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  "thread": {
    "id": 3449,
    "subject": "Pullman",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-09-08T03:25:01+00:00",
    "last": "2002-09-08T03:25:01+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0209-1697@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice K. Turner",
        "address": "aturner6 at nyc.rr.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-09-08T03:25:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Pullman",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Surprise today! Opened Vanity Fair, a glossy US mag usually obsessed with\ncelebs and scandals (usually rather well done, I must say), to find, of all\nthings, a piece on Philip Pullman, written by Christopher Hitchens, VF's\nresident gadfly on the left. A rather *reverent* piece, if you can imagine\nsuch a thing from Hitchens (for whom kiddie lit is rather a stretch from his\nusual snide political beat). I was agog. The interview info was not new for\nanyone who has tracked Pullman dowm on the net, as I have done. Anti-Lewis,\nanti-Tolkien, anti-Milne (well, that was new). Quite explicit about the\nunbeliever aspect of the series, which worried me till I realized that the\nVF audience is not likely to have him stoned to death.\n\nA ray of hope: though I have grave doubts about a movie (or series, as\nkiddie flicks now seem to be), it turns out that Tom Stoppard is busy on a\nscript. That could be...well...awesome. Or that is the opinion of an\nerstwhile English major who screamed with manic appeciation during\nShakespeare in Love every time the pre-pubescent John Webster was shown\ntorturing small animals or pulling the wings off flies. There were two\nbylines on that movie, but such hysterically apt literary savvy seems to me\nto be pure Stoppard, and I would trust him more than any other screenwriter\non Pullman. Hoping that he would rein in his instintive irony for the many\ndeadly serious moments--but I trust him here too.I'm so emotionaly invested\nin this series that I'm really proud that so eminent a writer as Stoppard is\ninvolved.\n\nOh, boy, now fantasy casting! Given that Mrs. Coulter is the most charming\ncreature who ever was, could Nicole Kidman handle her? Lord Azazel, Anthony\nHopkins, I guess. I hope not James Earl Jones as the bear--it would b so\ndisconcerting to have him sound like Darth Vader. And how about Serafina\nPekkala? Glamour beyond even Mrs. Coulter!\n\n-alga\n\np.s. Oh, funny thing, same issue, a small preview of the new Harry Potter\nmovie. What does this mean?"
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