where young witches and wizards on broomsticks fly through the air playing a magical hybrid of basketball and soccer; from Hagrid's baby dragon to the 12-ft.-tall mountain...
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...children in low- to moderate-income families. University of Texas at Austin researchers analyzed over three years the viewing habits of 200 children, 2 to 7. The results showed that kids who spent even a few hours a week watching educational shows such as Sesame Street or Mister Wizard's World had higher academic test scores three years later than those who watched no such programs...
...deposed as head of South Vietnam's government in 1964, Nguyen returned from exile in France and served as Vice Premier, but his reformist views clashed with those of the U.S.-backed military leaders and he resigned after eight months. DIED. GORDON REECE, 71, dapper television producer and p.r. wizard who transformed Margaret Thatcher's image during her successful 1979 campaign for Prime Minister by advising her on hairstyle, wardrobe, body language and speaking skills; in London. Reece was knighted...