Harry Potter Musical to likely feature character named Harry Potter
If you’re a fan of complicated dramatic fantasy novels being butchered into mediocre explosions of sprightly song and dance, then this news is for you!
Rumblings have recently emerged around the idea of a possible Harry Potter musical. Details are vague (and, hopefully, false) but right now the apparent focus is on how the producers are going to shave down a 4,000 page epic drama into a bubbly 2 hour musical. One thought being thrown around is to only focus on only one of the several plotlines presented throughout the series.I, for one, really hope they go with the “one plotline” approach. My recommendation would be to forget those pesky themes of good vs. evil, death vs. immortality & fate vs. free will in favor of something lighter, fluffier and starring
Zac Efron.
OR, perhaps they could just take a “Wicked” approach to it and do Harry Potter from the point of view of Voldemort. In this version of our beloved story, we’ll find out Voldemort’s side of the story and realize that he isn’t so much a murderous dictator as he is a
misunderstood murderous dictator.
Owen Wilson: Turn that frown upside-down!
Dear Owen Wilson,
I heard you allegedly attempted suicide last night. This upsets me. I have uttered many a hearty guffaw thanks in part to your comedic endeavors-- including, but not limited to, Wedding Crashers and Zoolander.
I even had a crush on you until someone pointed out that you kinda looked like Ellen DeGenerous and then that kinda killed it for me (no pun intended).
Please get better. I look forward to
The Darjeeling Limited.
<3,
Madgiepoo
Germany Currently Better than America
Just when my overwhelming patriotic pride was reaching levels heretofore uncharted, Germany went and bitchslapped me with the invention of their robot restaurant.
The restaurant, called Bagger's, eschews waiters and waitresses for gravity operated ramps that send food directly to tables. Customers order on touch screens, swipe their cards on built in readers, and wait for their food with a read-out that shows when the food is expected to be delivered.
The only thing that makes me feel slightly better about this is that the restaurant is located in Nuremburg—which still has that unfortunate ‘we-killed-the-Jews’ stigma attached to it that it just can’t seem to shake. But, let me tell you, if there was anything that could make me forget about unadulterated genocide, it is definitely a robot-operated restaurant. Also, a re-run of Law & Order: SVU.
Official Poll: 98.6% of US Population Reading Harry Potter Right Now
According to USA Today, 8 out of the Top 14 best-selling books this week are Harry Potter novels with the rankings looking like so:
#1: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
#2: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
#3: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Deluxe Ed.)
#4: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
#5: The Quickie
#6: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
#7: A Thousand Splendid Suns
#8: The Secret
#9: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
#10: High Noon
#11: Water for Elephants
#12: The Clique #8: Sealed with a Diss
#13: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
#14: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
I wonder what if feels like to be an author with not one but eight books at the top of the best-sellers list. Probably a hell of a lot better than it feels to be the authors who WOULD be at the top of the list if it weren't for Harry Potter--although I'm sure "The Clique #8: Sealed with a Diss" is an intellectual force and will be receiving the National Book Award any day now.
If you’re a fan of complicated dramatic fantasy novels being butchered into mediocre explosions of sprightly song and dance, then this news is for you!
