Here’s the full column talking

Aug 23, 2001

Posted by: bkdelongTLC

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Here’s the full column talking about the October issue of Vanity Fair. This’ll be one Harry Potter fans will covet and cherish:

Vanity Fair will eschew sex and rampant celebrity for its October cover, which is still very much under wraps. But what we’ll get is young Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter himself gracing the front.

Editor Graydon Carter sent famed photog Annie Leibovitz to the London set of the movie “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” to shoot the entire cast in costume.

The result will be 22 pages of author J.K. Rowling’s imaginative world. For the first time, we’ll see the awful Muggle relatives, the Dursleys, with whom Harry is forced to live. There’ll be Hagrid, the half-giant gamekeeper of Hogwarts (Robbie Coltrane); Dumbledore (Richard Harris), the kindly headmaster;

deputy headmistress Minerva McGonagall (Dame Maggie Smith); Potter’s friends Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint); and the entire Gryffindor Quidditch team and their foes. Oh, so many more, plus John Cleese, the “Monty Python” genius, as Nearly Headless Nick.

The movie bows Nov. 16 from Warner Bros. There are 110 million “Harry Potter” books in print in 200 countries and 47 languages from Albanian to Zulu.

This collector’s-item cover ought to put Conde Nast on the map.

When they say “full cast” apparently they mean it. Thanks to Jim Phillips for the tip.





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