The Leaky Couldron will have a PotterCast with JK Rowling on Tuesday. This will be the first podcast interview and what the web site is touting as the first in-depth fan interview in two years.
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To get more info on the PotterCast, go to The Leaky Cauldron.
The year just keeps getting better for our fair author.
From Associated Press:
NEW YORK (AP) — J.K. Rowling’s magical, Midas touch has landed her on the cover of Entertainment Weekly as the magazine’s entertainer of the year.
The magazine said the “Harry Potter” author, who has sold nearly 400 million copies of her boy-wizard series that’s been adapted into a megasuccessful movie franchise, deserved props for getting “people to tote around her big, old-fashioned printed-on-paper books as if they were the hottest new entertainment devices on the planet.”
Rowling was in a class by herself on the magazine’s list of the year’s top entertainers, which was separated by editors into five other categories that evoke school cliques: prodigies, class clowns, most popular, most buzzed-about and valedictorians.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is up for favorite movie drama in the People's Choice Awards. It is going up against "Disturbia" and "Premonition." Since I have two young children, and not many free nights to go see movies, it would be unfair to support "Order of the Phoenix" without question.
If memory serves, "Distrurbia" is more or less a movie about living next door to a psychopathic killer. I have no idea what "Premonition" is about, so I can't imagine there being much drama behind it.
"Order of the Phoenix" is loaded with drama. Can Harry and Dumbledore convince the wizarding word that Lord Voldemort has returned before it's too late? Well, no. Lord Voldemort regains power with relative ease and takes out a member of the Order on his way up. This is like "The Empire Strikes Back," only with Han Solo dying in the Darth Vader phantom force choke hold.
Winners will be announced Jan. 8 during an awards show broadcast on CBS.
If online voters were able to choose Time's Person of the Year, it would be J.K. Rowling. In a landslide.
She has almost 12,000 more votes than Al Gore in a TIme online poll. There are 10 nominees, including Gore, Hillary Clinton, Steve Jobs and Vladmir Putin.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is 10th in the poll. Not a whole lot of love out there for the president of Iran.
Go here for a look at the latest results and rate your favorite nominees for Time's Person of the Year.
Looks like there is more Harry Potter out there. But it will cost you.
MTV.com, among others, is reporting that J.K. Rowling has written a collection of fairy tales called "The Tales of Beedle the Bard." This is of course the book Dumbledore willed to Hermione Granger in "The Deathly Hallows." It contained a collection of wizard world fairy tales, including "The Three Brothers" which details the the story of how the Deathly Hallows came to be.
But there are only seven editions of Beedle the Bard in existence, all apparently handwritten and most given to friends of Rowling. There is one available, which will be sold at auction for charity. It is expected to attract $60,000.
Reports indicate that the book includes stories called: “The Fountain of Fair Fortune,” “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot,” "Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump” and a new story, “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart.”
The Associated Press reports that J.K. Rowling and makers of the Potter films are suing a small publisher in Michigan that is planning to put out a book version of the popular fan site "The Harry Potter Lexicon." The site, which is an almost obsessively maintained and thorough compendium of all things Potter has been singled out for praise by Rowling in the past. Steve Vander Ark, the site's producer, is understandably a little taken aback.
"The suit, filed Wednesday by the author and Warner Bros. in federal court in Manhattan, claims that RDR Books will
infringe on Rowling’s intellectual property rights if it goes ahead with its plan to publish the 400-page
“Harry Potter Lexicon” on Nov. 28."
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Now that Albus Dumbledore has been outed as a gay character by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, it got me thinking about other gay characters in children’s literature.
In college, I took a class on children’s literature and one of the stories we tried to dissect was “Jack and the Beanstalk.”
Aside from being a story about conquering your fears and expecting the unexpected, it turns out it can be viewed as a gay fantasy. Eager boy climbs a beanstalk of a phallic symbol, only to entice and frustrate a giant of a man who lives in the clouds.
It was as disturbing in college as it is now.
Believing Jack is gay is about as easy as believing Dumbledore is gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with a gay character in children’s literature, but how does it add to the story?
In both cases it doesn’t. However, there are some characters in children’s literature who are decisively gay, and it does matter.
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