Word: pressing
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...Osment, Frankie Muniz or Emmanuel Lewis. Much to the pleasure of a mildewing island nation, Harry Potter will be played by Brit youngster DANIEL RADCLIFFE. (If you're keeping score in such casting matters, that's--give or take--Britain 1, America 100,000.) Radcliffe, 11, told a London press conference that upon hearing of his selection as Harry in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," I cried, and I was just really excited." He has not seen recent photos of Macaulay Culkin. Radcliffe, the son of a literary agent and a casting director, has acted before...
...message out now and tell people before they get married that it's O.K. to fight. Right now we're sending people out onto the football field and not telling them the rules." --Diane Sollee, director of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education, quoted by the Associated Press...
Frankly, the press release for Gideon's Crossing (ABC, Wednesdays, 10 p.m., starts in October) made us wince. "Ben Gideon is the voice of reason, empathy and wisdom...[He] treats the whole person, not just the illness." Is it Patch Adams: The Series? Nope. The Homicide team of Andre Braugher and producer Paul Attanasio has fashioned the most subtle, character-focused hospital drama since ABC euthanized Wonderland...
...number of partnerships has proliferated, so has the variety. Corporate giants may get the press coverage, but it's small businesses that are leading the charge. In San Jose, Calif., the Graystone Elementary School has joined with Hicklebee's, a local children's bookstore, to hold readings by authors from Lynne Reid Banks (Indian in the Cupboard) to J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter). Graystone students display school projects in Hicklebee's windows, which draw their families to the bookstore. In Toms River, N.J., the staff of Silver Bay Elementary School gets behind the counter of the Yellow Brick Road ice-cream...
...HOAX Shares of Emulex Corp. plunged some 67% last Friday, after a fake press release appeared on the Internet Wire site. It was soon picked up by other media, and the rout was on. The stock recovered, but some investors were burned. The lesson: if the news is sensational, check the source or the company's website. Second lesson: once a panic starts, if you're not out first, you're toast...