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Changing from mostly clear to partly cloudy.
TOMORROW
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WEDNESDAY
63 47 Continuing cloudiness.
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GONGFARMER
BY RANDY REIGER
Harry Potter makes magic
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Tickets to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone already are vanishing a week before the movie debuts.
Although most box-office outlets decline to disclose totals, they said the tickets were selling faster than any other film this year. In London, theaters have already sold nearly 500,000 advance tickets.
advance tickets,
Kim Holt, spokeswoman for
Movietickets.com, said the Potter
males were already five times
higher than the company's previous
recordholder, Pearl Harbor.
"It's at a historic level," she said.
The $125 million movie, about a mistreated orphan who embarks on an adventure after learning he has magical powers, is set to open Nov. 16. Theaters began selling advance opening-weekend tickets on Nov. 2.
All of the scheduled viewings
are filling up fast, according to Rich King, spokesman for AMC Theatres, which has 2.792 screens in the United States.
screenings in the library "Most advance tickets are bought in pairs, and in this case every time somebody buys tickets it's four to five tickets. That tells us that a whole lot of families are planning to attend the first weekend together," King said.
Intertops, the Internet sports betting site, set 11- to-25 odds that Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone will break the $72.1 million three-day, opening-weekend
end together. King sang
Fandango.com, another
online ticket distributor, has been
swamped with requests since
announcing it has seats available.
Fandango spokesman John
Singh said Harry Potter had
already sold far more advance
tickets than either The Mummy
Returns or Pearl Harbor, but he
would not discuss specific numbers.
box-office record set by "Jurassic Park: The Lost World" in 1997. It also set 1-to-2 odds that the film will break or tie the record for fastest to earn $100 million (five days, set by Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace in 1999).
Although some fans for the Star Wars prequel began camping out on the sidewalk for days before it debuted, the increasing availability of advance ticket purchases online and over the telephone has made that unnecessary.
sary.
"Having the opportunity to buy tickets in the comfort of your own home is being very well received. We're having a great turnout, and fans know they're guaranteed a spot on opening day," said Jennifer Maguire Hanson, spokeswoman for National Amusements Inc., which owns 1,100 screens.
Crossword
ACROSS
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"Frontline"
4 Earl Grey and
oolong
8 Taxi driver
14 Pers. pension
15 Sound defeat
16 Overseas
17 Flapdoodle
19 Earlier Central
Americans
20 Mother-of-pearl
21 Actress Wright
23 Resound
24 Hatefully
28 Greek letter
29 Clamor
30 Turf piece
31 Agile deer
32 Superlatively
chubby
35 "Death in Venice"
author
36 Uplift
38 Crude mineral
39 Bowling alleys
40 Find a perch
41 Ingests
43 A Taylor
44 Take to court
45 Do-over service
46 Kiddie seat?
49 Scoundrel
52 Window part
53 Pencil end
54 Goat-man
55 Verballer
58 Homogeneous
mixture
60 Common
antiseptic
61 Writer Wister
62 Lennon's love
63 Took a break
64 Writing tools
65 Actor Beatty
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1 Tailor's aide?
2 Bring up (a subject)
3 Don Quixote's squire
4 Clan chart
5 Long time
6 Mike Myers role
7 Handle the helm
8 King Arthur's court
9 Degraded
10 William Jennings
11 Long, fluffy scarf
12 "At Seventeen" singer
13 News chiefs, for short
18 Theater sign's letters
22 Star of "The Gladiator"
24 Ebullient energy
25 Language change
26 Star State
27 Hankerings
29 Payable on demand
33 British Inc.
34 Roaring '20s, e.g.
35 Mouth
36 Building wings
37 Noncleric
Solutions to Friday's puzzle
39 Construction site
41 Sweetened
42 Grant or Majors
44 Tranquil
47 Whoever
48 Bar selection
50 __ fours
51 Premier fabulist
52 Light touch
54 Soaks up rays
55 Knight's honorific
56 Front of a shoe
57 TV spots
59 Ex-QB Dawson