Unless...and this is a question for Amy Z...

[BS31988 at msn.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 21653

Amy Z,

Why Steven Spielberg? He's a great director! He'd probably do a 
better job on this film than Chritopher Comlumbus :::mutters darkly 
about the choice of director:::.

***D~M~L***, who is pondering whether or not the movie is still going 
to be worth while with Columbus directing.

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Caius Marcius pleaded:
>  
> > ...doesn't the fact that Book Five is being significantly delayed 
> > because of this dreadful cinematographication of HP scare the 
holy 
> > You-Know-What of anyone besides me?  
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >The late novelist Jerzy Kosinski 
> > said that when he was involved in the filming of his novel Being 
> > There,  he felt his creative novelistic powers being literaly 
> drained 
> > from his psyche (like cheerful thoughts in the presence of a 
> > Dementor). 
> 
> If it's true that JKR's consulting has slowed her writing, I hope 
it 
> is draining only her time, not her creative novelistic powers.  And 
I 
> fervently hope that she has learned by now that she can't do it 
all, 
> and that she should retire to her favorite cafe (can she still 
write 
> in cafes, or has fame made that impossible?) and write and devote 
at 
> most 2 hours a week to answering WB's questions.
>  
> >    - CMC (who likes movies, but likes books better)
> 
> Me too, but I still hope I can have both.
> 
> Amy Z
> for whom a Boggart takes on the grinning visage of Steven Spielberg