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Uncertain Principles

Physics, Politics, Pop Culture

Saturday, September 21, 2002

As If By Satanic Magic

Via Blog of a Book Slut, the Morning News has the inside scoop on the production meeting that led to the borderline obscene Harry Potter broomstick:

Cloer: About three pills ago I would've been weeping and shrieking right here in front of everybody. What about refinements to last week's ideas?

Koo: Oh we totally beefed up the broom.

Sinagra: The broom is tricked out.

Cloer: Good, because I'm not going to sit down with Mitch and say, 'Here, it's a broom. We're going to sell these little bastards a broom, eerily similar to the one currently sitting in their pantry.'

It's about as plausible as any other explanation you might come up with...

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