Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Faked Out Again







  1. Tracey Ullmann said it best: "GO HOME! GO HOME!"

  2. There was a really good in-depth interview (1 hour) with J K Rowling on British TV last Sunday evening. The question of writing further HP books came up, and she said not for a long long time if ever. What she doesn't want is for someone else to take up the HP world (she considers it to be her inner world) and try to write further books and so she has attempted to block that from happening by giving verbal sketches of what happens to the characters and their children. She DID say that one of Harry's daughters intrigued her as she would marry a zoologist and travel to remote places to discover/document rare animals, birds and insects!

    Everyone who watched the programme (several millions I believe) was struck by how normal and nice she was, how unphased by fame and fortune. The programme was fascinating and far from sycophantic. She is currently working on a book for very young children - nothing to do with HP.

  3. Keith Whitley's death was a tragic event, but the worst aspect about it was that it allowed Garth Brooks to become a star.

  4. Herschellian, I'm sure she's a nice enough person and, since she struggled for so many years, I'm sure she's well-grounded.

    Personally, I'm just sick of all the hype associated with the whole Harry Potter thing and have come to believe that it is one of the most overrated products of the 20th century. Her folks have great marketing skills, and I suspect those skills far exceed the true value of Rowling's work.

    I'm ready to move on and give the floor to someone more worthy of literary praise.

  5. I'm a big Keith Whitley fan, Tony, and I agree that his sudden death was a major tragedy for country music, one from which the genre has never really recovered. Replacing a Keith Whitley with a Garth Brooks was almost enough to kill off country music...Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Shania Twain, etc. have finished it off now as far as commercial radio is concerned.