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Limited time offers. ©2002 Verizon Wireless. moiwuia auvanidges. 4A Thursday, November 21, 2002 AG ^tll|piEWS THE BATlJ the b/ R E E L C Lit ill Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sec^ Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Kenneth Branac Richard Harris Directed by Chris Columbus Harry Potter is back in this adaptation of J.K. Rowlin. ond novel. Harry is joined again with Ron Weasley and Hermione Grangei foi theii second year at HogwartsSckia Witchcraft and Wizardry'. Strange events unfold as Harry (Radcliffe) is warned J return to Hogw arts by Dobby, a demented house-elf who indulges in self punishment. Harry does not heedDobbysi ing and returns to Hogwarts where things quickly gear, lli-.iory repeals itself as someone opens the hidden CbiiiJ Secrets again and attacks the “Mudblood" students,ortfe are bom to non-rnagically-endowed parents, such as Her Harry must depend on the help of a magic diary and the sJ lorn Riddle, w ho w as a student at Hogwarts more than.% ago, to unravel the mystery. Along with Hermione’s wit anil Ron’s loyalty, the threesome finds out what is terrorizin' Hogwarts. Even with hnlliani spes i.d elkvis.uul ncv. dura,:-.." to the line-up, most of the spunk from the first movie isIm, Chamber of Secrets depends more upon a fury of actionta character development. i£very time Harry and his friendssti trouble, he doesn't rely on wit or resourcefulness, but on ilj ing car that pops up out of now here to save him. Orthethosl aided by the power of Professor Dumbledore’s (Hams)pfi phoenix. Eithei w .t>.( /nrm/><'r o/Secrete is allabouteywiil from special effects. After more than two and a half hours, though, the audience has to wonder if that is enough to saw | -Emilx Hem 0 BRUS nion Pe i outlaw jnes, on vents in I The P 1 Ipreviou afte erman ; d adve EU h< ornmiss: xpects ipproval ithstanc come ills neec ament a com inj “This onsump at smol The ni Ing a par fc a 311 ould er cts as a It still inemas, ids, sue! med be n billbo Tobac dvertisii the Eu Rapper Jay-Z's latest record tops the® NEW YORK (AP) - Jay-Z once again proved he hasthebkf for reaching the top of the album charts. The rapper's latest disc. The Blueprint 2: The Gift i f 1 ' debuted at No. 1, selling about 545,000 copies during to in stores, according to industry figures released Wednesdav A year ago, his album The Blueprint debuted at the - and stayed there for three weeks. Jay-Z bumped the 8 Mile soundtrack down to No. 2 which contains music from rapper Eminem's movie o • | name, sold another 400,000 copies for a total of l- 6n11 ., Another rapper, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, debute with her latest, Under Construction. It sold nearly 259, And Riot Act, the first studio album from Pearl reached the fifth spot during its first week in stores, 166,000 copies. # i. Letterman tapes show with special NEW YORK (AP) - David Letterman invited 494 P e °P[^|| upstate community of Schoharie — a large segment of r p F to be his audience at a special edition of the Late . oW u ra | C0 ^ Letterman poked fun at an exalted rural life in se bits that took up half of Monday's show. "Tonight would be an excellent night to knock ov store," Letterman said, noting that those residents n0 were probably out on the opening day of hunting se . The show's Top 10 list, read by village Mayor John Bors, ^ 10 reasons why being Schoharie's mayor is the besf J including No. 2, "Dude, I'm the most powerful rn 30 in u For their part, the citizens of Schoharie decar "David Letterman Day." n Schoharie is both a village and surrounding ' miles west of Albany. About 3,300 people live m one-third in the village. . o , ne wspapef. The CBS show had taken out an ad in a loca ing residents to the taping. 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