Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>When did they bomb the 96 Olympics?<< Back in '96. Hahahaha, I'm so ... funny ...
Originally Posted By beamerdog >>The religious FAR right in America gather in parking lots and burn big piles of Harry Potter books.<< How so very ungreen. Shame ;-)
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x >>The religious FAR right in America gather in parking lots and burn big piles of Harry Potter books.<< Maybe they sparked the fires in California.
Originally Posted By friendofdd OK! That is enough! Parking lot bigotry is against community standards. So just leave parking lots out of this.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs You know, in Books 4 and 5, it is CLEARLY implied that Voldemort liked to wear women's shoes. He liked to go around trying on high heels or strappy sandals going around in his hissing voice going "I'm so pretty! Pretty, pretty Tom Riddle!"
Originally Posted By jdub 5BR, you clearly didn't read that in the books. Voldy HATED being called by his childhood name.
Originally Posted By DAR I'll bet that the writers of SNL, MadTV, South Park, Family Guy and the Simpsons all did a collective yes when they heard this news. This will give those shows some new jokes to try out.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x I'll bet that the writers of SNL, MadTV, South Park, Family Guy and the Simpsons all did a collective yes when they heard this news. This will give those shows some new jokes to try out. --------------- Jimmy Kimmel did it last night (was watching after the Fire News)...Dumbledore was sitting there with a woman (his "wife") and then, she wasn't there... you may be able to find it on YouTube or some other source...I can't give away the punchline, or I'll get admin'd.
Originally Posted By ecdc I liked this commentary in Entertainment Weekly on Dumbledore's outing. <a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0" target="_blank">http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0</a>,,20154416,00.html
Originally Posted By ecdc Sorry, copy and paste the link. Here's a good excerpt (I thought): "It's often said that if every gay person in the world were to turn purple overnight, homophobia would disappear: In other words, fewer people would be inclined to vilify other human beings if they woke up one day and discovered that they'd been aiming stones at their college roommate, their aunt, their grocer, or their grandson. Statistics bear this out: People who have a gay family member or friend have more enlightened attitudes about homosexuality than those who don't. What Rowling has done, brilliantly, is to turn Dumbledore purple. She didn't reveal his sexuality in order to unlock a new way of reading the books, or as a provocation. She simply told the world that a main character in the best-loved books of the last 10 years is homosexual, and asked her audience to contend with it — and with the fact that it shouldn't matter. And her choice to make a beloved professor-mentor gay in a world where gay teachers are still routinely slandered as malign influences was, I am certain, no accident."
Originally Posted By TheRedhead "It's often said that if every gay person in the world were to turn purple overnight, homophobia would disappear." Wow. Imagine all those women who would be waking up next to a purple husband. There'd be a lot of 'splaining to do.
Originally Posted By DAR <<She simply told the world that a main character in the best-loved books of the last 10 years is homosexual, and asked her audience to contend with it — and with the fact that it shouldn't matter.>> That's an excellent point and it will work perfectly in this case. What I hope doesn't happen is it leads to authors or movie or television show creators throwing in these little tidbits after something has run its course. Eventually too many will cheapen the story. I don't want to hear from George Lucas, oh yeah Lando Calrissian was the son of Mace Windu.
Originally Posted By alexbook The HP fans here (as opposed to those who are interested only in the sexual and political debate) may be interested in this link: <a href="http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more" target="_blank">http://www.the-leaky-cauldron. org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more</a> There's a full transcript of the fan Q&A session in which Rowling revealed the big secret. There are some other revelations, including the news that Neville married Hannah Abbott. Here's the Q&A about Dumbledore: >>Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself? My truthful answer to you... I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] ... Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent? But, he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that's how I always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair... [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, "Dumbledore's gay!" [laughter] If I'd known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!<<
Originally Posted By threeundertwo Very interesting. I like her explanation of why she picked Molly Weasley to kill Bellatrix. Let's hear it for under-appreciated stay-at-home moms!
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<Well color me shocked. Do a Google news search for Dumbledore and you'll find out JK Rowling announced that Albus was gay and in love with Grindelwald.>> Zzzzzz...
