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'Hunger Games' part of a long, grisly tradition in literature

Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 8:21am

Children murder one another in a multitude of gruesome and memorable ways in "The Hunger Games," deploying spears, arrows, rocks, venomous wasps, mutant wolves and their bare hands in a televised gladiatorial death match.

The juvenile slaughterfest depicted in the film and its source material, Suzanne Collins' trilogy of best-selling young adult novels, may give audiences (particularly parents) pause -- is this what contemporary entertainment has come to?

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POTTERMORE: It all ends here ... or does it?

Kalli Damschen Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, November 7, 2011 - 10:25am

J.K. Rowling recently released a mysterious video announcing something called Pottermore, the name itself enough to send many crazed fans into a hysteria comparable to the release of the final movie.

Back in July, millions of Potter fans around the world flocked to the midnight premiere of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," bedecked in robes and adorned with fake lightning-bolt scars and round glasses. This movie was to mark the culmination of a story that had begun 21 years previously when, during an extended train ride, a single mother imagined the story of a boy who didn't know he was a wizard.

That writer was Rowling and her ascent to fame and fortune soon followed as Harry Potter mania swept across the world. Fans eagerly awaited the release of each book and movie over the years, turning out in large numbers to every premiere. And now, in 2011, it had ended.

Or so we thought.

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United Way fundraiser targets hippie hair, ratty beard

Mark Saal Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 3, 2011 - 2:38pm

It makes a darn catchy slogan: "The United Way: Thanks to you, I might actually have to get a haircut."

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'Magician' series brings fantasy genre to adults

Calvin Wilson St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Last updated Sunday, August 21, 2011 - 4:08pm

ST. LOUIS -- Fantasy novels play well with children, who haven't yet become too cynical to believe in magical worlds. Just ask J.K. Rowling, who'd be quite well off financially even if her Harry Potter books hadn't been made into movies.

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Say goodbye to Harry Potter and your childhood

Charlie Anderson Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, July 25, 2011 - 9:17am

Say goodbye to Harry Potter and your childhood

I still remember going to the first movie, as a little kid. I remember not having read the books before I went. However, that first "Harry Potter" movie stuck with me, and the next time I saw the books at the store, I bought all of them available. I read them within the week.

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How well do you remember Harry Potter?

Elaine Vuong Newsday

Last updated Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 10:32am

OK, "Potter" fans -- it's been a long road for Harry and his pals. How well do you remember the journey? Take our trivia quiz.

1. What is Dumbledore's full name?

A. Albus Sirius Remus Percival Dumbledore

B. Albus James Brian Wulfric Dumbledore

C. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

D. Albus Brian Bilius Percival Dumbledore

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Chris Connole helps his son, Ian, prepare for the 18th annual Antelope by Moonlight bike ride Friday. A prize was given to the best costume or decorated bike based on the theme “Deathly Shallows,” which was inspired by the premiere of the final Harry Potter film “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.” The movie opened Friday with a record-breaking first day of $92.1 million domestically at the box office.

Riding in the 'Deathly Shallows'

Staff Standard-Examiner, The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, July 17, 2011 - 8:29pm

ANTELOPE ISLAND -- The 18th annual Antelope by moonlight bike ride started around 10 p.m. Friday, with cyclists dressing up in costume and decorating their bikes to fit the theme "Deathly Shallows."

A prize was given to the best costume or decorated bike based on the theme, which was inspired by the premiere of the final Harry Potter film “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.”

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Antelope Island is off to ride with the wizard

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, July 11, 2011 - 10:50pm

ANTELOPE ISLAND -- Harry Potter is not one of the 900 people who have preregistered to ride in the 18th annual Antelope Island by Moonlight Bike Ride.

But the presence of the fictional, bespectacled, young master wizard may be felt at the 10 p.m. Friday event.

Antelope Island State Park, Davis County and a handful of other sponsors are teaming up to make this year's noncompetitive, 22-mile ride even more magical than previous years' rides.

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How well do you know Harry?

TX correspondent, Alexandra Burton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, July 11, 2011 - 12:49pm

After more than a decade of "Harry Potter" films, we should all be experts when it comes to J.K. Rowling's wizarding world.

But how much do you actually know? Are you a whiz like Hermione? Or keenly observant like Rita Skeeter?

Well, before you dash off to the final movie opening this week, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," pull out your pensieve or dust off your Potter books and let's see if you pass these "Muggle-fied" O.W.L.s.

1. What kind of dragon did Harry fight in his fourth year?

2.

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Cast finds it easy to move beyond Potter

Madison Ostberg, TX correspondent Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, July 11, 2011 - 9:21am

After 11 years of filming, one might think it will be difficult for the magical cast of "Harry Potter" to move on with their lives.

Not so. The actors are ecstatic to hang up their robes and show that they are more than what the "Harry Potter" films have made them.

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Special showing of 'Harry Potter' to benefit Catholic youths

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, July 9, 2011 - 1:03am

SYRACUSE -- A special showing of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will be held at 9 a.m. July 16 at Syracuse 6 Movie Theater, 2428 W. 1700 South.

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Alan Stock is the CEO of Cinemark Theaters and a former Roy HIgh School student.

Cinemark CEO from Roy: Love what you do

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 5:25pm

FARMINGTON -- After choosing a life in movie theaters over a career in medicine, a Top of Utah man who has risen to be chief executive officer of the third-largest theater chain in the world stresses the need for people to be passionate about what they do for a living.

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(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) Construction continues near the Station Park Cinemark theater on Tuesday in Farmington.

Utahns behind new Farmington theater complex

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 10:54pm

FARMINGTON -- A company with deep roots in Utah, including a plethora of Beehive State-grown executives, hopes to make a big splash in the Top of Utah with the introduction of a 14-screen digital theater at Station Park on the same evening the last installment of "Harry Potter" is set to open.

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British author J.K. Rowling reacts as she poses for photographers during a photo call for her new website project Pottermore at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Thursday, June 23, 2011. For the project she has written new material about the characters, places and objects in the Harry Potter stories. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)

Harry Potter wizard series to be sold as e-books

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 10:39am

LONDON — Harry Potter's wild wizard adventures are going digital.

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Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Sophie Thompson as Mafalda Hopkirk, Kate Fleetwood as Mary Cattermole and Steffan Rhodri as Reg Cattermole in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1.”

'Deathly Hallows' an intense, darker journey

Charlie Anderson, TX correspondent

Last updated Monday, November 29, 2010 - 2:41am

Admittedly, I was daunted about the 2 hours and 36 minutes of the first HALF of the last of the Harry Potter movies. Even though I'm a huge Potter fan, I was afraid it was going to be like the last film -- long, and a little bit dull.

I was pleasantly surprised. The movie flowed by quickly, it seemed: it was intriguing, action-packed -- and incredibly dark. If you thought "The Half-Blood Prince" was dark, be prepared, fans. The new "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is so much more intense, so much more foreboding, than the last in the series.

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