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...Seattle and somebody drove 4 hours and took a boat to get there. At twilightmoms.com a website for fans over 25, there are more than 200,000 posts. Last year there was an Eclipse prom in Tempe, Ariz. "It's not like Harry Potter, where you can wear a wizard's robe," Meyer says. "But they do what they can. One girl even had colored contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephenie Meyer: A New J.K. Rowling? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...Loser, weight loss is about positivity, not genes; on Big Give, your ability to better yourself is limited only by your willingness to help others; on Gunn's and Kressley's shows, your problem is not in your hips but in your head. We want the shows, like the Wizard of Oz, to tell us that we had courage, brains and heart inside us all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV Wants to Heal You | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...Muggle Quidditch” is sweeping through the nation. Well over one hundred colleges, including our Ivy League rivals Yale and Princeton, are already part of the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association, the official league started by Middlebury College students in 2005. Muggle Quidditch is played just like wizard Quidditch—for the most part. The game includes equipment such as broomsticks, golden goal hoops, Quaffles, Bludgers, and a Snitch (in lay terms, balls). But without bewitched broomsticks and bewinged Snitches, the game has a few differences. Muggle (non-magic) players keep their feet on the ground, holding a broom between...

Author: By Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Muggle Madness | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...heritage. He’s known freedom and he’s known imprisonment. He’s been forced to move 9,500 miles from his birthplace in Kamiriithu, Kenya, due to a hostile Kenyan government. But even separated from the subject of “Wizard of the Crow” by the width of a planet, a span of 22 years, and a great deal of allegory, Thiong’o stays true to Africa and to the African language, Gikuyu, in which the novel was written. Thiong’o’s latest book, written...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TOME RAIDER: Wizard of the Crow, By Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (Anchor) | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

Wait a minute. Those stuffed turkeys and middling domestic dramas won Best Picture? Yes, they did. All right, we'll try again: ... with such enduring masterpieces as King Kong, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, Psycho, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Raging Bull ... Oops, sorry again. None of those films won the top Oscar, and half weren't even nominated for Best Picture. But what about the acting categories? Surely Hollywood has recognized its most potent performers. Not always. If this year's nominated actors want to join the exalted ranks of Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Peter O'Toole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 800-lb. Golden Gorilla | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

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