…“Perplexed” was a common reaction. Rowling had never been a particularly controversial figure. Her books sold hundreds of millions of copies, they inspired films that brought in billions of dollars, and she used the money she made to save children from orphanages. In 2012, she gave enough to charity and paid enough in taxes to knock herself off the
Forbes billionaires list. In 2020, she was tweeting links to a store that sold pins that said F CK YOUR PRONOUNS.
Read another way, though, the latest turn in Rowling’s story looks perhaps less perplexing than inevitable. It is the culmination of a two-decade power struggle for ownership of her fictional world the right to say what Harry Potter means. The Harry Potter books describe a stark moral universe: Their heroes fight on behalf of all that is good to defeat the forces of absolute evil. Though the struggle may be lonely and hard, right ultimately beats wrong. For fans, when it came to the matter of trans rights, the m
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 1:00 am
Childhood role in holiday classic wonderful
Jay Bobbin | Zap2it
Karolyn Grimes didn t see “It s a Wonderful Life” until long after its release, but playing Zuzu Bailey in it has given her an interesting life indeed.
The now-former actress was 6 years old when she appeared in the Frank Capra-directed 1946 movie classic, which NBC gives its long-traditional Christmas Eve telecast Thursday. Grimes shares some choice scenes with Jimmy Stewart as Zuzu s father, George, who ponders how life would have been without him – a familiar premise that eventually requires novice angel Clarence (Henry Travers) to show him the way to personal redemption.
…“Perplexed” was a common reaction. Rowling had never been a particularly controversial figure. Her books sold hundreds of millions of copies, they inspired films that brought in billions of dollars, and she used the money she made to save children from orphanages. In 2012, she gave enough to charity and paid enough in taxes to knock herself off the
Forbes billionaires list. In 2020, she was tweeting links to a store that sold pins that said F CK YOUR PRONOUNS.
Read another way, though, the latest turn in Rowling’s story looks perhaps less perplexing than inevitable. It is the culmination of a two-decade power struggle for ownership of her fictional world the right to say what Harry Potter means. The Harry Potter books describe a stark moral universe: Their heroes fight on behalf of all that is good to defeat the forces of absolute evil. Though the struggle may be lonely and hard, right ultimately beats wrong. For fans, when it came to the matter of trans rights, the m
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