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The IMDB "news" page is always good for a laugh. If they're not taking tiny incidents and turning them into earth-shattering discoveries, they're publishing flat-out untruths. Here's one of today's "news" items:

Rowling To Wrap Up Potter Series in 2007
JK Rowling will draw her multi-million-selling series of Harry Potter books to a close next year when she completes the seventh installment. The British author, who has hinted the new book will be called Harry Potter And The Pyramids Of Furmat, is both excited and saddened by the prospect of laying her boy wizard to rest. She writes on her website, "2006 will be the year when I write the final book in the Harry Potter series. I contemplate the task with mingled feelings of excitement and dread because I can't wait to get started, to tell the final part of the story and, at last, to answer all the questions..."

*sigh* Thanks, IMDB news writers, for smoking crack before you sit down to type. I needed a giggle this morning.

In movie news, Brokeback Mountain is coming out a week before I expected - meaning this Friday. Finally!

In book news, I finally managed to finish Casino Royale. Fairly enjoyable, but sexist liek woah (which I guess is understandable for Bond in the 1950s. And maybe it's just because it's the first Bond novel, but Bond is kind of a puss in this one. I wonder how different the upcoming movie version will be. And I totally cannot see Jessica Simpson as Vesper Lynd. No. No. No. Please let that be just a groundless rumor.

And in holiday news, thanks to divinemum, piperx (OMG, the Little One is so CUTE!), alphabet26, mrs_bombadil, and jiminyc for the lovely cards. And extra thanks to jiminyc for the awesomest desk calendar ever that's going on my desk IMMEDIATELY. :D

The IMDB "news" page is always good for a laugh. If they're not taking tiny incidents and turning them into earth-shattering discoveries, they're publishing flat-out untruths. Here's one of today's "news" items:

Rowling To Wrap Up Potter Series in 2007
JK Rowling will draw her multi-million-selling series of Harry Potter books to a close next year when she completes the seventh installment. The British author, who has hinted the new book will be called Harry Potter And The Pyramids Of Furmat, is both excited and saddened by the prospect of laying her boy wizard to rest. She writes on her website, "2006 will be the year when I write the final book in the Harry Potter series. I contemplate the task with mingled feelings of excitement and dread because I can't wait to get started, to tell the final part of the story and, at last, to answer all the questions..."

*sigh* Thanks, IMDB news writers, for smoking crack before you sit down to type. I needed a giggle this morning.

In movie news, Brokeback Mountain is coming out a week before I expected - meaning this Friday. Finally!

In book news, I finally managed to finish Casino Royale. Fairly enjoyable, but sexist liek woah (which I guess is understandable for Bond in the 1950s. And maybe it's just because it's the first Bond novel, but Bond is kind of a puss in this one. I wonder how different the upcoming movie version will be. And I totally cannot see Jessica Simpson as Vesper Lynd. No. No. No. Please let that be just a groundless rumor.

And in holiday news, thanks to divinemum, piperx (OMG, the Little One is so CUTE!), alphabet26, mrs_bombadil, and jiminyc for the lovely cards. And extra thanks to jiminyc for the awesomest desk calendar ever that's going on my desk IMMEDIATELY. :D