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Popular Culture |
December 2002
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The Return of Harry Potter
The long-awaited second installment of the Harry Potter saga hit cinemas last month, and the millions rolled in. The success of Harry Potter is gratifying to those who read for amusement and amuses those who prefer their imagination in large doses. To find out why so many are wild about Harry, click here.
Eminem Scores on the Silver Screen
Rapper Eminem's first movie, 8 Mile, is a semi-autobiographical piece about the sufferings of a white trash hip-hop artist in 1990s Detroit. While the faux moralists on both the right and left continued their complaints against this coarse but talented man, he achieved something few other musicians-turned-actors have -- he made it to number 1 at the box office. Yet he did it on his reputation, not on the film itself. Click here to read on.