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Entertainment Weekly Celebrates 1,000th Issue with Dan Radcliffe on Cover

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Posted by: Sue
June 20, 2008, 04:25 PM

Entertainment Weekly is celebrating their 1,000th issue, Harry Potter style. The new issue of the magazine features this photo of actor Dan Radcliffe as Harry Potter in “Goblet of Fire” along with several other icons such as Bono from U2, Johnny Depp as Edward Sissorhands and more, as EW is showcasing 1,000 of the New Classics. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling comes in number two on their list of Top 100 New Classic Books, with the magazine noting :The first three Harry Potter novels were pure kid stuff, and then, unexpectedly, Rowling went epic and dark—killing children, resurrecting evil, and sending Harry to war.” The top ten list reads as follows:

1. The Road, Cormac McCarthy

2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling

3. Beloved, Toni Morrison

4. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr

5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth

6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane

7. Maus, Art Spiegelman

8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro

9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

Speaking of authors, our favorite author J.K. Rowling was also voted the reader’s most favorite author, with the rest of the voting

Favorite Author:
1. J.K. Rowling (46%) – winner
2. Stephen King (30%)
3. John Grisham (10%)
4. Cormac McCarthy (8%)
5. Toni Morrison (6%)

This special issue of Entertainment Weekly , a special double-issue entirely devoted to the New Classics: the 1,000 best movies, TV shows, albums, books, videogames, pop culture style moments and more of the last 25 years is on newsstands today!

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44 Comments

KB Prez

I’m really happy to see “The Road” on this list. It is both heart-breaking and UNFORGETTABLE. I’m also a huge fan of his book “No Country for Old Men”. A real nail-biter!

Posted by KB Prez on June 20, 2008, 07:17 PM report to moderator
Professor Potter

Yeah, my jaw drops to see Dan right in front of all these big icons! Crikey, gotta say that is way cool. Well this would certainly please all the “I love Dan” fans to no end ;)

Interesting to see that different Potter Books come top of different polls. DIdnt OOTP and POA came first in two different polls recently. Philosopher’s Stone usually comes top on other poles such as BBC best read

Posted by Professor Potter on June 20, 2008, 07:23 PM report to moderator
kerri

Naturally! Jo is a genius and we knew it from the beginning of those “kids books’. Im 31 years old and am obsessed with the genius of her story telling and plotting. I love to write and she taight me how to be a better author, story teller and an avid reader! Thank God for Jo.

Posted by kerri on June 20, 2008, 07:27 PM report to moderator
Miriam

Love the cover, great to see Dan at the front of a Pop Culture Army! And will people stop obsessing about the actors hair!

Posted by Miriam on June 20, 2008, 07:58 PM report to moderator
radcakesfan

deathlyH, umm, i don’t have a site? I send in info here and there but that’s it.

(laughs at Prof. Potter) yup!

As for the hair issue, I love that Dan looks different all the time. I don’t care if he looks bad or good, as an actor, we ‘re going to have to get used to him looking different, be it handsome ie normal :D or drugged up, ugly, with weird hairstyles and facial hair, fat and chubby- whatever the roles demand. Get with it people and roll with the flow.

Posted by radcakesfan on June 20, 2008, 08:09 PM report to moderator
beccam

I am glad Harry is there but I am also glad Buffy made it on there too!! Thats full of doing whats right not whats popular or easy…

Posted by beccam on June 20, 2008, 09:05 PM report to moderator
Randy

This is the coolest thing ever! And he is in the front of all those other icons! Go Dan! And go Harry Potter Phenomenon!

Posted by Randy on June 20, 2008, 10:38 PM report to moderator
Ligi

hey i like Harry with this hairstyle…looked really like the ‘shaggy untidy hair’ we read in the books…..and GOF book is my favourite too…and I like Johnny Depp and Jennifer Aniston and Will Smith too…..so really good cover i say!

Posted by Ligi on June 20, 2008, 10:53 PM report to moderator
sl

I’m not surprised they focused on the 4th book. I just finished re-reading it (only for the 2nd time – I haven’t read it like, 10 times or something like everyone else) and it really is a nail-biter, especially starting with “The Third Task” chapter. It’s the book when everything changes and Harry really is forced to grow up fast. About the cover – also not surprised there’s a big picture of Dan Radcliffe right in the middle of cover. He’s the toast of New York right now.

Posted by sl on June 21, 2008, 12:16 AM report to moderator
zoltan42

As great as I think it is that GoF is ranked that high, I’m even happier and maybe even more surprised that Maus is on the list. A graphic novel about the Holocaust may seem an odd concept, but what Spiegelman did was devastating.

Posted by zoltan42 on June 21, 2008, 12:22 AM report to moderator
Yvonne

Hello, sorry I know I’m going to go off topic here, but I was just wondering….. two things…. If the Trailer for HBP were on Get Smart, how long will it take to get on this site… also… I read that there will be no trailers coming out until August/september.

Posted by Yvonne on June 21, 2008, 03:04 AM report to moderator
Yvonne

I just didn’t know where else to ask…. for future reference… where do I type questions?

Posted by Yvonne on June 21, 2008, 03:05 AM report to moderator
SeverineSnape

Like Tiffany said, Cedric’s death is also listed in the top 25 new classic death scenes, but on top of that, Mary Grandpré’s cover of Scorcerer’s Stone is listed under 25 new classic book covers. We’re doing well :)

Posted by SeverineSnape on June 21, 2008, 04:07 AM report to moderator
Felipe

I guess the trailer wasn’t on Get Smart… or else we would’ve heard about it… Darn…

Posted by Felipe on June 21, 2008, 04:21 AM report to moderator
Gordy

I saw Get Smart today, and there was no trailer. Guess we have to wait til Dark Knight comes out.

Posted by Gordy on June 21, 2008, 04:37 AM report to moderator
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