Philip Seymour Hoffman Sails To England For 'Pirate Radio' Nov 14, 2009
Those guys included righteous British actors like Bill Nighy ("Pirates of the Caribbean"), Rhys Ifans ("Flight of the Conchords"), Nick Frost ("Shaun of the Dead") and Kenneth Branagh ("Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"). They all play members of a pirate radio station in the late 1960s, a time when rock and roll wasn't widely available on the British airwaves and folks took to the high seas to broadcast the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Who and other bands for kids with radios hidden... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Daily guide to television and radio Oct 3, 2009
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 9 p.m. (DISN). Hogwarts students are turning to stone. (Boston Globe)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sec... Aug 14, 2009
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Review. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Review ... Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a testament to the deep history of Hogwarts. (Suite101.com)
SIGGRAPH 2009 Adds New Focus on Music & Audio Jul 25, 2009
Randy Thom has worked in a wide variety of creative capacities in more than 75 films including some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters such as "Bolt", "Forrest Gump", "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", "Ratatouille", "War of the Worlds", and "Wild at Heart". Thom began working for Lucasfilm in 1979 as a sound designer and re-recording mixer and is currently the Director of Sound Design at Skywalker Sound. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Midnight showings of Harry Potter sell out Jul 15, 2009
The other films in the series are Harry Potter and the Sorcerer s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The two-part concluding film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is set for release in November 2010 and July 2011. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
`Harry Potter' Takes Flight in Pursuit of Box-Office Lead for Time Warner Jul 14, 2009
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 11/02 262. 0 5. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Why I hate Harry Jul 10, 2009
I sort of admire J.K. Rowling for carrying on with them, because if I were her I would have stuck my pen in my eye shortly after writing Harry Potter And The Chamber of Secrets and gone into hiding. Anyway, it won't surprise you to learn that I don't understand grown adults who like Harry Potter, especially when there are so many other great books out there. (The Age, Australia)
'Harry Potter' Overachiever Hermione Granger Still Can't Pin Down Love Jul 10, 2009
That status eventually endangered her life when she was petrified by the basilisk in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." All the while, her two best friends, Harry and Ron, remained constant sources of support, but she and Ron began to develop an odd romantic tension that neither of them could acknowledge. Actress Emma Watson was actually only 9 when she joined the cast of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." It was her first professional acting role and a big score for the pre-teen... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Academy Award® Winner Randy Thom Selected as a SIGGRAPH Keynote Speaker Mar 11, 2009
Since 1975, Thom has worked in a wide variety of creative capacities in more than 75 films including some of Hollywoods biggest blockbusters such as Bolt, Forrest Gump, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Ratatouille, War of the Worlds, and Wild at Heart. Thom began working for Lucasfilm in 1979 as a sound designer and re-recording mixer and is currently the Director of Sound Design at Skywalker Sound. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Use an Irish Folk Tale to Teach Cha... Feb 18, 2009
For example, the shoemaker in the folktale "The Elves and the Shoemaker" gives tiny clothes to the elves to thank them, and Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is tricked by Harry into giving the Malfoy house-elf, Dobby, a sock so as to set Dobby free. Work with students to make a text-to-text connection and compare and contrast these or other similar texts with the scene in this book where Jamie gives the pooka the coat. (Suite101.com)
