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The news just keeps on coming. Since "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is so freakin' long the powers-that-be have decided, for creative purpose (ahem) to cut the upcoming (in 2010) film in two. The thing is so huge, there's no way the book can be served properly with one movie. All the other books had plenty of fluff to cut out, while fans mourn the loss of some of that fluff, but with book 7 - it's solid action through and through. 

"I think it's the only way you can do it without cutting out a huge portion of the book," Dan Radcliffe told the LA Times during a break in the filming of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. "There have been compartmentalized subplots in the other books that have made them easier to cut -- although those cuts were still to the horror of some fans -- but the seventh book doesn't really have any subplots. It's one driving, pounding story from the word go."

The movies will be entitled "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" to be released Nov. 2010 and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" to be released May 2011.

The Times also reported: "I swear to you it was born out of purely creative reasons," Heyman said during an interview in a converted airplane factory outside London that has been home base to all of the "Potter" productions. "Unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book. You can remove scenes of Ron playing quidditch from the fifth book, and you can remove Hermione and S.P.E.W. [Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare] and those subplots . . . but with the seventh, that can't be done." 

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A howler to now former Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer: Oy, Eliot! By now the entire world knows of your alleged indescretions with a prostitute. And after all you had done for the state of New York, for the Democratic party and for the chance that you might've had to run for President some day. What a shlemiel. I'm plotzing here. We'll let the courts and the media battle the rest of it all out. And to tell you the truth, the only reason PP is on the scene is because of this line from "Radioactive Liberty " dissing on the Spitz:

 
It made us wonder just how many times a man's johnson has been referred to as his "harry potter..." Anyone have any ideas? 

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