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What is it about becoming superrich that makes people so greedy-and mean? Last week Harry Potter creator (and gazillionaire) J. K. Rowling was in court trying to stop a former middle-school librarian named Steven Vander Ark from publishing a book called 'The Harry Potter Lexicon.' He sees it as both a guide and a tribute to the wonderful world of Potter. She thinks it's a rip-off, and a shoddy one at that. 'I think there are funny things in there,' Rowling told the judge, 'and I wrote them.' It was all enough to make a grown man cry, and Vander Ark did, on the stand. 'It's been difficult,' he said, 'because there has been a lot of criticism, obviously, and that was never the intention.' For shame, J.K. You give all the rest of us Muggles a bad name.

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3 Na Massa (Nublu Records, 2008)Members of well known hip Brazilian bands got together in an attention-grabbing project called 3 Na Massa, which celebrates the feminine mystique. The concept was conceived as a soundtrack to the erotic comic book frames of Italian comic book illustrator Milo Manara. Producer Rica Amabis of the São Paulo based collective Instituto; and bassist Dengue and drummer Pupillo of Pernambuco rock band Nação Zumbi, got their inspira...

Black Glasses Like Clark Kent A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan By Terese Svoboda Graywolf Press; 225 pages; $14 paperback 'All suicides produce questions to the story of a life,' writes Terese Svoboda in her memoir, 'Black Glasses Like Clark Kent.' In her...

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In 'Three Girls and Their Brother' playwright and screenwriter Theresa Rebeck means to skewer our nasty celebrity culture. And she does.