Week of 2/3/03 News Column
Series I, Issue I
February 3, 2003
Movieereviews Weekly
I already have a bunch on my plate, Rater #5, Movie Previewer, school, and being a normal teenager, but I decided to add this little column to the site. I'll try to get this out every Monday after school (even though I'm writing this one before school� Snow Delay). So what happened last week and what's happening this week??? Well almost everyone knows about Columbia, I was talking to my mom and I said "The U.S. is having a great few years isn't it?" and it's true! Think about it. 9-11/Drought (Colorado)/Iraq/Columbia/and now the grounding of all shuttle missions to space, how are we going to get all those men in the I.S.S. (International Space Station) back down to earth? Well enough on tragedies lets get to some good news. This might be a little old news but enjoyable just the same. Courtesy of HarryPotter.com I have this little announcement from the site�
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Publication Date AnnouncementBloomsbury Publishing Plc J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to be published on 21st June 2003 in Britain, the USA, Canada and Australia The world's most anticipated book is over one third longer than the previous book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireLondon, England; New York, New York; 15th January, 2003:Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling, the fifth in the best-selling series, has been scheduled for release on Saturday 21st June, 2003 in Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia and in the English language in many countries, it was announced by the book's English language publishers, Bloomsbury and Scholastic, to whom it has now been delivered. The companies also announce that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is over one third longer than J K Rowling's extraordinary previous book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.In making the joint announcement, Nigel Newton, Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing in Britain and Barbara Marcus, President of Scholastic Children's Books in the United States said, "We are thrilled to announce the publication date. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is absolutely superb and will delight all J K Rowling's fans. She has written a brilliant and utterly compelling new adventure, which begins with the words:"The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive... The only person left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flowerbed outside number four."Later in the novel, J K Rowling writes:"Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses.'It is time,' he said, 'for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry.Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.'"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is over 255,000 words compared to over 191,000 words in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The new book is 38 chapters long, one more than Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J K Rowling's fourth Harry Potter book, was released on 8th July, 2000 and was the fastest selling book in history on the first weekend of its publication. All four Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, have been Number 1 bestsellers and are currently on bestseller lists in Britain, the USA, and around the world.Bloomsbury will be publishing their standard children's hardback edition (ISBN 07475 51 006) and in addition an adult hardback edition (ISBN 07475 69 401, the same text but with a different jacket) at the same time, both editions to be 768 pages long and priced at �16.99.All time zones preceding the UK are embargoed until 00:01 am BST (British Summer Time) on Saturday 21 June 2003.
As you can tell from that it looks to be an interesting book. Latest Movies to Come out: Darkness Falls, A Guy Thing, How to Lose a Guy in 10 days, and more to come.
As I'm closing in on my first issue I've decided to leave you with a joke.
An E-Mail to the Wrong Wife (This is voted as the best e-mail joke in Australia in 2001)
After being nearly snowbound for two weeks last winter, a Seattle man departed for his vacation in Miami Beach, where he was to meet his wife the next day at the conclusion of her business trip to Minneapolis. They were looking forward to pleasant weather and a nice time together. Unfortunately, there was some sort of mix-up at the boarding gate, and the man was told he would have to wait for a later flight. He tried to appeal to a supervisor but was told the airline was not responsible for the problem and it would do no good to complain. Upon arrival at the hotel the next day, he discovered that Miami Beach was having a heat wave, and its weather was almost as uncomfortably hot as Seattle's was cold. The desk clerk gave him a message that his wife would arrive as planned. He could hardly wait to get to the pool area to cool off, and quickly sent his wife an e-mail, but due to his haste, he made an error in the e-mail address. His message therefore arrived at the home of an elderly preacher's wife whose even older husband had died only the day before! When the grieving widow opened her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out an anguished scream, and fell to the floor dead. Her family rushed to her room where they saw this message on the screen:
Dearest wife,
Departed yesterday, as you know. Just now got checked in. Some confusion at the gate. Appeal was denied. Received confirmation of your arrival tomorrow.
Your loving husband.
P.S. Things are not as we thought. You're going to be surprised at how hot it is down here.
And to leave you now with this quote from AOL:
"Do we belong in space?"
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