Stay Healthy, Johnny

Good news this morning. John Towner Williams will be scoring the film of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Mind you, he's 75 NOW. HP:AtDH will be out in 2010. Indiana Jones and the Out of Reach Cane will be in 2008. Jerry Goldsmith didn't last this long, so let's hope Mr. W. is taking his vitamins.

I have all of the Potter scores (except Chamber of Secrets which they did a Superman II on: Re-tracked the film with Williams' Sorcerer's Stone score). When I was reading the last half of DH I was listening to Sorcerer's Stone and a little Prisoner of Azkaban. Goblet of fire never even showed up on the iPod. I like Patrick Doyle very much, but really.

I just noticed that iTunes lists the artist Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire Soundtrack. Doyle must be pleased.

Well Done, Harry

Whew! I'm done. I'm enjoying reading books that I can pick up or put down as I wish and not having to avoid spoilers in the press. (Anyone want to spoil O'Brian's "Post Captain"? Huh?)

Great. Book.

I'm not a raving Potter fan. I like the books. But I've only read each of them once. And I Buffied through the first four. (To Buffy: To watch / read / avalanche through a series in not nearly enough sittings. e.g. two seasons of Bones in three days. Or seven seasons of, er, Buffy, in less than two months.) I'm thankful for the movies because they're nice cliff notes. Rowling has a bad habit of throwing in tertiary characters from four books ago with no recap and expecting you to instantly surmise who and what this character is.

This is either my favorite or second favorite book (Goblet of Fire rocks). And I have to say that I am just dying for the movie now. Good luck, folks.

Nice job, J.K. Thanks.

SPOILERS!!!!

Repeat after me, children (mouse over):

The
bad
guy
is
NEVER
Snape.

Three cheers for Severus Snape!

Lord Voldemort

I don't recall this being my favorite book. I'm sure someone will disagree with me. But hey, the movie looks cool.